Anyone Gotten a Speeding Ticket Lately?

[dibbons]

On my last few trips to California, it seems I could not even find a CHP on the freeways any longer. Here in Mexico, I actually have never even heard of anyone receiving a speeding ticket. But watching all the video of mangled steel on the news lately, it looks like some of us are hauling ***.

When I was a kid ('60s) i can still remember one car passing us at a high rate of speed and he/she was busted about 60 seconds later. I usually drive 5 miles over the limit if conditions permit, sometimes at that rate I feel I am still impeding traffic flow.

 

[gunbunny]

It's been a while since I've gotten a ticket but............
I was pulled over just last Saturday for the horrible crime of driving at 2:00 am.
I came off the highway, came to the st. rt. that runs parallel to the highway. Stopped, turned right, went up about 500' to make a left. I saw the Ohio State Trooper sitting in a parking lot, but didn't care, I wasn't doing anything. Anyway, I turn left and the trooper flies up behind me and lights me up.
I know he's looking for a DUI, but I'm not it. His excuse to pull me over was I had a license plate light out. I knew that BS, and I made him show me. In fact I made a huge deal over the fact knowing he has a camera on his person and in the cruiser. The reason I knew my lights were good was that I had just spent several hours at the shop working out a electrical short. I made sure every single light on my car was lit and working properly.
He kept asking me where I had been and where I was going and I would never answer. I just kept harping on the lights that weren't out. He finally realized I wasn't drunk and thanked me and told me I was free to go. I made a point to get his name and made a phone call Monday, but as expected, I got the sunshine treatment. I had to see my atty Wednesday and told him what went down. He told me I was lucky the trooper didn't arrest me. Said they wouldn't have a case, but that woudn't stop him from messing my weekend up.
sucks that cops have that power, and that they're willing to abuse it. The cop that pulled me over was fishing, and I wasn't a keeper. Pisses me off that I was stopped and not left to go about my business.

 

[67Dart273]

Some ISP did that years ago. I had a junk 73 or 74 Ford Courier, and that thing would not do much over 70 with a brick on the pedal. Late night, I was going back home from a local community. He accused me of speeding and I knew that was BS. Then it was the usual questions. It was cold and I was shaking. I finally told him to find something "good" to write me for or LET ME GO. I am not the drunk you were looking for.

 

[mbaird]

I drove to Park City to deliver a G63 Mercedes....90 mph the whole way . Then drove trade (G550) to Rexburg then back home to Boise. About 900 miles total.... never saw a cop.

 

[Ddaddy]

It's been a while since I've gotten a ticket but............
I was pulled over just last Saturday for the horrible crime of driving at 2:00 am.
I came off the highway, came to the st. rt. that runs parallel to the highway. Stopped, turned right, went up about 500' to make a left. I saw the Ohio State Trooper sitting in a parking lot, but didn't care, I wasn't doing anything. Anyway, I turn left and the trooper flies up behind me and lights me up.
I know he's looking for a DUI, but I'm not it. His excuse to pull me over was I had a license plate light out. I knew that BS, and I made him show me. In fact I made a huge deal over the fact knowing he has a camera on his person and in the cruiser. The reason I knew my lights were good was that I had just spent several hours at the shop working out a electrical short. I made sure every single light on my car was lit and working properly.
He kept asking me where I had been and where I was going and I would never answer. I just kept harping on the lights that weren't out. He finally realized I wasn't drunk and thanked me and told me I was free to go. I made a point to get his name and made a phone call Monday, but as expected, I got the sunshine treatment. I had to see my atty Wednesday and told him what went down. He told me I was lucky the trooper didn't arrest me. Said they wouldn't have a case, but that woudn't stop him from messing my weekend up.
sucks that cops have that power, and that they're willing to abuse it. The cop that pulled me over was fishing, and I wasn't a keeper. Pisses me off that I was stopped and not left to go about my business.

But he didn’t abuse his power and only detained you for a short while. The barracks treated you respectfully when you called afterward.

They were looking for DUI as well they should. You got caught up in it and were inconvenienced.

Small price to pay to help keep drunks off the road.

 

[Back in Time]

Got a photo radar ticket when I first moved to Arizona. Everybody told me to just ignore it and after 90 days they don't do anything. Guess who came to my house on the 89th day. Tried to ignore him but he made such a fuss I didn't want to disturb my new neighbors. He started trying to lecture me and I grabbed the ticket from his hand and told him he had 10 seconds to get the Hell out of there. Cost me an extra $100.00 but was worth the try.

 

[Dennis H]

Nope, been lucky. Don’t speed in the city. On the highway, my Valentine 1 keeps me safe. I won’t leave home without it.

 

[Ddaddy]

Got a photo radar ticket when I first moved to Arizona. Everybody told me to just ignore it and after 90 days they don't do anything. Guess who came to my house on the 89th day. Tried to ignore him but he made such a fuss I didn't want to disturb my new neighbors. He started trying to lecture me and I grabbed the ticket from his hand and told him he had 10 seconds to get the Hell out of there. Cost me an extra $100.00 but was worth the try.

Sooo...paying a hundred bucks extra was worth it for trying even harder to get out of a legal ticket that you were trying to cheat your way out of in the first place?

That makes no sense.

 

[318willrun]

But he didn’t abuse his power and only detained you for a short while. The barracks treated you respectfully when you called afterward.

They were looking for DUI as well they should. You got caught up in it and were inconvenienced.

Small price to pay to help keep drunks off the road.

please don't take this wrong, but what's next? Enter our homes and look for drugs for no apparent reason?? where does it stop. And when one dealing with the law exercises the constitution rights the law officers get offended and we are "lucky" we didn't get arrested for no other reason than we are acting 100% with the laws of the constitution?

Hog Wash!!!!

 

[Back in Time]

Sooo...paying a hundred bucks extra was worth it for trying even harder to get out of a legal ticket that you were trying to cheat your way out of in the first place?

That makes no sense.

Yup not all of us are perfect little sheep like you seem to think you are.

 

[Ddaddy]

please don't take this wrong, but what's next? Enter our homes and look for drugs for no apparent reason?? where does it stop. And when one dealing with the law exercises the constitution rights the law officers get offended and we are "lucky" we didn't get arrested for no other reason than we are acting 100% with the laws of the constitution?

Hog Wash!!!!

Your perspective is skewed. He was stopped and questioned, not searched. It was perfectly legal and he was not persecuted.

The enforcement of law allows that. There was nothing unfair about it.

 

[318willrun]

Here is one for ya, just recently my son left his friends house in his 'stang GT and a trooper pulls him over. Asked him if he had been "drinking". My son told him he doesn't drink. Cop asked him to get out of the car and walk a space. He did. Trooper says he pulled him over because he was going "slower" and most drunk people go slower late at night. My son said "backroad, lots of deer and it's night". Trooper told my son he has a cool car, asked what year, and let him go.

So now, going UNDER the speed limit is suspect crime. HOG WASH again.

 

[Ddaddy]

Yup not all of us are perfect little sheep like you seem to think you are

Nor are we all trying to cheat our way out of responsibility like you are.

 

[318willrun]

Your perspective is skewed. He was stopped and questioned, not searched. It was perfectly legal and he was not persecuted.

The enforcement of law allows that. There was nothing unfair about it.

Lying about a light out that was obviously on ???????? (Post 2) Cops can stop without reasonable suspicion of a crime, and LIE, and run identification??? friend, your a candidate for communist.... LOL

 

[hosehead]

I was driving through Arizona a few weeks ago on my way to Oklahoma. Suddenly, I see the police with lights on in my rear view.
I pull over and a nice, older officer asks me what my hurry was. I was going a little fast. I apologized and he took my insurance and license back to his car.
When he came back, I started getting a million text messages from my friends who were discussing the death of Burt Reynolds in a group text. The officer sees my phone blowing up and asks what was going on. I tell him that Burt Reynolds had just died. He got a sad look on his face and we started discussing how much we liked his movies.
Then he tells me that I was going 81 in a 65 but that he wouldn't feel right giving me a speeding ticket on the day that the bandit had passed away. He gave me a verbal warning and sent me on my way.
I thanked him(and Burt) and continued on my way a little more slowly. I thought that was pretty cool of the highway patrolman!

 

[Ddaddy]

Here is one for ya, just recently my son left his friends house in his 'stang GT and a trooper pulls him over. Asked him if he had been "drinking". My son told him he doesn't drink. Cop asked him to get out of the car and walk a space. He did. Trooper says he pulled him over because he was going "slower" and most drunk people go slower late at night. My son said "backroad, lots of deer and it's night". Trooper told my son he has a cool car, asked what year, and let him go.

So now, going UNDER the speed limit is suspect crime. HOG WASH again.

No, it’s called “reasonable and probable cause to ask questions”. He received no penalty and was not charged with any crime. Therefore, driving slow was not a “crime” like you have claimed it to be.

I have many friends who are police officers and they are just like you and me...doing their job to keep the public safe. Unless they unlawfully persecute you, have a little understanding of the job they must do. It is not “them vs us.” They are “us”.

 

[Ddaddy]

Lying about a light out that was obviously on ???????? (Post 2) Cops can stop without reasonable suspicion of a crime, and LIE, and run identification??? friend, your a candidate for communist.... LOL

You have decided to judge with personal bias and no understand of the entire circumstance from both sides. Ask your God what he considers that behavior.

 

[ZMan67S]

Don't speed....been driving 50 plus years and never had a ticket.
Always just 5 mph over on the highway, and watch all the others pass me.
We always get to where we are going in good time...safely!!

 

[318willrun]

No, it’s called “reasonable and probable cause to ask questions”. He received no penalty and was not charged with any crime. Therefore, driving slow was not a “crime” like you have claimed it to be.

I have many friends who are police officers and they are just like you and me...doing their job to keep the public safe. Unless they unlawfully persecute you, have a little understanding of the job they must do. It is not “them vs us.” They are “us”.

Ok, I got Ddaddy.

• Somebody doing 50 in a 55 is reasonable cause to assume drunk driving. You love it, even though that is no reasonable suspicion of a crime. Maybe 5 over would have been better???? LOL...….
• And a cop lying about a plate light out is ALWAYS a good thing!! Ya know, gotta have some reason to pull somebody over on a slow night. What!! no reason??? Just lie and make one up! No problem whatsoever!....... he has your support
• Don't think for a minute you are the only one with cop friends. LOL

 

[Back in Time]

Nor are we all trying to cheat our way out of responsibility like you are.

Back at you.

So you see no problem with a third party( non law enforcement) taking a picture of you speeding, I'll admit, then sending a process server not an Officer of the Law, to give you a ticket. What happened to being able to confront your accuser( the third party camera) in person in a court of law. In fact shortly after word the whole process has been challenged and the photo radar taken down for now. I was challenging the process not so much my guilt or innocence.

 

[318willrun]

You have decided to judge with personal bias and no understand of the entire circumstance from both sides. Ask your God what he considers that behavior.

as well as you have.... you judged the same circumstance with the same info I have. And don't worry about what my God considers, he was brought before the unjust law of his time also

What's your God think about you giving someone the finger in post 13????

 

[318willrun]

Don't speed....been driving 50 plus years and never had a ticket.
Always just 5 mph over on the highway, and watch all the others pass me.
We always get to where we are going in good time...safely!!

Love ya man! But if you Don't speed.... but Always just 5 over, you've always been speeding....

 

[318willrun]

this is how it's supposed to be

 

[Peter Bates]

Got one in France last month so I gather as the paperwork for the fine payment just arrived. Only 50kph over gesh.

 

[Dartfreak75]

Here is one for ya, just recently my son left his friends house in his 'stang GT and a trooper pulls him over. Asked him if he had been "drinking". My son told him he doesn't drink. Cop asked him to get out of the car and walk a space. He did. Trooper says he pulled him over because he was going "slower" and most drunk people go slower late at night. My son said "backroad, lots of deer and it's night". Trooper told my son he has a cool car, asked what year, and let him go.

So now, going UNDER the speed limit is suspect crime. HOG WASH again.

I went thru pretty much the same thing when I was 16 in my dart. Guy pulled me over and made me put me thru the ringers questioning me asked me to do a field sobriety test I complied finally after learning that my 1st cousin was his commanding officer he quickly released me lol.