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Orange Blooded [4896]
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I bet if I went 110 I would also be charged with reckless driving
Dec 9, 2013, 9:30 PM
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Wonder if the cop was a coot
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Has anyone here ever driven 110 mph?
Dec 9, 2013, 9:32 PM
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I was in a car as a teenager when an idiot drove 100 on an interstate. But I've never driven anywhere near that fast.
And yes, my buttocks would have been in jail if I had gone 110 and been caught. And my car would have been searched first.
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Re: Has anyone here ever driven 110 mph?
Dec 9, 2013, 9:35 PM
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Anyone driving over 25 miles an hour over speed limit deserves jail. Speeding does kill
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Re:They should be put under the jail with the key thrown
Dec 9, 2013, 9:43 PM
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away. Idiots.
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Re: Has anyone here ever driven 110 mph?
Dec 9, 2013, 9:36 PM
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Plausible Deniability here. Well in excess of the questioned rate.
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i hit 163 in my Z-28 on I-95
Dec 9, 2013, 9:44 PM
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while catching up to a BMW who I clocked at 123 when I was an SCHP Trooper. He spent the night in the Orangeburg County Jail. His father was the president of MBNA Bank but he got a taste of O'burg that night.
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Re: i hit 163 in my Z-28 on I-95
Dec 9, 2013, 11:31 PM
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I will say this, at that speed pine trees looked gray to me and the road looked like it came to a V point about 25 yards in front of the car. Just wondering if you noticed the same. I know your attn. was on the speeder.
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Orange Blooded [4403]
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it was 2AM on that straight stretch from the 87 mm to about
Dec 9, 2013, 11:38 PM
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the 102ish mm where i got him stopped over the Lake Marion bridge. The governor kept cutting me back at 163 to about 140 and i got it back up to where i finally got to him. After i locked him up i spent the rest of the shift in a daze realizing how crazy that was...there was no traffic...i think i passed one car gaining on him...stupid is what it was but i was one of those "work myself to the bone" road Troopers who believed in what i was doing...if i would have blown a tire or hit a deer it would have been curtains....not my best moment, i assure you.
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Re: it was 2AM on that straight stretch from the 87 mm to about
Dec 9, 2013, 11:42 PM
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I know what you mean. It was my car but I wasn't driving at the time, my best friend was. He told look over here and look at the TAC. It was dead on 7200 RPMs. My buddy at the speed shop calculated our rear end and tranny and came out to 162 mph. Just be glad you couldn't see. pine trees were gray and get this the back tires were recaps.
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i still get nervous about it. 2001 Z-28 navy blue unmarked
Dec 9, 2013, 11:47 PM
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6 speed....a bullet...they put me on 26 and 95 about 8 out of 10 shifts because of that car...i HATED working the county...loved the "I"...i was 26-31 years old, single dad (son in middle school), fresh out of 6 years in the USMC infantry and was only interested in putting my life on the line doing something everyone else was scared of. I almost belived in the job TOO much. Didn't take leave in 5 years. When i resigned in '02 to come back in the Corps, i sold 5 years of leave back because i didn't take a single day in 5 years...a workaholic who was crazy as hell, man. That will tell you what my mindset was that night when i was sitting in the trees at the 87 mm northbound....i was going to catch that fool no matter what. I could have been wrapped around a tree south of Santee and wouldn't have known what just happened and my son would have seen me buried.
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Re: i still get nervous about it. 2001 Z-28 navy blue unmarked
Dec 9, 2013, 11:57 PM
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Today I'm that old guy driving around the country roads around my house in an old pkp, pissing off the teenagers behind me. About 50 is the fastest I drive around here. If I go to town or somewhere I set the speed control on 57. Funny thing is cars will fly past me on 378 and when I creep up to a stop sign 8 miles up the road, I usually see the speeder at the stop sign. I just let out a little chuckle.
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LOL...i'm the guy who drives SoCal's I-5, I-8, I-10
Dec 10, 2013, 12:04 AM
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all over San Diego and L.A. and goes 80 along with everyone else but it's funny how they all drive like grandma if it's even sprinkling rain or looks cloudy. If CHP has anyone pulled over they all slow down...too stupid to realize that there is no way he could do anything with the 6 lanes of traffic all going 80. He's probably over there with a stranded motorist because i've talked to CHP and they've all told me that they cannot do much radar because of the volume of traffic on the I's out here....when i'm in SC on leave i have to slow it down.....
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Especially when it's coming to you courtesy of some Aryan
Dec 10, 2013, 8:02 AM
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Knight that you're involuntarily shacked up with.
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Believe it or not, I hit 100 in a 1994 Camry on I-20
Dec 9, 2013, 9:47 PM
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between Augusta and Atlanta, the longest stretch of interstate east of the Mississippi.
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Driven 140+ several times...
Dec 9, 2013, 9:54 PM
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...but, unlike Clowney, it was legal every time I did it (German autobahn and Road Atlanta).
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Yea, I hit 115mph when the electronic cutoff kills the
Dec 9, 2013, 10:19 PM
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throttle. I-95N at about 5am, nobody else on the road.
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Re: Has anyone here ever driven 110 mph?
Dec 10, 2013, 1:00 AM
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I got clocked at 133 on I-20 in my 1971 Mach 1 Mustang. Had a really good Highway Patrol that was amazed I stopped. He looked under the hood and we talked for 10 or 20 minutes and he told me to slow it down. Of course this was in the late 70's. GOD, I wish I still had that car, it is still running today, looks as good as new, in Lexington.
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Re: Has anyone here ever driven 110 mph?
Dec 10, 2013, 8:19 AM
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Fastest I went was 90 mph on I-85 between Petersburg, VA and NC line returning to Clemson in 1973. Usually I try to give myself a big cushion from the car in front of me and the car in back of me whatever that speed is.
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Boys will be boys.***
Dec 9, 2013, 9:45 PM
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110 mph usually means jail***
Dec 9, 2013, 9:54 PM
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i was an SCHP Trooper for 5 years. Triple digits is jail
Dec 9, 2013, 10:15 PM
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period....but that varies from District to District. I worked Orangeburg/Calhoun Counties (District 7) and if you were in triple digits your ### went to jail, period. District 1 in Richland works more wrecks than moving violations so those Troopers are less likely to lock someone up, not to mention the stifling politics of the Patrol, particularly in District 1 areas. I stopped Senators Robert Ford and Larry Grooms back in '99ish time frame and both of them were on their car phones with SCHP Captains before i even got their license, registrations, and proof of insurance....It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that the brass in District 1 is tight with USuCk.....in fact, i would expect it. You have no idea how political that scene is.
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30 over = auto jail? Dry conditions, complete visibility,
Dec 9, 2013, 10:22 PM
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none - minimal traffic, and you would put them in jail? On an interstate system designed for 150mph traffic with extra wide 14 foot lanes?
This is why America needs an Autobahn.
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i was a Trooper when the 65 to 70 change took place
Dec 9, 2013, 10:32 PM
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triple digits is total disregard for the law, period. When you work some fatalities because of speed (i worked 23 fatalities in 5 years, over half because of speed), you'd see it my way. 100 plus is 30 over....26 and over can be charged with reckless driving and i did if they had an attitude and they went to jail...simple stuff. I gave everyone 9 mph over. 10 to 12 over got a warning. 13 and over went in the ticket book. 26 and up went in the book if they behaved, to jail if they had mouth. I got more mouth from SC drivers than i did out of state drivers. I worked I-26 and I-95 almost exclusively. 139 mm to the 169 mm on 26, 82 mm to the 100 mm on I-95. I worked the "I" most of the time my last three years because i had an unmarked Z-28. I was firm but fair but if you mouthed off and were 26 or more over, you visited the O'burg County jail. I stopped over 3,500 cars out there in 5 years and got more mouth from SC locals than anyone, generally speaking. Your mouth was the ticket to jail unless you were over 100. Over 100 was saying screw you to the law and you went to the house.
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i stopped Chicken WR Zola Davis going 90 on I-26
Dec 9, 2013, 10:36 PM
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on a weekday during the season at around the 155 mm in O'burg County....i asked him what the hell was he doing (once i looked at his license and saw who he was) and he told me he was trying to make it back to practice on time. I asked him what the hell he was doing going to Charleston during the day and he told me that he had to get back there for his mom, etc....i wrote him for 74/65 (2 points, 50 bucks back then) and the kid about kissed me he was so happy. I had a Tiger helmet sticker on my ticket book, showed it to him when i gave him the big break and he told me he'd take it easy on them....I told him that Robert Carswell was going to knock his head off when he came across the middle and he laughed, shook my hand, and drove off...seemed like a good kid...just chose the wrong school.
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Re: i stopped Chicken WR Zola Davis going 90 on I-26
Dec 9, 2013, 10:41 PM
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I'm enjoying these stories, keep em coming. SC Troopers have a dangerous job and I am glad they are out there. Had my share of speeding tickets back in the day but never mouthed off to one because I knew I was wrong. Had many give me some good breaks too.
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hmmmmm, let me see...i'll scrape the rust off....
Dec 9, 2013, 11:34 PM
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--Sen's Robert Ford (Charleston) and Larry Grooms (Berkeley County)both running in the high 80's...both called SCHP District Capt's from car phone and wouldn't roll the window down until they made their calls...both wanted my badge number once they rolled down window, then made 2d call while i was writing their ##### tickets for FULL value. Both got me talked to afterwards and the Captain pulled the tickets...infuriated me.
--stopped NBA player Jason Williams for 80 something on I-95 one night....very friendly guy...i reduced him and he wanted to check out my car...he got out at 6'10" and it was staggering how big he was...i let him look in my car's interior and after chatting a bit he rolled off. He was charged less than a year later for manslaughter when he accidently killed his butler with a shotgun..negligent discharge.
--i helped NASCAR driver Ricky Craven change his tire while his wife gave us water in July on I-26. HECK of a nice guy...talk about an ordinary dude.
--i gave NHL player Rob Niedermeyer a ride to the Wilco truck stop at the 82 mm on I-95 when his Escalade overheated...big as a horse and nice as can be. He bought me a Gatorade when he went inside and wanted to know all about my job, life, etc.
--i stopped Chris Rock on I-95 late one night for burnt out headlight...him and his mama...i walked up to the car and he said, "GOING A LITTLE FAST??"...with that crazy smile on his face...i almost bust out laughing...i wrote him a warning and he wanted to look at my car like Williams...i let him sit in my car and gave him a class on all of the radio gear, etc. and his mama got out, walked back and said, "come on Chris, we gotta get to Georgetown!"....she gave me a hug, he signed my ticketbook and off they went to Georgetown where his grandma lives, from what he told me.
--i stopped Chase Headley when he was a spring training invite (Phillies) for speeding (80's) on his way to spring training....kid was scared out of his mind...i wrote him a warning, talked baseball with him for about 20 minutes and told him to remember the break i gave him when he makes his first million...i remember he was worried about his shoulder bothering him....now he's an All Star.
--i gave SCSU coach Willie Jeffries a ride from Santee all the way back to his O'burg house when his car broke down on a recruiting trip to Dorchester County....probably the nicest man i ever encountered as a Trooper...told me stories about Donnie Shell, Harry Carson, and Barney Bussey all the way back to his house....a legend.
--stopped a FDNY firefighter on the way to vacation in Florida for 80's on I-95 about a month after 9/11....he had some of his gear in the back seat. I saw his FDNY badge in his wallet and talked to him. He was on Ground Zero cleanup and was finally able to get away for two weeks of leave. I let him go, he took my address and sent me a bunch of FDNY gear when he got back to NYC. I sent him an SCHP shirt and Campaign Hat. We still trade emails and have become friends.
--i stopped a former Chicken center who played on the '84 team...he saw the Paw on my ticket book and we started talking...he told me he was standing right there when Mike Hold rolled the ball at William Perry's feet as the clock ticked to zeroes in '84. I wrote his ### for full value and sent him on his way.
--i was second on the scene when 1stSgt F. L. Lingard was shot and killed at the 97 mm south bound on I-95 on 31 December 1997...around 10PM...colder than hell that night, i'll never forget seeing him face down on the asphalt emergency lane, lifeless. We caught that ####### in Charleston that night, got him cordoned off and a Trooper from Dorchester rammed him with his car and we got him out and beat him near death....I don't regret a minute of it. He got the chair several years later...Bayan Aleksey from Bensalem, PA was his name. The Trooper that rammed him got disciplined and left the SCHP and went back in the Air Force....good for him. These are the big stories i remember but there were tons of other ministers, lawyers, etc., who had connections high up in the SCHP and you'd get told to drop charges, tickets, etc. regularly for their "boys"....i miss the job, some of the guys, but the stifling politics and cliques in that agency are such that you couldn't pay me enough to go back when i retire from the Marine Corps....it's sad, really, because you're life is on the line....the brass at the Patrol, for the most part, act like aristocrats and i had enough of it after 5 years.
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Re: i stopped Chicken WR Zola Davis going 90 on I-26
Dec 9, 2013, 10:42 PM
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I have written a couple of UGA players tickets but never stopped a USC or Clemson player. One was nice. One was a royal ###.
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Oculus Spirit [81897]
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Fair enough. I've never understood how anyone could be
Dec 9, 2013, 10:48 PM
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mouthy to a cop. I'm always incredibly respectful and polite when pulled, but still always get a ticket, lol.
Sure, speed causes more carnage, but how many of those wrecks were strictly because of speed and not other factors? The car in the left lane going 2mph over the speed limit that forces people to whip into the right lane and back to pass them? The idiots that cannot merge onto the highway and then cause a moving traffic wave of cars stopping? Alcohol, cell phone, texting?
Honestly, when I'm speeding, I am more alert and focused on the road than if I had cruise control set at 74 and zoned out listening to music or a book.
My last ticket was I got pulled going 60 in a 45 right at the crest of the hill leaving Clemson on Anderson Highway right before Cherry Road. As soon as you get to Cherry Road it becomes a 55. No reason the stretch I was on shouldn't be 55 but to set a good speed trap at that point.
Previous ticket from that was 60 in a 45 on US-421W in North Carolina near Boone. Was 7pm and full visiblity on a dry road and I hadn't seen a car in 10 miles either direction. Speed limit had dropped to a 45 from a 55 not 100 yards prior and I was hitting the decel on the cruise control when a cop was hiding behind a sign and clocked me.
I could keep going, but most of my tickets are bullocks from strategic radar points designed for increased revenue.
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i actually agree with you
Dec 9, 2013, 11:43 PM
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stupidity and the fear of driving causes a TON of accidents.....people who drive scared and hesitant are terrors on the road...you see this in rural areas a lot. O'burg was plagued with it....abrupt stopping to turn, texting, driving in the fast lane below the speed limit, etc.....unsafe vehicles too with poor brakes, etc. You don't drive unsafe but you have to drive confidently in order to truly be safe. Folks that drive like they are scared out there are just as bad as speeders because they make mistakes out of being intimidated by the road.
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Re: i actually agree with you
Dec 9, 2013, 11:45 PM
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I'd rather meet a drunk on the road than someone texting. At least the drunk is looking out the windshield and trying to drive. If he guesses the right two lines to keep the car in between he's good to go. LOL
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100% spot on. unless the DUI is speeding or wreckless
Dec 9, 2013, 11:51 PM
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texting is deadly...wrote over 125 DUI's in 5 years and only about 20 of them were wreckless driving types....3 DUI fatals where the DUI died....2 where the other driver died. I still remember my first fatality's name, Christopher Sugick...17 years old with a baseball scholly to Coastal. Killed because the driver was drinking...He survived, Sugick from North, SC didn't. We didn't have cells back then for the most part but guys still there on the SCHP i talk to totally agree with you...It's out of control.
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Re: 100% spot on. unless the DUI is speeding or wreckless
Dec 10, 2013, 12:03 AM
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I agree on the drunk not speeding or reckless driving, course I consider drunk driving reckless driving myself. My biggest fault today is I don't wear my seat belts all the time. I hardly ever drink alcohol anymore but no way I'll take a sip and get behind any wheel and my wife is very strict on that. we welcome young folks to our pool but if they drink they better have someone sober to drive them home. She will take their car keys in a skinny minute or arrange someone to pick them up or sleeping at our house is a must.
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good for her...and don't even care if it pisses them off
Dec 10, 2013, 12:07 AM
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because they'll thank you later....a DUI for a youngster is absolutely sickening.....i cannot drive a block without my seat belt on without feeling naked....they won't save you all of the time but i've seen what happens when they aren't on too many times.
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Did 130 in a v-12 Mercedes as a passenger
Dec 9, 2013, 10:26 PM
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We should have been killed. On a country road, too. I was terrified.
A buddy got pulled doing 105 in his Impala on I-77, went to jail.
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I got pulled going 90 in a 55 trying to get my #### back
Dec 9, 2013, 10:27 PM
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home from seeing a girl I shouldn't have seen when I was 16.
Was 2:30 in the morning, cop was on the other side of the road parked and hidden. I think the only reason I just got a ticket was because I stopped for him.
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The Things we do for love.***
Dec 9, 2013, 10:35 PM
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I was on a provisional license too, not allowed to drive
Dec 9, 2013, 10:49 PM
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midnight until 6am. I still have no idea how I didn't get in too much trouble that night, ticket was only $280 too.
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Paid for it dearly on the girlfriend front though.
Dec 9, 2013, 10:52 PM
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Fortunately my girlfriend at the time forgave me for my stupidity that night and eventually married me 7 years later.
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i got stopped at 96 on 26 eastbound. right around orangeburg
Dec 9, 2013, 10:37 PM
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there is a nice median with a wide open spot for johnny law to hide in.
my buddy riding shotgun, realized he didn't have his wallet. he jumped in the back to find it. i lost my lookout and got pulled. i told him to buckle up quick so we didn't get that ticket also. that cop must have thought we were strange. what with me driving and him riding in the back on the driver's side.
he told me i was doing 96 and the only thing i could say, "that's pretty fast, huh?"
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ahhhh, the 154 mm eastbound...wrote hundreds of tickets
Dec 10, 2013, 12:25 AM
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from that spot...right where the woods stop....we used to sit there in the summer and the grass would catch on fire under our cars from the heat from the motor...had to get out and use the fire extinguisher several times....LOL...it might have been me that got you if it was between '97 and '02.
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it was you or a buddy then, i think this was fall of '99.
Dec 10, 2013, 7:30 AM
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it was an unmarked crown vic. state trooper. I was a senior in high school. Had to trek back up to court with my mom. $350 fine and 6 points.
the thing that makes me happy is hearing you talk about the fatalities caused by speed. The one thing I remember the trooper telling me is that he was trying to keep me safe and that at 85 mph, the fatality rate goes WAY up in a collision. I haven't gone above 80 since then.
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Had a 70 Buick Wildcat w/ a 455 cu. in. 360 HP when I was in
Dec 9, 2013, 10:51 PM
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college and I lived out in the country. Drove a hundred mph almost daily but Hi-test gas was $0.62.9 a gallon and I was going broke. Bought a crappy 4cyl Mustang II.
Have a LS3 powered 2010 Camaro SS that will go 155 before computer limits it today. Mostly go the posted speed limit today but I can leave a light and get to 45 very quickly!
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Aficionado [160]
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Re: I had the strictest HP living in my neighborhood, he
Dec 9, 2013, 11:08 PM
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gave me a ticket on a mini-bike when I was 13, got my brother and several of my friends on various occasions. We did get one on him; in 1977 my cousin did a short burnout in the street with my race car (image of car at race attached). The HP got to drive down the street and see two 17" wide black marks for months knowing he did not catch us. We never did it again.
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CU Guru [1989]
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Did 135 coming home from the 2009 Championship***
Dec 9, 2013, 11:27 PM
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Starter [365]
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Re: I bet if I went 110 I would also be charged with reckless driving
Dec 9, 2013, 11:39 PM
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Breaking News
OBC just got new Hair Color
Clowney driving Color back to USC Foot was Was Hurt
Was trying to lace up
Did not understand why car was going so fast?
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Trainer [46]
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Been over 100 many times, mostly on motorcycles...
Dec 9, 2013, 11:51 PM
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Highest was 120 on a 2002 Harley Softail.
This time last year got pulled on 17-south between red top and revanel on a 2012 Road Glide. Although not technically going triple digits, (speed limit was 55), I was going 44 mph over the limit. Got a careless driving ticket for $387 and officer told me take it courthouse in Hollywood before court date and it will be reduced,. I got it dropped to $175 just by showing up and asking.
Sure it's stupid but figure if I wreck I'll likely only hurt myself since when I've done it roads have been clear of ant traffic....I have never passed another car going over 85 max on bike or car.
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Orange Blooded [2429]
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Re: Been over 100 many times, mostly on motorcycles...
Dec 10, 2013, 12:04 AM
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If a dog or deer runs out in front of you.. well you know the rest. You have absolutely no chance of surviving on a motorcycle at that speed.
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110%er [7148]
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Did 110 in my Cutlass Supreme in High School and
Dec 10, 2013, 7:31 AM
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nearly lost it. Was looking at my speedometer and hit some gravel and started to fish tail. It was like in the movies. I had to turn the wheel hard left and right again and again but finally gained control. Scary.
Absolute fasted I've been is on the back of a motorcycle... was going to work in a summer job. My friend picked me up and on a country road with a long stretch he got it up to 125!!! Feels a lot faster on a motorcycle...
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110%er [5576]
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I'm 61 years old and never got a speeding ticket.
Dec 10, 2013, 8:24 AM
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It really pi$$es the wife off because she's received a few the 26 years we've been married. I joke with her that I'm Teflon which pi$$es her off even more. I usually don't go more than 5 - 10 mph over the speed limit, I don't weave in and out of traffic and I just try to maintain a good cushion between me and the cars in front and back of me.
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