#181043 - 06/08/10 01:02 PM
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Ok... So I had something happen to me last night. For personal reasons I was trying to relieve some stress with the Pink Panther and was goofing around as I was leaving work. Namely squealing tires through all of first gear when the tranny downshifted. Ah... blue lights. Lets see... exhibition of speed, doing about 60 in a 35? Yeah, seems about right. When the officer reaches my door, its a guy I sell parts to all the time. He asked what I was doing... "Having a bit of fun, being stupid," I said. He talked to me a bit more and just kept smiling and looking around... then said "Have a good night." I thanked him and shook his hand, then we took a peak under the hood of my car. I'm telling you, that was by far the most amazing moment of my life when it comes to police. Not bad for my first time getting pulled over, eh? He made my night, I'll have to do something for him sometime to return the favor.
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#181044 - 06/08/10 01:34 PM
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No pics of this fairytale?
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#181045 - 06/08/10 01:38 PM
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LOL. Yeah, let me hunt him down, we'll reenact the whole thing and video tape it. :p
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#181046 - 06/08/10 01:40 PM
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lol dang that is lucky rook! if that would have been me, i would have gotten a tint ticket, excessive speed, 60 in a 35, unlwaful use of a motor vehicle...lol
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#181047 - 06/08/10 01:56 PM
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Last weekend at Assateague, I got caught on radar going 44 in a 30 and the police officer let me off with a warning. That was super lucky. It was nighttime but there are no turns from where I started speeding to where I got caught, so nowhere to camp and use radar. I think I got pulled over by a phantom.
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#181050 - 06/08/10 07:37 PM
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Originally posted by HercMan: I bet he let you off since you were honest up front and weren't really a safety issue to other people. ...and you drive a pink car so how bad can you be?
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#181051 - 06/08/10 09:37 PM
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Originally posted by UMfan: Originally posted by HercMan: [b] I bet he let you off since you were honest up front and weren't really a safety issue to other people. ...and you drive a pink car so how bad can you be? [/b]You have a point!
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#181052 - 06/08/10 11:41 PM
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Originally posted by HercMan: I bet he let you off since you were honest up front and weren't really a safety issue to other people. I bet it was because he was his friend.
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#181053 - 06/09/10 01:59 AM
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Friend? I don't even know the guy's name. I'm sure our past interactions had more than enough to give me an edge though. It helps that I'm a person with a nice personality.
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#181054 - 06/09/10 10:41 PM
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That's awesome. Now use that money you saved not getting a ticket and buy something nice for the car.
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#181055 - 06/10/10 10:03 AM
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Friend or not... This police officer knew you because you sell that parts to him. If it is other police officer who never knew you then you will busted for sure. Just saying...
But yeah sometimes honest to them will let you off hook but it is not 99.9% work. I told police officer that I admit my mistake part. I get off hook few times that I was too young and speeding long time ago.
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#181056 - 06/10/10 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by palsut: Friend or not... This police officer knew you because you sell that parts to him. If it is other police officer who never knew you then you will busted for sure. Just saying...
But yeah sometimes honest to them will let you off hook but it is not 99.9% work. I told police officer that I admit my mistake part. I get off hook few times that I was too young and speeding long time ago. Palsut speeding?! no way....
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#181057 - 06/10/10 04:58 PM
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Originally posted by Igor: Originally posted by palsut: [b] Friend or not... This police officer knew you because you sell that parts to him. If it is other police officer who never knew you then you will busted for sure. Just saying...
But yeah sometimes honest to them will let you off hook but it is not 99.9% work. I told police officer that I admit my mistake part. I get off hook few times that I was too young and speeding long time ago. Palsut speeding?! no way.... [/b]Well, shoot, you saw in Craigslist that 3100 can easily make 212whp, so it doesnt surprise me that Palsut leads a schizophrenic life: sane and slow-[butt] on-line and a beast on the street! Just messin, Palsut!
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#181058 - 06/10/10 05:00 PM
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Originally posted by Igor: Originally posted by palsut: [b] Friend or not... This police officer knew you because you sell that parts to him. If it is other police officer who never knew you then you will busted for sure. Just saying...
But yeah sometimes honest to them will let you off hook but it is not 99.9% work. I told police officer that I admit my mistake part. I get off hook few times that I was too young and speeding long time ago. Palsut speeding?! no way.... [/b]Yes, I did speeding long time ago. Now, I'm 27. Got driving liscense in age 16. That's 11 years ago. I'm not proud of that. I wish I took that back time for not doing that again. I got busted for 4 speeding tickets. 1 more ticket then I'm going to lose the driver license. My last speeding ticket was November 2003. That's nearly 7 years ago. I have come clean and got a great driving record because I listen to police officer to tell me just follow the speed limit and we never bother you. I did that and never got bother by police since then. Wish people could follow that so they won't complain about speeding ticket as it is law.
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#181059 - 06/10/10 08:20 PM
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That is lucky as heck!
And Pat I always get bothered by the police when im following the law. I got stopped walking to work yesterday morning. Granted I worked 17 hours the day before and only got 3 hours of sleep and was hung over but he still had no reason to stop me and call me over to his cruiser no matter how terrible I looked at the time.
And be careful not because they just passed the law in Ohio where if the office thinks your speeding by how fast he sees you going he can give you a ticket. So you could be going 45 in a 45 and he could think your speeding and ticket ya.
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#181060 - 06/10/10 09:28 PM
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Yes, I heard about new Ohio law that they will use "eye" instead radar gun. I have seen few police cars on highway after new law passed. I never got any problem yet but who know. We will see how it going. Sometimes, I use speed limit or go over 5 mph. I guess they choose "eye" thing because of people buying radar jammer or something that they keep avoid. I guess police is getting smart for use eye thing idea that speeding people cannot use anything about that. Yeah part of me if what if they are wrong like you mentioned if I'm doing 45 on 45 mph. I get wrong ticket for doing like 55 mph. Tough to tell.
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#181061 - 06/11/10 01:05 AM
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Seems to me like you could go to court and if the officer doesn't have the radar to prove that you were speeding they don't have any evidence and have to dismiss it.
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#181062 - 06/11/10 09:30 AM
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Yea, I'm sure it will be over turned. All they need to do is line some officers up and have some cars do some runs by them and see if they can call it.
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#181063 - 06/12/10 01:09 PM
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Unfortunately, common sense does not rule the day in most courts.
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#181064 - 06/12/10 02:03 PM
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It's ok. Police are now granted the power of uberdepth-perception with their eye radar. All is well, nothing to see here folks, move along.
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