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That's the one part of PA traffic law I like. They give you 4mph for speedo calibration.
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127 in a 55.
Cop gave me a break down to 74 in a 55.
Then gave me a ticket for an non DOT approved carborator.
I have been pulled over 4 times in my Superduty for no mudflaps. Twice in Prescott by the same cop. Once on the 101 when they had the super patrols. I refuse to put mudflaps on a vehicle. They can ticket me all they want. I will work a second job flippin burgers to pay the fines!!!!
Why are guys dumb that way
Cop gave me a break down to 74 in a 55.
Then gave me a ticket for an non DOT approved carborator.
I have been pulled over 4 times in my Superduty for no mudflaps. Twice in Prescott by the same cop. Once on the 101 when they had the super patrols. I refuse to put mudflaps on a vehicle. They can ticket me all they want. I will work a second job flippin burgers to pay the fines!!!!
Why are guys dumb that way
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Hammer.. your SD Rocks! Are you on what use to be ford-diesel.com? Or do you have more pics/stats of it anywhere?
EDIT: Oh.. I've had one speeding ticket in my 7.5 year driving career. I think it was for 63 in a 55. Officer Dickie was his name. Simi Valley area Highway Patrol.
EDIT: Oh.. I've had one speeding ticket in my 7.5 year driving career. I think it was for 63 in a 55. Officer Dickie was his name. Simi Valley area Highway Patrol.
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Wow, I would argue it in court. I mean when I go by those things that say, "Speed Limit 25 Your speed (x..)" the radar was a little bit (1 or 2MPH) off from my speedo.
A little off topic, but are radar detectors illegal in any states besides VA and D.C.??
A little off topic, but are radar detectors illegal in any states besides VA and D.C.??
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im only 16 and have had my liscence for 4 months... i have been in trouble with cops for my driving skills five times... first time i was pullin in to the school parking lot in the middle of winter, and slid it sideways. sittin in first hour i got called to the office and theres the sherrif sittin there... He was like tell me why i brought you down here, and i played dumb... then he threatend to cut my liscence up right there and i was like because i slid sideways.???? and he was like exactly.. i had it under control but the cop didnt think so....no ticket
number 2 loud exhaust. cop was cool no fix it ticket or anything..
number 3 reckless driving, i was doin about 45 and didnt start to slow down untill about 20 yards to the stop sign.... no ticket
and number 4 i geuss cops frown upon driving when you can barely see out any windows of your truck...i was playin in some mud up north and covered my truck.. i had one little spot i could see out on my windshield... no ticket
number 5, just after i put the spacer and shackles on i put on some meats... 31.5 by 10.5 if i remeber right... i needed an alignment bad and i went over the yellow line a few times, pulled to the left like crazy. there was noone on the road except one lady behind me and she called the cops and said she thought i was drunk driving... no ticket, cop was cool
i geuss im just lucky
number 2 loud exhaust. cop was cool no fix it ticket or anything..
number 3 reckless driving, i was doin about 45 and didnt start to slow down untill about 20 yards to the stop sign.... no ticket
and number 4 i geuss cops frown upon driving when you can barely see out any windows of your truck...i was playin in some mud up north and covered my truck.. i had one little spot i could see out on my windshield... no ticket
number 5, just after i put the spacer and shackles on i put on some meats... 31.5 by 10.5 if i remeber right... i needed an alignment bad and i went over the yellow line a few times, pulled to the left like crazy. there was noone on the road except one lady behind me and she called the cops and said she thought i was drunk driving... no ticket, cop was cool
i geuss im just lucky
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105+ MPH in a 65mph zone on the Maine Turnpike. I was racing a statie and he wrote me down for 90+, asked what the h3ll i was doin? Told him i was just keeping up with traffic, haha bad move. Well i fought the ticket and won, because he never showed up. Well i also have 3 oustanding tickets right now 2 in mass. and one in ny, ill keep you posted im sure ill be losing my licensce by the end of the summer. DOH!
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I was going 85 on 65. The trooper gave me a break by writing 84 on 65 on the ticket. That 1 mph was the difference between paying $135 instead of $270!
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Drove a non insured Dune Buggy down the highway..
Not the "freeway" just a highway that i have to go on to get to my house(Barnet for the locals). Got pulled over by the same cop that Comes out to the high school drags with us and helped me build it. no ticket but got a speech. Then the next day he asked me how well it drove
Not the "freeway" just a highway that i have to go on to get to my house(Barnet for the locals). Got pulled over by the same cop that Comes out to the high school drags with us and helped me build it. no ticket but got a speech. Then the next day he asked me how well it drove
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103 in a 65 on I-70 near Limon, Colorado in a rented Taurus. Some guy with a Dodge Stealth and I were taking turns passing each other. I was in front when the highway patrolman pulled me over. He then jumped out of his car and flagged down the Stealth and gave both of us tickets for reckless driving, and 8 pt. ticket I believe
I had two previous tickets, 53 in a 25 and 47 in a 25 (both in the same place), so the reckless driving put me over the limit and I lost my license for 6 months. It actually worked out O.K. because I was in college at the time and I neve had to be the designated driver
I had two previous tickets, 53 in a 25 and 47 in a 25 (both in the same place), so the reckless driving put me over the limit and I lost my license for 6 months. It actually worked out O.K. because I was in college at the time and I neve had to be the designated driver
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on the first day i got this car we went to a place here callled palm beach where all the rich folks live .and i did a really large turning circle so that i turned on to the beach this is at 11pm. any way i get it bogged up to the axels and while im digging it out. the police show up and ask me why im driving on a public beach i do some explaining which seems to satisfy them .but its a good idea to check the air pressure
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OK OK, hang on guys, I know noone will believe this but I have been pulled over 27 times, yes I know 27 is a lot. So here it goes!, i was a Police Expolrer, "the kids that do ride a longs wit the cops"so i got a way with a lot!!! i am now 21.
1) a red light i did not see i was 16 and with friends on the way to school in the morning
2) -7) or so: mix of non memorable pull overs, no tickets
8) in my 86' Masda pickup long bed, i went to a donut shop, got some donuts and was on my way to school in the morning, well go Fig. they were getting a deliver in the back and too lazy to put it in reverse, thought i could make it around the truck and miss the ditch, but i miss calculated slide down the ditch at 45 angle, climbed out and looked around a bit, jumped in and after about 20 mins of digging in deeper, a ford came up and snatched me out, and stopped in the middle of a 4 way stop, picked up the rope thanked him turned around and the cop pulls up. He was a dick but no ticket.
9) Masda died and needed a tow, buddy in my truck and me in his dads truck pulling it back to the house, the cop pulled up at a red light, it turned green i hit it and the rope broke!! so to make a long story short got a court date bs my buddy had no licenses. cost my $160 or so
10) got new truck 95 ford ranger!! got it about 4pm on Friday now Sat morning 9 or so pulled up to my buddy's shop and did a 300' burn out in ally, in that lil 2.2 manual, and a power slide past a stop sign around a conner, I let off to stop at a 4 way, cop pulls in the middle of the intercession and then a cloud of eye burning rubber drifts by in the lights came on. Warning!
11) 12) speeding ranger, $140 each about a year apart
13)-20) nothing good red lights, speeding, burn outs you know the fun stuff
21)
Rolled my ranger. long stor short i guy cut me off i slamed mybranks and swearved right did a 180 rubber on the driver side got ripped off and it rolled time and landed on its wheels can i join the roll over posey i still have pics, no tic. RIP
22) on the water on a buddy's 16' Yahoo with a 75 ob. Tubing w/o a spotter
23) Towing a cesna 172 on a road just outside of the airport to the front to put it semi. In parts at 2:30 am, no tic.
24) buick, red light $87
25) delivering pizza, spotlighting a street for an address, stop at the house cop pulls up and asked what are you doing? asked for id and saw a baseball bat in the back seat and asked if i had anything any other weapons i said ya, a 22 in the glove box, then the people the ordered the pizza came out and see me, the cop talking, and the other cop clearly the gun. Lil funny now that I think of it. PS i do have a CC permit.
26) hell it i know
27) the last one a a good one, 105 mph on my Suzuki gsx 1100g, and my buddy on a Honda Valicry *sp 1100, on a 35 mph on ramp.
It was dark about 10 PM, we flew past the undercover cop we saw the lights come on and slowed and stopped the cop took a while but he caught up i thought we were both going to loss are licenses but a rubber necker rear ended an another one, the cop said hand over your keys, so i broke off my house key and handed it over, my buddy only had the one key on it, but he had a spare in his wallet, cop went up the road we waited a min or two and slowly at the speed limit went past the cop!
PS 3 tics. no points thank you driving school
sorry for the long post but it was prob. worth it, i think
1) a red light i did not see i was 16 and with friends on the way to school in the morning
2) -7) or so: mix of non memorable pull overs, no tickets
8) in my 86' Masda pickup long bed, i went to a donut shop, got some donuts and was on my way to school in the morning, well go Fig. they were getting a deliver in the back and too lazy to put it in reverse, thought i could make it around the truck and miss the ditch, but i miss calculated slide down the ditch at 45 angle, climbed out and looked around a bit, jumped in and after about 20 mins of digging in deeper, a ford came up and snatched me out, and stopped in the middle of a 4 way stop, picked up the rope thanked him turned around and the cop pulls up. He was a dick but no ticket.
9) Masda died and needed a tow, buddy in my truck and me in his dads truck pulling it back to the house, the cop pulled up at a red light, it turned green i hit it and the rope broke!! so to make a long story short got a court date bs my buddy had no licenses. cost my $160 or so
10) got new truck 95 ford ranger!! got it about 4pm on Friday now Sat morning 9 or so pulled up to my buddy's shop and did a 300' burn out in ally, in that lil 2.2 manual, and a power slide past a stop sign around a conner, I let off to stop at a 4 way, cop pulls in the middle of the intercession and then a cloud of eye burning rubber drifts by in the lights came on. Warning!
11) 12) speeding ranger, $140 each about a year apart
13)-20) nothing good red lights, speeding, burn outs you know the fun stuff
21)
Rolled my ranger. long stor short i guy cut me off i slamed mybranks and swearved right did a 180 rubber on the driver side got ripped off and it rolled time and landed on its wheels can i join the roll over posey i still have pics, no tic. RIP22) on the water on a buddy's 16' Yahoo with a 75 ob. Tubing w/o a spotter
23) Towing a cesna 172 on a road just outside of the airport to the front to put it semi. In parts at 2:30 am, no tic.
24) buick, red light $87
25) delivering pizza, spotlighting a street for an address, stop at the house cop pulls up and asked what are you doing? asked for id and saw a baseball bat in the back seat and asked if i had anything any other weapons i said ya, a 22 in the glove box, then the people the ordered the pizza came out and see me, the cop talking, and the other cop clearly the gun. Lil funny now that I think of it. PS i do have a CC permit.
26) hell it i know
27) the last one a a good one, 105 mph on my Suzuki gsx 1100g, and my buddy on a Honda Valicry *sp 1100, on a 35 mph on ramp.
It was dark about 10 PM, we flew past the undercover cop we saw the lights come on and slowed and stopped the cop took a while but he caught up i thought we were both going to loss are licenses but a rubber necker rear ended an another one, the cop said hand over your keys, so i broke off my house key and handed it over, my buddy only had the one key on it, but he had a spare in his wallet, cop went up the road we waited a min or two and slowly at the speed limit went past the cop!
PS 3 tics. no points thank you driving school
sorry for the long post but it was prob. worth it, i think
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Florida apparently needs some stricter driving regulations............
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Pulled over for suspected arson (I honestly had nothing to do with it) when I was 16, had the license for 1 week, still paper, not even the real card.
Next night litterally got pulled over for pushing shopping carts with my jeep, it's amazing how far they fly when you launch one into a curb after getting it up to 50 mph while the passenger hangs out the window steering it. We also had a stolen tv and some weed on us that night. (I havn't smoked since h/s though now...)
Pulled over for knocking down 14 out of 15 construction pylons, the cop complimented me and asked why I didn't get the last one. Uhhhh well, officer, that's when I saw you.
Was about to run a red light when I saw the officer pull up at the light... Paniced and slammed on the breaks, lost control and slid sideways through the intersection.
pulled over twice for speeding, neither not more then 20mph over the limit.
Pulled over for repeatedly jumping an intersection in my Explorer.
Pulled over for E-Brake slides in my Mom's Honda.
ALL OF THE ABOVE WERE VERBAL OR WRITTEN WARNINGS. I didn't lie on any of them and told the cop I was screwing around or whatever.
I have gotten two tickets for speeding. One of them probably should've gotten me a DUI. Went to traffic school on both of them and they don't exist now.
All that stupid stuff was while I was in h/s...
Next night litterally got pulled over for pushing shopping carts with my jeep, it's amazing how far they fly when you launch one into a curb after getting it up to 50 mph while the passenger hangs out the window steering it. We also had a stolen tv and some weed on us that night. (I havn't smoked since h/s though now...)
Pulled over for knocking down 14 out of 15 construction pylons, the cop complimented me and asked why I didn't get the last one. Uhhhh well, officer, that's when I saw you.
Was about to run a red light when I saw the officer pull up at the light... Paniced and slammed on the breaks, lost control and slid sideways through the intersection.
pulled over twice for speeding, neither not more then 20mph over the limit.
Pulled over for repeatedly jumping an intersection in my Explorer.
Pulled over for E-Brake slides in my Mom's Honda.
ALL OF THE ABOVE WERE VERBAL OR WRITTEN WARNINGS. I didn't lie on any of them and told the cop I was screwing around or whatever.
I have gotten two tickets for speeding. One of them probably should've gotten me a DUI. Went to traffic school on both of them and they don't exist now.
All that stupid stuff was while I was in h/s...
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tac0meat
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here goes mine,
was tryin to enter the freeway, signal on and everythin, i sped up to enter, cop was in the lane i was tryin to get into and he sped up to, i slowed, he slowed, i sped up, he sped up, i slammed it in first redlined it threw it in second and finally got in front of the cop and entered the freeway. i start workin my way over to the fast lane and the cop gets right behind me, so i pull over before he puts his lights on. he gave me a ticket for "failure to use turn signal" and no insurance (which i have, but didnt have the card with me). he ran my info and wrote me a ticket, but for some reason didnt arrest me (i had warrant out for my arrest) he told me he should, but doesnt want to deal with it now (i almost **** a brick). got the ticket dismissed (after i missed my first court date because the cop wrote it down for the previous year). oh well, havent been pulled over in about a year now, gonna try not to from now on.
was tryin to enter the freeway, signal on and everythin, i sped up to enter, cop was in the lane i was tryin to get into and he sped up to, i slowed, he slowed, i sped up, he sped up, i slammed it in first redlined it threw it in second and finally got in front of the cop and entered the freeway. i start workin my way over to the fast lane and the cop gets right behind me, so i pull over before he puts his lights on. he gave me a ticket for "failure to use turn signal" and no insurance (which i have, but didnt have the card with me). he ran my info and wrote me a ticket, but for some reason didnt arrest me (i had warrant out for my arrest) he told me he should, but doesnt want to deal with it now (i almost **** a brick). got the ticket dismissed (after i missed my first court date because the cop wrote it down for the previous year). oh well, havent been pulled over in about a year now, gonna try not to from now on.
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