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Quoted: I once got a ticket for 35 in a 50. Yup, 15 UNDER. It had just stopped snowing, plows had scraped the road, but there was still some snow. Fucking Officer Friendly was pissed he couldnt catch me in his POS Station wagon. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Anyone get a ticket for less than 5 MPH over the speed limit? If so, what state was it in? I once got a ticket for 35 in a 50. Yup, 15 UNDER. It had just stopped snowing, plows had scraped the road, but there was still some snow. Fucking Officer Friendly was pissed he couldnt catch me in his POS Station wagon. |
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71 mph in a 70 mph speed limit zone, Texas DPS just outside El Dorado, TX on Christmas Day. The trick was it was 1 minute after sunset when the state wide speed limit was 65 mph at night. So the DPS officer wrote me for 6 mph over. The JP threw it out making the comment that the DPS Trooper was an ass hole for pulling that stunt on Christmas Day.
You have to love small town Justice of the Peace. |
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48 in a 45! While I was slowing down !!!!! South Louisiana … but if I paid the fine today in cash, it wouldn’t go on my record!!!! Fat ass beer belly cop waddling up to my car said he radar gunned me right as I crossed the 45 mph sign…., I refuse to spend any money for anything it that whole f’n parish ….. I hope that cop enjoys the heat in hell!!!!
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Been driving for 45+ years and never got a speeding ticket or any moving violation in my life, and I speed like a mother fucker, race to beat the yellow,
ignore signs, cut other drivers off all the time, etc. Never even been pulled over for any of that, but I have been pulled over for a number of times for other shit: suspect vehicle, equipment violation, expired plates, etc. Still never got a ticket. FWIW... I'm a stereotypical Boston driver that even other Boston drivers would be in awe of. |
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Quoted: Smithville Ohio was known for this. 37 in 35. 27 in a 25. One weekend they popped the most popular DJ in NE Ohio for 27 in a 25. Every morning for months he would go on an epic rant about those no good sobs and everyone should avoid that hick town. It chapped his ass something fierce and he made it his personal FM mission to destroy that town. View Quote |
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Quoted: 71 mph in a 70 mph speed limit zone, Texas DPS just outside El Dorado, TX on Christmas Day. The trick was it was 1 minute after sunset when the state wide speed limit was 65 mph at night. So the DPS officer wrote me for 6 mph over. The JP threw it out making the comment that the DPS Trooper was an ass hole for pulling that stunt on Christmas Day. You have to love small town Justice of the Peace. View Quote That's weird! |
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Quoted: Never seent an 80 MPH sign! That would be sweet! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 81 in an 80 just south of cedar cityUHP trooper needed to meet his quota Never seent an 80 MPH sign! That would be sweet! State highway 130 east of Austin is 85 mph and has been since 2012. Attached File |
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Quoted: 48 in a 45! While I was slowing down !!!!! South Louisiana … but if I paid the fine today in cash, it wouldn’t go on my record!!!! Fat ass beer belly cop waddling up to my car said he radar gunned me right as I crossed the 45 mph sign…., I refuse to spend any money for anything it that whole f’n parish ….. I hope that cop enjoys the heat in hell!!!! View Quote |
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Ex wife got one on Ft Devens for 26 in a 25. The MP hit on her when he pulled her over and she lit into him….I took the ticket to the Provost Marshall, and E6 pdm lit into O-4 MP. Ticket got ripped up. |
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Quoted: State highway 130 east of Austin is 85 mph and has been since 2012. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200543/D0CE8C04-4225-4032-AB2E-B77311E7103D_jpe-2472415.JPG View Quote I think most speed signs need updated. Cars are much safer these days. |
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Quoted: I think most speed signs need updated. Cars are much safer these days. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: State highway 130 east of Austin is 85 mph and has been since 2012. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200543/D0CE8C04-4225-4032-AB2E-B77311E7103D_jpe-2472415.JPG I think most speed signs need updated. Cars are much safer these days. They are safer but it is older vehicles that are the ones you’ll see broke down on 130. Just because your vehicle can go 85 mph doesn’t mean you should run that speed for close to an hour in triple digit heat. |
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Quoted: Were you speeding ? Pretty ballsy to flip a cop of going 10+ over. I think if I was inclined to flip a cop off, I'd be doing the speed limit. View Quote I made sure I was doing 52 in a 55 before I flipped him off. He was just a badge toting felon. But I already knew that about him, which was why I was flipping off his entire department. I just didn't know it was him in that cruiser until he pulled me over and got out. |
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I got stopped for 7 over. 42 in a 35, on Fort Benning, when I was a teenager. It was about 9:30PM, I dropped a friend off from work, his dad was active duty army and he and his family lived on post. I was coming through Harmony Church and didn't really even think about the oncoming headlights until he flipped the blues on and whipped a U-turn to pull me over.
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Quoted: Good olde days. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/montana-speed-limit-sign-picture-id520272114 View Quote |
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Quoted: Anyone get a ticket for less than 5 MPH over the speed limit? If so, what state was it in? View Quote In a 3-cylinder Geo Metro, I got a ticket in Elko, Nevada for going 79 in a 75 (it was on a down-hill portion of the highway) and in my defense, that car couldn't even get to 65 unless it was downhill. I had AZ plates. Later on, I was told that towns like that usually target out of state plates since they know they most likely won't fight it, so they pull them over for pretty much any infraction. |
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1 mph over the limit T Ft. Knox. The MP was apologising the entire time he was writing me up. The Provost Marshal had started a zero tolerance policy,
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All but 1 of mine have been written for 5 over. Easter morning heading to my grandparents house for breakfast, 77 in a 55. He 'gave me a break', and wrote it for 70. WTF was a Bloomfield Twsp. cop doing on I-75 anyway.
Best 1 was 83 in a 45, and not getting a ticket. |
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Quoted: All but 1 of mine have been written for 5 over. Easter morning heading to my grandparents house for breakfast, 77 in a 55. He 'gave me a break', and wrote it for 70. WTF was a Bloomfield Twsp. cop doing on I-75 anyway. Best 1 was 83 in a 45, and not getting a ticket. View Quote Wow. I've never got a warning. Always a fucking ticket. |
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Never been pulled over for anything close to the speed limit, I always made sure they were worth it
I think my best was about 60mph over |
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Not me, but my wife got a ticket for 30ish (28mph or so). Cop claimed the speed limit was 20mph. Cop got his pepe slapped as he gave a lot of these tickets over a 2 week time (shortly after being hired) - and the speed limit was actually 30.
Basically he was our new chief of police and read city code. Apparently the city code from 50-70 years ago could have been read that unless posted, the speed limit in our entire town was 20mph. Kind of, because it said something like "a safe speed". Perhaps it said something like the speed in the school district was x number of mph lower. But that had never been posted or enforced, the slowest signs in town (accept for the school zone) were 30mph-and that was the slowest speed limit ever enforced in town. --- My worst was about 5mph under the posted. I knew the cop was out and an asshole, so I slowly accelerated from the parking lot with my car in low, and left it in low up to 5mph under the speed limit. He ticketed me for exhibition of acceleration - even though I was damn careful to accelerate slowly. We talked to a lawyer and the lawyer said I was fucked. Corrupt cop, corrupt city judge, corrupt appetite judge. No way I was going to get out of it. |
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I had just finished putting a header on my '69 Land Rover, with a 2-1/4 liter 4 cylinder. I had to wind it out to see what my top end was. I was stopped for doing 63 in a 55 PMh area of the highway.
The state trooper gave me a written warning. I told him if he had given me a ticket I would have framed it. |
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Got pulled over for doing 16 in a 15 once (base housing). Didnt write me, just wasted my time
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In 1982 I received a ticket from a motorcycle cop in Oklahoma City for 28 in a 25 zone. Not even a school zone. 7 years later after being in the Navy I got hired on by that same agency. That officer was famous or infamous for writing the shit out of everybody. He wrote over 70 speeding citations in one shift and had his own traffic court docket.
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78 in a 75 was like 2am on a deserted highway in west Texas. Was also my birthday, officer said happy birthday… got a ticket and thanked the officer when he was leaving. Immediately thought wtf did I just say.
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I'm sure every one of these stories will be as truthful as the stories I get after I've stopped somebody
"I wasn't speeding, it was the other guy!" "I did stop at that stop sign!" "You couldn't have seen if I was speeding or not from there!" |
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Got a ticket for 50 in a 45. Worse part? I paid it immediately online. And a week later driving in exact same area notice the posted speed there was 55. And had been that way forever. So my ticket ended up being for 5 under.
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Quoted: 78 in a 75 was like 2am on a deserted highway in west Texas. Was also my birthday, officer said happy birthday… got a ticket and thanked the officer when he was leaving. Immediately thought wtf did I just say. View Quote He was stopping you to see if you had been drinking. Most of the time they write you a warning ticket when they stop you that late at night. |
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I (and many other cops) used to knock down the speed on the ticket than what the driver was really going.
I quit when a guy going 75 in a 55 complained when I gave him a ticket for only going 5 over. I had knocked it down to 60 in a 55 and he decided to complain. I quit giving breaks after that. Can't do it now with body cams anyway (plus I'm not on the street anymore). |
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Ticketed for 38 in a 35.
But the most ridiculous one was a reckless driving for spinning tires pulling away from a stop sign. In an '83 Mustang. In the snow. Judge let that one go. |
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Quoted: Anyone get a ticket for less than 5 MPH over the speed limit? If so, what state was it in? View Quote |
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Quoted: I (and many other cops) used to knock down the speed on the ticket than what the driver was really going. I quit when a guy going 75 in a 55 complained when I gave him a ticket for only going 5 over. I had knocked it down to 60 in a 55 and he decided to complain. I quit giving breaks after that. Can't do it now with body cams anyway (plus I'm not on the street anymore). View Quote Unless you're a raging dickhole or some other egregious bullshit, I write everybody for 9 over, which is the cheapest speeding fine we have. I always note the cited speed and the original speed on the citation, and it's always on camera. If I have to go to court for the citation, I ask the judge to amend the fine to the actual speed noted on the citation. |
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Quoted: Yeah and they had people who's sole purpose was not to let you into the DFAC or dinning facility if your uniform was dirty so the people coming in off remote FOB's or off patrol couldn't eat. People's experiences in the WOT vary wildly. A lot of people were in very dangerous situations on a daily basis but even more lived on giant FOB's that had PX's, fast food, and activity nights like dancing classes. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 30 in a 25 FOB Cedar II Iraq in a HMMWV about 5 months after the invasion. My CO tore it up. OUR own military police were running radar, on a FOB, in a foreign country, and handing out tickets to their FELLOW SOLDIERS??? Is this for real? That's fucked up if so. Yeah and they had people who's sole purpose was not to let you into the DFAC or dinning facility if your uniform was dirty so the people coming in off remote FOB's or off patrol couldn't eat. People's experiences in the WOT vary wildly. A lot of people were in very dangerous situations on a daily basis but even more lived on giant FOB's that had PX's, fast food, and activity nights like dancing classes. Sort of off topic but related to your post. We had a guard at an army FOB try to not let us into a DFAC with our rifles. She wanted us to stage them outside and post a watch. Our Platoon Sgt. just laughed and waved us in while giving her eye daggers. |
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