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[darwin dali]

So I'm cruising home from Philly on the PA Turnpike at a clip of 75mph. It's getting dark and I'm making good time. Then I see a cop in the green (or white as it may be), all lights out, dark in the dark. I slow down to 70 as a preventive measure and see in the rear mirror that he pulls in. I'm hoping he's after somebody else, but sure enough he pulls me over. Shi! - they must be really desperate to fill their quota this month to pull me over for 10mph speeding or so I thought.
So, the cop walks up to my car and says: Well, ma'am, I have you clocked with 87mph down that hill.
I go: no way! 87? That's impossible!
Well, how fast do you think you were going?
Without hesitation I go: 74mph, I have it on cruise control. 87 is impossible, no way! Maybe some car behind or in front was going that fast?
So, after a bit of back and forth, he says: I won't give you a ticket, just a warning.
After a while he comes back and hands me my first speeding warning ever, which I could toss the next morning according to him. I ask him how is it possible that he clocked me that high? So he goes, with the cold the radar gun is not always accurate. Well, I shouldn't say that - they work MOST of the time. I didn't give you a ticket because I'm going with what you're telling me.

And I had admitted to driving 9mph too fast and still he didn't give me a ticket - nice!

Anyway. Let's hear your ticket stories

[Jabberwocky]

As someone who works with radars, I think the whole "they work most of the time" is a bit of a get out by the cop. Yes a Doppler radar system can show a miss reading due to squint angles however the error would be minimal.

The only time you would get a massive difference is where the Doppler shift is created by the top of the wheel/alloy/rim as this would be travelling at twice your speed.

[darwin dali]

As someone who works with radars, I think the whole "they work most of the time" is a bit of a get out by the cop. Yes a Doppler radar system can show a miss reading due to squint angles however the error would be minimal.

The only time you would get a massive difference is where the Doppler shift is created by the top of the wheel/alloy/rim as this would be travelling at twice your speed.

Okay then. So why did he clock me that fast? Or was he lying because he was bored and wanted to chat somebody up or what?

[Gaz]

I've never been pulled for speeding

Have been pulled for not letting a police officer out of a road tho, was driving past a police station and i saw a police car trying to force his way out, he didn't have lights on or anything and he was indicating the opposite direction from which i was heading.

so i zipped around him and carried on he then but his lights on and came after me and so i pulled over.

"is there a problem officer? i said he then went on to go on about how he could of been attending an emergency situation, and its important to show respect to other motorists, i then asked "if you were attending an emergency situation, wouldn't you have your lights an siren on?"

He didn't answer signed then proceeded to check the car for MOT, Insurance, and Tax on the radio while waiting for them to come back with the details on my potentially stolen, untaxed, uninsured and unroad worthy Rover Metro he gave me a lecture on road etiquette, which i listened to intently i then asked "so what your saying is, if a police officer is trying to force you way their way out into oncoming traffic (which is pretty dangerous by the way) - your supposed to stop and let them out?"

He then advised me not to get smart and to wipe the stupid grin of my face. The station then came back and told him that my Rover was not stolen, untaxed, uninsured and was in fact road worthy which by looking it at it was hard to believe and he said i could go.

I then asked for his identification number and advised him i was going to make a complaint, which i don't think he was too impressed by.

Hope i don't see him again.

[racechick]

"ma'am" ....." he wanted to chat someone up" ....... Slip ups? truths? deliberate errors???

[darwin dali]

"ma'am" ....." he wanted to chat someone up" ....... Slip ups? truths? deliberate errors???

True! And he was kinda cute as well. And i wasn't particularly tarted up either!

[Gaz]

How come you were leaving philly, were couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in your neighborhood?

Did you get in one little fight and your mom got scared? so she said "your moving with your aunty and uncle in Bellaire."

[racechick]

The times Ive been stopped Ive mostly not been the driver. Funny one once on a motorbike, when I was a mere slip of a girl. A boy had this bike and offered to take me for a ride. Of course I agreed. He was showing off and I was egging him on, so we were going way way too fast in a 30 zone and didnt even hear the police car. Anyway we were stopped and I couldnt get off the motorbike(Im only little and my legs wouldnt reach the floor). Then when I was off I couldnt get the helmet off. By the time the policeman had soted me out I think he'd fotgotten to be cross, and let us go, which is a good thing, because this guy had borrowed the bike from a mate, he wasnt insured and the tax was out.Phew! Lucky escape!!

[darwin dali]

How come you were leaving philly, were couple of guys who up to no good started making trouble in your neighborhood?

Did you get in one little fight and your mom got scared? so she said "your moving with your aunty and uncle in Bellaire."


Hey perhaps the cop was Texas....ah but you said it he was good looking mustn't be him then eh?

Nah, was a business trip and I was on my way home.
I don't think Tex would stray that far It would be about the same distance as Birmingham, UK - Malaga, Spain!

[mrp101]

30 in a 25. My first week in Detroit area. I had to ask the cop for directions afterwards.

Got a speeding ticket in Houston, Cop yelled at me etc. Judge let me off later when I showed her a little badge thing that had my name and SCCA on it. Nice judge, cop was wierd tho.

[Jabberwocky]

As someone who works with radars, I think the whole "they work most of the time" is a bit of a get out by the cop. Yes a Doppler radar system can show a miss reading due to squint angles however the error would be minimal.

The only time you would get a massive difference is where the Doppler shift is created by the top of the wheel/alloy/rim as this would be travelling at twice your speed.

Okay then. So why did he clock me that fast? Or was he lying because he was bored and wanted to chat somebody up or what?

If it is like UK cops then they need a reason to stop you. they then get to have a closer look at your car and try and get you for something else.

[McLaren]

I got pulled over for speeding.Got nicked going about 50 in a 40.

pc: Is there any reason why you can't produce your driving licence at a local police station in the next 7 days?

me: actualy there is yeah
pc: whys that then?
me : cus you've already got it
pc : oh really whys that then ?
me : cus I got caught speeding
pc : Oh really where was that then ?
me : about 100 metres that way *points left*
pc : well,well sir we don't learn do we

felt like saying ,go away you sarcastic git (or something along those lines anyway )

I would like to add that only put me on 6 points not that i had lost it

[cap-dude]

No points or cop incidents here yet. Thankgod.

I've only been driving for around a year now. So getting anything on my license nearly rules me out of driving. Insurance companies here are incredibly bad. For me to be insured on my own, driving a ford fiesta would be nearly £3000 a year. Luckily as 3rd party it's only around £700 a year. But still not cheap.

I cop car did pull out in front of me yesterday when I was doing around 40 in a 30. I just slowed gradually and made sure I wasn't to close behind them, but I don't even know if they would pull you for those speeds.

[Selcouth_Feline]

Never been stopped (*touch wood*) but I am surprised I wasn't stopped in my previous car. The dealer put the wrong plates on the car - and the plates he'd put on didn't actually exist. I drove for a couple of weeks on the wrong plates and it's only when I was looking at some photos I realised the mistake. In that time, I'd definitely gone past the police interceptors several times, and they tend to have ANPR running so I'm really surprised I didn't get pulled over.

The bizarre thing is that I always thought, maybe very naively, that the petrol forecourt numberplate recognition system was tied up to some database to check whether plates were real or not - obviously not!

[texasmr2]

Hey perhaps the cop was Texas....ah but you said it he was good looking mustn't be him then eh?

Atleast I don't look like this ,

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Nah, was a business trip and I was on my way home.
I don't think Tex would stray that far It would be about the same distance as Birmingham, UK - Malaga, Spain!

It would also be out of my jurisdiction yet if it was me I would have remembered that pretty face from the dungeon and let you go also. The warning would have been more of a verbal request, tex turns off his microphone, so when can I return to your den of ill repute??


Now back to the topic I have not recieved a ticket since 2002 and that was for a recently expired inspection tag in my '92 MR2T. The only speeding ticket I have ever recieved was in 1992 in my '85 MR2.