Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

LOL.  Yeah, I've gotten off what would have been some very expensive
tickets too.  The only reason I could ever think of was because of the
cars I was driving at the time piqued the cops interest.  

I once got pulled over for doing about 90 in town and having a huge blue
cloud of tire smoke behind me in my 69 ElCamino.  I was honest, didn't
lie, but the cop really liked my car and he gave me a verbal warning.
That was about 30 years ago though.  I also got off on a speeding ticket
in my Subaru SVX.  The cop looked the car over really carefully, asked
me if I knew how fast I was going, and I told him, "Not until I saw you.
I really don't have any sense of speed in this car until I hit 100."  He
laughed and said, "I believe it."  He gave me a verbal warning for close
to 70 in a 45 mph zone on a two lane country road.  

Other times I've been pulled over for 3 miles an hour over. The car a
person drives and the attitude towards the cop makes a lot of difference
between warnings and tickets, at least in my experience.

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:41 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:33 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> > Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >>
> > >>     
> > >>> On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > >>>       
> > >>>> Steve Lamb wrote:
> > >>>>         
> > >>>>> Mitja Podreka wrote:
> > >>>>>           
> > >>> [snip]
> > >>>       
> > >>>> Who's rich enough to afford to waste gas driving faster than 60 MPH, much
> > >>>> less more on a regular basis?  Fuel economy on most vehicles takes a
> > >>>> massive nosedive after 60MPH due to wind drag.
> > >>>>         
> > >>> It's a time-money problem.  People would rather spend the extra
> > >>> money to get there faster.
> > >>>
> > >>> Saving only 5 or 10 minutes on a 90 mile trip?  Irrelevant.
> > >>>       
> > >> True, but it still doesn't work out rationally:  Unless you make a lot of
> > >> money or gas is unbelievably cheap, that few minutes saved will cost you
> > >> more wage-hours than it's worth...
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Unless you lose you job being late and you don't want to leave any
> > > earlier. Its a choice.
> > >   
> > First, my mileage doesn't go down until I consistently cross the 80 mph 
> > barrier.  Second, on my 125 mile commute to work, one way, the time 
> > saved at 10-15 mph faster than 60 is considerable.  It's the difference 
> > between spending 12+ hours a day away from the house, to spending 
> > between 11 and 11 1/2 hours away from the house.  Over the course of a 
> > work week that's a lot of time saved.
> > 
> > Also, I have a buddy that lives in southern Oregon and it's a 560 mile 
> > drive to his house.  It takes him more than 12 hours to make the drive.  
> > I make the drive in around 9 hours.  That's a huge difference in how 
> > tired a person is by the time they finish the trip.   Is the 1 or 2 mpg 
> > I lose by driving faster than he does worth it?  You bet.  I am still 
> > getting 35 mpg so how much can I be losing?  I get about exactly the 
> > same mileage if I drive at 60 - 65 only I'm far less tired after driving 
> > for 9 hours than I am driving for 12 hours which means I am far more 
> > alert and thus a much safer driver.  
> 
> Piece of info for you, very rarely does my highway speed go under 85.
> 
> I've been stopped by Police in my 1969 442, more than once. Asking me to
> get out of the car and search the trunk, the engine compartment and
> glove compartment... and so on. Only to be given a warning for drive 100
> +MPH.
> 
> Last time, the one officer had a digital camera and asked if he could
> take pictures.
> 
> I've also been pulled over with my Lancer for going 75MPH in a 70MPH
> zone, and given a ticket.
> 
> But, yes, I also drive faster than posted.
> -- 
> greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
> 
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