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[OceanBlue2000]

Went to pick up my daughter from school last night and noticed lots of cops on the roads. Escort to the rescue. Situation awareness my friends!

Shame the guy that flew by me didn't have a detector. I was traveling about 60 mph when the Honda Accord passed me. I would imagine he was going about 65-70. The speed limit is 55 on that road for reference. Georgia cops are very flexible, but when you go 15 or over, you're in danger territory.

What's it like in your area? Cops overly oppressive or reasonable?




p.s. listen to my daughter nag about the Redline noise and then the heat! lol Can't please the ladies in these cars.

I'd say around here it depends on the road, but that's just my personal opinion. For example, I think the Turnpike is basically the autobahn and unless the statey sees a severed head in your car, you're not getting pulled over. Compared to the Parkway, which seems to have heavy enforcement periods, especially on weekend mornings. It's just a matter of figuring out which roads the state cops care about. Rarely do I do much over the speed limit on town or county roads, mostly because there's always someone in front of me. It's New Jersey.

I'm still figuring out the major east - west highway nearest me. Soon after the ramp I use, there's a little dip where a state cop seems to always be sitting. Every time I remind myself, "next time remember there's a cop there," and I never remember. The other day I got on the highway and there was no one in front of me so I charged it up. I was doing about 90 when I saw the cop, and he just let me pass. So I am honestly wondering how fast I need to be moving to get busted.

[gnat]

No. It just pays (or saves) to know who you might encounter where around the DC area

Forgot to add, in regards to other people getting popped. Just after the turn of the century while I still had the XK8 I was coming home one evening and as soon as I hopped off the highway my V1 beeped. I knew exactly where he was going to be sitting (about 3mi up at the bottom of a hill) so I was drove like I normally do (fast) and ended up picking up a Mustang that thought he'd use me as bait. I'd speed up, he'd speed up. I'd slow down, he'd slow down. So I get us up to over 100 (55 limit) just before the hill, he's right on my tail, then I jump lanes and lay on the brakes (it was just me and him alone on a 4 lane road (god I miss those days of no traffic...)). He hadn't even touched his brakes as he crested the hill and must of hit that K band doing about 105 or so. He gave me the finger as I waved while passing him pulled over on the side of the road

What a nice guy you were.

I waved!

Besides I was passing on knowledge to him too! He hopefully learned the valuable lesson that if you don't have the balls to speed on your own, then you shouldn't do it (or at least pay attention to your bait car better)

[OceanBlue2000]

HHHMMM the above recap seems to reveal that you have had significant personal experience with many of these jurisdictions...

To say the least

When I started driving I was a magnet. So much so that I racked up 22 points on my license by the time I was 19 (didn't get my license until almost 18).

Stupid VA put me in a pilot program that worked like so:

1) Start in 18 month "control" period.
2) Any ticket in the control period moved you to a 6 month phase (forget the name).
3) If you don't get any moving violations, you go back to the 18 month period.
4) If you get a moving violation, you lose your license for a number of months equal to double the points of the ticket.
5) If you do not get any tickets in the 18 month period, you are removed from the program.

Normally if you picked up 16 points total or something like 12 in 6 months they would automatically suspend your license, but the idiots wrote it into this program that the only ways you could lose your license was to get a moving violation in the 6 month period or have a judge suspend your license in court.

Even though the program was fairly quickly killed, they grandfathered current entrants until they graduate out of the program "naturally".

I remained in the program until I was 27 or 28 as no sooner would I pop out of the 6 month period than I'd get another ticket to send me back to the 6 month period again

I was in a similar program in NJ when I was a lot younger, and drove my 65 Mustang wayyyy to fast all time. Once you hit 13 points (which I did), you had a choice: sign up for a 'driver's education' class (held early Saturday morning for maximum punishment factor), or have your license suspended for two months, I think it was. I opted for the class, of course.

The funny thing is, the DMV took two points off your license when you signed up for the course, before you attended. Generally the class took place weeks later. So, in between signing up and attending the class, I got another ticket, which took me to 13 points again. So since the DMV thought I was at 11 points, it sent me another application for the class. I signed up again, which let me keep my license. So, I attended this class twice, a couple weeks apart. The cop that ran it recognized me the second time, but I got away with it.

[gnat]

Sounds like all the cops knew about you, Gnat! Think about it. They'd wait when got off work or whatever and then watch for you to be flying down the road, radio up to the next patrol and boooooom... nailed ya!

Have you ever thought about driving slower cars with speed limiters? lol

There was one dick of a cop that pulled me over 3 times (no tickets cause he knew he had no grounds), but otherwise my encounters have all been random. Except for experiences with that one Prince William cop, Park Police, and Airport Authority my experiences with getting pulled over have all been pretty decent. Might be because I have the common sense to treat them like humans and recognize that they are just doing their jobs while I'm the one breaking the law.

One of the last tickets I got was in my old Escape where I flew around a corner where I knew cops liked to hide. Sure enough the V1 lit up with laser as soon as I rounded it. I knew I was nailed and just pulled over before he could do more than turn on his lights. He noticed the V1 while we were talking:

Cop: What's that?
Me: Radar detector.
Cop: You know those are illegal in VA?
Me: Yeap
Cop: Watch out for the State Troopers, they'll ticket you for it.
Cop: Didn't do you much good did it?
Me: You didn't have to chase me did you? (he didn't even have to move his car)

After he got done laughing he knocked 10 miles off my speed so I didn't have to go to court


I find treating them nice and not giving a bunch of BS excuses (without actually admitting guilt) goes a long way. Though there are still always the dicks. Our last run in with Park Police was due to the BMW not having a front plate, so he pulls us over and then proceeds to call in 5 other cars for "support" while his partner pointed his tazer at my wife. Completing their idiocy, my wife's window was rolled up the whole time so said tazer wouldn't have done shit


Wife isn't shabby herself. When I first got my V1 she was against the idea. Then one day I got a call at work and she told me to order one for her. Turns out she got popped in the XK8 doing 101 in a 55. Her lawyer got her off on a technicality (I think he paid the cop off actually...) and the clearly unhappy judge told her that she should sell the car (not hers!) and get something slower. We were to take delivery of the 996 a few months from then, but she didn't tell him that

[B3DAWG]

Wife isn't shabby herself. When I first got my V1 she was against the idea. Then one day I got a call at work and she told me to order one for her. Turns out she got popped in the XK8 doing 101 in a 55.

Congrats... a marriage made in sports car heaven! Talk about being equally yoked. hahaha When you left your wedding I bet you left a drag didn't ya! and, she gave ya the "woot woot woot" as you spun off into the sunset... only to get stopped by a trooper 100 yards down the road. Touchdown!

Cue song... "Born to be Wild"

Get ya motor runnin'!!!
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild!
Born to be wild!!!

[gnat]

Wife isn't shabby herself. When I first got my V1 she was against the idea. Then one day I got a call at work and she told me to order one for her. Turns out she got popped in the XK8 doing 101 in a 55.

Congrats... a marriage made in sports car heaven! Talk about being equally yoked. hahaha When you left your wedding I bet you left a drag didn't ya! and, she gave ya the "woot woot woot" as you spun off into the sunset... only to get stopped by a trooper 100 yards down the road. Touchdown!

Actually other than having my mother's lead foot, I had my parent's view of cars (they are for A to B). I loved the 80s Lambos as a kid, but never really seriously. It was the wife that grew up lusting after the 911 and brought cars into my life for more than simple transportation.

As far as the wedding, I made her do that to get the 996

We actually left in her F-150. No burnouts were involved as we were tired, still had New Year's to celebrate, and were getting on a plane to London early the next morning...

[Dr_Strangelove]

What's it like in your area? Cops overly oppressive or reasonable?

1) Who let you out of the editing room?

2) LV Metro is pretty reasonable and NHP is pretty oppressive. Luckily there are only about 3 NHP officers on payroll in the Las Vegas area at any given moment and all of them are usually responding to accidents so between that and my radar detector I rarely get to meet the fine boys in blue. I've been stopped by Metro for stupid stuff like using a shoulder as a turning lane (In my defense I was drunk,) but I've only gotten warnings from Metro.


(I was kidding about being drunk - how are you b3?)

[B3DAWG]

What's it like in your area? Cops overly oppressive or reasonable?

1) Who let you out of the editing room?

2) LV Metro is pretty reasonable and NHP is pretty oppressive. Luckily there are only about 3 NHP officers on payroll in the Las Vegas area at any given moment and all of them are usually responding to accidents so between that and my radar detector I rarely get to meet the fine boys in blue. I've been stopped by Metro for stupid stuff like using a shoulder as a turning lane (In my defense I was drunk,) but I've only gotten warnings from Metro.


(I was kidding about being drunk - how are you b3?)

I'm good man. Spending most of my outside-of-normal-work hours editing the M9X Engine Assembly video series for Jake Raby. It's a HUUUUUGE (no Trump pun intended) project. 5 months and counting! I've watched it so many times, I pretty sure even I could assembly an M96 engine in my sleep by now. Im kinda like a Ratatouille for engine builders.

[808Bill]

Sounds like all the cops knew about you, Gnat! Think about it. They'd wait when got off work or whatever and then watch for you to be flying down the road, radio up to the next patrol and boooooom... nailed ya!

Have you ever thought about driving slower cars with speed limiters? lol

There was one dick of a cop that pulled me over 3 times (no tickets cause he knew he had no grounds), but otherwise my encounters have all been random. Except for experiences with that one Prince William cop, Park Police, and Airport Authority my experiences with getting pulled over have all been pretty decent. Might be because I have the common sense to treat them like humans and recognize that they are just doing their jobs while I'm the one breaking the law.

One of the last tickets I got was in my old Escape where I flew around a corner where I knew cops liked to hide. Sure enough the V1 lit up with laser as soon as I rounded it. I knew I was nailed and just pulled over before he could do more than turn on his lights. He noticed the V1 while we were talking:

Cop: What's that?
Me: Radar detector.
Cop: You know those are illegal in VA?
Me: Yeap
Cop: Watch out for the State Troopers, they'll ticket you for it.
Cop: Didn't do you much good did it?
Me: You didn't have to chase me did you? (he didn't even have to move his car)

After he got done laughing he knocked 10 miles off my speed so I didn't have to go to court


I find treating them nice and not giving a bunch of BS excuses (without actually admitting guilt) goes a long way. Though there are still always the dicks. Our last run in with Park Police was due to the BMW not having a front plate, so he pulls us over and then proceeds to call in 5 other cars for "support" while his partner pointed his tazer at my wife. Completing their idiocy, my wife's window was rolled up the whole time so said tazer wouldn't have done shit


Wife isn't shabby herself. When I first got my V1 she was against the idea. Then one day I got a call at work and she told me to order one for her. Turns out she got popped in the XK8 doing 101 in a 55. Her lawyer got her off on a technicality (I think he paid the cop off actually...) and the clearly unhappy judge told her that she should sell the car (not hers!) and get something slower. We were to take delivery of the 996 a few months from then, but she didn't tell him that

I had to sell my 300srt due to a dick cop when I lived in NOVA. He pulled me over because I had tinted windows, I was polite and respectful and tried to strike up conversasion about his job and what issues he had in the area (he didn't fall for it) then proceeded to right me up for a bunch of little things like chrome turn signal bulbs, LED tails lights, the SRT sticker on my windshield, exhaust, and of course the tint...I contested and beat all the tickets in court and he was pissed! He pulled me over every time he saw me to and from work, I got tired of being harassed and sold the car.

[Kalashnikov]

Well... I got a letter from Italy yesterday informing me that I had to pay Hertz 30.50 euros to release my information to police for "traffic violations" I committed. Fucking caribinieri.