I'm walking on egg shells! Two years ago, approaching the I90 Buffalo toll booths, I'm driving south. Its a long curve posted 55. I want to get past two semis to beat them to the ezpass booths and am going 88. I believe now all ezpass! Anyway there he sits. Follows me thru the booths before turning lights on. Asks if I was the one in the CAV and when. Comes back with license and registration and tells me to drive safely! Then recently in PA, the brother of one of my son's friends. Asks how Tony is and tells me to drive safely!
Speeding! You cited or warned!
- Thread starter emertmakeshiteup
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I've never been let off with just a warning. Now I have a PA Army Veteran plate, so hopefully it saves me some money at some point.
I’ve been let off with several warnings - some I would have given no chance at getting. Stay polite, hands on wheel, interior light on, eye contact and hope. Gotta think white privilege helped knowing what some of my black friends have dealt with on the road, but the most bogus ticket I ever got was my first going through rural south jersey. Big redneck trooper was a total ass and gave me a ticket for going 58 in a 50 zone
I've been stop 5 times in my whole life. 3 times for speeding and 2 times for doing a California stop (not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign). I was let go with a warning on all 3 speeding stops and given tickets on the California stops, go figure. I was going 85 in a 55 during one stop, another go figure. You just never know.
Got stopped once coming out of a semi-crazy plaza like area where there were several roads coming in and there really was no traffic signs or anything as was coming out of the main street from a small town that lived near. Cop stopped me and said i ran a stop sign. I asked him where as i live local and have been down this street and plaza hundreds of times the last few years. He points, and I look over and see nothing. I said that I don't see anything. So he tells me to look over at the road above this bush and I see a stop sign that is literally planted in the bush such that you can literally not see the post and the stop sign itself is about 1/4 into the bush such that you can only see the top 3/4's of it. I said when did that go in and the cop said yesterday. I said well isn't that dangerous that you literally bury a stop sign in a bush in an intersection that never had one and don't have a blinking light on it at least to let people know that a stop sign has been put there. He looks at me and says that I am right. Next time I go past the bush is gone and the stop sign has a blinking light.
Guarantee you the 85 in a 55 wasn't in Virginia. In VA going 80+ is Reckless Driving, even on I85 where the speed limit is 70 for most of the way.
Pulled over around 6 or 7 Times.. I've only gotten a real ticket once (on US15 coming down from PSU when 322/81 was a construction nightmare). A couple of times it was late at night and I had a taillight out.... They were just fishing for Drunk Driving or Drugs I suppose.
Locally, i tend to get warning when it's from the local cops who see I'm from the area.
Locally, i tend to get warning when it's from the local cops who see I'm from the area.
Got a speeding ticket years back on the PA turnpike; was coming back from dropping my sister off in Pittsburgh and knew the turnpike well since I frequently traveled it visiting my parents. I knew where the State Troopers usually sat so I was doing 65 when a Trooper comes out of nowhere; they nabbed me using a helicopter patrolling in the sky-all told I think the ticket was around $185
I call it a California Sto
I have no idea why he let off with a warning. That stop was probably 25 years ago, around 11pm on a rural 2 lane road. What a moron I was.
I have never gotten off of a speeding ticket and I’ve had several. Luckily, I was let go a couple of times while driving under the influence in my early 20s. Once, I even had a police officer have me drive behind him to get back to my dorm.
Now in my mid-40s I shudder at the thought of how stupid it was to drive after drinking.
Now in my mid-40s I shudder at the thought of how stupid it was to drive after drinking.
This is a funny (but horrible story). Knew a girl in law school who never got tickets though she drove like a maniac. When she’d get caught, she’s impersonate a deaf girl and talk with an impediment.
I told her she was going to Hell
I told her she was going to Hell
Has paid for itself countless times.
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The PA turnpike, at least from Somerset to Harrisburg is a disaster in knowing what the speed limit is actually supposed to be.
I swear it goes from 70 to 55 to work zone in less than a mile. Never have any signage out and there is ALWAYS construction with nobody in sight. SMH.
Today's paper, truck driver going 85 in a 45 zone on I 70. He was charged with risking a catastrophe. Taken directly to jail. Must have been more to the story but who knows?
Back in the 80s, I was driving cross-country on I-80 in Nebraska. Speed limit was 55 back then. I was in a big pack of cars doing 70 or 75. Nobody was driving crazy or anything, just over the limit. I remember looking around and saying "Where are all the trucks?" to myself, and less than 5 minutes later cops had pulled over all of us. There were 8 or 9 cops on both sides of the road waving cars over. I had to wait in line to get my ticket.
I had a a girlfriend during the summer break from Penn State in 73 who's parents had property and a sailboat in Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay. I used to drive my 63 oldsmobile station wagon (my dad gave me) down and back. In Maryland the highway has these long down stretches and back up to the next ridge. I use to get to the top of ridges and you could see foreve. No cops .....I would stomp on that 63 Olds. I could get it up to 105 mph. Then the wind noise and shake would put the fear of God into me. I'd get to the top of the next ridge and do it all over again. Never saw a cop...never got stopped. What a moron.
I drove across country by myself twice in the 70s. That's when the speed limit as 55, as well. I always paid attention to what the truckers were doing back then. Most states they would go about 65 and so would I. When I got to Ohio it was a different story. Every truck was going no more then 55 . Obviously they knew something I didn't. I tucked in behind the trucks. Took forever to get through Ohio. But no tickets.
Between the ages of 18 and 23 I got pulled over four times (all for speeding) ... all four were tickets.
Between the ages of 24 and 49 I got pulled over twice (driving on a "closed" road and right turn on No Turn on Red) ... both times the kids were in the car and was given a warning.
Between the ages of 50 and 55 I got pulled over four times (3 for speeding and one I'm still not sure about in NJ) ... two speeding tickets and two warnings ... all three speeding incidents were returning from PSU football games and the one in NJ was taking my daughter back to Rutgers.
Writing this down has convinced me of two things ... 1) I am an overly aggressive driver and 2) I should avoid driving to/from colleges and/or adopt some younger kids!
Between the ages of 24 and 49 I got pulled over twice (driving on a "closed" road and right turn on No Turn on Red) ... both times the kids were in the car and was given a warning.
Between the ages of 50 and 55 I got pulled over four times (3 for speeding and one I'm still not sure about in NJ) ... two speeding tickets and two warnings ... all three speeding incidents were returning from PSU football games and the one in NJ was taking my daughter back to Rutgers.
Writing this down has convinced me of two things ... 1) I am an overly aggressive driver and 2) I should avoid driving to/from colleges and/or adopt some younger kids!
A couple of my former players are cops here in MD. They will say a lot of it is what happens when they run your tag/license. Also through dealing with them for 4 years I can say that one of them is an ahole and the other isnt.
The one who is an ahole said he writes about 3 times the tickets that the other does and he generally lets good looking women off with a warning.
The one who is an ahole said he writes about 3 times the tickets that the other does and he generally lets good looking women off with a warning.
Has paid for itself countless times.
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Still have mine as well...
Reminds me of a similar story. I have a hard-of-hearing friend who can deal with one-to-one conversations fairly well. He gets pulled over (on Halloween, incidentally, dressed as a pirate) and pulls the deaf bit, can't understand, can't communicate. The cop goes, "Oh, did you just drop your wallet on the ground?" He looks down, busted.
Hey grandpas, get out your smartphone and turn on Waze. It tells you where the cops are and you can slow down until you pass them. Or you can pass someone and give them the finger so that they aggressively pass you right where the cop is and they get a ticket. You shouldn’t drive without it on.
First speeding I ever got was when I was 18, driving back from Florida with my family Christmas Break 1983. Cop pulled me over for going 85 in a 55. My dad was so pissed - I refused to drive back the rest of the way - just sat in the back of the car and let my mom and dad drive.
Well, that's partly the case. When it comes to any "user" reports, it's only as good as the (user) submitter. In my experience, it's about 50% reliable on police sightings (I also report), as the cruisers change location quite frequently in my area. By contrast, fastlax16 and I still have a Valentine One, which is about 95% accurate.
I find Waze more useful for predicting arrival time and avoiding backups, especially valuable in the metro-DC area (DC-MD-VA).
Ha...no CB for me. Listened to AM the whole way. Constantly searching for new stations. In Iowa I found a station that was broadcasting a bull sperm auction. I knew then that I was in the middle of nowhere.
Once my wife, infant daughter, and I stopped at a McDonalds in Cumberland, Maryland on our way to her grandmother's in Allen County, Kansas, which is near the tri-corners with Missouri and Oklahoma. We shared our itinerary with a trucker who immediately said, "Go the speed limit in Macks Creek, Missouri," which we actually drove through. A lot of podnuk towns in the Midwest made their budget by having merciless speed traps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macks_Creek,_Missouri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macks_Creek,_Missouri
I've picked up a lot of cops with my V1 that weren't shown on Waze, either because they'd just setup, they were really well hidden, especially at night, or they weren't stationary. I'm 32, haven't had a ticket since my teens and to say I drive aggressively is an understatement.
I've been pulled over a dozen times...never once got a ticket. I've been pulled over while a passenger in a car with a good looking gal driver, she ALWAYS gets warnings.
I am no friend of the police who do this, I know it is not their choice. In most cases, I've gotten nailed in "speed traps" that are just ways for the local yocals to make a few bucks. I even had a cop, years ago in youngstown, suggest I could just write him a personal check.
I wish they'd do better things with their time. I know there are legitimate speeders but many of these places are just speed traps. There is a place on I77 sound of CLE where they arbitrarily lowered the limit to 55 from 65 or 70. They have a camera set up on an overpass and just mail out the tickets. I am told them made something like $6m last year. A guy doing 15 MPH over will get a ticket over $300.
I am no friend of the police who do this, I know it is not their choice. In most cases, I've gotten nailed in "speed traps" that are just ways for the local yocals to make a few bucks. I even had a cop, years ago in youngstown, suggest I could just write him a personal check.
I wish they'd do better things with their time. I know there are legitimate speeders but many of these places are just speed traps. There is a place on I77 sound of CLE where they arbitrarily lowered the limit to 55 from 65 or 70. They have a camera set up on an overpass and just mail out the tickets. I am told them made something like $6m last year. A guy doing 15 MPH over will get a ticket over $300.
I have received 2 tickets in 45 years of driving. The first was in PA, when my cruise control was set on 64 mph during the 55 mph max speed limit days. I was traveling on I-70 south of Breezewood near the end of the month of July 1985 when my state of the art escort radar detector went off. I immediately hit the brakes, but didn’t see any squad car until I went past a rest area on the right that was hidden by trees. The state trooper pulled me over and said I was driving 76 mph, which I immediately knew was a lie. He did admit that he shot his radar gun through the trees, but said I would have to travel back from NE Ohio in a couple of days, over a 200 mile distance, to contest the ticket, so he knew I likely wouldn’t be doing that. Cost me over $200 (over $475 in today’s dollars).
Second happened in Ohio on the way to a Penn State football game, with all my PSU car magnets on the exterior of my vehicle. I was approaching a 55 mph work zone from a 65 mph zone going 65 by cruise control, but was still a few hundred yards away from the work zone. My radar detector went off, but I thought I was okay since I had dropped down to 55 on the nose by the time I hit the work zone. A State Trooper pulled me over and I seriously wondered what the heck I had done wrong. The trooper told me I had been speeding in a work zone. I explained to him that my radar detector went off before the work zone and I was obeying the speed limit in the work zone. He said that wasn’t how he saw it. In Ohio, it’s a mandatory citation if a state trooper stops you. I thought for sure I was going to have a $400 ticket, but it ended up only being $65, which was primarily court and administrative costs. Apparently you get charged a court cost even if you don’t go to court. Obviously the trooper had realized he was in error, because the ticket was no where close to what it should have been, but he was forced to issue a minimal citation since he had stopped me.
Second happened in Ohio on the way to a Penn State football game, with all my PSU car magnets on the exterior of my vehicle. I was approaching a 55 mph work zone from a 65 mph zone going 65 by cruise control, but was still a few hundred yards away from the work zone. My radar detector went off, but I thought I was okay since I had dropped down to 55 on the nose by the time I hit the work zone. A State Trooper pulled me over and I seriously wondered what the heck I had done wrong. The trooper told me I had been speeding in a work zone. I explained to him that my radar detector went off before the work zone and I was obeying the speed limit in the work zone. He said that wasn’t how he saw it. In Ohio, it’s a mandatory citation if a state trooper stops you. I thought for sure I was going to have a $400 ticket, but it ended up only being $65, which was primarily court and administrative costs. Apparently you get charged a court cost even if you don’t go to court. Obviously the trooper had realized he was in error, because the ticket was no where close to what it should have been, but he was forced to issue a minimal citation since he had stopped me.
Was driving back to Penn State on I80 after a weekend at home and was cruising along at a pretty good clip when a cop in the other lane went by. Saw him turn into a turn around and get in behind me so I slowed way down to the speed limit. He followed me for a short time then sped past.
Five miles later he was set up just over a hill with radar but I was still doing the speed limit. He again came up behind me, followed for a short distance, then sped by again. Five miles later he was set up high on the ramp coming off a rest stop. He then went zooming past me and took the next exit....finally gave up on getting me!
Five miles later he was set up just over a hill with radar but I was still doing the speed limit. He again came up behind me, followed for a short distance, then sped by again. Five miles later he was set up high on the ramp coming off a rest stop. He then went zooming past me and took the next exit....finally gave up on getting me!
It's the summer of 1964, I'm 16 years old, my wrestling weight class is 112lbs (I was able to see over the steering wheel). A friend and I are going to a Phillies game. We are in bumper to bumper traffic but moving along. Policeman spots me works his way in behind me, snaps on the lights and pulls me over. He does the license and registration routine and then says, "Do you think you were speeding or following to close?" I responded, "I couldn't be speeding I was just following the traffic. So, I must have been following to close". Soon as I said it, I'm thinking, "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid"! Policeman's response, "Well, I guess that's your ticket then"!
I've had both. Most recently I was stopped doing 65 in a 55. I was in the team Van with 8 wrestlers in it. The cop was going the other direction. I saw him light up and knew he was stopping me. I pulled over and waited until he got turned around. He was polite, ran my license and gave me a verbal warning.
When my oldest son was baptized, I was stationed at Quantico. We were heading home from the church to change. A priest (Family friend) from Pittsburgh had driven down to do the Baptist, I was taking him to see Monticello after we changed. So in the car you have me in dress blues, a Catholic priest in uniform and my pregnant wife. We were issued a ticket for 5 over.
When my oldest son was baptized, I was stationed at Quantico. We were heading home from the church to change. A priest (Family friend) from Pittsburgh had driven down to do the Baptist, I was taking him to see Monticello after we changed. So in the car you have me in dress blues, a Catholic priest in uniform and my pregnant wife. We were issued a ticket for 5 over.
I got pulled over for making a right on red, even though there were about a hundred signs saying no right on red. I had driven this way hundreds of times. I guess they had recently changed the intersection to a no turn on red and I just mindlessly passed through without regard for the signs. My fault. Oh well. After I pull over to the curb I went to reach for the glove box to get my insurance and reg. I couldn't quite reach, so I unbuckled. The cop tacked on a warning for failure to comply with the seat belt law.
