this is true, but can you not see the hypocrisy in specifically pursuing exotic cars whilst letting other cars traveling the same speed go free?

 

boohoo. You speed... You get a ticket. If you weren't willing to accept the fact that you might get a ticket, you shouldn't have sped. Sorry, but that's how I feel. YES, i do speed. But I know it is MY fault and only my fault if I get a ticket and don't try to blame it on someone else. No one said life was going to be always fair.

 

1. air traps suck
2. i was once told by a pooper-trooper that "we can't ticket everyone, just like you cant catch every fish in a stream". Meaning he picked the biggest fish to catch.
3. if you don't want a ticket, don't speed

 

I've been pulled over at least 10 times in Cali, WA and Oregon and I've talked my way out of every one. Never had a speeding ticket in my life. I got it down to an art. Last summer I had a Dodge Charger on my ***. After getting annoyed, I gunned it at a stop light - 70 mph in a 35 zone. Guess what? The charger was a cop and he baited me into a race! Couldn't believe it.

Cops comes by and the process goes like this:

1. As soon as the cop gets to the car, I call him sir, I apologize and admit I was speeding.

2. I apologize again.

3. I say I have never had a speeding ticket before (which is true lol - just been pulled over a ton)

4. I apologize again

5. I suck up to the cop and say I am sorry for wasting his time.

6. I apologize again.

It works EVERY time. Here is why: Cops put up with so much bullcrap that it actually surprises them when someone is actually nice to them. I just suck up big time, call them "Sir", and basically just beg for mercy. I think they really appreciate that I am not discrespectful and trying to argue with them. Each time, they say, "ok..just a warning." When the charger pulled me over, they wrote me up for not having a front license plate (still don't have it on, I refuse), and let me go.

I also got pulled over for speeding and suspicion of DUI. I followed my tried and true formula, AND I made a bet with the officer: if I pass the sobrietary test.. let me go without a ticket. He agreed, and of course I passed.

 

I called the trooper station....they still use stop watches from the planes. Tough to see the white lines on the highway when just trying to keep up with the traffic. Keeping busy enough avoiding an accident. However, generally I spend most of my driving time at +90 on I-75 and when the trooper said the plane had timed me at 81, this surprised the hell out of me. To me it was like giving Al Capone a ticket for jay walking. I did notice after this incident and other times, that ground Troopers won't pull you over unless you are above 83-84. I have had my V1 on, doing 82 and cars have passed me like at 84 or so and the oncoming trooper never bothers to turn around and catch him....however, could be the car style I guess with this plane-crap, they were just out there to see how many they could pull over to help pay for the plane and the 10 troopers handy to provide the tickets. However, for the 10-15 minutes I spent with the trooper, no trucks were pulled over.

 

Oh my F...ing hell, that made my day I can almost see it... like something out of Deliverance

 

In the Seattle area there is a lawyer family (last name Mucklestone or something like that) that, for $350, will get the judge to dismiss your ticket or you get your money back. They have like a 99% success rate. It is crazy, I don't know how they do it. People obviously use them because they don't want the insurance hit or they are on a last strike or something. Every person I know that has used them has gotten off. AT my former firm we'd have clients get tickets on their way to our office. We'd have them give us their ticket, write a check for $350, and then we'd forward along the cash and ticket to this family firm to take care of it. I don't think we ever had a client that didn't get the ticket dismissed.

 

You haven’t got any tickets yet because you need to get the turbo. I had a genuine excuse for my last ticket but the mistaken cop didn’t pass English class so it was only reduced. One of the lawyers that went before me got off someone in the exact area my ticket occurred, probably same cop, by checking the radar gun certs only to find the ticketing officer didn’t have one. Too bad I didn’t know how to go about checking all the records and certifications. The people before me were absolutely pathetic. Stupid excuses like going with the flow, didn’t know the area, etc. All lawyer presented infractions were dismissed, only one was rescheduled and the attorney pissed off the judge really bad right before I went.

 

Wow, I am always on that part of I75. Never been pulled over for going that slow. I notice alot of cars driving well above 85mph on I75 and I4.

Now my cousin just got a ticket from a HCS on I275 through Tampa for going 2 mph over speed limit.....only because he passed the cop. I would have fought that one.

 

Yeah right, who is this guy. No one is blaming anyone. Another one of these do-gooders. To not speed on I75, you stay in the right lane at 70...not even half blind old ladies do that. These troopers are just picking out cars from the steady flow of traffic, leaving left-lane trucks alone and the trucks are the ones setting the speed flow. These troopers are more interested in revenue than how to really get the traffic to flow safely, that is, to keep trucks, do gooders and blamers out of the left lane.

 

I found this in the FL code. I thought this was a fact in Florida and wanted to check.


Florida Speeding Ticket Fine

For moving violations involving unlawful speed, the Florida speeding ticket fines are as follows:


For speed exceeding the limit by:
Fine:
1-5 m.p.h. Warning
6-9 m.p.h. $ 25
10-14 m.p.h. $100
15-19 m.p.h. $125
20-29 m.p.h. $150
30 m.p.h. and above $250

 

See above in red, seems like a lot of new changes have occurred

 

Thanks for the update.

I always go 4 or 5 over on the city streets and at least 75 on the highways.

But,, 76 can get you a ticket. I doubt it tho. Over 82 will definitely get you one.

I ve been thru radar at 80 mph and the cop never looks up. SO, 81 and up on the major highways must be the magic number. IF less than 81 got a ticket ,, all the cars in FL would be ticketed and the courts jammed. At least in Central eastern FL.

 

If you use the Florida school route, the ticket never gets entered into the system/wiped off the books without a record (your insurance will never know). You still pay the fine ... just no points.
Fines are doubled in school and construction zones.

K

 

Don, is that "75 over" or just "75" on the highways?