"Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now; I'm busy speeding."
Posted on 03/21/2008 2:26:59 PM PDT by steve-b
A Henry County judge fined a Palos Park teen $2,000 Thursday for driving at least 55 mph over the speed limit in January.
Gianna Didiana, 17, was extremely upset when Judge Dana McReynolds imposed the fine, according to Henry County Assistant State's Attorney Lewis Zimmerman.
Ms. Didiana also was sentenced to six hours in jail and ordered to perform 240 hours of community service.
Mr. Zimmerman said an Illinois State Police trooper was coming off the Geneseo exit onto Interstate 80 eastbound on Jan. 21 when Ms. Didiana drove past the state trooper in a Mercedes Benz at a high rate of speed.
The ticket was for going 120 mph, but Mr. Zimmerman said that was the speed the trooper clocked Ms. Didiana at as she was pulling away from him.
The trooper chased her and eventually stopped her in Bureau County, Mr. Zimmerman said. "She was crying (at the hearing). She was very emotional. It's the biggest fine I've ever seen. It's the fastest I've seen."
Girl, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t quit drivin’ that hot...rod...Lincoln.
She’s a little massively-spoiled brat who doesn’t care about anyone else. She’s only upset because she got caught and received such a justly-deserved large fine.
Move over Danica... you have a new teammate.
Any subsequent high risk actions such as this have been on the track.
Were were all young and dumb once.
Here I thought it was Al Gore’s son trying to beat global warming.
LOL!
I was a little Speed Demon when I was a teen. I also broke curfew more times than my Dad liked.
The topper? Well, I was speeding, because I was late once again getting home, so I got pulled over for speeding, and when I got home, Dad was still up waiting for me, and he tore up my driver’s license right then and there.
And it was JUNE, so I was car-less for all of the Summer! Talk about cruel and unusual punishment for a 16 year old girl, LOL!
Funny. I turned out OK. I hope this girl has a Dad who cares enough to kick her silly little @ss, too.
The kid got an $80 fine and court costs, no suspension. Well, Ohio is pretty forgiving, but I told the boy that if I was his dad, he wouldn't ever drive a car while living under my roof.
He's a pretty good kid, though. I'll confess that on the way to Niagara Falls I buried the speedometer needle on my girlfriend's Delta '88(marked to 120 mph).
Young, stupid and invincible. Guardian angels have always been good to me.
Those cars have governors on them now that won’t allow them to go over 127 so she was about topped out.
Fortunately my 2000 Lexus 400 does not and will do 155.
Don’t ask me how I know!
John
“Were were all young and dumb once.”
Oh yeah. Borrowed my friend’s BMW back in 1994 in college...I got it up to 125, maybe 130. So stupid because I’d had a few beers - just a few over a few hours, so I was barely buzzed - but still, so stupid. Nice car, though.
I haven’t been over 115 all year.
I hope it has speed rated tires in good shape.
I lost my license for six months when I was seventeen for doing 120 in a 70. Lying Norfolk cop. It was a six cylinder Firebird with a slipandslide powerglide tranny. I was only doing 110, max.
In the 1950s when I was going with my wife I used o go to Santa Barbara on weekends where she was in College and between Thousand Oaks and Santa Barbara I would cruise at 150 in my 40 coupe but back then the cops couldn’t get their Fords over 105 and they didn’t have choppers.
"Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now; I'm busy speeding."
That is actually why the Germans put governors on their cars about 15 years ago so they didn’t have to put the high speed rated tires on.
John
This is not a very conservative thing to say, but if she was going 120 mph in a Benz, then she can afford a huge fine.
There was a guy in my traffic school who was clocked at 160 on his motorcycle.
It was a sweet ride, and, yes, that back seat was serviceable. But my favorite car has to be my ‘73 Dodge Polara. I cannot relate things that happened in that car in polite company. Let’s just say there is plenty of leg room ;-)
I-80, even through rural IL (where this happened), has too much traffic, nearly 24/7, to safely drive a high performance car that fast. The Henry county stretch of I-80 is fairly smooth, but gets rough a few miles before entering Bureau county, where it is very rough. Since January, winter has been really tough on it. The DOT has patched holes for the last week or so. Had she have done her stunt in Febuary, she may well have blown a tire.
At that speed blowing a tire, I believe discusion would revolve around sticks and spoons.
Very lucky young lady, hope she learns a lesson.
If nothing else, do not cruise at top end.
Always leave a little extra if you need to run. :)
My friend in high school had a souped up ‘77 Cutlass with a 455. He bought it for $175 in the 90s. One day, he wanted to play “how fast will it go?” Well, he got it to 150. Incredibly stupid. I won’t ever be in a car going that fast again. I was a pretty responsible teenager, but looking back, I can’t believe how stupid I was. I’m glad to be out of that time period in my life. It seemed fun at the time, which gives me a little idea of how poor my judgment was back then.
You guys had it easy. I had a 1971 VW Beetle during my teen years. (Oh, sure...no one has figured out what you’re talkin’ about, LOL!)
Talk about having to be creative! Luckily, I was very “flexible” back in the day, LOL!
Should be automatic removal of license until she is 21 years old.
I’m still seeing way too many 16 year old kids losing their lives being stupid in 3000 pound projectiles.
I share the beetle familiarity...mine was probably a 65 or 66 though. If you’re motivated, and a hormonally-charged teenager, it all works.
I was able to get into plenty of trouble in my’67 Beetle.
Both in the speeding realm (90mph south of Springfield, IL on I55 coming back to Chicago from Missouri) and watching the submarine races along Lake Michigan back in my early 1970’s single days...
Still beats Bill Clinton's Astroturf-lined truck bed....
Ouch! LOL!
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