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I received a speeding ticket tonight.

Posted on 01/18/2020 7:27:06 PM PST by ebshumidors

I received a speeding ticket tonight coming up hwy 7 from Ole Miss to Memphis. Since I haven’t had one in ten years or so, I found a few tings interesting:

1. The police were in the opposite lane and must have locked on without sitting on the side of the road with a radar gun. I imagine they have some new stuff that uses their speed against an oncoming car’s speed. Not hard to solve, but I’ve never run into it before. 2. Since it was at night, after I pulled over, I put on the overhead lights, rolled down the window and put my hands on the steering wheel. When the officer approached, he made sure to stay at my 8 o’clock. This is also new. 3. All he asked for was my license. No insurance and registration. I guess those are in the computer. 4.. There was no ticket book. It was a computer printout. 5. The officer was polite and all of my USNA parent and Ole Miss stickers didn’t help. I’m wondering if Marshall county offers a veteran’s discount.


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KEYWORDS: mississippi; police; technology; whiner
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To: ebshumidors

Having had MANY speeding tickets in my younger days, including losing my license TWICE because of it, I no longer speed.

I might cheat the downtown speed limit of 30 mph to 35 mph, but that’s about it.

I make constant use of my cruise control. City driving as well.

In my wife’s Subaru Forester with Subaru EyeSight®, cruise breaks, stops, speeds up, slows down, in traffic without me doing a thing, but steer. Over 30 mph it will even do that.

Outside of town, over the road driving, the GPS alerts me when I approach a reduced speed zone, and again when I enter it so I can adjust my cruise setting by clicking a switch up or down for a 5 mph increase or decrease. (2 clicks 10 mph and so on). VERY HANDY!

So, the odds of my ever getting another speeding ticket are very low. AND I’m a lot safer and so are the rest of you out there around me.


161 posted on 01/19/2020 8:27:07 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: central_va

Oh Ok. Not trying to be a smart ass here, but a person volunteers only as much information as necessary. They get into court, and the court will rule for the law enforcement-in traffic court that is.

Admit to going a “little” fast and they’ll let a person off the hook. Even in traffic court they might reduce the fine. Unless your in a specific state or county where they like to convene kangaroo courts.

Lots of horror stories I am sure about that one.


162 posted on 01/19/2020 8:38:32 AM PST by crz
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To: Gay State Conservative
For a long time I had a dream of renting a BMW in Germany and doing 120MPH on the Autobahn...but no longer.

You're statistically safer on the Autobahn with cars moving at 120 MPH than you are here in the United States at half of that speed (even as we may religiously set our cruise controls to make sure that they never ever go over a certain speed).

Speed may or may not kill, but stupidity certainly does, and that's where the American motorist loses in every comparison to the rest of the developed world.

163 posted on 01/19/2020 8:41:41 AM PST by Captain Walker
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To: central_va

I have to also add that it depends on a persons record.

They bring up the record on the squad car computer, and it shows the driver with a nasty record, and they’ll issue a citation in a split second.

Want to know how I know? One of these cops is my nephew. He was one of those who shot this dude. Also, one of my best friends used to be a cop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMqkfgSmQo


164 posted on 01/19/2020 8:45:25 AM PST by crz
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To: ebshumidors

California I5 in the late ‘70s. Got a ticket for going 65 in a 55 zone during the “Drive 55” years. Told the trooper I was doing 55. He said, “No, that’s what the others were doing.” I KNEW that’s what the speedometer said but didn’t argue. ???

About a month later it dawned on me - I had upgraded my tires from 13” to 14”, which threw off the speedometer. Verified it by having the wife follow and clock me.


165 posted on 01/19/2020 8:58:46 AM PST by Oatka
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To: patriotfury
This is the country of Route 66, the Model T, the Corvette, the Mustang, the Eisenhower Interstate, et cetera.

But it took a rented Audi A6 and the 300-mile stretch of Autobahn between Hamburg and Cologne before I was able to grasp what driving an automobile is really supposed to be like.

I don't think anyone but the Germans could have coined the term, "Fahrvergnügen" (the "joy of driving"). (If you're having fun here, you're probably breaking the law.)

166 posted on 01/19/2020 9:04:53 AM PST by Captain Walker
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To: xrmusn
Q. What do you say to a woman that can put her ankles behind her head? A. What would you like for breakfast Mrs. Keyhopper😂
167 posted on 01/19/2020 9:16:10 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

Fits with the

What does a man with a _______________(fill in blank with something ‘out of the ordinary) have for breakfast?

Well, lets see, today I had...........


168 posted on 01/19/2020 9:21:45 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: ebshumidors

You going to prison is not all that bad.
Just don’t eat the chipped beef on toast.


169 posted on 01/19/2020 9:59:03 AM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: ebshumidors

My last speeding ticket was the same..clocked by the cop oncoming. The cop claimed I was going over 70mph. I had purchased the car the day before and had been advised to keep under 60mph for the first 500 miles so I knew I was not going that fast. I had specifically driven to the rural area around my old hometown for slower speed rural roads. Typical cop radar is not accurate for oncoming clocking due to what is called cosign error... the angle at which the radar is measuring from two oncoming vehicles constantly changes. Some states do not allow radar speed measurements when the cop and target are both moving. I went to court and had my case dismissed when the cop did not show up to testify.


170 posted on 01/19/2020 10:18:32 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: The Great RJ
Typical cop radar is not accurate for oncoming clocking due to what is called cosign error... the angle at which the radar is measuring from two oncoming vehicles constantly changes.

That's not true. If it was true once that was a long time ago. Any radar nowadays will calculate the aspect ratio and correct for both that and the speed of the patrol car if it's moving. Once the aspect ratio gets too high the relative motion will be too small so you'll fall into the doppler "notch" and won't be able to get a speed reading, but as long as you get the reading it'll be accurate. Any radar today is going to measure your speed a lot more accurately than your speedometer.

171 posted on 01/19/2020 11:12:45 PM PST by GaryCrow
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