Posted on 12/03/2009 5:43:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson could lose his driver's license after police clocked him driving at 109 mph — nearly twice the posted speed limit — on a suburban Minneapolis highway last weekend.
Peterson told The Associated Press on Thursday that he "got a little speeding ticket. I need to be more aware of the speed I was going and not let it happen again."
Peterson was pulled over just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday while driving his BMW in a 55-mph zone on state Highway 62 — a normally busy stretch of road known as the Crosstown that connects Minneapolis with southern and western suburbs, Edina police spokeswoman Molly Anderson said. She said Peterson was given a citation and allowed to drive away after what appeared to be a "very routine" traffic stop.
Anderson said police clocked the 24-year-old Peterson going 109 mph, but Peterson told the AP he wasn't driving that fast.
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“Was there any danger to others on the road”
On that stretch of road....yes.
This is not a straight, flat road...
To do 109, you gotta be really working it.
Evidently he needed to get to Brett’s house for re-runs of Benedict Arnold: American Traitor
.. or a ‘Maverick’ tv marathon. ahh the sporting life.. lol
In autos...no argument here.
You're right. Somehow, that doesn't assuage my disappointment with FHP. When we start having two standards of law enforcement - one for the haves, the other for the have nots - the whole system begins to unravel.
I am heartened that Al Gore III's celebrity statues has never kept him from getting a ticket - or arrested (three times now, but who's counting). I'll hang my hat on that.
In autos, you think Germans are best. In labor, you think Mexicans are best, preferably illegal Mexican (per your former posts).
Is there anything where you think Americans are best?
Stop hijacking the thread. We’re discussing German engineering in sport sedans. Acceleration and deceleration.
He was driving an M5.
109 mph DOES feel like 80.
Who’s hijacking? I thought we were talking about some sports figure who did/did not get a ticket for driving over 100 mph.
You hijacked first. Talking about German cars which are better than American, which reminded me that you thought illegal labor was also better than American. :) I’m just sayin.
He shouldn’t be out running like that. He should drive a car like everyone else.
Nice automobile, Steve Stricker stylin’ and profilin too.....
Of course German engineering is important, but never forget AP got pulled over because it was W’s fault....
If the same circumstances happened to anyone else - single car, low speed injury accident in the middle of the night with a non-responsive driver - it would be quite unlikely that a test wouldn't be performed, at least in my state. Adrian Peterson, LeBron James (who was also cited for excessive speed, but not arrersted) and Tiger all have at least one thing in common - just saying.
You're 100% absolutely right!!! Now let's see, what would that common factor be between Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Adrian Peterson, that allows them to be given preferential, untoucheable, velvet gloves treatment.....Hmmmmmm, what could it be???
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not if your AP...OJ maybe, not AP.
(AP=TD.)
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