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To: PLMerite

Cops take a dim view of drifting in the DC Metro area. :)


Yeah. I got a ticket on the “main road” part of my commute a couple of years ago, and it was because of the car. I was going with the flow at 69 in a 55 in rush hour on a two lane main highway and he picked me out.

A few months later he was nice enough though, as we waited in line at Tractor supply, each of us with a couple of bags of chicken feed.

On the twisties (about 2/3 of my commute) cops are not an issue. It’s DEER! I threaded the needle between two of them at 60 mph one time. I mean a foot from each of them on either side of me. Must’ve scared the crap out of them.

I was doing roughly 85 on one of those 55mph back roads last summer at dusk in a long valley and saw a couple of cars speeding toward me in the other direction a couple of turns ahead (about a half mile). When they passed me, I could see they were state troopers. One hit his roof lights just for a second a few hundred yards behind me and I reciprocated by turning on my flashers. Just local boys sayin’ “hi”. :-)


215 posted on 11/30/2016 11:01:59 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mr. Douglas

I’ve had a few close calls, but no tickets yet. You get good at spotting police cars where I live. I do have one stretch of road that is nice and flat and has little traffic on the weekends. I can blow the carbon out good if I’m careful. On normal work days every road around here is pretty much locked up solid.


218 posted on 11/30/2016 11:15:44 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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