36 mph over the speed limit... oops.
05-03-2010, 12:27 PM
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36 mph over the speed limit... oops.
Trapster on my Droid saved my *** again, last night... around 11:20 pm, i was coming back from somewhere about 270 miles from my home, and i had it cranked up around 120 or so... after passing a bad accident, now running about 12-15 miles ahead...
then trapster alerts me to a speed trap hotspot... i let off the gas and was coasting for a few seconds and in that collection of moments, a tractor about 2 1/10ths of mile ahead starts showing brakelights... suspicious, i start braking but it was very dark and i figure "...too close to the accident for there to be a bear in the wait."
WRONG !! the silhouette of a highway patrol vehicle starts to emerge from the dark background... and that's when i really get on my big brakes.
too late. this time my luck has finally run out.
55 mph zone of all things because it's an extreme traffic zone...
dead.
i pull off the breakdown lane onto a tall grassy knoll, and he also pulls off into the high grass... so here i am, on the grassy knoll of shame, as all the traffic i just dusted off - cruises by... seems like an eternity... finally after about 3 or 4 minutes, he walks up and asks me if i got license and registration. i inform him that i do...
him: "what seems to be the trouble this evening; did you know i had you on radaar going 91 miles per hour ?"
me: "i just got my car serviced and i was in a bit too much of a hurry to get home... really dumb because i haven't been pulled over in a very long time..."
him: "that was the next thing i was going to ask you... do you always drive like this ? where's home ? and where are you coming from ?
[i gave him my origin about "god i just got caught 36 mph over" miles back, and home, is metrowest "i'm so dead" Boston about so and so miles ahead].
next i give him the bad news:
me: "i have a problem... my wallet with my driver's license is resting inside my duffle bag in the back... i'll need to go back there and get it..."
him: "that's fine - you can get out and do that."
so i pop the hatch of my (968) and i start fiddling around the duffle bag, which is really making me nervous because it's dark as hell out here on the knoll and he's probably wondering if i have a gun... [oh, wait... that's what the 3 minutes was all about. he already knows my life story right ? so now he has no worries... (doesn't even know that i'm a "believer" in the "fema camps are real" context)]....
shining his light on the inside of the passenger side quarter panel, he askes about the system; "...noticed the amps (my two giant Rockford D-class monsters on passenger side of the seat delete), is that subwoofer built into your fender ?" i inform him that it is...
we start having a conversation about the car for a minute or so... and he says one of his co-workers is "selling his 911, it's an '89."
i clue him in on his friend's car being a "classic, Nine-Six-Four," a beloved, air-cooled, all-wheel-drive 911.
i hand him my DL and he says, "so are we going to have any problems, DUI's, warrants, felonies ?...."
i inform him, "NO, the last time i got a ticket was like 17 or 18 years ago," (so nervous, i forgot that my last ticket was actually 12 1/2 years ago), and he tells me i can go back and have a seat in the car.
Me: "what about my registration and insurance ? you need that ?"
him: "no that's not necessary..."
minutes go by... seems like he's back there about 10 minutes... Damn, 'he's going to throw the book at me, man if he's back there another minute i'm screwed..."
finally, i hear a thud behind me and he begins his second walk-up to my car:
"i was talking to my partners about the accident... real mess... sorry about that... well i'f i pull anyone over it has to be pretty serious, so this is what i'm going to do... I've written you a warning for a loud muffler (my hooker maxflow muffler is quite loud) and having you estimated at 12 miles per hour over the limit...
"now, here's the thing Allan, i heard your muffler half a mile back up the road... heard you decelerating from God only knows what speed.... you have to slow down, man, you're still gonna get there. be safe ok ?"
in astonishment I reach out to shake his hand and say, "thank you. i really don't know what to say... thanks a lot."
ask him his name and i can't pronounce it... and thank him again.
YIKES.
then trapster alerts me to a speed trap hotspot... i let off the gas and was coasting for a few seconds and in that collection of moments, a tractor about 2 1/10ths of mile ahead starts showing brakelights... suspicious, i start braking but it was very dark and i figure "...too close to the accident for there to be a bear in the wait."
WRONG !! the silhouette of a highway patrol vehicle starts to emerge from the dark background... and that's when i really get on my big brakes.
too late. this time my luck has finally run out.
55 mph zone of all things because it's an extreme traffic zone...
dead.
i pull off the breakdown lane onto a tall grassy knoll, and he also pulls off into the high grass... so here i am, on the grassy knoll of shame, as all the traffic i just dusted off - cruises by... seems like an eternity... finally after about 3 or 4 minutes, he walks up and asks me if i got license and registration. i inform him that i do...
him: "what seems to be the trouble this evening; did you know i had you on radaar going 91 miles per hour ?"
me: "i just got my car serviced and i was in a bit too much of a hurry to get home... really dumb because i haven't been pulled over in a very long time..."
him: "that was the next thing i was going to ask you... do you always drive like this ? where's home ? and where are you coming from ?
[i gave him my origin about "god i just got caught 36 mph over" miles back, and home, is metrowest "i'm so dead" Boston about so and so miles ahead].
next i give him the bad news:
me: "i have a problem... my wallet with my driver's license is resting inside my duffle bag in the back... i'll need to go back there and get it..."
him: "that's fine - you can get out and do that."
so i pop the hatch of my (968) and i start fiddling around the duffle bag, which is really making me nervous because it's dark as hell out here on the knoll and he's probably wondering if i have a gun... [oh, wait... that's what the 3 minutes was all about. he already knows my life story right ? so now he has no worries... (doesn't even know that i'm a "believer" in the "fema camps are real" context)]....
shining his light on the inside of the passenger side quarter panel, he askes about the system; "...noticed the amps (my two giant Rockford D-class monsters on passenger side of the seat delete), is that subwoofer built into your fender ?" i inform him that it is...
we start having a conversation about the car for a minute or so... and he says one of his co-workers is "selling his 911, it's an '89."
i clue him in on his friend's car being a "classic, Nine-Six-Four," a beloved, air-cooled, all-wheel-drive 911.
i hand him my DL and he says, "so are we going to have any problems, DUI's, warrants, felonies ?...."
i inform him, "NO, the last time i got a ticket was like 17 or 18 years ago," (so nervous, i forgot that my last ticket was actually 12 1/2 years ago), and he tells me i can go back and have a seat in the car.
Me: "what about my registration and insurance ? you need that ?"
him: "no that's not necessary..."
minutes go by... seems like he's back there about 10 minutes... Damn, 'he's going to throw the book at me, man if he's back there another minute i'm screwed..."
finally, i hear a thud behind me and he begins his second walk-up to my car:
"i was talking to my partners about the accident... real mess... sorry about that... well i'f i pull anyone over it has to be pretty serious, so this is what i'm going to do... I've written you a warning for a loud muffler (my hooker maxflow muffler is quite loud) and having you estimated at 12 miles per hour over the limit...
"now, here's the thing Allan, i heard your muffler half a mile back up the road... heard you decelerating from God only knows what speed.... you have to slow down, man, you're still gonna get there. be safe ok ?"
in astonishment I reach out to shake his hand and say, "thank you. i really don't know what to say... thanks a lot."
ask him his name and i can't pronounce it... and thank him again.
YIKES.
05-03-2010, 01:34 PM
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nice story. Good to hear that there are some cops that cut good guys breaks now and then...many of us can drive at 90mph better than most people can at 30mph...and these cars are soooo hard to keep at 55mph on the freeway...they are just saying, "aw, come on man....this is boring...". 
05-03-2010, 01:39 PM
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thanks,
i spent the winter in Florida with wifey, kicking back a few blocks from the hard rock casino.
the third week of April, she flew home to Boston and i drove the 968...
got up on a ramp (let's just say, somewhere near the space coast), about 1/4 mile past a very bad accident in florida a couple of weeks ago and had a ball for about 20 miles on a very nice strech of I-95 with all the traffic stuck behind. i'm getting about 245 - 250 hp and about 158-159 mph when i hit the limiter with my 25.5" tires and 2 1/2", track day exhaust.
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i spent the winter in Florida with wifey, kicking back a few blocks from the hard rock casino.
the third week of April, she flew home to Boston and i drove the 968...
got up on a ramp (let's just say, somewhere near the space coast), about 1/4 mile past a very bad accident in florida a couple of weeks ago and had a ball for about 20 miles on a very nice strech of I-95 with all the traffic stuck behind. i'm getting about 245 - 250 hp and about 158-159 mph when i hit the limiter with my 25.5" tires and 2 1/2", track day exhaust.
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05-03-2010, 01:44 PM
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if you're not using this device you might be making a mistake...
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i posted this on OFF TOPIC two weeks ago after my trip from Ft. Lauderdale to Boston, my summer home.
Verizon Wireless' steady coverage/Motorola Droid/Google/Android/Trapster...
and why it takes such a lethal combination to make it all work, imawo.
i wanted to determine if Trapster really works or not. i didn't have much of a chance to find out until yesterday.
for all of you who are still not using Trapster, time to give your blackberry or i-phone to your kid and get a serious, phone that's at the same level as your automobile... i feel the costs of doing this are justified. here's why...
the new Motorola Droid phone came out a couple of months ago... it's one of the most tecnological phones on earth, [though, i can't remember half the reasons why]...
normally the phone lists for around 600 dollars, but verizon has sweetened the deal somewhat with best buy, so you can pick up the phone for a C note + one of their costly monthy plans. [verizon will recoup the 500 dollars quickly, because this is the one - phone/technology/trapster/coverage/usage PLAN package that you will instantly fall in love with, AND discover you simply can no longer live without.
GO DROID, [not blackberry or i-phone] - not only for the state-of-the-art technology of Google Android OS - or the ergonomics of the handset itself - or becuase dealing with Apple and AT & T sucks - but also that the touch screen is large enough for easy viewing when the phone is sitting on your console a few feet from your head...
why not just use your i-phone and AT & T ? do so at your own peril on long stretches of interstate... when you enter a highway patrol kill zone and your connection to Trapster fails. [i wouldn't feel confident doing the test with AT & T, (cuz i know these assbags and their joke/lowbandwith quality of coverage)].
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=51152524202
http://trapster.com/
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on exactly 1,000 miles of highway from Stirling Rd, Hollywood Florida, to about Fredricksberg, VA we encountered 26 live speed traps or traffic stops in progress...
We were alerted by Trapster with pinpoint precision of 10 "live police in waiting/or with stopped vehicle" and 14 "high target," speed traps. [indicating that it was likely there would be a highway patrol officer waiting there... AND THERE IN FACT, WAS.
imagine driving 85-90 mph, and the red alert signal comes on the screen... you slow to 70 mph as you close in on the target... the Droid's screen is plenty large that you'll see exactly where Trapster said it should be just the trap makes itself known on the freeway landscape just ahead.
what about when you're driving fast and you have "all clear" showing on Trapster ?
i was in the clear perhaps 90 - 95 % of the time during the entire 13 hours of driving time...
and on many other occasions the red signal came on and despite it being a high target, kill zone, there were no highway patrol present...
Trapster failed to alert me on only 1 speed trap or traffic stop out of the 25, but on this 1 occasion he was facing in the opposite direction...
To me, the cost of avoiding even 1 speeding ticket justifies my purchase of this phone and calling plan.
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i posted this on OFF TOPIC two weeks ago after my trip from Ft. Lauderdale to Boston, my summer home.
Verizon Wireless' steady coverage/Motorola Droid/Google/Android/Trapster...
and why it takes such a lethal combination to make it all work, imawo.
i wanted to determine if Trapster really works or not. i didn't have much of a chance to find out until yesterday.
for all of you who are still not using Trapster, time to give your blackberry or i-phone to your kid and get a serious, phone that's at the same level as your automobile... i feel the costs of doing this are justified. here's why...
the new Motorola Droid phone came out a couple of months ago... it's one of the most tecnological phones on earth, [though, i can't remember half the reasons why]...
normally the phone lists for around 600 dollars, but verizon has sweetened the deal somewhat with best buy, so you can pick up the phone for a C note + one of their costly monthy plans. [verizon will recoup the 500 dollars quickly, because this is the one - phone/technology/trapster/coverage/usage PLAN package that you will instantly fall in love with, AND discover you simply can no longer live without.
GO DROID, [not blackberry or i-phone] - not only for the state-of-the-art technology of Google Android OS - or the ergonomics of the handset itself - or becuase dealing with Apple and AT & T sucks - but also that the touch screen is large enough for easy viewing when the phone is sitting on your console a few feet from your head...
why not just use your i-phone and AT & T ? do so at your own peril on long stretches of interstate... when you enter a highway patrol kill zone and your connection to Trapster fails. [i wouldn't feel confident doing the test with AT & T, (cuz i know these assbags and their joke/lowbandwith quality of coverage)].
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=51152524202
http://trapster.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
on exactly 1,000 miles of highway from Stirling Rd, Hollywood Florida, to about Fredricksberg, VA we encountered 26 live speed traps or traffic stops in progress...
We were alerted by Trapster with pinpoint precision of 10 "live police in waiting/or with stopped vehicle" and 14 "high target," speed traps. [indicating that it was likely there would be a highway patrol officer waiting there... AND THERE IN FACT, WAS.
imagine driving 85-90 mph, and the red alert signal comes on the screen... you slow to 70 mph as you close in on the target... the Droid's screen is plenty large that you'll see exactly where Trapster said it should be just the trap makes itself known on the freeway landscape just ahead.
what about when you're driving fast and you have "all clear" showing on Trapster ?
i was in the clear perhaps 90 - 95 % of the time during the entire 13 hours of driving time...
and on many other occasions the red signal came on and despite it being a high target, kill zone, there were no highway patrol present...
Trapster failed to alert me on only 1 speed trap or traffic stop out of the 25, but on this 1 occasion he was facing in the opposite direction...
To me, the cost of avoiding even 1 speeding ticket justifies my purchase of this phone and calling plan.
.
05-03-2010, 02:04 PM
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Do me a favor and let me know when you get back to FTL so I can avoid you on the road. Have fun in your car but do us all a favor and hit Homestead or PBIR if you feel the need to go over 100 mph on I-95. People's families are driving around next to you and 95 isn't the place to be doing 100+.
I headed down to the Gables saturday night in the Cayman and every little ricer boy was weaving in and out of traffic at over 100 trying to look cool. That's one giant cluster just waiting to happen and usually does. It doesn't impress anyone and is just plain idiotic.
Not bashing you personally just asking you to grow up a little and take it where it belongs. Life's too short.
I headed down to the Gables saturday night in the Cayman and every little ricer boy was weaving in and out of traffic at over 100 trying to look cool. That's one giant cluster just waiting to happen and usually does. It doesn't impress anyone and is just plain idiotic.
Not bashing you personally just asking you to grow up a little and take it where it belongs. Life's too short.
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05-03-2010, 03:01 PM
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I-29 between Council Bluffs, IA and St Joe, MO.
you can run 125 - 140 for the whole 45 minutes it takes you to get there. that's where i hit the limiter at 158 mph.
Jeremy Clarkson - "we would be using the I-50, which has been known as the loneliest road in America since 1986... That's a staggering 22 years..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aU09...eature=related
here's the GERMAN'S doing their muscle car road trip !
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I have driven 160 in a GTI 337 with a Stage 3 APR hybrid set up on a mostly empty highway. I am a lead foot and believe me I love driving fast but also know where to do it. I am glad you got off though. It is a rarity these days as cops are always looking to boost their budget. 
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I am sad to hear that you are not thinking twice about slowing down since you got a break. Think about all the kids in car seats in those cars you "Dusted" next time you break 100 and consider how you would feel if you caused harm to any one of them.
05-03-2010, 05:08 PM
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Who's in?
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05-03-2010, 06:10 PM
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shining his light on the inside of the passenger side quarter panel, he askes about the system; "...noticed the amps (my two giant Rockford D-class monsters on passenger side of the seat delete), is that subwoofer built into your fender ?" i inform him that it is...
YIKES.
