I just paid $185 to the great state of Mississippi for doing 91 in a 70. No mercy.

 

how is 40 in a 25 irresponsible? give me a break. It's the same speed limit for a geo metro as your Porsche 911! I think you can safely drive a little faster than some arbitrarily-set speed limit determined by worthless bureaucrats.

Stop beating yourself up ;D

 

It's not the revenue extraction by the states I really object to. It's the "tax" levied by the insurance companies (i.e., pure profit to them) for the following years which often amounts to much more than the state fine.

 

You should ask Mike Valentine to pay for it!
To a trained Laser op, you're just a video game.
She looks, she aims and she hits the trigger, you're tagged, instantaneously.
The VI should have a voice synth mode telling you to stop and pickup your ticket please!
Sorry, Chris

 

The way we do it over here is curious,
radar detectors are against the law, the cops are equiped with detectors for radar detectors.
And if they catch you with one, they CONFISCATE the car. Whereas this is not logic, and I presume in the US, the car belongs to you (even if you get fined for $50000 as an abstract example)

Yes I have a solo S2 in the car.

We simply wait for what we call 'a scout'

A scout could be a local living in the suroundings next to the area and knows the whereabouts well enough,
or with foreign liscence plates, and doesn't care of being flashed or beamed.
And the way is to follow him at the same speed with the detector on within 300yrds, 100 meters.
When the detectors screems, you take care no one is close behind and brake.
turn off the detector and hide it.
You cannot imagine how well it works.
and you always find a scout, in no time . . .
on a 130 kph, you do average 180kph

 

geolab - little confused - why would you follow a scout? I I presume that a scout is one of the authorities who reports your speed?

 

Get a Phantom or Phazer laser/radar jammer. I can personally say that I have seen the Phazer in action and work-granted this was about 1997 since the last I have seen one work but it worked.

 

Why don't you object to the revenue extraction by the states????????

Jack

 

I do. For example, one time I was supposedly clocked at doing 72 down Tumwater Canyon in WA state with a tandem on top in my Subaru wagon. For those of you who know Tumwater Canyon, the reaction is yeah, right (very windy, two lane road beside a river). I think it was because the rotating spokes on the tandem must have thrown off a higher speed to the radar gun. I 've never seen that high a speed going down Tumwater in the Subaru. Chelan County cops are 1) hardass and 2) in bed with the prosectutor.

BUT, if I know I'm doing 80 in a 50 in my P-car and get caught, I'm perfectly happy to fess up to the state. But does that make me a more dangerous driver for the NEXT THREE YEARS for the insurance companies? No. That is just pure profit to them. Like I said, I don't drive dangerously and I've never been in an accident. Yet they'll treat me like the punk kid who got his umpteenth moving violation.

 

I hired a lawyer to help me with my ticket defense. In Massachusetts, they tattoo your forehead with a scarlet S for six years if found responsible.

 

Careful what you post, it could come back to bite you................lol

 

It pays to be polite.

On Saturday I got nailed from 1200 feet away doing 53 in a 35 where Route 123 is 8 lanes wide. It was like shooting fish in a barrel, there were 3 others pulled over before me and three new ones when I left.

No front tag, black Porsche with the top down but I was polite and had all my papers and he let me off with a warning!

 

Speeding tickets SUCK SMELLY FAT MAN ANUS!

Same goes for speed traps, speed cameras fixed and mobile.

Same for the anti radar detector laws.

Same for all idiots who drive well below the speed limits on single lane roads.