dhicks

Lovely sunny afternoon yesterday, within a mile of home, just set off from a 4way stop, accelerated, not really concentrating on speed but was not gunning it just accelerated, listening to G n R, V1 was on........all of a sudden a police woman jumps out in front of me and points to the roadside......."sir this is a 25mph area and I had you on laser doing 40"........oh s*** I think.....I did not see or hear the V1 go off, did I miss it cos I was not concentrating, music up load on one of my favorite tracks........whatever.....ticket and $80 fine. LESSON.....always have V1 volume up loud and always concentrate!!!! And before anybody says anything like I was being irresponsible going 40 in a 25.....I agree....just annoyed as my license was about to be "clean" in October from my last speeding ticket three years ago!!! 40 in a 25!!!!

Christer

A bit off topic maybe, but what is 'dagnabit'?

mr_bock

dagnabit = WTF

Mark in Baltimore

Dagnabit=dadgummit=goddammit<motherf*cker

David, sorry to hear about the ticket. I sometimes turn down my detector when I'm on the phone and occasionally miss the violent flashes of light as I get sprayed by a speed monitoring device.

jackb911

Dagnabit (pronounced dag-NAB-it) is akin to dadgummit or gol-darnit.

You have to speak fluent Southern to understand dagnabit, or at least have watched numerous episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies or The Real McCoys.

jimq

or Bugs Bunny

dhicks

Definitly Bugs.....although maybe I lived in ATL too long as well, also watched the Beverly Hill Billies.....but I think it translates best as a replacement for Oh S***

Chrisw_05

you can say what you like about the police........and most people do.......especially the money orientated way they pass out tickets these days.
But I forgive you as you were listening to "G n R" and that would make me put my foot down when the guitar riff starts at the beginning of "welcome to the jungle"......I’d of run her over...and had a car chase lthe same as the blues brothers!!!!!
Oh well.....heres hoping to 3 more years before your next ticket
Chris W.

tj90

David - I feel your pain. I got popped for going 90 in a 55 in the middle of the california desert. I was catching cops all weekend with the Escort and got stung outside of town cause I forgot to plug in the detector after lunch cause I was charging my phone. I think this is going to cost me big time. Thank God I was not over a 100 however. 30 minutes before this a Ducati passed me at 120 hopefully he made it out of the wasteland unscathed!

What really pissed me off was after being cited, I merged back on the highway and freaking fruit trucks (18 wheelers) were going 70 on this highway. Does anybody go double nickel in the middle of the desert with little to no traffic anymore?

Please dont lecture me about aggression and DE events - there is nothing like running the 993 in 100 degree heat, 6th gear, between 2 and 3 k RPM, for hours at a time and watching the oil needle temp below 8 o'clock position cause your speed is sufficently cooling the heads - thats engineering!!

Gotta get back to reading the Nolo Press Book on fighting tickets in CA....

AOW162435

David,
I feel your pain - same thing happened to me yesterday around 4pm - 45 in a 30mph zone! Luckily not in the Missile from Zuffenhausen though....

Already gave a copy of my squeaky clean driving record and the ticket to my attorney. Bloody hell.

Andreas

dhicks

Well I guess we will not be the last.............just a pain.

AOW162435

David,
Was your front plate on the car?

Andreas

95 C4 993

I was pulled over going 103mph in a 65 and was let go with a verbal. I was clocked at 46 in a 35 about 2 years ago and went to traffic school so that one is gone. Besides that, its been 20 years since a speeding ticket has been on my driving record.

I have 2 radar dectectors in my car-one built in, one on the dash.

Tim993

I might be wrong but I thought from reading other posts here that the V1 probably would not have saved you if you were hit with laser. I am sorry to hear of your misfortune.

gonzilla

Yeah, by the time you react to the warning, the cop's gun has already registered your speed... or so I have read. I've seen videos of cops using laser and those things are FAST. Personally, I think it's cheating.