VA State Troopers

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Guiny:
  Did you at least wait to go home the next day so you could buy the Asian dude a beer for saving your butt?

I got out of Santa Rosa as quickly as the law allowed.   I wasn't sure when he was getting out of jail anyways.

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Guiny:
  Did you at least wait to go home the next day so you could buy the Asian dude a beer for saving your butt?

I got out of Santa Rosa as quickly as the law allowed.   I wasn't sure when he was getting out of jail anyways. [/b]

I appeared in court in Santa Rosa myself!! 1990.
 I plead not guilty to a charge of public urination and an open container in vehicle!! I was found guilty and paid fines totalling 275.00.
 I was living in San Fran at the time and spending weekends in Sonoma.

[ggw]

You need to learn how to kiss ass Mankie.  I've gotten pulled over 3-4 times going better than 20 mph over the limit but never gotten a reckless charge.
 
 If you're worried about the points (how many more points is reckless vs. speeding 20+ over the limit?) get a lawyer and take your car to have its speedometer checked and, presumably, found faulty.  That way you can say you didn't think you were going a hair above 74.

[markie]

Shit, I love getting rental cars and having a UK license......
 
 I got caught doing 95 in a 70. I got a $100 fine and that was it. I was annoyed about it at the time, looking back I guess it wasnt so bad.
 
 I love it when they chase after you with the blue lights flashing and then tell you that you are really naughty.

[mankie]

Originally posted by ggw:
 
 
 You need to learn how to kiss ass Mankie.  I've gotten pulled over 3-4 times going better than 20 mph over the limit but never gotten a reckless charge.
 
 

I totally kisses his arse...by the time he had walked to my car I had the license, reg and insurance all ready, told him I was late for work and apologized for speeding.
 
 He looked to be about 14 years old, and when I drove off there was another trooper with him showing him how he should have parked his car in relation to mine etc. So I assume he was a rookie. I have a mate who's a pro at tickets (from experience) he said to get the speedo calibrated, write to VA to have the record of the last time the radar gun was calibrated and also when the Trooper was last certified in the use of one. He probably was only training on the radar so I could get it thrown out....I just want it droped to a speeding ticket.

[Venerable Bede]

better watch out. . .my friend had to spend the night in jail in leesburg after getting caught speeding on the greenway.. .apparently that's the law on the books out there

[keithstg]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  better watch out. . .my friend had to spend the night in jail in leesburg after getting caught speeding on the greenway.. .apparently that's the law on the books out there

I think that the further south you go in VA, the worse things get for speeders. One of my friends was caught heading home from UVA for break and had to spend 72 hours in jail. Just ridiculous.

[Metal Meltdown]

Originally posted by keithstg:
   

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  better watch out. . .my friend had to spend the night in jail in leesburg after getting caught speeding on the greenway.. .apparently that's the law on the books out there

I think that the further south you go in VA, the worse things get for speeders. One of my friends was caught heading home from UVA for break and had to spend 72 hours in jail. Just ridiculous. [/b]

VA just needs some leg irons, a road boss, and a hard boiled egg eating contest and they would be just like the south..
 
 jailed for speeding..what a good use of police time..  :roll:

[Sir HC]

Somewhere in Bumf**k VA I got a 72 in a 65 zone!  On  Christmas day no less.  I was livid, but paid the fine, and will never go near that area again.  They had it set up with the little POS town having a sliver across 95 (or actually some other interstate...) so they could put their local git on the road running a trap.  Can't beat these guys.

[Jaguär]

Ironically, decades ago I noticed that, generally, the fastest drivers on the roads in Maryland are Virginians. That's when I started calling them all a bunch of displaced Germans. I've yet to figure out how they've managed to make it through the state ticketless yet I'll see a Marylander pulled over for doing something like 60 in a 55 zone after the Virginian has speed by at about 70+.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  Ironically, decades ago I noticed that, generally, the fastest drivers on the roads in Maryland are Virginians. That's when I started calling them all a bunch of displaced Germans. I've yet to figure out how they've managed to make it through the state ticketless yet I'll see a Marylander pulled over for doing something like 60 in a 55 zone after the Virginian has speed by at about 70+.

Virginians drive fast to get around the typical Marylanders who are doing 48 in the left lane.  What's up with that?  Is it some sort of reverse custom in Maryland that slow traffic must stay to the left?

[bungle bud]

so scientist you like it when a man in uniform tells you that you are really naughty  :eek:

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Probably because they've got further to go, duh.
 
 

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  Ironically, decades ago I noticed that, generally, the fastest drivers on the roads in Maryland are Virginians. That's when I started calling them all a bunch of displaced Germans. I've yet to figure out how they've managed to make it through the state ticketless yet I'll see a Marylander pulled over for doing something like 60 in a 55 zone after the Virginian has speed by at about 70+.

[mankie]

Originally posted by ggw:
 

 Virginians drive fast to get around the typical Marylanders who are doing 48 in the left lane.  What's up with that?  Is it some sort of reverse custom in Maryland that slow traffic must stay to the left?
 
 [/b]

Not true! I'm a Maryland driver, and this topic was started because I was driving too fast.    
 
 I've noticed that cars with DC tags are the most arrogant, dangerous and dumbest drivers in this area. Cutting you off, making right turns from the far left lane, tailgating, pulling into traffic then proceeding at 20mph..etc.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by ggw:
   

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  Ironically, decades ago I noticed that, generally, the fastest drivers on the roads in Maryland are Virginians. That's when I started calling them all a bunch of displaced Germans. I've yet to figure out how they've managed to make it through the state ticketless yet I'll see a Marylander pulled over for doing something like 60 in a 55 zone after the Virginian has speed by at about 70+.

Virginians drive fast to get around the typical Marylanders who are doing 48 in the left lane.  What's up with that?  Is it some sort of reverse custom in Maryland that slow traffic must stay to the left? [/b]

Oh, Christ! I know those types too well.   :mad:  Some of them drive like that because of all of the damn tickets that we get for watching the road instead of the speedometer because of Big Brother On Wheels.
 
 And then there are the idiots who always drive just fast enough to get in front of you on a single lane road. You know the type. The ones driving 30 on a 45 road. Take their good old time getting to the green light and then step on it just enough to slide through the yellow light while you're stuck at the red light.
 
 Sometimes it gets worse. The 1st slow poke works his way down the road but slow poke #2 makes a right or left turn at the intersection and then you are stuck behind another dragging-his-asster!
 
 I just want to know how Virginians get through Maryland without a ticket. I don't want to stop them, I just want to know how to do it.