DA BEARS!!!!

"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss) 01/09/2015 at 08:12 • Filed to: None

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DULUTH, Ga. — A police report says Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings told an officer that he was running late for a parent-teacher conference when he was stopped for driving 160 km/h on a metro Atlanta freeway.

Police say Jennings laughed when the officer told him that driving 99 mph in suburban Atlanta traffic was reckless, and later struggled through a sobriety test.

As they say on Monday Night Amercian Hand Egg....

"C'mon man!!!!!!!"

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Upon further investigation...he was driving one of these. A white 2015 Mercedes S63 AMG. I gotta hand it mercedes....I didn't really used to like their cars, but I am coming around more and more. This thing looks badass.

Party-vi > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 08:17

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WHAT IS THIS KILL-O-MEETERS PER HOUR BULLCRAP THIS IS AMERICA JACK SPEAK AMERICAN!!!

f86sabre > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 08:18

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100 on an Atlanta freeway is not that uncommon to see. Really.

DeLM > Party-vi 01/09/2015 at 08:20

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And Atlanta.... 99 mph isn't anything. and driving dangerously.. just gettting on a road down there is dangerous, people can not drive in ATL...

thebigbossyboss > f86sabre 01/09/2015 at 08:21

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Oh ok. I didn't know. Here the traffic goes about 70-80 mph on the freeway.

thebigbossyboss > DeLM 01/09/2015 at 08:22

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Oh ok. I didn't know. Here in ontario on the 401 traffic (often) goes 80 or above, but on my local freeway (417) the traffic usually only goes 70-80. I didn't know you guys drove so fast.

f86sabre > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 08:22

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I was kind of kidding, a little. 80 is pretty normal here. He should have been pulled over for 100.

DeLM > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 08:27

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I live in Chi-town. My mother moved to ATL when she retired.. I don't drive like that.. I hate driving in ATL people doing 40 in the passing lane others dong 105 in the slow lane, no turn signals, everyone has to go from on ramp to passing lane in one motion, F everyone else.. only place i've ever been to where there is traffic in the middle of the night for no reason, errrr do hate driving in ATL... so i wasn't knocking on you bud, just saying that Atlanta is it's own special place very different from anywhere else...

thebigbossyboss > DeLM 01/09/2015 at 08:34

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No worries. Toronto can be like that sometimes. "They closed a lane on the freeway...it's a 12:00am traffic jam!" ....Thank god I live elsewhere in Ontario haha.

Funktheduck > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 08:54

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As an ATL native I can tell you that his speed will get you pulled over every time if there's a cop around. I see speeds of 85+ fairly regularly but it's not like everyone is doing it. Most people go 70-80 if the speed limit is 65. Anything over 85 goes under the super speeders law and tacks on a huge fine.

As a general rule the nicer the part of town you're in the more powerful the cars get and the faster people go, traffic allowing. For example: GA-400 was made so people with high paying jobs in midtown could get to work/home more quickly to their high end suburbs. Speed limit was 55 but if you weren't going 80 you'd get run over by a land rover or BMW or some other nice car. On the south side of Atlanta where incomes are generally lower the cars aren't as nice and the average speed is often closer to the speed limit. That is, until you get close to the airport.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > f86sabre 01/09/2015 at 09:05

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Yeah, it's fast, but not really more than about 10-15 too fast some days. Seems like it, anyway.

thebigbossyboss > Funktheduck 01/09/2015 at 09:09

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Here our freeway generally goes faster the further west or east you go from downtown. People usually drive a bit slower downtown because the traffic merge lanes are tiny, and there is more of them.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 09:10

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Here's the extra funny part about ATL - inside the beltway, no speed limits are supposed to exceed 55 (really stupid policy set in place a while ago). That included the beltway for ages. So, you had this high-capacity highway around the city that people routinely travel 80+ on, which was nominally only 55. Yep, speed of traffic 25mph over the posted limit. To highlight how thoroughly idiotic this was, some people caused nightmarish jams by traveling only 55 as a demonstration one time.

thebigbossyboss > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/09/2015 at 09:14

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I saw that video actually.

Rainbow > thebigbossyboss 01/09/2015 at 09:36

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Well damn. I was in Pull-A-Part in Duluth on Wednesday at around 11:45, and I heard police sirens and squealing tires in the near distance. Looking at Google Maps, I wasn't far from I-85 at all. So that's neat.

E92M3 > DeLM 01/09/2015 at 11:07

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No one uses turn signals to change lanes here. When I moved back from Colorado it took me about a week to realize if I use a turn signal to notify the cars around me that I desire to change lanes the other drivers will immediately close the hole you were about to move into JUST TO BE A DICK.

DeLM > E92M3 01/09/2015 at 11:16

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Drives me crazy everytime i go down to visit my mom. I start to cringe when I see the signs for 316 if it's football season...Out of all the places I've driven ATL may give me the most grey hair.

E92M3 > DeLM 01/09/2015 at 14:31

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It's truly 2nd place only to Florida. I hear people complain about LA, but I found people pretty courteous in comparison and just smarter drivers overall.

samssun > DeLM 01/12/2015 at 07:00

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Georgia actually passed a law recently to enforce minimum speeds to deter people sitting in the middle and passing lanes doing 50 with traffic running up behind them. The usual hand-wringing, ban-everything types did their usual moaning about blood in the streets, but I was down there recently and it seemed to be working pretty well.