didn't drive 55

"webmonkees" (kayoteq-of-the-forest) 05/26/2015 at 20:16 • Filed to: speed

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And they called me on it.Empty highway except for me and the cop. Ah well, I think we both knew it was revenue generation. At least it was a real live officer doing officer things and making sure I wasn’t a immediate danger to the public and junk, not like my BS ‘red light camera’ right turn to a traffic merge lane. I guess now it’s between Defensive Driving course or pay the ticket straight out. Admission fee for not remembering that’s where the (#$! cop is all the time anyway. 74.

jkm7680 > webmonkees 05/26/2015 at 20:19

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Could you see him from a while back?

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > webmonkees 05/26/2015 at 20:32

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74 in a 70? Is that even points?

Blondude > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/26/2015 at 21:10

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74 in a 55 based on the title of this post.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Blondude 05/26/2015 at 21:49

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Lack of reading comprehension. I have that.

wiffleballtony > webmonkees 05/26/2015 at 22:02

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55? We’re you in Oregon?

Justin T. Westbrook > webmonkees 05/26/2015 at 22:30

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You might be able to do the (eight hour) course online and work with the DA’s office (go to them first and see if you can do it). It really only takes about half that because you can skip.. the answers are common sense.

In-class (which I’ve also taken) is a full eight hours, and instructed by a parent-cop who is trying to scare people. People who got tickets going 7 over in clear weather on a four lane highway during light traffic - because they are dangerous. They show videos of people dying. It isn’t pleasant. You avoid that online. May need a lawyer. Will be a couple hundred on top of court fees (but you knew that).

The online class was only $40 dollars, $100 for the lawyer (that’s a discounted price for using him again after last time), and court costs.

revrseat70 > webmonkees 05/27/2015 at 00:18

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Don’t get me started on red light camera’s and revenue generation in a right turn onto an on-ramp situation, especially when the light was yellow as the turning commenced. I can’t even

webmonkees > revrseat70 05/27/2015 at 01:09

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Red light thing: I even signaled. Lesson learned: judge was dismissing anyone who went to court on those. The speed was at least something I did.

webmonkees > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/27/2015 at 01:10

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it’s okay, lack of writing comprehension is my issue

webmonkees > jkm7680 05/27/2015 at 01:12

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at crest of hill, he was at the valley. Figure he’d clocked me early up the hill. It’s one of those gifts from the highway department, access to both lanes, hidden on both sides by elevation or signage. Not as bad as the 30mph bottleneck trap that even the cops drive (the average) 45 when not on a call.

webmonkees > wiffleballtony 05/27/2015 at 01:17

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Technically near a busy interchange, because when there’s 2 cars on the road (me, cop parked) at 2am it’s apparently still too busy for traveling the 70 that the rest of the road has. That’s just how it goes. They have the little flagged speed-change signs so it’s more a ‘not noticing road conditions’ than speeding in my opinion, but technically it’s speeding. 1st in decades.

Feel alive, drive safely.

webmonkees > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/27/2015 at 01:26

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Not sure, I’ve been pretty clean up to this point. Um, my record anyway.

I recently switched to a car with less indications of speed other than that orange thing pointing at the top of the speedometer. Wind noise, vibration, tie rod ends wobbling. All keep you aware of being at speed. However that threshold was getting lower and lower.

I blame the mechanical condition of the newercar and its isolation from the road.

jkm7680 > webmonkees 05/27/2015 at 07:26

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Ah, sucky. Get a radar detector!

I totally would, but Virginia rules.

revrseat70 > webmonkees 05/27/2015 at 09:32

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Yeah I did too. Glad to hear you had a cool judge.

webmonkees > jkm7680 05/27/2015 at 14:25

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I used to border Virginia. Kept one inside the dash, with a power switch.