Better Lucky Than Good

[wildcard451 0]

Ever been running late trying to get somewhere and tried to make up the time on the highway? Yeah, we all have. I however, cannot say that I recommend running 90 in a 65 trying to make it to your monday night poker game.

So there I am rolling down the interstate, my speed slowing creeping up, wait, scratch that, I've been flying since the moment I came down the exit ramp. I've been careful to check up when I know the median lanes where cops hide are coming up. Somehow, I found myself as the front car in the pack, a place I never ever like to be if I am running fast.

So, needless to say, a bit of a lapse in attention soon follows, and there I am nose to nose with a statie doing 25 over. Times like this you know you're just plain fucked. So I see the tires start to turn like he's getting ready to move, so I do what anyone else would have done....take the exit ramp.

As I get to the top of the exit ramp, I see the cop following me as I make the turn, but no lights on. I head up the road with the cop in tow about 3 cars back, and slide up into a gas station, pull in to get some gas.

As I slide out of my car to head to the pump, sure enough, the trooper rolls up right beside me. Pops out, asks me for my license and such.

About this time, I just start audibly chuckling.

It turns out that this used to be one of the cops I worked with from my time in college, and saw on countless rescue scenes, and maybe even played a hand or two of poker with.

He told me I needed to slow the fuck down, and then we proceeded to bs for about 15 minutes on life, families, school, and whatnot. It really was good to see him again, and we both laughed about it.

Needless to say, he still did his job. I drove the rest of the trip like a good little boy. So in the end, we all ended up happy.

I think it is time for me to get this lead foot replaced with a aluminium one though. One's good fortune can only last so long.

This came out being a lot longer than it needed to be, but I got a kick out of the story, and felt like sharing.

[JohnRich 4]

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running 90 in a 65... Needless to say, he still did his job.

Did he give you a ticket? If not, then he didn't do his job - in fact, he used favoritism.

[darnknit 0]

i was coming back to n.j. from florida. someplace in north carolina i shot past a state trooper while i was doing eighty. while it is true that i was speeding, a more accurate description would be i was the only one in the pack who didn't notice him(i wondered why all those ass-hats were hitting their brakes).

after a seven day road trip with a stop at a DZ with alot of old friends and bad weather i looked, well, like a guy who had been on a seven day road trip with a stop at a DZ with alot of old friends and bad weather. that is probably why he wanted to search the car.

he finds exactly what i knew he would find, nothing, and then asks me a few questions about skydiving as he graciously lets me put all my stuff back in my car.

now here comes the weird part. he lets me off with a warning, and then shakes my hand and wishes me a nice day. this getting older stuff has a few perks to it.

blue stuff,
p.j.

pulling is cool. keep it in the skin

[RhondaLea 4]

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running 90 in a 65... Needless to say, he still did his job.

Did he give you a ticket? If not, then he didn't do his job - in fact, he used favoritism.

Actually, he did do his job. The point is road safety, and the goal was achieved.

Fines are just a cash cow for communities. They have nothing to do with safety.

rl

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

[GTAVercetti 0]

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running 90 in a 65... Needless to say, he still did his job.

Did he give you a ticket? If not, then he didn't do his job - in fact, he used favoritism.

and off to SC we go.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[briguy 0]

The story is unclear as to whether a ticket was issued or not. Guessing by the title, i'd say "not issued".
I like bacon.

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[wildcard451 0]

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Did he give you a ticket? If not, then he didn't do his job - in fact, he used favoritism.

He did his job, and scared me good. I didn't speed and drove in a slightly more vilgilent manner to my destination. RL hit the nail on the head.

This is the bonfire, a place for funny stories and quirky coincidences.

If you feel the need to muddle this story with bullshit, please do try to refrain from being an asshat here and go play nice in speaker's corner. I think over there they care.

[GTAVercetti 0]

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Did he give you a ticket? If not, then he didn't do his job - in fact, he used favoritism.

He did his job, and scared me good. I didn't speed and drove in a slightly more vilgilent manner to my destination. RL hit the nail on the head.

This is the bonfire, a place for funny stories and quirky coincidences.

If you feel the need to muddle this story with bullshit, please do try to refrain from being an asshat here and go play nice in speaker's corner. I think over there they care.

We don't care over there either.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[wildcard451 0]

I wouldn't know, I just throw random BS in there every now and again when I get bored.

[briguy 0]

if typing " i got a ticket" or "i didn't get a ticket" is too hard, you could just cut & paste.

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[GTAVercetti 0]

dude, because you, for some odd reason, cannot infer the conlcusion without him explicitly stating it and yet have a driving need to know...

I think he should NOT tell you.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[briguy 0]

an inference would be a guess due to the author's ambiguity.

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[RhondaLea 4]

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an inference would be a guess due to the author's ambiguity.

The author was quite clear, I thought.

rl

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

[briguy 0]

i bet you also know the ending to "Unfaithful"

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[GTAVercetti 0]

I dunno, rl. I mean, clearly, this line:

"I drove the rest of the trip like a good little boy. So in the end, we all ended up happy. "

implies that he was happy with getting a ticket.

Or something.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[RhondaLea 4]

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Or something.

Oh my. I'm not writing another word, unless it's totally off-topic.

rl

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

[BillyVance 35]

You lucky bastard! Good story though! I haven't been that lucky lately, but I did have one incident years ago with a state trooper pulling me over for doing 80 in a 70. He noticed the skydiving shirt on and asked some questions about the sport, and let me off with a warning. As a matter of fact, I've gotten 3 warnings while wearing a skydiving shirt with gear in the back. The rest of the time I got shafted...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

You are a lucky shit, you know that?

Meanwhile, I got a note in the mail today. Seems I forgot to pay off a ticket in GA and I'm not allowed to drive in the state until I pay it off. That ticket was issued back in 2004.

Thank god I have no plans to visit GA.

j/k - I paid the $270 today via western union.
That ticket did nothing to slow me down either Guess I never was good with authority figures.

The only story close to yours was when a Trooper waved at me with his finger to slow down. It was New Years Eve and I was running late to get on the air at my old job. I'm pretty certain I was doing 90 in a 55 when I caught him out of the corner of my eye and saw him off to my right following me. I mouthed 'sorry' to him and slowed down. At least it gave me a topic to talk about on my show that night.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[wmw999 2,589]

My ex-husband was stopped about 2 miles from the border to Tennessee in Virginia (or something like that) while heading home to Texas. The trooper asked him why he was going so fast, and he said he just couldn't wait to get home to Texas.

So the trooper let him off with a warning "not to speed like that in Virginia any more"

"um -- no problem, sir "

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[Broke 0]

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I like bacon.

Dude BACON ROCKS!!!

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[wildcard451 0]

I have no doubt that I was lucky. A good scare will keep you out of the stupid zone for a little while. Pull low once in a while. It'll have the same effect.

I think I will behave, for a little while anyway.

I can only be good for so long before I go insane.

[grue 1]

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I think it is time for me to get this lead foot replaced with a aluminium one though.

Been hanging around me too much?

cavete terrae.

[JohnRich 4]

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He did his job, and scared me good. I didn't speed and drove in a slightly more vilgilent manner to my destination.

25 mph over the limit is not a "warning" offense - that's serious stuff.

Do you think he would have let some complete stranger off with just a warning? I doubt it.

You deserved a ticket.

As to the idea that tickets aren't about traffic safety, I say bullshit. Otherwise, we would just give warnings to everyone. It's the fact that people have to pay large fines that causes them to re-think their driving habits. Yeah, it produces income for the government, but the penalty is also a positive behavior-altering incentive.

[GTAVercetti 0]

So, would you have ASKED to be given a ticket if it were you?

I have seen you relaxed in some other threads somewhere, I know it. Maybe you should try that again.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[JohnRich 4]

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So, would you have ASKED to be given a ticket if it were you?

Whether or not I would ASK to be ticketed when caught, is irrelevant to whether or not I would DESERVE the ticket.

If I was pulled over for doing 25 over the limit, I would most certainly expect to get a ticket, and not just a warning. That's because I would deserve it.