newshooter12 0 #26 December 4, 2002 what happened to your head??? Doesn't look like you anymore Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #27 December 4, 2002 ya gys don't want me to tell my story with my 2 speeding tickets inohio and two acidents my fault.... on a side note, a friend of mine that lives in columbus just had to go to a manditory defensive driver coure cuz he got his 3rd speeding ticket in a year....... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #28 December 4, 2002 >In the state of Ohio they don't screw around, your second speeding (and other violations)ticket in a year is an automatic mandatory court appearance and doubled fine. This is'nt true... I live in Columbus and got 2 tickets in 4 months. 51 in a 35 and 35 in a 25. Both of them were at night on city streets. I just paid the fees and that was that. The cop was really cool on the second one and informed me that it was a 25 zone for the 1/4 mile he got me in and if I had made an attempt to hit the brakes he would have never stoped me but since I just kept driving he had to stop me. $96 first fine and $110 second. I make the 76 mile trip to the DZ in 55 minutes and I get passed most the way so the speed limit is mostly ignored by residents.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #29 December 4, 2002 Hey Chile - After 2, you have to go to court. So, your second one you can still mail in, but the third one in a year, you have to go. Believe me, I know And truck drivers are harder on Ohio and their speed traps than they are on JB Hunt drivers! They're pretty bad. I think the OSP actually targets trucks too, because Ohio is still 55mph for them, and 65 for the rest of us - which I think is stupid. And some of the crap the small towns around here do just to make some extra cash - like extending a 35 mph zone well past and semblence of a residence. Think you're out of town and start to accelerate up to 55, then there's a cop there pulling you over for speeding. Nothing but a revenue generator. it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #30 December 4, 2002 Quote Just paid a $248 speeding ticket here in TX. Was not a happy camper. After the damn dude gave me the ticket he got all suspicious b/c he saw my new Digitude sittin in the seat.I have no clue what he thought it was, but I had to waste an extra 10 mins. of my life explaining what it was for and how it worked. Of course this was after the initial "you do what?" (followed by a blank stare) when I told him I skydive and it was a piece of jump equiptment.I had to show him my logbook before he finally believed me and would let me go. (You think the 2 skydiving bumper stickers and 2 Skydive Aggieland decals woulda tipped him off!)Damn wuffo!Anyone else had anything similar happen? I had a state trooper pull me over and see my parachutist in the front seat, we got to talking about skydiving & how some other troopers were giong to do it and how I was crazy, nice guy.. let me off with a warning :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #31 December 4, 2002 Quote Ohio tested my skill at evading radar... Just buy a spoofing box and be done with it. Why have a detector when you can just jam it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #32 December 4, 2002 Quote .I just get to bend over and take it dry! Woah, the way you say "get" makes me think you like it that way! Try it with lube, I hear it works much better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyhi 24 #33 December 4, 2002 Friend of mine got a speeding ticket and said it was his fault for driving too slow. He said if he had been going even more over the speed limit, he would have been home before the cop set up the trap. How can you argue with logic like that? He was a skydiver, btw.Shit happens. And it usually happens because of physics. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tigra 0 #34 December 4, 2002 QuoteLast time I drove to Cleveland I was transporting my then-gf's goldfish in an open aquarium. I hit a speed trap doing 92, got it down to 65 just in time. Two thirds of the water from the aquarium was on the floor of my car though... the fish died. Did this have anything to do with the fact that she's now your ex?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #35 December 4, 2002 QuoteAnyone else had anything similar happen? I've only been pulled over a handful of times since I started jumping; for fix it type stuff though, not speeding. I haven't been pulled over for speeding since about 1984. I got three speeding tickets within a year of high school graduation, but I got out of about 6 in the first 4 years I was driving simply by being polite and respectful to the officer. Okay, it probably helped that most of the cops in the area knew my dad from his years on the sheriffs department and the fact that he'd also owned the only towing company in town. One time after I started jumping I got pulled over for having expired tags (this is not unusual for me... I tend to forget to pay that kind of stuff on time). The deputy noticed the dz's bumper sticker and mentioned that he used to jump. We had a nice conversation, he handed back my license and registration card and told me to get the expired registration taken care of ASAP and to have a nice day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #36 December 4, 2002 Quote Woah, the way you say "get" makes me think you like it that way! ha!ha!ha! Not! Trust me it aint my style! "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #37 December 4, 2002 That's not what your 2 twin sisters said...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #38 December 4, 2002 Hey Aggie: "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #39 December 4, 2002 Quote Quote Ohio tested my skill at evading radar... Just buy a spoofing box and be done with it. Why have a detector when you can just jam it? I'm pretty sure all the State Patrol, and a surprising numbers of small 'speed trap towns' are using laser now. There's a small town (population of about 100) that writes about $400,000 worth of tickets a year. Granted, that's an extreme, but no one seems to care, and the state lets it go on.it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #40 December 4, 2002 You'd be surprised on how little laser is actually getting used. Most often in my travels (mostly in Texas mind you, barring the drive I did to Eloy back in May), I see K/Ka being used 99% of the time. Once and only once have I actually been hit with a Laser (I knew about it before I got there, so I wasn't speeding, thank you CB/truckers...)--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #41 December 4, 2002 Dave - I know most places are still using radar, which is why it's odd that so many towns and the majority of the OSP in Ohio use laser.it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #42 December 4, 2002 Quote I know most places are still using radar, which is why it's odd that so many towns and the majority of the OSP in Ohio use laser. Hmmm....can you get a ticket for launching multiple smoke grenades to avoid the laser? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #43 December 4, 2002 OSP has converted to something in excess of 80% laser. I've had the laser detector buzzing many drives around the state. There is a big push in Ohio to get all agencys over to laser since its harder to beat.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChileRelleno 0 #44 December 4, 2002 Quote (I knew about it before I got there, so I wasn't speeding, thank you CB/truckers...) Your welcome! Glad to be of service... ChileRelleno-Rodriguez Bro#414 Hellfish#511,MuffBro#3532,AnvilBro#9, D24868 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #45 December 4, 2002 Yeah, I love having a CB when I'm driving on the highway, keeps me out of trouble (mostly), gives me something to do and I've had some pretty interesting conversations with some truckers.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outofit 0 #46 December 4, 2002 go out west i don't even think they acknowledge the issue of speed. just my experience. It is better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #47 December 4, 2002 QuoteYeah, I love having a CB when I'm driving on the highway, keeps me out of trouble (mostly), gives me something to do and I've had some pretty interesting conversations with some truckers. *making mental note to see if I still have my K40 and my old Cobra 29ltd "with the grey mic button" to put in car for trip to Florida*it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #48 December 5, 2002 Indeed they don't screw around, but without righteousness. Transcribed from the Jan 2003 issue of Car & Driver (10 Best Issue), within is a Winners/Losers piece as part of the 10 Best: LOSER: Long regarded as a speed trap, Ohio has now outdone itself. Well, not so much the whole state as the three block-long village of New Rome just west of Columbus. As many as 14 police have served 60 residents along a 1000-foot stretch of Broad Street, where a 35 MPH limit -- which the Ohio Department of Transportation has declared as improper and possibly illegal -- is strictly enforced. How strictly? The village's cops have been known to write 4000 tickets annually. One year, that worked out to $377,651 in fines, nearly all of it going to the police department. The rest -- some $120,000 over the past decade, according to state auditors -- has simply gone missing. New Rome's mayor was quoted in the Columbus Dispatch as saying: "Traffic tickets are easily the village's biggest industry. That and whatever thievery took place over the years." I'm disgusted. Speed limits are not about safety, they're about revenue.So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lagerhead 0 #49 December 5, 2002 I know drivers who have been given tickets for 1 over going down hill in OH Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluefingers 0 #50 December 5, 2002 While I was "flying" down the road yesterday i.e., 10 mph over the limit), I passed over a bridge only to find a a cop with a radar gun on the other side laying in wait. The cop pulled me over, walked up to the car, and with that classic patronizing smirk we all know and love, asked, "What's your hurry?" To which I replied, "I'm late for work." "Oh yeah," said the cop, "what do you do?" "I'm a rectum stretcher," I responded. The cop was stammered, "A what? A rectum stretcher? And just what does a rectum stretcher do?" "Well," I said, "I start by inserting one finger, then I work my way up to two fingers, then three, then four, then with my whole hand in I work side to side until I can get both hands in, and then I slowly but surely stretch, until it's about 6 foot wide." "And just what the hell do you do with a 6 foot asshole?" To which I politely replied, "You give him a radar gun and park him behind a bridge....." Traffic Ticket: $95.00 Court Costs: $45.00 The Look on that Cop's Face: PRICELESS Kerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
