I got pulled over for going through a red light one time but the judge ended up givng me a fine for speeding. I'd been reading science stuff a bit so I explained to the judge that at a certain speed a color shift can occur to make red appear green for me. Then the prosecutor told him that i'd have to be travelling about 250,000 mph for that to happen. $175.00 fine for speeding.
Me too; Thank God. My best friend's only son was involved in a fatal accident after he'd had a couple of beers while playing golf. He lived but now he is finishing out the first of his five-year-plus sentence for manslaughter. NOT TO MENTION the continuing suffering of the family of the lady who died in the accident.
This post was edited by CallMeIshmael at May 5, 2019 9:37 AM MDT
Yep. Officially I was doing 78 in a 55 zone (my speedometer said 83). While passing a semi on the freeway, I failed to see a CHP on the other side of the semi. Luckily, I only got a warning.
Yes but I don‘t think it counts. On our highways the speed limit is 100 but everyone drives 120. The idiot gave me a ticket for going 115. It was bullshizzat.
One; I missed the chance to put my case to them. I hadn't driven on that road for 30 years. The road was deceptively broad (alright I see the speed limit terminator just up the road). I'm on holiday and don't know this area - I've never been caught at home. The wife wanted to go to the toilet - as soon as we'd left town where all the public conveniences are. Grovel, grovel, grovel...
A speeding ticket yes, but I was caught by a speed-camera, and was not pulled over.
First speeding offence, so I took the Driver Awareness Course instead of the fixed fine - it still cost me £75 but no points on the licence or damage to the insurance.
All dealt with by letter, not police officers and magistrates in person.
As I recall, I was driving at about 33mph in a 30mph limit.
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As an aside, my TomTom sat-nav consistently reads lower speeds than the car's own speedometer, so 30mph on the dial is about 28mph on the screen; on the motorway 70mph indicated is apparently about 66... so who's right? I suspect the sat-"nag" as a friend calls them, under-reads because its refreshing rate introduces appreciable position-calculation errors even at <<30mph. As I discovered when trying to find Doncaster Racecourse by using it among the city's confusing, rapid succession of complicated junctions, sent me first into an industrial estate then the lorry queue for the rail-freight terminal.
WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH 