Anyone have a higher speeding ticket?

[RocketDSM]

Back in 1993 I got a speeding ticket for 167mph in a 55mph zone.

I was driving home from Phoenix to San Fran. I had been up for 36 hrs when I noticed a car with a red light behind me around the Buttonwillow exit on I-5. At the time, the Feds has recinded the highway speed limit restrictions, but none of the states had decided what to do about it. So I-5 had dropped from 65 to 55 (now a 75). My Camaro's speedometer pegged at 85mph so I had no clue how fast I was really going. The CHP pulled up behind me, threw open the door with pistol drawn and yada yada yada. Once he realized we (my friend was in the car) weren't drug runners or armed he put his pistol back and talked normally with us for a little while. Turned out that a plane had originally tagged me, but had to turn back for fuel. The first interceptor had turned over the chase because he couldn't make the intercept from where he was. This guy had been tailing me for 18 minutes at a steady 167mph. He even noted that it was some of the best driving he had seen for the speed. Unfortunately, I can't take credit because I was essentially asleep at the wheel. After our discussion (about 30minutes) he decided to write up the ticket (my record at the time only showed 3 of an eventual 21 speeding tickets) for "Speeding in excess of 100mph over the posted limit". He also forced us to sleep there on the side of the road for 3hrs. He waited and woke us up when he felt our nap had been sufficient.

I know it sounds like BS, but I swear to high heaven that it is true. I did not have my license suspended or revoked (on scene that is). I was not jailed. My car was not impounded. Nothing but that ticket, which came to $1041 for the fine, and a mandatory court appearance. By the time my court date rolled around, my record had caught up with me. The judge could see all 21 tickets in the file, which was so thick I could see it from the pulpit I was standing at. He thumbed through it for a couple minutes without saying a word. Then looked directly at me, and asked "Please tell me you aren't going to try to claim Not Guilty to this?" I agreed, then we chatted a bit. He named the fine and that was it. Once the DMV posted all the tickets, of course my license was suspended twice and revoked in the span of three weeks. I guess this is what happens when you overload the California DMV with a rapid succession of tickets.

Anyone have something other than the seat of their pants or speedometer to verify what their record speed is? Problem being that we all know speedometers are somewhat inaccurate. Seat of the pants is VERY inaccurate.

[Boss San]

Can't say I've gotten ticketed for speeds like that. How'd you get a Camaro to go twice the peg limit on the speedometer anyways?

[Rinwo]

A friend of mine has a ticket for 127 or 123 over the speed limit, 150 somethin in a 30 ... has it framed on his wall lol, he got it 6 or 7 years ago before I knew em. Don't remember what all he said he went through for it, I just remember I was glad that I wasn't him... I will try to get him to lend it to me so I can scan it and post a pic of it.

[RocketDSM]

It was a bottom feeder baseline Camaro when purchased from GM. Therefore it came with a differential ratio of 2.56:1. It had basically no acceleration, but a top end to make you drool. We gave up trying to time it's 0-60 at 17 seconds and I still wasn't up to 60 yet. But once I got moving, it could FLY. As for mods, just basic stuff. Bigger carb, balanced blueprinted internals. 8:1 compression. NO exhaust (manifolds, that's it).

[Boss San]

You weren't playing Foghat at the time you were going that fast were you? lol

[gigglesnirt]

my mom has ticket for 90 mph, she got clocked outside of vegas by a chopper and cops a couple miles up stopped her

[YukiHime]

Well...I've just went up to 115 on a 55...but didn't get a ticket......because I was bleeding...(I meant ladies' problem...and it happened while I'm on the interstate. Therefore I was speeding like that. But wasn't realize until saw a cop just left the highway.

[alphalanos]

i went 100 in a.....45 i think. no ticket. also i blow through all yellow lights and i usually slide through all turns onto perpendicular roads. i cannot beleive i havent gotten i ticket yet...knock on wood.

[Igovert500]

The fastest I've ever been pulled over( pulled over being hte operative words) at was 107 in a 55. THe cop was going the other way and my radar detector caught him too late. I slowed down like a dumbass and he caught up with me a few mins later. He said he clocked me at 83, which I knew was BS, so I wouldn't admit to it. I think he was a new cop, because he didn't seem to handle it well and was just trying to get me for anything. So he wrote me a ticket for not having a seat belt on(I only had the auto shoulder strap on at the time). So I got a cute little 20 dollar ticket for that. Anyway, there is a great book called "case dismissed" by jeff mulligan(if I remember correctly) great for getting speeding tickets thrownout. I highly recommend it. It's online, at www.beatmyspeedingticket.com

[Nexagen]

I got a speeding ticket for 80+ at least that is what the officer wrote on it. But from what I remember on that day is that I worked a graveyard shift and went to my dealer to pick up a Nose Mask/Bra that I had just purchased.

It was about 11:00 AM and my eyes where starting to give out on me. The car was about 2 months in my possesion (2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse) when I was curious about how the cruise control worked. And there is actually a stick that you can move around that is attached to the steering wheel in any direction and it would serve a function:

ACCEL
_____
::::::|=|CRUISE ON/OFF
_____
CRUISE


So I fiddled with it and pushed in the cruise control for the first time since I never really payed any attention to it.

The cruise light was on on my gauge cluster, but it did'nt maintain the speed and it gradually went down.

Now while I was doing this I was going south on the 405 in CA and was in the fast lane. There were cars in front of me and in the middle there were no cars. So I switch to the middle lane and there's clear road for at least 20 car lenghts.

I kept fiddling with the cruise control and by accident I simultaniously held accel on the cruise stick and put my foot on the pedal. The car went from 75 MPH to 105 MPH AT LEAST. The bad part is that since I really did'nt know how to turn off the cruise because it was the first time I ever used it every time I braked it would go back to the speed it was at before. But I turned it off.

Next thing I knew I saw blue lights on my rearview mirror. I pulled over immidiately and admitted to the officer that I was speeding. He was nice on me and let me go. The ticket he wrote was for $125 and I ended up taking online driving course to clear it off my record.



The next thing I remember was going on Ebay and searching for Cobra 9870 11 Band Radar Detector with Voice Alert. Now I have radar in my car and I know when the pigs are monitoring me. "Ka Alert... KA -== BEEP BEEP BEEP"

What is so cool about it is that it talks to you. The button on the right hand side is for City and Highway mode pressing it will talk "City X or City K or City XK" and for highway "Highway".

Of course I'm not a jackass at driving all the time at 100+ or so. But it helps getting to work on time as I weave through traffic.

[bumpinneon]

i got a ticket going 80 in a 25 but i wouldnt have got the ticket if i wouldnt have taking a turn to fast and slid onto the kirb blew a whole in the rim then i put the car in park and it jumped into a fire hydrant and if i wouldnt have had my system on top of the spare tire i would have been able to slap the spare on and get away so i got a ticket for 80 in a 25 and failure to control and if the car had been dropped i could have handled that turn alot better

[Boss San]

Originally Posted by bumpinneon

i got a ticket going 80 in a 25 but i wouldnt have got the ticket if i wouldnt have taking a turn to fast and slid onto the kirb blew a whole in the rim then i put the car in park and it jumped into a fire hydrant and if i wouldnt have had my system on top of the spare tire i would have been able to slap the spare on and get away so i got a ticket for 80 in a 25 and failure to control and if the car had been dropped i could have handled that turn alot better

I could see this coming as soon as a name like bumpinneon came up.
What the fuck are you doing going 80 in a 25 zone. Were you going by a school as well?
If the car had been "dropped?" you could have handled it?
How about if you actually knew how to DRIVE!
Please do us all a favour and learn from your stupid mistakes.

I'm all for ticket and penalties for events such as this, not in cases like RocketDSM

[.mauri.]

240kmh at the tachimeter in a 50kmh limit country road...
3:00am ,road to nowhere someher here round modena,far as hell from the city,no cops,no ticket...
w.t.f means a 50kmh limit on a desert straight 4meters wide road???

[ChronicBrownie]

98mph in a 25mph. No schools, just a road by the lake, almost like a rally road. It WAS fun, till it was over.... $$$$

[waterwolves]

YOU GUYS WONT BELIEVE THIS ONE.

I got a ticket for 77 in a 25 which isn't a big deal but what happen when I got it is. I was drunk which driving under the influence is idiotic but I was young and dumb. Anyway I drank 64 oz glass of OJ and Vodka at a party at my house had a few beers too. Needless to say I was Hammered. Anyway I decided to go pick up this chic named Kendra and try and get some action. So I go and get her and we are driving back to my house in my little crap truck when I start speeding to impress her.(YOUNG AND DUMB) I run a light at a major intersection doing about 70 into a housing area. I continue to accelerate I guess I was going 77 that is what the cops said latter anyway lo and behold I pass a cop sitting in a apartment parking lot. Well I thought I got a good enough jump on him so I tried to take a few quick turns and hide from him so I turn left real quick and then right and then right into a driveway real Quick. Turn my lights out and sit. I look over to the car in the right side of the drive way and its a COP CAR. I PULLED INTO A COPS DRIVE WAY. Anyway there is like 5 cop cars there in a Matter of a minute guns drawn tell me and Kendra to get out of the car. I don't know how they didn't get me for drunk driving but they checked the car for drugs gave me a ticket for 77 in 25 and let me go. The whole time the cop is talking to me I am breathing out of the side of my mouth because he was in my face yelling at me. God I am lucky I didn't kill myself or anybody else and didn't get a DUI.