What can you get away with in your area?

[randypalmer15]

I've found that in most places in Canada, you can hover around 10-15 km (6-9 mph) over the speed limit (in Sask the limit is 110 km/68 mph on double lanes, 100/62 on most paved highways) and most cops won't bother you, likely because the criminal code doesn't list speeding infractions below 20 km over.
So I stay just under the 20 klick threshold, and I haven't been stopped in over 10 years. Last time I was dinged was on a rural highway going 130/81, made my wallet $120 bucks lighter with that episode. Of course, I was 22 and stupid, so that explains that . . .

[stoned_pimp420]

I used to call in a burgular every thursday night and after I was sure that the cops were gone to find the thief, I'd go and cut doughnuts in the grass lot of the police department. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA they never knew who it was, when I felt like they were closing in I'd stop it for a while.

[Aerowitz]

Originally Posted by stoned_pimp420

I used to call in a burgular every thursday night and after I was sure that the cops were gone to find the thief, I'd go and cut doughnuts in the grass lot of the police department. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA they never knew who it was, when I felt like they were closing in I'd stop it for a while.

^ LOL that's evil ^

I basically live in a ghost town with maybe 3 cops and the rare county sheriff, and I've gotten away with pretty much everything. Speeding, street racing, running lights, doing donuts in parking lots, etc.

I think we have a strict rule to hire retards as cops here. Come on down to Ye Olde Iowa Falls, "The Scenic City"!

[Aerowitz]

I swear to god you could kill somebody here and the cops would take 3 hours to arrive...

[fordperson]

10-10mph over on regular roads(except for 25mph)
and 90-95 on the highway(55mph zone)

Tom

[95cord]

on my way to work every morning i pass the police department (45 mph speed limit) for the past four years doing about 60-65 mph never got a ticket. Cops are pulling out as i pass them. but i turn on my blue neons under my car and i get a $200.00 ticket

[NINÅ]

Originally Posted by 95cord

i turn on my blue neons under my car and i get a $200.00 ticket

As we all know some rules don't make sense. Neons look nice and don't look ANYTHING like an emergency vehicle. What REALLY needs to be banned is strobes on trucks, commercial utility vehicles and so forth. They make garbage trucks look more important than police cars. Normal marker lights that don't strobe are more than enuff.

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[mike5721947]

well we have to go 100km/h here on the freway and most of the time everyone is over by 10km/h and most dont get pulled over, ive "borrowed" my mothers 2001 accent gsi (standard) and went down the normal streets at 80 speed limit was 60 then went and squeeled the tires every once in a while then finally did some front wheel drive drifting (handbrake) figure 8 driving in a parking lot and finished it off by parking everywhere in the parking lot then drove it home and parked it back in the driveway. (no one found out till our neighbour piped up about the car going out at 12 at night and originally they blamed my older 22 at the time sister but she wasnt home that night... so they finally go me. but not after 2 months!! at the time i was just under 14.

[bahwan]

I've been stopped 3 times here...
1st time: 137 in a 65 - warning
2nd time: 61 in a 55 - ticket but no points
3rd time: didn't use my turn signal long enough befor turning (more about that in another thread)

[mike5721947]

[quote=bahwan]
1st time: 137 in a 65 - warning
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you got just a warning for that!!! most of the time warning are for being just over not double the limit!

[curtis73]

I got a warning once for doing 135 in a 35

In Pennsylvania where I grew up they were pretty tight about it. We were the third to last state to adopt the 65 mph speed limit in the 90's, and I got a $183 ticket for doing 63. (We were also something like the fourth highest fines in the US at the time) Since its flipped to 65, you can almost always get by with 70, most of the time with 73. 75 seems to be the magic number that will draw almost all of them out of their hiding places; if traffic provides a safe entry.

Now that I'm in California, I was pulled over for doing 86 in a 70, but he let me off with an 80 mph ticket and $120. That was out in the boonies at the CA/AZ border. Here in Los Angeles you can pretty much do as you please. There are some cops on the freeways, but there is almost nowhere for them to pull off to set up radar. In my 2.5 years here I could count on one hand the number of speed traps I've seen in Los Angeles. I usually travel between 70-80. Speed limits on freeways downtown are either 55 or 65. Even at 80, often times you'll get passed by some idiot with a smoking civic with a 3-foot-tall wing on his hatchback doing 90. I also rarely see someone pulled over for speeding. About the only time I see cops stopped is with a disabled vehicle or a wreck.

I travel a lot to Ontario in the summers. Even though their limit is 100 kmh, I usually set the cruise at about 120 and I've never had problems.

Where are you in Sask? I remember as a Kid taking the TCH through MooseJaw and we stopped at the fair while we were there. I thought Kansas was flat...

[Integrityfailure]

My girlfriends dad is a crazy man, and regularly drives drunk, and even when he's not drunk, usually keeps it around 30mph over. One time we were in eastern oregon and he pull out into a 35 doing 97, and got a $650 ticket.. Made me laugh, and he was well over do for it.

Anyways, when I first got my license I was incredibly dumb and driving 110-125mph in a 65, (in the rain and snow, no less) weaving in and out of traffic like a jackass, and drove by two cops, and they didn't even flash their lights, just pretended like they saw nothing.. it's a conspiracy, I tell you..

[Officer Redneck]

When I was in college, I hit a skunk on the interstate which knocked my muffler off. A rookie state cop was behind me so when I pulled over to check the damage, he ticketed me for littering and loud exhaust. $575.00 ticket. I went to the cop shop/ court house and they dropped both tickets and suspended the cop. I live in southern most Il. and we get all the young cops that can't make it in Chicago.

[randypalmer15]

Originally Posted by curtis73

Where are you in Sask? I remember as a Kid taking the TCH through MooseJaw and we stopped at the fair while we were there. I thought Kansas was flat...

Sorry it took so long to catch this post, I haven't visited this thread for awhile . . .

How's this for coincidence, I'm actually IN Moose Jaw. You gotta love the TCH from Regina to the Jaw, eh? Perfectly straight and mostly flat except for that one curve halfway between the two cities. 30 klicks, bend in the road, another 30 klicks. I imagine there are some pretty wicked races out there at night, especially since they did the repave.

I've heard the fair was good back in the day, but you'd never know it with what they have now. But hey, when you're a kid any fair is great, right

[Shizane2002]

Colorado Springs traffic enforcement is a joke.

I do my own thing when I drive. Unconventional from the mass of idiots who fail miserabley at driving their own cars...so I generally do what I want.


For one year...Ive done my own thing...infront of plenty of cops...they dont even look. Its hilarious actually.

The ONLY time Ive been pulled over here is when I flew past a freakin Dodge Durango (Sherriffs Deputy) at 85mph...didnt see him until I was right beside the SUV. My unit called me in on an alert so I got out of a ticket.

But this city is a joke. Its great for me.