In article <200201081641_MC3-ED23-CA5A@compuserve.com>, Anthony Rhodes
<ARhodes@compuserve.com> writes
>I have to chime-in here. I have been on the receiving end of a number
>of tickets.
>3 speeding tickets
>1 failure to stop at a stop sign.
>
>In all cases the cop was writing the offense up as he exited his
>vehicle. Never did one try to determine if there
>were any extenuating circumstances.
<massive snip>
My experience (here in UK) is somewhat different. Until I got the
Spitfire, I never kept to speed limits*, and, when I was still very
young and callow, used to cruise at 125 on motorways. The *only* time
I ever got a ticket was when I was driving a hire car on company
business. It was the most powerful car I had ever driven up to that
point (Rover 827Si), and I got her up to 120 on a country road in
Gloucestershire. I was caught on a radar speed trap as I slowed down
for a corner - 92 mph. It took the cop twenty miles to catch me, and
he still talked to me about why I had been going so fast for five
minutes before he said he'd have to give me a ticket. Pretty decent of
him, I thought.
>I prided myself at maintaining _50_ mph over the speed limit in a TR4A
>most of the time.
80 mph in town centres? You can't have anything like the traffic we
have over here! <g>
*Funnily enough, I get the same thrill and excitement in a twenty-five
year-old Spitfire at 70 as I used to in a new car at 125...
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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