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So I posted about my new car in a different thread.

It's a manual transmission and I haven't driven a manual in about 7 years, and from what I've read this one is finicky. So I've been driving a lot to try to feel comfortable with the clutch and the car.

Anyway...

So I'm out for a cruise yesterday, a sunny Saturday, and I'm headed home on the south end of the belt route, headed west. I'm at the point just after the exit to I-15 and where people are merging onto I-215 from I-15. It's an extended downhill drive and I'm doing some "spirited" driving. I know this is a common spot for speed enforcement. I usually don't speed downhill. If you don't know, cops are like fisherman, they usually go where the fish are, and people speed downhill a lot more than they do going uphill, so I usually do most of my fun driving going uphill.

Anyway, I move to the right at the point where the I-15 drivers merge so as to give them room and I see a car in my rear-view that comes from the left lane and looks like a Charger (common Utah Highway Patrol car). I start slowing down immediately. The car gets closer and yeah, it's a Highway Patrol. He is in the lane to the left of me, he pulls alongside and I look over with an "I'm sorry" look on my face and give him an acknowledging nod. Meanwhile I'm now doing 60mph in a 70mph zone. I move to the right. He hangs back a little and stays to my left. My exit is the next one coming up so I take the exit and so does he. I'm thinking he was waiting for a good spot to pull me over because he hasn't hit his lights yet. But as I go right off the exit he goes left.

My insurance is going to go WAY up anyway because of my new (to me) car, but man, I can't imagine how much higher it would go if I got a speeding ticket before I even added it to my insurance.

So thank you Mr. Highway Patrolman.

But I can't help thinking that if he had pulled alongside and saw someone who fit a different profile, that person would have gotten a ticket. I also think he probably looked-up who the car was registered to and I haven't had a speeding ticket in more than 8 years, so maybe that helped.
 
Bulletproof said:
So I posted about my new car in a different thread.

It's a manual transmission and I haven't driven a manual in about 7 years, and from what I've read this one is finicky. So I've been driving a lot to try to feel comfortable with the clutch and the car.

Anyway...

So I'm out for a cruise yesterday, a sunny Saturday, and I'm headed home on the south end of the belt route, headed west. I'm at the point just after the exit to I-15 and where people are merging onto I-215 from I-15. It's an extended downhill drive and I'm doing some "spirited" driving. I know this is a common spot for speed enforcement. I usually don't speed downhill. If you don't know, cops are like fisherman, they usually go where the fish are, and people speed downhill a lot more than they do going uphill, so I usually do most of my fun driving going uphill.

Anyway, I move to the right at the point where the I-15 drivers merge so as to give them room and I see a car in my rear-view that comes from the left lane and looks like a Charger (common Utah Highway Patrol car). I start slowing down immediately. The car gets closer and yeah, it's a Highway Patrol. He is in the lane to the left of me, he pulls alongside and I look over with an "I'm sorry" look on my face and give him an acknowledging nod. Meanwhile I'm now doing 60mph in a 70mph zone. I move to the right. He hangs back a little and stays to my left. My exit is the next one coming up so I take the exit and so does he. I'm thinking he was waiting for a good spot to pull me over because he hasn't hit his lights yet. But as I go right off the exit he goes left.

My insurance is going to go WAY up anyway because of my new (to me) car, but man, I can't imagine how much higher it would go if I got a speeding ticket before I even added it to my insurance.

So thank you Mr. Highway Patrolman.

But I can't help thinking that if he had pulled alongside and saw someone who fit a different profile, that person would have gotten a ticket. I also think he probably looked-up who the car was registered to and I haven't had a speeding ticket in more than 8 years, so maybe that helped.
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Thats a good one for this thread for sure. I hate speeding tickets. Luckily i havent got one in like 10 years. I drive like an old grandpa though.


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fishonjazz said:
Thats a good one for this thread for sure. I hate speeding tickets. Luckily i havent got one in like 10 years. I drive like an old grandpa though.


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I drive fast and aggressive, but I haven’t had a speeding ticket since I was 17. I remember one time I was driving down to Snow College. Just as I left, I remembered a paper I was supposed to have done while I was home for the weekend, but forgot. I decided to bust my *** down there and do it. I was probably doing 90 and passed a Utah County Sheriff. I slowed down in a hurry, but he pulled me over. He came up to me and asked if I knew how fast I was going and I said “yes. Do you?” I knew he didn’t and he knew that I knew he had no clue. He must not have liked my answer because it took like 15 minutes to run my driver’s license to “make sure” I wasn’t a “wanted criminal”. Since he no idea of my actual speed, the only thing he could say to me was “slow down, next time you won’t be so lucky”.


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bigb said:
I drive fast and aggressive, but I haven’t had a speeding ticket since I was 17. I remember one time I was driving down to Snow College. Just as I left, I remembered a paper I was supposed to have done while I was home for the weekend, but forgot. I decided to bust my *** down there and do it. I was probably doing 90 and passed a Utah County Sheriff. I slowed down in a hurry, but he pulled me over. He came up to me and asked if I knew how fast I was going and I said “yes. Do you?” I knew he didn’t and he knew that I knew he had no clue. He must not have liked my answer because it took like 15 minutes to run my driver’s license to “make sure” I wasn’t a “wanted criminal”. Since he no idea of my actual speed, the only thing he could say to me was “slow down, next time you won’t be so lucky”.


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I got pulled over once for speeding and I had my wife's wedding ring on me (this was before I had proposed to her) and I showed it to the cop and made up a story about how I was on my way to meet her at the airport cause I was taking her on a helicopter ride to propose to her (that is actually how I did propose eventually) and that I was running late.

He was like, "well, what are you doing talking to me then?, Get going already and hurry!".
Lol

I thought about buying a fake wedding ring to always keep in my truck just in case I get pulled over so I could use that story again.

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I've been pulled over once since I turned 30. It was for my license plate illuminator light being out. I asked him if it was a slow night. He kind of smirked and said "yeah. Have a nice night." And let me go.

Otherwise I haven't had a ticket in 20 years. I don't really drive like a grandpa but I've become good at assessing where I can drive faster and where I can't.
 
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