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- From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
- Subject: Re: High speed in USA?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.202341.13126@adobe.com>
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- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
- References: <Bxrqos.Bon@quadsys.com> <1e8d7uINN6qg@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:23:41 GMT
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- In article <1e8d7uINN6qg@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
- }The professionals do (which is almost 100% restricted to the CHP where
- }you are). They will write you up for less than your actual speed just
- }to keep you from getting *so* pissed off, and to decrease the
- }likelyhood that you will contest the ticket in court. They know that
- }in the long run it makes no difference. If you are a safe rider who
- }just happened to let the speedo get away, well, you've got a fairly
- }minor reminder. If you are a speed freak who never rides at the speed
- }limit, well, after 3 or 4 tickets your license or your insurance or
- }both is going to be yanked, and whether the ticket is for 65 or 75
- }makes little difference.
-
- Agreed. I got my first moto ticket the other night here in Sunnyvale
- on I-280. I was coming home from class and traffic was doing 70.
- I was doing 75-80 in the deserted carpool lane, and a CHP moto cop
- picked me up and paced me for a few miles before sneaking up behind
- and pulling me. Even though I pulled over to the large left shoulder
- (I didn't want both of us wending through skittish 70 mph traffic
- across five lanes), which made the cop feel vulnerable, I explained
- my logic and he agreeably told me no CHP officer in his/her right
- mind would ever object to me going down to the next exit, no matter
- how far away it is.
-
- He wrote me up for 70 in a 55 (which I considered kind under the
- circumstances), stressed my option to take traffic school and thus
- avoid an insurance hike, and at the end thanked me profusely for
- being so cooperative. Said they don't get much of that.
-
- Hey, I played the game and lost, and he was reasonable and not at
- all a jerk in any way. And since I am one who has been helped by
- the cops on numerous occasions, I certainly bear no malice. I am
- pretty sure if I had kept it to 70 he would have just given me a
- warning.
- --
- Curtis Jackson '91 Black Lab "Studley Doright" '92 Collie/Golden "George"
- cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com USPA #A-10080 (lapsed) DoD #721 '81 Maxim 650
- "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
- safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
-