Wow, it's not cheap, but it does pay itself within 2 tickets. Thanks for the tip, I'm getting it !

I am a lovely guy, i can be an asshole too. I use to race cars dude for many years so i know a little bit about driving fast. I also know how dangerous 100mph is.

Wow. Last time I got a 20 over ticket I was told the max fine possible for speeding in AZ was $240. The catch is the cop has the choice to take you to jail or not on a 20 over ticket. That was a long time ago though. That’s an crazy high fine. Glad I don’t live or drive in Georgia.

Well when you're driving 100mph its no longer considered speeding, its considered stupid and reckless, especially when you are in a fit of rage with another driver.

Don't pay the ticket... and never drive through Georgia again.

It's all relative. There is a time and place for everything.

My little car can do 150 in 4th and still have 2 gears left (speed limited at 155) Do I do 150, no, that's crazy. Do I do 45 on 15 mph curves at deals gap, hell yea. 20 miles of no driveways, houses, entrances or anything just hairpin turns and switchbacks on perfect condition roads. Do 150 and get thrown under the jail, do 45 and the cops wave at you.

Truly the best you can get, and I’ve owned a bunch. V1 was go to for many years but now that the patent on the arrow system expired other manufacturers can now copy it. You won’t regret the 360!

I don't have time to read all four pages, but why the question of if to get an attorney? You always do that for any moving violation. They get it knocked down to a parking ticket, no points, no report to insurance, you don't have to show to court, and you move on just pay what you deserve. 100 mph, you are lucky they didn't arrest you.

Actually this is not true.. Look up the laws on civil forfeiture. Police can seize money if they "suspect" it to be from illegal sources and innocence must be proven by the victim to get it back. And yes no accountability to how the money is spent or divided...

Boy, times have changed!

Let me take you back to 1976, with 68 GTO, Loaded!
We would cut class, (no one to check), throw a case of Beer in the Back Window, (the code for heading to the Beach), and speed our way
to some surf and suds, drinking our way there...(Odin would be proud).
No troubles from school, pulled over a dozen times, no tickets, mostly concern if we stopped short and the bottles flew.
No concerns for DUI, if we were respectable.Of course, we would offer a cold one to the officer, and often they took it.

I will be sure not to speed anywhere!!

In PA, the police department gets half the fine_ portion of the ticket. So the fine itself may be $25 on a 5-over speeding ticket, but all the other fees they add on makes it a $200 ticket. The police department that wrote the ticket gets $12.50.

One good thing we have going is that we are the only, or one of the only states that do not allow local police to use radar or laser. They have to use timing lines and a stopwatch-like device or light sensors along the road. However, the state legislature is trying once again to allow locals to use radar. They will probably make us get front plates if that goes down.

Pay your fine and lick your wounds. If you are going to do 100, you better know the territory and make sure there are no witnesses.

if you were doing 100 cause you were bringing a pin home and were very excited pinside would understand.

A buddy of mine says that the only people who pay speeding tickets are those who stop for police.

I have no interest in racing anyone, never did and never will. 100mph with the right car (an audi a7 in my case) on a desert straight road with no one, no ditch, no walls and no ice is not dangerous. The only danger there is to fall asleep while going at 65 on an endless road.

As to cops incentive it’s fairly straightforward. They get paid to appear in court and if court time is outside of their normal work hours they get paid overtime (1.5 times normal pay). They don’t get paid for the duration of their case they get paid for as long as they stay in court and wait for their turn.
Now obviously the only way to get that is to send people to court, so there is a financial bias in giving or not a ticket to someone.

I’ve been sitting in traffic court in Florida for almost 25 years and have personally handled well over 1,000,000 traffic related cases. I subcontract for all the larger traffic firms, including the firm you mentioned.

While the larger firms provide a valuable service, in the smaller counties they farm it out to the local attorneys. My advice is to hire the local experienced traffic lawyer, not the big traffic firm and not a local general practitioner. You may spend a few dollars more in attorney fees but you want the local guy who’s familiar with the players in the local court up to bat for you and not there because the some big firm is paying them $50 to cover. You become just a name. Trust me.

Technically you are probably right, but then you have things like tires blowing out, something breaks on the car etc. The bottom line it you just shouldn't do it on public roads because sometimes unexpected things happen. The laws are also for your safety as well. You say 100 is ok, what if someone else says 200 is ok? Well we all know that is not ok. 100mph is just too fast and theres no reason to ever drive that fast unless you are the trucking company that is bringing my Munsters game.

Got my first speeding ticket coming back from pinball expo in 1988.
Great time. Met Rick Stetta and watched him play Taxi.
Playfields were 20.00 a piece nos Williams . Pallots of them for sale.
Speedometer broke on the way down to Expo. Coming back through Beloit Wi. Was clocked 93 in a 65. Tropper said I slowed down to 78 after he passed me in the other lane.
Had to follow him into town and get a money order for like 170.00
I speeded alot in 80,s. It cost me 2600 a year to be on my parents insurance policy.

Good memories.

I love this thread!

I agree with you and that is exactly where the Officer judgment should play an objective role. Is 100 decent, is the car in good condition, was there a threat to anyone etc...

Which goes to my second point, the Officer cannot be objective because his payroll brings a bias.

I’m also quite sure for this reason that going 90 or even 85 would have got me a speeding ticket too, I was his only client that night it really was a desert road.

Around 1986 or so I got a ticket on rt 17 out side New Bern, NC at 2am - cop was nice enough to let me pay the ticket in cash.

Funny thing, it never showed up on my record

Ha. You’ve obviously never been to VT. Many articles on the revenue some of these small towns make on speeding tickets.

If you knew me you would probably pee your pants laughing at my lecture because i used to be one of the craziest people you have ever seen behind the wheel if a car and on motorcycles but like i said thats when i was young. I think that's why im kind of hardcore about this because i dont want people doing the stuff that i did. I have no clue how i survived it all.

$1132 is about right for High Speed.

I was doing 70 in Montana and hit an elk causing $5200.00 dollars in damage to my truck.

Using a radar detector, I'd get too confident in it and eventually get busted. Though I haven't used one in a long time. Waze is very good on busy Interstates.

Yeah, this is not what we are talking about. Speeding tickets, a quasi punishment for a violation action that the court can punish.

Derailing this thread for a hot second.

Thanks for your kind words! Come on down to the Saratoga Pinball Show in August

Well, you added the word “solely” in there, which I didn’t use. I just said they are funded by the ticket revenue, and they are. Many departments around the country receive the revenue from tickets and depend on that steady stream of cash to fund their day to day operations.

Heck, in Louisiana this practice had gotten so out of hand that a few years ago they had to change the law at the state level to where if someone is ticketed for ten miles over the limited or under the money would NOT go to the various local departments but would rather go in to the state coffers. Before that fairly recent law change people were getting tickets for going a mere four or five miles over the limit...after the law changed all of the sudden no one was getting tickets for being under ten mph above the speed limit...changed in one day state wide.

Tickets are a revenue generating machine for local departments.

Georgia sounds pretty strict and that's a rough break. Like someone had stated earlier I think that everyone should try and fight their tickets as well. In MN atleast it's a good idea maybe not Georgia as I'm not familiar with their laws.

I was pretty reckless and honestly a stupid driver in my teenage years and collected 4 speeding tickets before turning 20. Including one where I was over 100 on a 55. I was able to fight out of all them getting on my record as well as reducing countless other violations throughout the years. Eventually I learned to be smart about my driving but thank goodness I pushed through the court systems to avoid a lot more trouble. This wasn't even that long ago either so it's not like the times have changed either but just probably differences in states.

Wife got a $250 ticket for 30km/hr over speed limit.

My buddy got a $850 ticket for going 50km/hr over speed limit, plus had to take a driver's improvement class for a couple humdred more.

Reading this thread has made me think of two things: Sheriff Buford T. Justice and Ludacris...Doing a 100 on the highway...move b tch get out the way!

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Slooow down dude!

Too bad .. I wish you all the best , bad luck on this day.

BTW ... did i tell you that I drive an american car (Chrysler 300C SRT8) here in Germany ?
Please find attached a picture from a tour on the Autobahn last year.
275 km/h are around 177 mph .... dont try in Georgia or you will end up like Sparky in MET !!!

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Especially in Fall River MA. Worst drivers on the planet.

I don’t know if this link will work. I’m on my phone not my computer

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And yet people in Germany and Italy (possibly other places but I have personal experiences with these two) do it all day long. They also know to get the hell out of the left hand lane unless they are passing someone, after driving so many miles in Ohio and Michigan it was sooo refreshing to see!!

West Texas I-20 west of Odessa is posted 80mph all the way to El Paso. The left lane was always open. I thought I died and went to Heaven on that trip.

3 months later I had to drive thru Indiana and deal one truck passing another truck again and again and again.

I love that you guys going 170 MPH all manage to snap a pic of your speedometers while doing so.

Seems safe!

When traffic reaches a certain density, you get to a point where you are always trying to pass someone and someone is always trying to pass you. I-4 anyone?

Without a doubt that is true but I'm talking about the very, very common issue of no one being in the right hand lane and a line of cars all going the same speed in the left hand lane because they are too oblivious or have never been taught to get over when not passing. This is anything but rare in Ohio especially.

I love that you guys going 170 MPH all manage to snap a pic of your speedometers while doing so.
Seems safe!</blockquote

For my pic, the passenger took the pic. No way would I drive that fast one-handed.... Salt, concrete or asphalt....

That's called "Impeding Traffic" - those a$$holes that hold up traffic when the light is green so people can pull out of the gas station into traffic can get cited for it too.

The radar/laser gun is required to be calibrated before every shift, with documentation to support it. Also, the officer must possess an FCC license to operate the equipment.

Yes, things sure have gotten better.

Correct, you did not use the word “solely”. However, the inference arose from your statement above. You suggested that this is a rampant practice in plenty departments, over metrics that might only apply to your law enforcement jurisdiction. In furtherance, you imply that the States District Attorneys offices are purloining and dividing funds for deceptive practices with revenues generated from fines legally? Then implicate that some judicial court room is on the take?
Mea Culpa, I miss understood your verbiage.

Never once did I infer or remotely suggest that the money was hidden or being taken for deceptive practices. The budgets for all of the state agencies and source of the revenue are of course publicly available.

You simply read and inferred far more into the statement of mine you quoted then is there.