So many people get speeding tickets, but I wonder how many great stories we're missing from people who escaped tickets for one reason or another. Or, even great stories where a ticket was received. See, once you turn 25, you magically become responsible and don't speed. I used think that was BS, but it's actually got a degree of truth to it. But, before I turned 25, I used to speed a lot. Now, I take it to the track.
I'll start.
In 1992, I had just recently purchased a new Nissan 240 SX LE coupe. It was white, with grey interior. I had ordered the chip from Stillen, and also an exhaust. The car looked pretty nice, full tint, clean, new, nice lines.
The 1992 240 LE model had a digital speedo in HUD format. So your speed was projected on to the windshield. One of the things the chip was supposed to do was remove the factory speed limiter. Can't remember, but I think it might have been 180km/h.
One afternoon, I was out with my GF driving towards Banff. The trip was for the express purpose of determing how fast the car would go with the new Stillen chip w/o a speed limiter.
We were driving up a slight hill, and I was accelerating to just over 190km/h. Still accelerating, we crest the hill and the HUD says 199km/h. As we start to go down the hill, two things happen. The first is that I realize we are still accelerating, but the HUD and speedo don't go past 199km/H. So we're doing 210km/h or so, but it's not reading. The second thing that happens is that my radar detector goes instantly to FULL SCALE ALERT!!!
Naturally, I slow the car down immediately. Get it back down to about 120km/h. I'm wondering where the COP is, and then notice that an RCMP vehicle is flipping a u-turn through the ditch! I continue driving on my merry way, at or about the speed limit. Watching the rearview mirror closely, the lights start flashing. He closes the gap, and sure enough, pulls me over.
The GF and I have had some time of course to contemplate the situation. I'm shitting bricks, because I figure OMFG, he just clocked me at 100km/H over the speed limit. I'm in big trouble. Telling him that I was just curious, which may be true, isn't going to cut it! He approaches my car - I already have the window rolled down. I say to him, "uhm, is there a problem officer." Long pause. Seemed like an eternity. His response, "Hell yes there's a problem. Son, roll up your window." Pulse rate exceeds 150. I oblige, rolling up the window partially to reveal a virtually black tint. To boot, it was a dull grey day...
"Son, you see this tint, this is highly, highly illegal."
Resisting the urge to gasp in relief, and knowing how lucky I just got, I attempt to care about my window tint, claiming I was unaware that it was illegal at all! If it was illegal, "why can the shop even put it on?" - I actually asked him. But I've never handed my drivers license and insurance over faster in my life.
As we drove away with my $25 ticket and notice of removal, I reasoned that what must have happened is that he had one of these 'constant on' radar guns, probably on his passenger floor, but left turned on. When we crested the hill, my radar detector immediately picked it up, and went full signal. I slowed down immediately. The officer however didn't likely see me until I had already slowed down, so he never would have even had a visual of when I was speeding...
I didn't speed for a long time after this, but I did speed before this and after this to extremes, and have been fortunate. I've got at least 3 more stories...
Let's here some of your stories...or close calls.