Author Topic: Clocked at 140+ (Read 2468 times)

sparty · « **on:** October 16, 2008, 07:20:57 PM »

Today my wife had a gentlemen in her courtroom who was arrested for speeding and fleeing from the police. He was initially spotted on his motorcycle at moving at a very high rate of speed. The officer that spotted him was traveling in the other direction and radioed to another officer who then clocked him at 148MPH on a 45 MPH road.

Anyway, he plead not guilty and had his day in court. He told my wife that his motorcycle would not go that fast - GSXR 1000. My wife told him, "Sir, I beg to differ. I was just at a drag race on Friday with my husband who rode his 1972 Honda motorcycle 118 MPH in a 1/4 mile. I am neither naive nor so dumb to believe that your modern superbike can not achieve the speed at which you were clock. Let me remind you that you are under oath and before you purger yourself any further, you may wish to rethink your previous statement." He then had the stones to say, "well, there must be something wrong with my speedometer 'cause I slowed down after I saw the cops." My wife replied, "Okay, so based upon what you have just said, you therefore must have been exceeding the 148 MPH at which you were clocked before you slowed down." Dumb look on his face. "Ummm.... no I slowed down, ummm... I wasn't going.... I didn't try to run from the cops. By the time they caught up to me I was way ahead of them. I didn't think they were chasing me."

Sparty

kghost · « **Reply #1 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:24:47 PM »

What an idiot.....

unkle fester · « **Reply #2 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:31:30 PM »

probly was wearing shorts, wife beater t-shirt and flip-flops going that fast too...........SQUID

sparty · « **Reply #3 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:36:00 PM »

Quote from: kghost on October 16, 2008, 07:24:47 PM

What an idiot.....

yeah.

Good thing I took my wife to the drag strip so she had a real life example to use in her courtroom.

Spikeybike · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:42:01 PM »

wow thats classic

sparty · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:52:58 PM »

Quote from: spikeybike on October 16, 2008, 07:42:01 PM

wow thats classic

You should hear some of the stories she gets. Like "I didn't see the flashing lights because my windows are tinted too dark" or " I didn't hear the siren because I had my iPod on" or "I needed to get home fast because I realized that I locked myself out of the house" huh??? or one of the best, "yes I was speeding but only because I was running out of gas and had to get to the gas station fast to fill up!" duhhhhh!

333 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:56:45 PM »

Well, you do get better gas milage at higher rates of speed.

Spikeybike · « **Reply #7 on:** October 16, 2008, 07:57:11 PM »

hahaha i was wrong THATS classic

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2008, 08:10:35 PM »

rounded the night off well

Sam.

tramp · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2008, 05:01:10 AM »

thats what happens when stupidity meets sound logic
good for your wife

MRieck · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2008, 05:20:49 AM »

In my best Ren (Ren & Stimpy) impression.......IDIOT!

SD750F · « **Reply #11 on:** October 17, 2008, 06:40:36 AM »

Quote from: unkle fester on October 16, 2008, 07:31:30 PM

probly was wearing shorts, wife beater t-shirt and flip-flops going that fast too...........SQUID

unkle, I was going to say the same thing...

Scott

Caaveman82 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2008, 01:01:28 PM »

"I was like speeding because I had to like get to Sarah's house because Brent is going to ask Michelle to the dance!"

"I didn't even know that I was like speeding man, but I was speeding because like the oven at my aunts house in Denver once like blew up so I had to go to the appliance store man, like real fast and stuff man, so I could get a new oven before my oven like burns my house down man."

MCRider · « **Reply #13 on:** October 17, 2008, 01:44:23 PM »

Quote from: sparty on October 16, 2008, 07:20:57 PM

Today my wife had a gentlemen in her courtroom who was arrested for speeding and fleeing from the police. He was initially spotted on his motorcycle at moving at a very high rate of speed. The officer that spotted him was traveling in the other direction and radioed to another officer who then clocked him at 148MPH on a 45 MPH road.

SNIP

I cry FOUL! I thought you were going to post that YOU had been clocked at 140+.

kach_me · « **Reply #14 on:** October 17, 2008, 07:25:49 PM »

I gotta know... what do judges wear under their robes?

AK Cafe · « **Reply #15 on:** October 17, 2008, 07:37:42 PM »

Damn, now I gotta clean the beer off the monitor screen.
AK Cafe

mrbreeze · « **Reply #16 on:** October 17, 2008, 09:00:14 PM »

Logic tells me there is a reason for a 45MPH zone where that happened.OK....65-75....not too bad...slap on the wrist speeding ticket.75-ton......in trouble.140?

....death wish!!!!!!

754 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 17, 2008, 09:36:09 PM »

Man I dont know wether to Like or Hate.. a judge like that..

But I do know this..

I cant ever tell Sparty the story of the local guy that clocked 175mph

at bonneville on his pretty stock ZX10... no Siree.. not gonna tell that one...

sparty · « **Reply #18 on:** October 17, 2008, 11:34:37 PM »

Quote from: kach_me on October 17, 2008, 07:25:49 PM

I gotta know... what do judges wear under their robes?

I know, but I am not telling.

sparty · « **Reply #19 on:** October 17, 2008, 11:43:15 PM »

Quote from: mrbreeze on October 17, 2008, 09:00:14 PM

Logic tells me there is a reason for a 45MPH zone where that happened.OK....65-75....not too bad...slap on the wrist speeding ticket.75-ton......in trouble.140?....death wish!!!!!!

Actually that road where he hit 140+ is long and straight and very easy to hit triple digits. It is a four lane bypass road that cuts through town to help elevate traffic congestion through town. Safely hitting 140+ is no problem other than it is 100 MPH over the speed limit. If that clown didn't try to run from the police, they would have most likely cut his fine to a 80 MPH ticket and he would have been able to keep his license.

Steve F · « **Reply #20 on:** October 18, 2008, 04:08:18 AM »

Quote from: sparty on October 17, 2008, 11:34:37 PM

Quote from: kach_me on October 17, 2008, 07:25:49 PM
I gotta know... what do judges wear under their robes?

I know, but I am not telling.

OK.....so what DON'T they wear?

Jonesy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 18, 2008, 05:41:18 AM »

Quote from: unkle fester on October 16, 2008, 07:31:30 PM

probly was wearing shorts, wife beater t-shirt and flip-flops going that fast too...........SQUID

I thought a Corona Beer tank top was the preferred squid uniform...?

bill440cars · « **Reply #22 on:** October 18, 2008, 06:32:52 AM »

Quote from: MCRider1 on October 17, 2008, 01:44:23 PM

Quote from: sparty on October 16, 2008, 07:20:57 PM
Today my wife had a gentlemen in her courtroom who was arrested for speeding and fleeing from the police. He was initially spotted on his motorcycle at moving at a very high rate of speed. The officer that spotted him was traveling in the other direction and radioed to another officer who then clocked him at 148MPH on a 45 MPH road.

SNIP

I cry FOUL! I thought you were going to post that YOU had been clocked at 140+.

Have to admit, that's what I thought too!

I figured that the "Hot Rod" had just been verified!

Sparty, that's good that your wife shot him down, making him look like the fool that he was.

Later on, Bill

HondaMan · « **Reply #23 on:** October 18, 2008, 08:43:36 PM »

Personally, I wish you and her would come here and be one of OUR judges...we could use some common sense (and another fast K2!) in CO.

azuredesign · « **Reply #24 on:** October 18, 2008, 09:59:34 PM »

Was there a financial penalty imposed, Art? If so, do you know how much?

I received a ticket this summer and went to court after the officer who issued the summons encouraged me to do so. Although I too was a complete babbling fool during the hearing, my fine was reduced from $300. to $100.

I thought perhaps that the cost of the jury trial which I was entitled to following the hearing was sufficiently expensive for the county that the magistrate I spoke with to offer me a financial incentive to settle. Otherwise who not just make me pay the $300. as they had me pretty much like a deer in the crosshairs?

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Author Topic: Clocked at 140+ (Read 2468 times)

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