I had to look some of these words up.

Where I live in the UK - zero tollerance for anything over the limit - there is no 10% plus 5 mph and all that - simply zero.

My best friend and passenger in my car was brain damaged as a result of the speeder totalling us, they probably had the same idea, I am a better driver and speed isnt the issue - the sad fact was that the car he was driving was far more powerful than his own brain.

Common sense does prevail - and I am not advocating a nanny state (though in the Uk this is a palce where goats live) but speed does have a huge affect during any collision - and I didnt say not to speed - just if you do - expect to take the punishment. My friend will be paying a penalty for life, not just a one off ticket cost.

Hope my syntax is ok?

 

Don't know why, but cops often give you a lot of brownie points for that. Also - keep your hands where he can see them, window already down, tell him where you are reaching for your license (wallet, left front pocket...). I get pulled over pretty regularly and rarely ever get a ticket.

 

Seems like you have a lot experience in this area.........getting pulled over that is.....j/k

anyway, here's the scoop fellas...believe it or not, cops have personalities too....some can be ******, some can be nice....with that said....why, especially a lawyer, do you think you get pulled over?

I see from the posts, some condon enforcement, some think it is a waste of "their" time.

I even see we know how the speed limit is set up to begin with. Why 40 mph in this area rather 30 or 50....

My big personality factor was stop signs...no one in this little town I live in thinks stop means stop...so, should I just ignore it, after all it isn't hurting anyone...no one is there, so why stop? Why come to a complete stop, no one is around? Well, you all know the answer to this question, and you all know the answer to the speeding question as well. So, I quess in the end, you are just venting like I am....no one likes to deal with the reality you just committed an infraction, and got caught. If you walk, great cop, even though he wasted my time, and commented on my nice ride. If you get cited, then what an *****, the guy in front of me was going even faster, and he picks on the XF... It's the oldest argument on the books...but is still a fun read.

as I once had this little plague on my dash, I will repeat it again.....

SOMETIMES YOU GET THE BEAR, SOMETIMES THE BEAR GETS YOU !

 

I never feel bad or have any bad feelings towards the cop when I get a ticket. I figure I earn a ticket *every* time I'm on the road. I only get a ticket once ever few years. The ticket cost me around $150. The way I look at it, it cost me less than 25 cents per day to speed.

 

I've been lucky for the year so far I've had mine. There aren't many cops around here and the roads are all straight boring roads at 40-50mph.

Heck whenever I pass a cop I don't slam on the brakes to get down to the speed limit (I'm usually ~5mph over). I don't need the added attention of looking like I've got something to hide.

 

Hey, everyone speeds, it's just the nature of the car and the car enthusiest...you want performance, you want to play with the toy you created. I got caught on my way to CAA in St. Louis. I didn't make 30 miles when a trooper nailed me...I saw him, braked her down, pulled over 10ft from where he was sitting in the bushes as I could see his grille lts come on...he was a great kid...I got a warning, and after a little conversation, a thank you for my years of service...but it could have went another way, and I would have deserved it...I won't tell how fast I was going but he was impressed with the pull over and stop.....lol

 

I have, at least twice now, looked in the mirror as I passed one, saw him pull out, and pulled over right away and waited. BOTH times, they'd come up and talk to me, but no ticket.

Once, in the pickup 3-4 years ago, I pulled over like that, he got within 200 feet of me, turned off his lights, kept going, even waved at me. I never caught up with him (again, I was in the 4 cyl Ranger). I guess since I was "compliant", he just didn't want to bother with me.


Oh, and I should point out, never been pulled over in the XF - had it a year and so far, never been "talked to".

So far.

 

i have yet to be pulled over in mine.... but sounds like most of you are speeding so therefore the cop has the right to pull you over. the reason why they pull you over instead of someone else is because......

1. its a sports car
2. its unique
3. cops think your rich with a car like that and decide you can afford a ticket lol

 

trust me Cody, even the worst of them don't think about "if you are rich or not", just doesn't happen. They may look at the car as unique after the approach, and we see sports cars everyday. Look at this way, it is a job. If we are on traffic duty, then our objective for the day is to look for traffic infractions. Disregarding stop signs, unsafe lane movement, tailgating, and yes, speeding. What you and others may think is safe, and it is something you have gotten into a habit of doing all the time, just might not be. Like rolling thru the stop sign because you don't see anyone coming. You might get away with it a thousands times until that one blind spot in your car gets you hit...People want to make cops out to be something special, whether that is good or bad, I don't know...I put my pants on just like you...and I use to remind young recruits of that when they started to get a little cocky with the public....

 

i'm not making fun of police officers. i respect what they do. i follow the law almost all the time when i drive. i have never been pulled over in my 4 years of driving. number 3 on my list was just a little joke to lighten the mood cause someone on her before got pulled over and the cop thought it was a porshe. at one time i even wanted to be a police officer. you have a lot of good police officers out there ( like yourself oledoc2u ) and you have your bad ones. no offense was meant.

 

hey, no offense taken here...just people like to think we are somehow different....we aren't...we make mistakes, and that is what the judge is for....in the end, he or she makes the call, not us...and don't think a judge likes us wasting his or her time. We here about it...you don't run frivilist citations thru any court, or it will catch up to you with the case loads courts have on their dockets...when you get called in before the judge, it isn't pretty...I have managed to stay on their good side for 30 yrs, and not changing now...lol...but the old career is coming to an end in Sept if everything goes well....

 

As always Doc, well said,,BTW, based on the number of lucky Crossfire owners whose verbal warnings outnumber the ones with UTC's, it appears that driving a Crossfire lowers ones chance of receiving a ticket Try looking at it that way VeGaslegal and your day will seem so much happier