Go go speed racer!
 

So those with the leadfutitis, what has been the most expensive speeding ticket you have ever been charged with and was it the only one you have ever recieved (give a # plz!)? Then again maybe you're a old granny driver, never breaking 25mph...

Do tell either way.

Leadfutitis? :confused:

There's a difference between never breaking the speed limit and never getting caught. I seem to be quite decent at the latter.

I got caught for doing 95 in a 65 zone. It was on a highway. Stupid highways and their low ass speed limits. The fine was like $250 or something.

I do like to speed, however I don't go about it recklessly. Of course saying the number sounds bad, but within context (traffic was very light and there were plenty of straight aways) it is ok.

Hrm... I've never been caught speeding - mind you I don't drive very much at all (once a month... maybe?)

But one of my friends was doing at least 100kph over, got a cop to follow him home, and he only got a warning, because the cop didn't have a radar gun to proove the speed :P (At least that's the story he told, but the kid never gets tickets, he always gets off with warnings - I've been in the car with him on a couple of times, and so have some of my friends, and he always just gets warnings!)

What kind of moron gets caught speeding all the time?

I've never been caught, but I think the fastest I've gone was 112mph in a 55mph speed limit zone.

Normally though I go about 7-10mph over, and just 5mph in or near towns, unless I know the cops there are anal, then I lock in the cruise control exactly at the speed limit.

Same here. The fastest I've ever went was 105 in a 70. Surprisingly, it looked as though I was moving with the flow of traffic. People were even passing me. Hmmm...

Do you even have a car? Speeding is an accepted practice here... Just as to how much you are speeding that is the question. I had a sherriff go cruising by me at about 85 going with the flow of traffic the other day, speed limit was 60 or 65.

^___^:Lead-foot-itus, you know goes really fast all the time? so I made it up, sue me.

The fastest I've ever gone was 115mph in a 45 zone, I did it just to see what the top end of my car was. Figured out it was governed at that speed :/ Luckily that part of town has almost no cops in it, so I avoided any problems.

I speed a lot, whether it's local or on highway, but I have never been caught yet. For example, usually on a local street/road, I drive maybe 10-20 mph over the speed limit. On highway, the highest I've gone on a regular 70 mph limit was 100... But usually I'd slow down right away if I reached 100... I just slow down to 90, lol.

Oh yeah, here too. On the highway people are always going about 15km/h over the limit.

But if someone's always going 25km/h+ over the limit, then I really have no other word but "stupid" to describe that.

Given the points system in effect in the UK you'd have to be pretty foolish to go out speeding after being caught. That said, I've never been caught, though that's probably because I try to keep my speed in relative terms to everyone else. It's the people who are speeding and stand out that are going to get in the shit.

I've not gotten pulled over so far in my short driving career, but I did drive with my dad's friend on the parkway at nearly 150 MPH. In a Bentley Continental GT. It didn't even feel like we were going too fast, either. That car is rock solid (and 6000 pounds!).

Wait.... How? What? When? WHY? No really. I want to know why driving fast equates stupidity. Some of us enjoy driving fast. Well... Not too fast.

I always drive about 80-90 mph on the freeway and I have yet to get a speeding ticket. A bi-directional radar detector helps a lot too since it let's you know when the Five-O is looking at you. To be quite honest though, I'm surprised that in 12 years of driving (one of those years without a license and another year without tags) the only tickets I've ever gotten are 2 parking tickets when I was in college and getting pulled over for a broken tail light.

Because you are being reckless and you owe it to society to be driving with more caution!

OK Mom... Now can you give me a FEASIBLE explanation? Or am I gonna get the MADD rant now?

You might have been lucky but others with the same mindset have killed themselves and others driving at absurd speeds. Isn't that a FEASIBLE enough explanation for you?

80 mph is an absurd speed? Holy malarkie you're right! I'm a terrible person and I deserve years of repenting in a rape-me-in-the-shower prison.

Tell you what. Since you opened my eyes, I'm going to add a clause to my will that gives you my Ferrari when I die.

Only if I have a Ferrari and die at ABSURD SPEEDS of 80 mph. No more, no less. Othewise, the clause if void.

Be glad you have been so lucky this far. A drill seargent once told me something that makes a lot of sense. He said, " That is ok if we don't catch those breaking the rules the first time, or even the second time, it is the fact that they got away with it once that they will continue to do it, eventually we will catch them." I have a feeling that the police feel the same way.

I've gotten one ticket ($600 ticket :( at least he only clocked me at 83... It took him 4 miles to catch up to me and only because I had to slow down because of traffic, I was doing 105mph) screwing around when I shouldn't have been, but I learned my lesson. I'm of the feeling that while yes it is fun to go around 80mph in a little car, the hit to my pocket book just doesn't make it worth it.

My guess is that if you did have a Ferrari and died and "ABSURD SPEEDS" that your car wouldn't be in one piece if you sent it to him... lol beside 80mph in a high preformance car is barely cruising speed.

You guys just need to make better use of your radar detectors. I'm also not denying that I'll probably get caught, I'm just saying that I'm going for the record to see how long I can go WITHOUT it. :p

I used to be like this when I had my car. I've never gotten a speeding ticket in my life. Thank goodness I have no idea what that feels like. However, I was usually speeding on the highway, not in the city. It usually happened when I was trying to get to work after oversleeping plenty of times....*blames obession with PSO* :(

I have yet to get a speeding ticket (Thank God). I usually stay pretty close to the speed limit because I am that afraid of getting caught.

That's good Vivi. You gotta know when to swing around the spectrum of boldness and caution. The road is no place to try and be bold.

No speeding ticket for me yet. I'm too good for the cops. Depending on my mood when I'm driving, sometimes I go over the limit, but never in areas I know where the pigs like to catch drivers (and the bloody 40km/h school zones - fuck that).

I live like 300m from a police station. So yeah, I don't speed in my area.

lol Encephalon, let us know when that time comes that you have to fork out hundreds to pay off a fine ;).

You guys will probably have grandkids when that happens.