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Congratulations, Leadfoot. Now slow down before you hurt somebody. ;)
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LOL I know...today's incident definitely taught me a lesson! From now on, I'm gonna drive down AC Expressway with cruise control set to 55mph...then I won't be tempted to hit the accelerator more than I need to!
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We're talking what here...two pull overs. I'd most likely chalk it up to random chance, or the fact that you're a young attractive female.
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The difference in my cars explains a lot about the difference in my income/net worth b/t now and then. Could these things be factors??
Possibly. I mean what defines pothead hippie more than a VW beetle (except maybe a VW bus)? This cop that probably saw you in that sports probably assumed you were an upper class tourist. Does you car have PA or NJ plates? That could be a factor too. Whatever you do, don't tell them that you're a dancer, or something like this could happen:
http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25251
:moped:
And while I find the idea of a young attractive woman so flippantly disobeying the speed limit kind of a turn on, I gotta agree with Yek and say, slow the bejesus down!
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What kind of car are you driving now? :thinking:
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Doc-catfish: Although I only described one such incident in which I was pulled over during my "poverty days," there were in fact many more similar incidents back then. I received multiple speeding tickets with the bug in a very short time(summer of 2004). LOL you are right-on about cops having the pot-smoking stereotype for VW bug drivers though! And yeah, I'm prepared to deal with that a LOT with the VW bus I just bought! :D
For some of the time that I was in college, I took the bug off road and drove a 1983 Mazda RX-7...yeah the RX-7 is a cool car I know, but this specific vehicle had seen better days. For example, it had a very loud exhaust, mechanics that were ready to see their death date not far ahead, and some body damage due to 3 no-fault accidents(each time someone hit me, I got a check from the insurance company and insteada repairing the body damage, put the money towards college tuition because I was THAT poor). I got pulled over even more often with the RX-7, than the bug!! Sometimes cops pulled me over because they claimed the RX-7's emissions were bad, which was true, but the RX-7 was so old that it wasn't required by PA to have emissions inspected. They interrogated me a lot more, too. One time, I got pulled over in the RX-7 for no real reason at all...they asked for not only my license, but my friend's license too, even though he was a passenger. They asked us all kinds of questions about where we were going(we were literally 2 houses away from my friend's home!). The reason I know that the cops had no real basis for pulling me over, is because a friend of mine was acquaintences with the cop that had pulled me over, and he was told by the cop that the reason I was pulled over was because my car "smelled kinda bad" and "looked kinda junky" so at first the cop had suspicions about me until my records came up clean and legit. This occured in a nice suburb town, so maybe the cop thought I was some hoodlum from a bad Philly neighborhood because of my car's appearance? I do not know.
CaliSCVisitor65: I drive one of the new Mustangs. 300hp from a V8 engine, baby!! :) And yes, it is registered in PA...register it in NJ, where insurance rates are sky-high? Are you crazy?(just kidding) :-p NJ is almost as bad for insurance as living within city limits of Philly!(I live 2mins outside city limits for this reason! lol)
LOL this morning, I made sure that I set the cruise control to 60mph and not a mile over that! EVERY car on the road passed me, I mean EVERY car on the road, even a freakin 1970s VW BEETLE passed me, ironically!! But I didn't want to speed because I've learned my lesson. August will mark 2 years since I got my very last speeding ticket, and also the date that the ticket will be removed from my record. So I'm trying really hard to keep my insurance rates down! :) Wish me luck!
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CaliSCVisitor65: I drive one of the new Mustangs. 300hp from a V8 engine, baby!! :) And yes, it is registered in PA...register it in NJ, where insurance rates are sky-high? Are you crazy?(just kidding) :-p NJ is almost as bad for insurance as living within city limits of Philly!(I live 2mins outside city limits for this reason! lol)
Sweet, is it a GT?
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My friend drives an oldsmobile...i don't know what...like a 93 grey/silver/trim falling off, hub cap missing, cosmetically and mechanicanically challenged car and she gets pulled over probably once a week. About a month ago she got it twice in one day, for BS reasons. Perhaps cops just target not so hot cars.
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I drive a 2005 Infiniti G35. I've had it 8 months and already had 2 speeding tickets (300hp too :) ). I got a few in my Lexus RX300 too. I don't think brand of car means anything, at least for me.
and FWIW, I had my car purposely vandalized when I was parked on a street in Philadelphia. Someone pushed a dumpster into it. Why did they pick my car? I have a feeling because it was the nicest one within proximity. if I had a beater, it probably would have been safe!
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CalifSCVisitor65: Yes, it's a GT!!! :) Complete with the premium options. You know your Mustangs, don't you? Personally I'm looking to purchase a 68 Shelby and 71 Mach 1 in a few years...but I know they're very expensive and even harder to find, so I'm setting my eyes on a 78 Corvette as my next car before I try to pursue the vintage Mustangs.
Jillian: Yeah, the story about your friend rings true with my stories about driving the RX-7. I think the cops that target not-so-hot cars mostly occurs in sheltered or well-to-do suburb towns, where the beater cars are the exception not the norm. Also, in these suburb towns the cops are usually bored and don't have much to do to keep busy.
Emily: That is true that maybe your car woulda been safe if it were a beater. Your car probably stuck out like a target because it was the nicest car on the street. When I lived in a not-great Philly neighborhood, I feared stuff like that happening to my Mustang every day that I was there. Those kind of security issues, along with the sky-high Philly car insurance rates, are the main reasons for me relocating to a nicer neighborhood 2mins outside the city limits!! Also, what type of towns did you get the speeding tickets in? I've noticed that the cops in small, quiet little towns are usually bored and have nothing better to do than look for people to give tickets to; whereas in bigger neighborhoods and within the city, the cops aren't as bad. The geographics could be a factor, too. For me, both speeding incidences(one with the Mustang, the other with the Bug 2yrs prior) occured on highways in between towns, and both areas were known as areas that cops watch like hawks, so the geographics were pretty similar; the only difference is that I was driving in NJ with the Mustang and PA with the bug, and NJ cops are known to be Nazi-ish about tickets lol.
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CalifSCVisitor65: Yes, it's a GT!!! :) Complete with the premium options. You know your Mustangs, don't you?
Nice, LOL not really but I do know a hot car when I see one though. ;)
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IMO cops are hoping for a drug bust when they pull over a clunker.
I got pulled over a whole lot for speeding, "dogging" cops when I drove by (not smart) and having a red Camaro that was often a red blur. (I DO regret driving so fast, I would have never forgiven myself if I had ever hurt someone.) My ex-boyfriend was a Crimimal Justice major & he explained a red object is much easier for an officer to track in his field of vision than another-colored car.
Sigh. Yep, slow down, I think the price of gasoline is the best deterrent to speeding than any other factor....LOL
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Madmaxine, I was starting to think the same thing. Particularly about the situation in which my friend and I got pulled over in the "clunker" Mazda for no reason at all, then that same cop told my friend the next day that he pulled me over because it "smelled really bad" and "looked junky." This occured in a safe suburb town <5mins outside the Philly border, and about 8mins from the major interstate that runs into Philly. The cop probably figured that most people in that safe suburb town could afford nicer cars, therefore he probably assumed from my car that I was a Philly driver from a not-so-nice ghetto Philly hood. What other reason would some ghetto person be doing all the way up in a quiet suburb town late at night?...selling drugs most likely. You're right, he probably suspected this before he pulled me over, but the ironic thing is that at that time, I had a pristine clean criminal record. Whereas when I got pulled over recently in the Stang, I had an arrest and probation on my record...I was all worried that this would show up on my record when the cop ran my license, but either way I didn't get the ticket, so it worked out.
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Yep, my pal R. got pulled over in Franklin, TN (a city up there with Orange County, CA in terms of wealthy residents) & he gave the cop a hard time when officer brought out the drug-sniffing K-9 because R. looks like a roadie. (He is.)
Off-topic, I must say I like the new Mustang, I will admit the new Camaro resembles it. I am not a fast car snob. One of my exes had a Dodge Viper & I was not impressed. A chopped cheap American sportscar can beat most keen imports. "Little deuce coupe, you don't know what I got!"