First Ticket

[Ron61]

Gee flip,

After all you were breaking the law and speed trap or not you were in the wrong. I haven't had a ticket in any of my cars since 1969 but I have sure deserved some. Normally here if you aren't doing something stupid like weaving back and forth they will give you 5 MPH over the posted limit. But don't count on it as the CHP officer may have had a bad day. And when I bought my Taurus a year ago I thought the speedometer was reading way slow as I would be doing 70 in a 70 zone and everyone was just flying by me. I saw a CHP officer in one of the Cameros as I was driving on the freeway and flagged him over. He asked me what I wanted and I told him I would like to get a speedometer check as I wasn't sure mine was very accurate. He said ok, I will get in front and set the radar at 60 MPH and you follow me. We went about 2 miles and pulled over and my speedometer was actually reading about 3 miles an hour fast. He told me that was why he used the radar as the speedometer on the Camero was reading about 58. Most of the police of any branch around here that I have had any dealings with are nice and will help if they can. If I am doing 70 in a 55 zone I wouldn't be mad at the cop for pulling me over, no matter what kind of car I was driving. And I figure that I got away with enough to make up for any tickets that I did get back then.

Ron