O.K.
I'll fess up!
On the way to work last week I was pulled over by a DPS Highway patrolman at 5:30 am dong 70+ in a 45 MPH zone.
olicecar:
I was traveling the service road parallel to I-10 as there are five exits and onramps closed due to highway construction. No traffic that early on the service road. Just me...
The ticket would have been a felony conviction as I was over 25 MPH the posted speed limit!
After viewing my CDL license he gave me a break and wrote on the ticket that I was on the interstate when he pulled me over, hence the "Waste of Finite Resource" ticket / warning.
He stated he didn't like writing tickets to truck drivers on Triumph's on their way to work! He loved the bike and said if I had been weaving in and out of traffic he would have thrown the book at me!
$38 dollar fine and no points! Last and only other ticket I had was in my cage back in '87...
He was a rider himself, personable, respectful and after the ticket we chatted and found we had friends in common!
Boy did I luck out!
P.S. I don't drive 70 in the 45 zone any more!
More like 84!!!
Ride safe everyone... (Not like me!)
Similar stories any one?
I'll fess up!
On the way to work last week I was pulled over by a DPS Highway patrolman at 5:30 am dong 70+ in a 45 MPH zone.
olicecar:
I was traveling the service road parallel to I-10 as there are five exits and onramps closed due to highway construction. No traffic that early on the service road. Just me...
The ticket would have been a felony conviction as I was over 25 MPH the posted speed limit!
After viewing my CDL license he gave me a break and wrote on the ticket that I was on the interstate when he pulled me over, hence the "Waste of Finite Resource" ticket / warning.
He stated he didn't like writing tickets to truck drivers on Triumph's on their way to work! He loved the bike and said if I had been weaving in and out of traffic he would have thrown the book at me!
$38 dollar fine and no points! Last and only other ticket I had was in my cage back in '87...
He was a rider himself, personable, respectful and after the ticket we chatted and found we had friends in common!
Boy did I luck out!
P.S. I don't drive 70 in the 45 zone any more!
More like 84!!!
Ride safe everyone... (Not like me!)
Similar stories any one?