And Chicago.
I've been trying, will little luck, to find the story of the automobile mag back in the '60's that took a reasonably stock 1966 427 Impala and an Airstream trailer to Bonneville and set a land speed record for passenger car towing an Airstream trailer. Thought it was Motor Trend, but unable to find it so far.
What the deal with this 80mph thing? I can barley pull 80mph in fourth with the wind on my side. The fact that I have 31" tires and 3.07 gears probably has something to do with it. I think when I put 32" tires on I'll put a Ford 8.8 and regear to 4.10.
Brand Howard
Texas... Missouri City actually... At least that's where the cops were waiting for me... Long stretch of TX-6 and it was around 03:00 and I was on my way home after having worked at NASA all night...
Not in Texas... We understand that speeding is a way of revenue and we don't do things that would tend to cut our revenue source...
Yep... That's the max that you can get in the state -- $200 + court costs (around $35, IIRC)...
That's just one of your 'advantages' of living in the People's Republic of Kalifornia...
As long as you aren't one of those socialist (aka Democrat) liberals who want to repel the 2nd Amendment... BTW, no state income tax also...
"Yep... That's the max that you can get in the state -- $200 + court costs"
My wife was doing 120mph in a 55 (never got clocked, actually, the officer had to do 98mph to catch her, so that was the speed she was busted for). Her fees were $375+. That was in San Antonio, TX, in 1999. I don't think they've changed the laws that much since then...
Oh, AND they made her take defensive driv> > As for your ticket, WHERE?
They must have tacked on some more "court cost" crap for the defensive driving aspect of it... A few months ago, I saw where they were wanting to raise the maxium fine from $200 to something like $500... They couldn't get enough support for it though from what I understand... Was the ticket only for speeding? They didn't try to trump up any other bogus charges? Construction zone, perhaps? That's good for doubling the fines...
Ahh that explains it. Long before my first move to Texas, I got hit in a small town just east of El Paso for doing 85 in a 65 zone. After writing up the ticket, the officer asked if I was familiar with the concept of "the misdemeanor law" in Texas.
"Deliverance" wasn't out yet, but I began getting similar visions of how Texas treated out of state speeders.... When I got enough guts to say "no", the trooper told me that my speeding was just a misdemeanor and that if I had no plans to return to that same county for [mumble] years in the future, there wasn't really much they could do about collecting on the ticket...and more or less directly told me I could keep it as a souvenir of Texas and told me to keep it down plus the location of two speed traps on my route out of there.
Have lived in Texas twice. Once in El Paso and would move back tomorrow if could find good employment there. The other time in Plano/Dallas and well.... it ain't west Texas.
Actually, yes, she was in a construction zone. BUT, they didn't annotate that. *shrug* Who knows. I know it cost her a bunch of money. We had just started dating... good impression, huh? ;-)
All I can say is good th> > My wife was doing 120mph in a 55 (never got clocked, actually, the officer
Actually, that is not quite the way it works, but it is not surprising that a cop would not know the law...
If the state has an agreement with the offender's state and you fail to pay the ticket, it can prevent you from being able to renew your driver's license in your home state... A state cannot extradite you for a misdemeanor, but if they were to catch you in their state within a certain number of years (whatever their statute of limitations is for that crime), they will arrest you and you will get stuck paying the fine plus a failure to appear fine... If you are just from a different county, they can still get you... Here's what will happen:
You get a ticket... You ignore the ticket... Your court appearance date come up where you are supposed to plead guilty or not guilty and you don't show up... The court issues a bench warrant for your arrest... If you ever get stopped in that state within a certain number of years, when the cop is running your license, you will get arrested and be forced to pay a bond that is pretty much usually equal to the original cost of the ticket plus the failure to appear fine / bond... The will then set you another court date and if you fail to appear on that one, you will forfeit the bond and it will be treated as a guilty plea... The failure to appear fine / bond is usually more than the original speeding ticket...
When I was in the Navy and stationed out of Norfolk, VA, I tended to get quite a few speeding tickets (I rode a motorcycle and cops back then just hated bikers)... Everytime my court date came up, it seemed that I was out at sea, so I was able to get the failure to appear to be dropped and the original court date rescheduled... My enlistment was nearly up, so I kept rescheduling the court dates until I was out of the Navy and then I left the state without paying any of the fines... I think I had over $1000 worth of speeding tickets when I left the state... I wasn't planning on coming back to Virginia, so I figured that I was pretty safe... Afterwards, I got a license in another state and thus the possibility that I couldn't renew my Virginia license didn't affect me...
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