A good quora suggestion for the inevitable. Follow the LEO Instruction. Let the conversation drift to your intent to revisit this wonderful locale to attend the court hearing for the ticket. Advise that you intend to request a jury trial for the offense as is the right of every American citizen. Only the coldest-hearted donut murderer is going to look forward to those court days and not let you off with a warning.

Or, (before I read the Quora post) just show up on your first court date from out of state "Is Officer Jones present?" "Sorry your honor he left early." "Case dismissed"

 

That's not a near miss. That's doing something legal.

A near miss is doing 15-20+ over the speed limit, getting the hit, and shutting it down toot-suite before the cop could get a fix on you.

Just saying.

 

 

That is not only an aggressive officer it’s uncalled for.

 

I feel rather fortunate as I have evaded actually getting pulled over. Pulled onto the Hwy and zoomed up to and well over speed limit very quickly. Suddenly my RD starts screaming. Look in my rear view. There's a Trooper right on my tail. Damn. Pull to right lane and slow down. He goes past slowly and heads off. I'm pretty sure it was my DV plates that saved me.

 

I pulled up to a stop sign behind a police car. He had his radar on and I could see the speed indicator. The shopping mall across the street was doing 35.

 

It is not uncommon to see someone pulled over after a track day. Usually a younger person who still think they are on the track.

Youre out on the track all day, hard to adjust. No matter what the speed limit I set the cruise control for the ride home. Helps me save $

 

Hmm, when I drove my pick-up on the 17 miles on I95 to work, my detector seldom went off traveling 10 over the limit. With my Vette it went off all the time from a trooper coming the other way, with cruise control at 5 over. Now that I'm retired for 19 years, only take the Vette to town on back roads where I pass many farm fields. The corn and cotton don't care how fast I drive!

I live off of a 4 lane divided highway where folks come off I95 going to Myrtle Beach. There is a 45 mile section to an otherwise 60 mph limit. Often see a two team approach! Once passes coming in the opposite direction so folks think "no more troopers." Then in the 45 mph section, another coming that way and triggers his radar!

Perhaps the strangest one that happened was when their were some 20 troopers in unmarked, confiscated SUV's with blacked out windows in a drug interdiction effort they have periodically near the intersection of RT20 and I95. Can go to Southern FL on I 95 and Texas on I 20 without hitting a stop light! Saw one helicopter overhead, which they often use. Did not think much about it but was exiting 10 miles South of RT 20 where that effort stops. Had cruise control as usual set at 5 over the limit. Went out the exit at that same speed, with no traffic. All of a sudden saw what I thought must have been a huge bird shadow on my hood! It was the shadow of a helicopter following me on the long exit! Was not stopped but bet that trooper had Vette envy!

 

Gotta love the term "Speed Trap". No, you were not "trapped", it was self inflicted.

 

If they used radar and not laser you should able to go to court and bring documentation that radar is going to return the speed of the larger vehicle. A van's cross section is larger than a Corvette's. My dad did that to get rid of a radar based ticket while he was being passed by a semi truck. Course it depends on if the judge is an asshat or not.

 

Yeah, unless they are sitting at the bottom of a long hill where the township drops the limit from 55 to 30 or something, then I think it's safe to say it's fairly scummy. They do that sort of stuff to catch out of towners unwares and skim a travellers tax off the highway.

 

minivans are darn near invisible to cops. I had one for a few years. i coulda been that driver. Set the cruise to 10,15,20 over, it didn't seem to matter. The LEO would pull over the sporty car or blingy truck I just blew by.

I quite using a detector in the minivan, it didn't matter

 

So you are aware of the reduced speed limit but feel you were trapped? The out of towners didn't see the speed limit sign? Just before I retired I qualified for a new toaster, the wife loved it, called it the Speed Trap toaster.

 

I see there are a few retired Cops on the forum and I am one of them. Isn't it great that we now can afford a Corvette. I didn't mind someone going a few miles over the speed limit and usually gave them 8-10 miles over before I stopped them. The exception was in school zones, then you get it for going over the speed limit. I must say that I have wanted to see how fast I could go in my Vette on the interstate but just about the time I do, for sure there will a cop waiting for me. The term COP by the way actually stems from an old English term meaning Constable On Patrol. See you learned something.