Thread: Speeding...excuses?

On my way to work one morning I got stopped for speeding and told the copper I was running late for work....
His reply was, and now your gonna be really late.....
So dont use that excuse, it wont help..

They ask you if there is a reason you are speeding to give you a chance to defend yourself, apparently it also helps to diffuse angry people and give the plod a chance to sum the person up - ie their attitude.

Used to get a fair bit of attention from them in my Alpina until I took myself down to the station and had a chat to Mr Senior Sargent.. since then, I have not heard boo from any of them

comeing home from a mates place after a lunchtime bbq got pulled up at the bottom af the hill after a school zone and i tolled them i was cause im in a wheel chair (i litrally was in the chair) got of that but got done for DUI but it got lafft out of court

ps tell your mates in chairs that in wa you can grt done for DUI in a manual chair if your going over 20kmh or as soon as you tuch the foot path in an eletric chair

Originally Posted by flagg

Used to get a fair bit of attention from them in my Alpina

oh now you're teasing!

Originally Posted by mudmouse

If you sit there stoney faced and deny any wrong doing at the time you're stopped you project an attitude of 'mens rea' (guilty mind) which goes nowhere on the road and certainly nowhere in a court.

If there is any reason - late for work, sorry i stuffed up etc, then you're being honest.

both times i've been sprung, i've never denied it, simply stated that i was concentrating on the road and my surroundings, not the speed indicated on the odometer.... didnt get me anywhere though.... second time it got me a bloody lecture about how much of a "life endangering offence" 114 along the highway is.....

Originally Posted by Sprint

second time it got me a bloody lecture about how much of a "life endangering offence" 114 along the highway is.....

Presumably you managed to prevent yourself from explaining that it's not the speeding that kills but the stopping

Originally Posted by B92 8NW

The only fine I have ever received was totally worth it.

There are some things in life worth hurrying for.

On a promise were you Joel .

have been let of doing 30ks over the limit and sitting right up the coppers butt,(running late for work) he pulled me over (unmarked car in the pouring rain, i didnt notice it was a cop till the light came on) and tore strips off me then got back in his car and drove away so whilst me and a mate sat there for a minute wondering wtf just happend i drove off and never saw him again

Originally Posted by reeksyofoz

Presumably you managed to prevent yourself from explaining that it's not the speeding that kills but the stopping

i was too busy looking at him like he'd just stepped out of a bloody spaceship from planet zorg!