No offense intented Ted, but I don't think anyone in the world would classify a Stealth as a 'supercar' lol.
Also, obeying speed limits has nothing to do with braking distances. Sorry, but I get peeved when people get tickets for something blatently illegal, and then blame it on a 'stupid cop'.
No offense C. but the Stealth is right up there with the vettes, Porsches and Ferraris then.
Also I notice that my speed on the freeway in bumper to bumper traffic outside of Vancouver and throughout most of California is about 80-100mph. Here all alone in the bush I get a ticket for going 20 or 30 mph too fast? No people to hit, no other cars on the highway, no bumper to bumper traffic.
I say stupid because I think that a minivan full of kids going 100mph is bad and extremely dangerous. Bad handling and little brakes. The stopping distance of that combo is probably about 260' from 60mph. Me alone in the Stealth stops in 121' form 60mph. My Viper stops in under 100' from 60mph. The cops suburban stops in about 190'. A POS Firefly with 4 people is an accident waiting to happen after 60mph. An inteligent cop could figure out who should be getting tickets as the traffic laws were supposed to create a safe enviroment. Discouraging dangerous driving and common sense actually takes some intelligence. Any idiot can collect ticket money from superior drivers (no drugs & no alcohol with extended experience) in superior cars while ignoring the drunk, drugged idiotic drivers that may be the ones causing more accidents than they're involved in by going too slow, etc.
He said that if I promised never to speed again he wouldn't give me a ticket. What? So when I said "I'm not perfect." I got the ticket. Penalized for being honest. A Liar wouldn't have gotten a ticket, Stupid cop.
This is a small town. Harrassing the "non-criminal" people in a small town is not how you get support from the people you may want as friends later. The last cop to leave had 2 letters of reference from me, on his file and several other 'non-criminal' people when his Boss wrote him a bad report. I believe that a good cop fights the criminal element, not the good guys. We have a drinking problem (same as everywhere else) and our accidents are caused by drunks speeding, and drivers on drugs, not by people speeding. If a cop fights crime and trys to stop dangerous behaviour like drunk driving and works to bust druggies - he's a good cop. If a cop is going to sit beside the coffee shop and shoot locals with radar all the time ... then we obviuously shouldn't spend all that tax dollars on cops here. Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to hand out a couple tickets??? The other 4 couldn't be bothered handing out tickets, except Impaired charges.
Ted
