> Top this for a speeding ticket...
>
> Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in
> an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A1
> Great North Road.
>
> One of the officers used a hand-held radar device to check the speed of
> a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was surprised when
> the speed was recorded at over 300 mph! Their radar then suddenly
> stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it.
>
> Just then, a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar
> had, in fact, latched on to an RAF's 'Tornado' jet fighter, which was
> engaged in a low-flying exercise over the Border district, approaching
> from the North Sea.
>
> Back at police headquarters the chief constable fired off a stiff
> complaint about the wrecked radar equipment to the "RAF Liaison"
> office.
>
> Back came the reply in true laconic "RAF" style:
>
> "Thank you for your message, which allows us to complete the file on
> this incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer
> in the Tornado detected the presence of, and subsequently locked onto,
> your radar equipment, and automatically sent a jamming signal back to
> it. Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the fully-armed
> aircraft also automatically locked onto your equipment. Fortunately the
> pilot flying the Tornado recognized the situation, and was able to
> override the automated defense system before the missile was launched.
>
> Have a good day."
Speeding.
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britincali
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Speeding.
Coolness list by 90cr500guy
Bob's = 50/50
Cepek = cool
Solidbro = cool
Brit = loser
Stoffer = 1 up from Brit
MFDB = cool
Danny = ok
Bob's = 50/50
Cepek = cool
Solidbro = cool
Brit = loser
Stoffer = 1 up from Brit
MFDB = cool
Danny = ok
"the game of life of is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well"
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iggys-amsoil
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Not quite the same pucker factor, but I had a run in with a Sheriff just west of Amarillo on the way back from Albuquerque, NM Tuesday night. New Mexico's speed limit is 75 mph (really like that) but Texas is 65 after dark (sucks!). I had the cruise set on just over 70 - probably 72 or 73 mph. His radar said 76. When I picked up the rent car, I noticed it had a musty smell; like it might have gotten wet inside and was a little moldy. Being in a hurry, it was raining, and they would have had to get another car sent down, I went ahead and took it thinking I could spray some air freshener or run with the windows cracked - maybe the smell would go away. When the cop came back to give me the ticket, he leaned in the passenger window and then ask if I had any (named nearly every drug imaginable) and would I mind if he searched the car. I knew I had nothing to worry about so I said "no" to the drugs and "yes" to the search. About that time another cop pulls up and they go through the car. When he opened the trunk and I opened up my test gear boxes, he asked if I notice an odor in the car when I picked it up. I told that I figured it had gotten wet and it was some mold or something. He said the smell was the same as green pot and that's why they wanted to search the car. 
Thank God they didn't find anything that might have been left over from the previous renter! 
So, now being paranoid, I drove the rest of the way to Galveston at either the speed limit or 5 mph under.
I can't win; psycho Southwest gate agents or getting a rent car previously used to haul drugs. Guess I need to find a job where I don't have to travel.
Thank God they didn't find anything that might have been left over from the previous renter! So, now being paranoid, I drove the rest of the way to Galveston at either the speed limit or 5 mph under. I can't win; psycho Southwest gate agents or getting a rent car previously used to haul drugs. Guess I need to find a job where I don't have to travel.