02-25-2007, 09:48 PM | #67 | |
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I had to take my test in Canada, I think because I left it too long after moving here to get my British Columbia driver's license, and I was just appalled at how pathetically easy it was. Driving a standard is the only real way to understand how to control a car.
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02-26-2007, 03:07 AM | #68 |
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LOL this is funny because 1st day I got my car (coming from 90hp jetta) I was going 120mph on the freeway and I loved the pull from 4th to 5th gear lol but then I calmed down after 2 days
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02-26-2007, 09:43 AM | #69 | |
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I've had friends with much worse tickets that ended up paying fines and going to school, etc. after getting a lawyer -- but no suspended licesenses. |
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02-26-2007, 09:45 PM | #70 | |
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RE: liverpool's ticket. i feel your pain haha.. i've been ticketed twice and although i was angry there's no sense in complaining. it's no one's fault but our own. |
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02-26-2007, 10:32 PM | #71 |
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Haha - I've only read the first two pages, but I noticed that generally the 335 owners are sympathetic while here are some choice quotes from non-335 owners (you are correct, it's a non-representative sample):
325 owner: thats what you get for acting like a child in a grown up's car 325 owner #2: There must be more to this story for a reckless fine than excessive speed. I have no sympathy for you. 335 owner: I gotta be honest. A cop can pull you over just because he wants to, and that's the charge he will use. It's one of those blanket charges that doesn't need much evidence in court and it certainly stings. Not to be an a$$, but all of you who have never test driven a 335i, do it and you will see how easy it is to accidentally hit 80mph. In 5th gear, at 60mph you can floor it and you will be past 82 before you can release the throttle. Put an Procede on it and you'll be hard pressed to react fast enough to get off the throttle before xxx! To the OP: Sorry to hear that dude. I worked on a few consulting assignments in DC back in the day and I know how some of your 4lane freeways have absurdly low speed limits that no one obeys. I have gone 80-85 in that area and been passed by more than 50% of drivers. |
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02-26-2007, 11:02 PM | #73 |
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You must have not comprehended wreckless in the past if you on the verge of getting your license suspended.
Ever has any previous occurances like this? Speeding etc? Yah our area has some of the worst drivers in the US due to the fact of how we have so many embassays near by and peope from all over the world are in Northern VA. |
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It is Easter time but I still can't believe the over-abundance of preaching on this subject on a site named m3post. Every story is different and mine has left me resentful. Throughout the last few years, I have been given three speeding tickets while driving in the slow lane on highways while people were passing me by in the faster lanes??? That hardly instills respect for law enforcement. I had to go to traffic schools next to habitual DUI offenders and a girl that was on a such a misfiring cocktail of drugs that she did not even know she was in a car while speeding at 120mph. The speed limit is designed with an average car and person in mind and overcorrects for many of us. After my last questionable ticket, I vouched to myself never to be caught again because of laser/radar underprotection of my car.
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04-09-2007, 02:35 AM | #75 | |
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For the record, that's not even close to a flame. Cudos for putting the original post into perspective. Most people have a lot bigger issues to deal with. No apologies to the OP. Not being able to drive for 6 months sucks, but you can't possibly be looking for sympathy from everyone that you got caught. Put your right foot down (especially in a 335i) and you take your chances. Reminds me of the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" saying... Yeah the speed limits in the U.S. are rediculous and 90%+ of the people on the road have never been to a real driving school, but those are the people for whom the speed limits are designed. We're stuck with that. As one response said, get a good lawyer ASAP.
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04-09-2007, 08:48 AM | #76 |
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82mph is only 130kph. I can't believe people are giving you a hardtime for that speed. That is nothing, on many of the highways around Toronto that speed is about the average flow of faster traffic. Go past a cop at that speed and many times you won't even get pulled over.
There have been many times outside of the city where I have been driving in a group of cars averaging around 140kph on highway 400 or the 401. Frankly anyone who considers that speed on the highway to be wreckless or dangerous makes me a lot more nervous then someone going that fast. I can't believe anyone who drives a BMW would make those kind of comments, maybe they should trade them in for a Kia. |
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04-09-2007, 02:37 PM | #77 |
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All dressed up with no place to go - if you were here in Italy the speed limit is 90 mph on the autostrada...when you get into the left lane you do it carefully...a Lambo just about sucked my e90 up his tailpipe the other day...no cops patrolling the highways here..gas is too expensive...
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04-09-2007, 04:02 PM | #78 | |
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