Have you ever been charged with a crime?

Let me guess... she was trying to figure out why the basement smelled moldy?

Pffft. In San Diego, we call that Wednesday

...in all seriousness, you have to be a complete cocknugget to get a speeding ticket here. The only guy I personally know to get one was doing 115 in a 65 and said he didn't realize how fast he was going or that it was a big deal until the entire courtroom let out a gasp when his case was read

I'm black and drive a decent car, and I haven't been stopped for driving while black yet

As an aside, slower than most =/= safe necessarily.

I don't know how many tests drives I've been on with immigrant Chinese or Indian women who want to do 10 miles an hour in a 35 zone, in a city where the unofficial speed limit is "as fast as you can get away with if Waze doesn't detect any cops in the area." The worst had to be the chick driving a goddamned MDX we had at crawling speed. I had to turn her around at a nearby cul-de-sac and if her friend who actually could drive in a straight line hadn't asked to drive it, I'd taken the car back to the dealership.

Indeed, "slower than most" is distinctly unsafe. The speed that minimizes crash risk is generally around the 90th percentile speed of free-flowing traffic. Now risk of accident climbs sharply above that, and severity is higher at higher speeds, but in general you still want to be driving faster than average to maximize safety. Making yourself a speed-bump causes accidents.

If you go slightly slower than the average you can control the gap ahead of you and preserve an escape route.

I once pled guilty to being too damn handsome. I mean, what was I going to do, contest the charge?

You forget we've seen your picture. If handsome is the "dorky librarian" look then I guess you've got it made.

Nope.

Very convenient landfills around here.

FDS (Flashlight Derangement Syndrome)

She speaks the truth.

She is still speaking the truth. Driving while Asian (usually a woman who is driving 20 mph below the speed limit in the fast lane) is a big problem here.

Their other love, which even the American born Asians complain about, is to not park and instead to sit blocking the lane for 45 minutes while their elderly wife gpes shopping. That does piss the police off, unlike speeding, and does get them a well deserved ticket. The cops go easy on a lot of things here due to the laid back culture and it being a tourist town but blocking traffic is not one of them.

But you can still maintain a safe driving distance and go with the general flow of traffic. I still manage to keep a decent space between the car ahead of me and average 80 MPH, and if the space is too narrow, I slow off a bit or move out the Lane.

BMW drivers notwithstanding, tailgating isn't a huge problem out here. If anything, I see far more of that in my hometown seven hours away, which has only a fraction of the traffic I see on a daily basis and where the cops enforce the 65 MPH speed limit.

Oh, and the thing that pisses me off there? On ramps. No one in my NorCal town gets on at speed, they just cruise on at 20 miles a fucking hour and wonder why they get rear ended like Volpone at a truck stop.

Yes. I was charged and did time. Then I went to a Z.Z. Top concert.

I will start off by saying I think this is a trap by the op to gain potentially negative and embarrassing information into a easily referenced thread for later use. If you are not comfortable with chup, or anyone else, calling you a criminal and mocking you for what you admit here in the worst way you can think, do not post it here or anywhere else. Chou, and others like me, have a reputation for using negative information for personal attacks, and for doxing so beware. On that note I am not opposed to people knowing my negative history so get ready for a list.

during high school I was arrested with a group of friends for mailbox baseball and shooting paintballs. I forget what the mailbox charges were. It was some sort of misdemeanor. The paintball charges were firing a firearm within 500 feet of a road, out of a car, and within 500 feet of a residence. All charges were adjourned with contemplation of dismissal which means if you do not get in trouble within six months they are dismissed. I paid restitution and had to do community service.

I was arrested in Connecticut 6 months later for breach of peace. I was punched at a stoplight during a road rage incident and when the police arrested the fool he told.them I gave him the finger which is why they called me in and charged me. It was within 6 months of the last incident so I had to pay a lawyer a grand to insure the charge was dismissed. It was dismissed because there was no evidence despite the fact I had given him the finger and attempted to kill him on the road multiple times. This was on the first day of the Rodney king riots. I remember they were being broadcast on the tv at the place I called the police from. No cell phones back then.

There are so many instances of misdemeanor driving on a suspended license I cannot count. All were either dismissed or lowered to driving without a license which is an infraction. These were mostly due to insurance lapses, or failure to pay tickets.

I was arrested and convicted of leaving the scene of an accident involving a personal injury. I dragged a crossing guard who tried to get into my car for a bit and he fell on the road. He skinned his knee, and I did not stop for the angry old curmudgeon. 1 year revoked license which turned into a couple of months due to poor dmv record keeping. 1 year probation which consisted of one visit where they were to transfer my case to my county of residence and by the time that happened I had moved for work so they transferred again and the year was up. So I never went again. However the indirect loss of my delivery business sucked.

My last arrest was for identity theft where I was caught with the names, addresses, and social security numbers of over 50 people taken from time Warner cable's records which was where I worked. I was convicted and sentenced to 4 months of jail time and 3 years probation. I served three months in very low security jail, and all of my computer equipment except for my Sun spark station were seized and destroyed, not to mention every computer I had touched at TWC.

I have been pulled over, involved in alterations, and had other run ins with the police that never amounted to more than a violation or release with warning.

Thanks for the helpful hints. It's not like most of us didn't know this already

Driving in Italy was an experience, I was driving 10% above the limit generally (enough that the GPS was continually beeping at me to slow down) and was getting overtaken by almost every other car on the road.

At 80 mph, a "decent space" is more than 150 meters

A two second following distance at 80 mph is more like 75 meters.

How close were you when you committed the hit and run on the old lady?

2 parking tickets, paid, 1 traffic ticket, dismissed.

What are you gonna plea when you're charged with treason?

Just some traffic violations.

In that case he'll plead 'tard, which I'm pretty sure will be a winning defense for him.

Nope.

The 2 second rule is MINIMUM.

I prefer a greater margin

TL;DR

Insanity of course. And he is going to be tossed into the booby hatch.

Wait, did someone say boobies?



Never mind...

Except when it's an old lady, and then you run into them and leave them to fend for themselves.