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[–] • 7 pts

I can't drive 55. I am the dude doing 90, all the time. Git in the right lane, fuckers.

[–] • 2 pts

Same, get out of the way retards.

On an unrelated note, I no longer have a license.

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I live in a part of Florida where most people drive fast, and there are never any cops with radar guns hiding behind a tree. Love it!

[–] • 6 pts

we drove 80 anyways, fukkem. Back then there were almost no false alarms for radar detectors, so you typically don't get tickets

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

This here ^ Like people going out west to Vegas from Texas on Interstate 10 drove 55 lolol.

[–] • 2 pts

They definitely drove 55... On the speedo's that didn't have a 3'd digit for the 1 that was before the 55 :)

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Radar detector. Without that, I would have lost my license.

[–] • 1 pt

I've always been curious about these. In your most honest opinion, how often does a good radar detector actually detect a speed trap?

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The problem is laser. Most of the time if you get a laser warning it is too late. Radar detector+waze is how you do it.

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Then, it was about 95% real, and 5% false alarms, and you could usually tell where the false alarm was coming from (like a grocery store door opener.)

15 years ago when I gave up, it was 90% false alarms, 5% WTF why did it go off, and 5% "laser detected, whoops, too fucking late."

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

My experience was back in the 1980s. No laser then.

I had a the best unit, an Escort brand. For speed traps where the cop sat with a live broadcasting unit, it detected every one of them and I never got a ticket from one.

Instant on was another thing. It worked by placing a dummy load on the transmitter until the cop saw a speeder and switched to transmit to clock someone.

Most cops were too trigger happy with instant on units. I usually detected them clocking cars ahead of me; so slowed to the speed limit and never got caught.

Some instant on units leaked some radar….you’d get warned with a weak signal that became very strong when the cop eyeballed you. I beat all these speed traps too.

Only twice in several years did I come eyeball to eyeball with an instant on and get nailed. The cops were so proud of catching someone who ran with a radar detector.

[–] • 1 pt

I remember being pulled over and given a warning, because our band's bus was GOING TOO SLOW. It could only do about 49 mph tops. Old school bus. We were holding up traffic.

[–] • 2 pts

Your band had a bus? Pretty impressive, even if it was a piece of shit. That's next level for most bands who usually have to use a rental van.

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Oh yeah. We even upgraded to an ancient 1947 Greyhound bus (after a gas leak on the school bus nearly asphyxiated us all)! We loved picking up hitchhikers. Blew their minds.

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This is all a pretty cool tale. Must have been fun!

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I've gotten 2 speeding tickets in 25 years. It isn't hard to not get a speeding ticket, it is more down to dumb luck. The PD can pull you over for just about any reason if they chose too.

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Radar detector and a lawyer.

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Easy. I had my black Lambo routinely coated with white baby powder. Whenever the cops put out an A.P.B. for a white Lambo I got it hosed off Never figured out it was the same car all along.

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Radar jammers were a thing then.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

It fucking sucked. There were interstates designed for 90mph speed limits before that shit! No joke.

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