Video: passing emergency vehicle citation BS

[quikag]

Sure it is. Having loud exhaust can invite a whole lot of different charges. One of them being whether or not your exhaust is legal, if it's w/in Db limits, if all components on your exhaust have an Executive Order number and if all smog components are on the car and operational.

My car is completely stock, so it is easily within db limits even in California, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Randall Scott is calling me later this afternoon to discuss how we are going to handle these citations.

[stevo]

Where did I hear this before? Oh yea, I said it.

If you want to see a good abuse of power and be helpless to do anything about it, ask for a trial by judge. They are supposed to be impartial, but they can make a finding without explaining it.

I didn't quote you nor was I addressing anything you said, so how about you stop following me around, Sparky?

Stevo

[Mach1]

My car is completely stock, so it is easily within db limits even in California, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Randall Scott is calling me later this afternoon to discuss how we are going to handle these citations.

Cool, you got a mild to wild switch on it?
GL with the fight, let us know what RS says.

[quikag]

Cool, you got a mild to wild switch on it?
GL with the fight, let us know what RS says.

Yes, and I did have the valves opened, but they probably would have opened anyway under throttle. I'll let y'all know what RS says when he calls me back.

[03trubluGT]

I didn't quote you nor was I addressing anything you said, so how about you stop following me around, Sparky?

Stevo

El oh el

[94form2000z]

All I am gonna say about this is "I" slow down a lot more than what you did when I pass an Emergency vehicle.

AND the driving of the officer is a much more ticket able offense to me, Ridiculous how he made a bunch of those lane changes and the off ramp BS.

[GrayStangGT]

It is the nature of the beast with loud sports cars, I've had the cops called on me and an angry neighbor at my house because I was "hauling ass down the street" when in fact I was well below the speed limit.

[ceyko]

It is the nature of the beast with loud sports cars, I've had the cops called on me and an angry neighbor at my house because I was "hauling ass down the street" when in fact I was well below the speed limit.

Where I live now, I could've sworn, bikes, 4-wheels and cars were doing Mach 2 - go look and they are not. People need to get off their asses and SEE people are not going that fast.

In regards to the OP - it's too close to tell about speed when passing him to be honest. Like others, I slow down (even before the law) quite a bit more just on principle. Hard to know exactly what speed other cars were going as well, but I could see how drawing attention to yourself with the pipes got you a ticket.

I could see you getting out of it, but I can see why you got it too.

Probably should've kept the pedal to floor...

[Snatch Napkin]

If those hash marks are 5 feet long and they're spaced 20 feet apart, then the 1 second it took to cover 25 feet would equate to 17 MPH.

I have no idea if that's the spacing, but if I'm close then you REALLY shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Feet x 3600 / 5280 = MPH


or.....

http://www.calculateme.com/Speed/FeetperSecond/ToMilesperHour.htm

Let's say he was covering that in half the time..... 34mph....

Get real, folks. He wasn't breaking the law.

[03trubluGT]

I found one reference that says the lines are 10' spaced 30' apart.

[Rick Modena]

I'll let y'all know what RS says when he calls me back.

There was a lot of funny shit in this thread that I was going to quote, but this is by far the funniest. You are going to pay RS a small ransom to TRY and get out of paying a ticket, I have news for you Jr., pay the fine because you aint gonna win.
And even if you do it is going to cost far more than the fine and unless you have tickets on your record right now, just plead no contest and get it deferred. You might have not been speeding when you went by, but you got on it and it looks like you never got off of it and thats why it took so long for him to finally catch you. And lets not forget, the state dogs have access to the NTTA video cameras that are every 1/4 mile, they will have you hauling ass on video and the judge may come down even harder on you, save your money.

<---traffic cop hater, but everyone know this...

[Snatch Napkin]

I found one reference that says the lines are 10' spaced 30' apart.

27 mph.

[03trubluGT]

27 mph.

I have already said I would not have messed with the OP, but there is no way in hell he was going 27mph.

[Snatch Napkin]

I have already said I would not have messed with the OP, but there is no way in hell he was going 27mph.

That's the rest of traffic. It's a lot easier to time them as they are in the other lane with the hash marks on this side.

He looks like he traveled that distance in just under a second, but that still has him at no more than 35.

[Snatch Napkin]

IF he were going 50 mph, then the distance would need to be 73.3 ft.

However, given that traffic was roughly 27 MPH and the gap in between cars wasn't quite sufficient enough to comfortably fit into, along with the lack of brake lights on this Corvette, I would say he couldn't have been going any faster than 30.

Furthermore, the stripes are clearly not 10 ft. long, in relation to other cars and it appears that the space in between is just a couple feet longer than the white truck seen in the video as the officer pulls out onto the roadway. We are looking at a distance of much less than 40ft, completely negating the possibility that he was speeding.

This concludes my defense, your honor. My client was clearly paying attention to the law as it is written.