Revenue generation sucks!

Apparently the CRV has a target painted on it. :?

I got another ticket on the way in to work this morning. Cruising down the 190 at 66mph, in what was a 60mph zone. Apparently, just before and after the toll plazas, it drops to 45mph for a hundred yards or so - not that anyone slows down in the slightest, mind you.

Of course, I was the idiot in the fast lane. Never mind that I was being passed by the guy in the lane to my right at the time... it was less work for the &^(%#@ cop to pull out from the left shoulder and nab me.

Y'know, it used to be when I got a ticket I had earned it. The last two tickets I've gotten, I was going 6mph over the posted (or observed, in the case of this morning's ticket) speed limit. I guess I'm going to go back to flying in and out of traffic at 90mph - if I'm going to keep getting tickets, I might as well deserve them. :evil:

I think we should just start calling you Lucky! :flower:
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What City got ya??

I got a ticket in my CR-V for doing 73 through at the toll booth at George Bush near Preston.

I was in the 4 lanes on the left without the booths so I was expecting a 73 in a 60.

Nope. 73 in a 45. Thanks Craphead!

I assumed 45 was for the toll plaza part to the right. The purpose of the lanes to the left with the tolltag was to keep traffic moving steadily. I was wrong.

Now my wife and I play a game where we try to slow down to 45 in those lanes. 53 has been the slowest I've gone before it gets really scary.

So Altiain, I guess it's the price we pay for driving such powerfull, bad-@ss vechicles.

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

I think we should just start calling you Lucky! :flower:

What City got ya??

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Plano is the latest city that will be recieving my budgetary help. May they spend it wisely.

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Originally Posted by altiain

Plano is the latest city that will be recieving my budgetary help. May they spend it wisely.

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Yep... I never see any cops between 35 and the Dallas North Tollway, but Plano loves to patrol the stretch between the tollway and 75. I see a patrol car waiting for west bound Preston toll tag lane speeders at least a third of time I go through there.

I thought if you slowed to 45 in the Toll Tag lane you would get shot! I am usually at 60-70.

You're commute is still pretty new to you. You'll get used to where the hide. Hopefully soon, before tickets and gas prices put you in the poor house. Good luck avoiding the po-po in the future.

You have a Fuzzbuster in your CRV?
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I found a book that might help

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POS, the wood grain looks swwweeeeet on that fuzz buster!

:lol:

Sorry to hear about the bogus ticket Altiain.

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Originally Posted by altiain

I guess I'm going to go back to flying in and out of traffic at 90mph - if I'm going to keep getting tickets, I might as well deserve them. :evil:

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Amen! I'm with you!


By the way, I always thought that the local authorities didn't have juris diction on the Tollway? I believe that right belongs to the staties, no?

You wonder if the officer was using Animal Instinct to decide on his target. I'm sure Altiain's adorable little CRV was not the only one speeding, but must have been the easiest prey.

You know like a Lion going after the lame Gazelle! :reindeer:

I have to third the recomendation to just drive like a maniac and give them a real reason to pull you over.

side note( what happened to the police officer that ran from the cops in Ft Worth?)

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Originally Posted by Miatamoto

Sorry to hear about the bogus ticket Altiain.

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Well, it wasn't bogus, but it was extremely petty.

There are posted speed limits and then there is reasonable vehicular speed. We all know that you're "supposed" to slow to 45mph at those toll booths, but I'm with Mathews2004... if you actually slowed to that speed, you'd have people drive right up your tailpipe. I honestly slow to 55 or so when approaching those tolltag readers, and I have people mad at me all the time. God knows what would happen if I actually slowed to 45mph. :shaking:

Sorry to read that you seem to be a "marked man" altiain...

Join the State Troopers Association so you can get a big sticker.

Sounds like it's a good thing I go with the prevailing traffic on 190... Only time we see DPS enforcement on our side of the highway, it appears to be for lane violations (like far left to far right and back with no signals), passing on the shoulder or maybe agressive hand gestures (hard to guess on the last guy I saw get snagged, but he was loudly proclaiming his IQ to the car in front of me when the trooper pulled behind him).

My favorite 190 experience to date was the morning that I was passing a LONG group of cars with a BMW 7 series about 15 car lengths behind me and closing... Thus, I was accelerating past some number at least 25 over the limit as my detector bleep-bleeped. Couldn't see the trooper that was sucking on the tailpipe of the BMW, and apparently repeated attempts at flash-to-pass hadn't worked, so he fired up his gun long enough to wake him (AND ME) up. We both slotted to the right, let him travel a respectable distance down the road and pulled back in the left lane. Didn't realize those Crown Vics dropped so much black smoke under throttle these days...

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Originally Posted by Mathews2004

Join the State Troopers Association so you can get a big sticker.

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That way you can pay them one way or another.

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

You wonder if the officer was using Animal Instinct to decide on his target. I'm sure Altiain's adorable little CRV was not the only one speeding, but must have been the easiest prey.

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I was going to say something along the same line... Staties know that moron Joe Everyday isn't going to protest when he's ticketed at 6 over.

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moron Joe Everyday

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Hey... are you calling Altiain a moron? :lol: :lol: :lol:


PS... love the latest Google Ad... "Jason Diamond, Esq. Fight Back Now From $9 We Fight Traffic Tickets!"

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Join the State Troopers Association so you can get a big sticker.

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Apparently I've already joined - I'm certainly paying the dues! When can I expect my damn sticker in the mail?! :evil:

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Apparently I've already joined - I'm certainly paying the dues! When can I expect my damn sticker in the mail?! :evil:

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It always makes me happy to tell them I won't be giving them money when they call. They always seem a little surprised, like I've :nutkick: them.

Maybe I should tell them I give my charitable donations to fuzzy animals (Nature Conservancy), higher education, and libertarian public interest law firms (the Institute for Justice) instead. Every state trooper I see is obviously well-fed, and doesn't seem to need further assistance.

S.

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Originally Posted by srivendel

It always makes me happy to tell them I won't be giving them money when they call. They always seem a little surprised, like I've :nutkick: them.

Maybe I should tell them I give my charitable donations to fuzzy animals (Nature Conservancy), higher education, and libertarian public interest law firms (the Institute for Justice) instead. Every state trooper I see is obviously well-fed, and doesn't seem to need further assistance.

S.

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I've been told that you can tell the contracted telemarketing service that you are interested but want to pay by check. They will send you the stickers along with the bill. If you ignore the bill, the telemarketer gives you another call. This is where you tell them you changed your mind / you were drunk when you made the commitment / you don't know what they are talking about, etc. You will see no stickers on my car as I have never tried this, but I am told that this works almost every time.

The bigger question is if the stickers really do you any good.

DOH!

I know what you mean on them hiding... I slow down a few mph & look ahead in the toll lanes AND in the booths too - they like to hide there - before blowing through the toll tag lanes.

I got nailed passing a long string of cars... he was hiding in a red lighted toll booth. He couldn't tag my little car so he gave me a ticket for 60 in a 45 - the speed everyone else was going! (which I was passing like they were sitting still hehehehe)

Oh well, at least I deserved the ticket that time!

They like to hide in that little white-lined area where the onramps meet PGBT between the tollway & I35E and the onramp from Josey Lane is a VERY popular spot for Carrollton to have an officer with a laser gun standing up on the hill by the booths... He'll radio down to his buddies to get you.

It's nice that they put that concrete wall up! Now they have to be better at hiding... no more crossing over the median to get you. That sure has helped a LOT!

You'll learn quickly where they like to hide - Hopefully before you get another ticket.

Oh - almost forgot - be aware of groups of cars... there will probably be a DPS car in the middle of 'em.

RJ

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The bigger question is if the stickers really do you any good.

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From experience... no.

Might help if I read all the posts before responding eh? Doh!

Still, could never hurt to take it to court. Worst case, you still have to pay it.

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Originally Posted by Treibenschnell

I was going to say something along the same line... Staties know that moron Joe Everyday isn't going to protest when he's ticketed at 6 over.

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:lol: That's the truth. They give out a lot of petty tickets cause they know the majority of the public isn't going to contest them. I had a Dallas cop one night at a car hang out give me and a friend a ticket for "miscellaneous" and the court dismissed it for "miscellaneous" reasons! :lol: I kept the court papers its so funny seeing:

Offence: miscellaneous
Dismissed: miscellaneous

When they call me I interupt them and tell them I am a convicted Felon and they usualy hang up without saying another word...lol