The Whining and Bitching Thread

Heh I got a warning from a state trooper for going ~80 in a 65 a while back, in a company truck no less. I've been trying to be on my best behavior because I know if I get pulled over again I'll eat a ticket and court costs.
 
Man I feel like I live in a different world sometimes. It'd be nice to have places to really step on the gas around here but there just isnt. People that drive THAT fast around here dont get speeding tickets, they get roadside crosses.
 
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I've been over 100 exactly once in my life, super late at night on an open stretch of I-95. Been up to 90+ a bit out west. No tickets for those. I got a ticket in VA for 60 in a bullshit 45 though. Fuckin speed trap.
 
i wonder what the freeways out there look like. They're pretty much big wide straight shot highways out here. I definitely would never drive that fast anywhere else, except the track obviously :D We have this one wicked highways out here up Angeles Crest that is known for shit like that

i dont drive fast anywhere where there are homes or pedestrians walking around. To a point where people probably think i shouldn't be in the car that i drive. I also never drive fast when there is a passenger in my car.
 
I got a $160 fine a few weeks ago for being parked in a no stopping zone in a quiet suburban street while I was working and I was sat there in my van waiting for a customer. Fucking gutless fucker didn't even approach me to give me a ticket, I got it in the mail a week later.
 
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they must read UM :D

surprised at how fast you dudes take your cars. Going above 85 made me nervous as fuck for my engine

When I had a BMW I think I took it to 95 once but I typically don't take my cars past 90 and that's only when there's no one on the highway (lol but Ozz how did you get a ticket amirite?!)
 
I never go 10+ above the limit except on the rare occasion of absent-mindedness. They ticket like nazis around here.
 
Smaller roads here are usually either residential or swampy, so you can't really go too fast on them. The police here will ticket almost anyone who drives more than five miles over the speed limit if they catch you on the interstate.

You can do 90+ on most of the toll roads here if you pay attention to your surroundings because there are no places for them to hide due to the elevated design of most expressways in this state.
 
I got our shitty Forf Focus wagon hire car up to 200 kph on the autobahn in Germany this year. It was pretty scary though at that speed. I usually cruised at 150-170 kph if possible.
 
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I got our shitty Forf Focus wagon hire car up to 200 kph on the autobahn in Germany this year. It was pretty scary though at that speed. I usually cruised at 150-170 kph if possible.

Legitimately surprised it went that fast. In any case, driving fast in shit cars is scary. I've taken my Hyundai Accent back home to 90 mph a few times and was it shook and screamed--not like a performance car, not like it knew what it was doing; more like it just saw a predator and was about to shit its pants before it played dead. I was on the Autobahn the other day with some little VW Up! at 150kph. I now know why it has the exclamation point in it's name.
 
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I went 110 in my first car not too long after I bought it, a Civic coupe, and everything over 100 was scary. Not only because I felt the car get less in contact with the road, but from like 95-110 was so slow in acceleration that I probably went 2-3 miles during that time, and I was worried about a lurking trooper yanking my license. Once I hit 110 and it was pretty much topping out I slowed down as safely as I could.