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Originally Posted by cmyX5go
Ifly - I think that it has to do with how you handle yourself more so than your contacts, didn't think I had a shot with 25 over.
I drive like a wuss in that stretch now. I can NOT get stopped by him again. I don't think he'll be so nice if there is a next time.
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cmyX5go, thats exactly what I was saying! (well maybe not EXACTLY) If you at least show some remorse and understand what you were doing it is my experience they tend to go lighter on you. Classic example that changed my attitude in 1985 was when I shot past a cop on the M2 in Dartford, UK on the way home from London in my then Lotus Esprit Turbo doing what he clocked as 134mph (which was about right). I was going so fast I did not even see the cop so I kept going, apparently he was having trouble keeping up so they closed off the motorway to one lane before the Medway bridge in Kent and slowed all the traffic down. When I pulled up I was what the hell is this all about attitude (young and stupid back then) so they yanked me from the car, jailed me for an evening and then the judge a month later took my license away for 6 months. He gave me a tidbit of advice about the way police officers react to young hooligans who mouth off to police and since that day I have admitted my mistakes and taken usually lighter punishment than I have heard others have been issued with.
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Last edited by ifly; 09-29-2006 at 04:04 PM.
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