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Triumph TR6 - Speeding Tickets

(Tonight)I was blasting down the trans Canada highway from Kananaskis heading into Calgary at dusk when I passed a cop doing 159 in a 110 zone. The car sitting in the shadows lit up and was hot on my tail as I pulled onto the shoulder, shut it down and waited for the cop to catch up. The exchange was pretty funny...

Cop: "I clocked you doing 159...License and registration please"

Me: OK.... and cop goes back to his car to write the ticket.

A few minutes later cop comes back and hands me the ticket....

Cop: "Does this one have fuel injection?

Me: "No it's got the carbs..."

Cop: "I almost bought one with fuel injection...but my wife wouldn't let me...."

Me: "Well the crown jewels on this is a five speed toyota gearbox for great highway cruising..."

Cop: "I should have bought it....the fuel injection are rare here because they didn't sell it in North America..."

Cop: "I wrote you up for only 30 km's over to save you on the points. Did you know one out of three accidents on this highway involve animals? Your chances in this thing would be diminished...."

Me: "Thanks alot..."

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Now tell me someone having an exchange like that in a corvette or something eh.... there are just so many folks out there who love the British cars.

John Parfitt
Calgary, Canada
73 5 speed.

John Parfitt

John
The corvette owner would not have gotten the reduction. Neat story. He should have just given you a warning....maybe he might have if you had been going a little slower:)
Last night I went to a weekly car meet (mostly NA metal with rods thrown in). On the way up we had to stop to put the top up as it started to rain. With the 4 ways going while on the side of the road, a cop in an extremely unmarked RADAR car stopped on the opposite shoulder to ask if we where OK. I explained what we where doing and where we where going to. He said "well the weather man was correct this time ...have a good time at the meet". 2 points here....1st, if it was a modern car, he probably would have just kept on driving. 2nd If that one minute of rain had not occurred at precisely that time and location I would have passed him doing 110 KM in an 80 zone.

MAN you drive fast!

Any other interesting stories to add here guys?
Rick C
Rick Crawford

Yep,

Almost ALL Canadians drive fast. <G>

ducking here.

Jim (who would NEVER drive over the speed limit, hardly, mostly)
Jim Deatsch

Just got back from driving last child off to U. Laurentian at "Sudbury"??

Nope for those of you familiar with Ont. we don't hate him it was his choice. Sister next up chose UVIC Victoria BC. I think his circuits are Lucas brand without Dielectric but what do I know?

Rolling along in the van at a normal Canadian 30k over speed limit or 120 on 69 Hwy. we came to a sudden halt today. After sitting on the highway with a huge lineup past were the eye could see for an hour. Chatting with New Yawkers etc. no cars moving in either direction and no info. Along came a couple of Harley chopper types older bikers guy and gal. I guess from the area telling us to turn around and follow them. Seems a major accident closed road about 15K past were we were. The only road by the map.

Hundreds of vehicles followed them through the backroads sand and dirt dodging rocks 1 car wide everybody letting each know and being courteous. Till we passed the accident. At one point we could see Helicopter coming in and wreckage in the distance.

A great big THANKS to whoever they were. We drove past cars for miles waiting on the other side.

Nice people up there Northern Canadians maybe the kids got some brights after all.

Bill




Bill Brayford

Here's one:
Driving way too fast only a lonely stretch of road outside of Kingston, I passed a cop going the other way. He's got me for sure. Whiskey, my Belgian Sheppard in the passenger seat, gave me a look that said "busted" and my heart ached; this was going to be a bad one.
After the technicalities, the cop comes back and says "I'll let you go this time. You can't be that bad if you're driving around in a convertible with your dog. Slow down"
Sure thing. Cheers.
Bryn

A few years back, when we owned the MGB, we were driving a beautiful road that skirts a lake up in the woods. Speed limit 35 MPH. Just cruising, looking at the scenery & talking to wifey, the radar detector screams PANIC, and A county sheriff's deputy comes around the corner, has me dead at about 45 MPH. He turns on the gumball machine, and as he goes past, shakes a finger at me, and goes on down the road. I told Becky I am officially an old guy, cause if I was 25 and driving that fast, it wouldda been a ticket.....

Rod
Rod Nichols

Rod,

If you were 25 you would have lost control of the MG around the corner and hit the cop.....

(No the cop felt sorry for you driving an MGB! If you were in a Porsche the guy tickets you out of jealousy!!!)

John Parfitt
Calgary, Canada
73 5 speed.

John Parfitt

When I was 25, I was probably doing 60, and I had so many tickets, I nearly lost my license! ....and I never owned enough gold chains to have a Porsche!

Rod
Rod Nichols

I have a TR-6, a Porsche, and a Corvette. Of the three, the only one I ever got speeding tickets in was the TR-6. Of course, that was in the 70's when the 6 was still new. Now that I'm older (and much wiser) I have slowed down. I guess Cops feel bad writing a speeding ticket to a man with a white beard. Maybe they think I'm Santa on a vacation.
Bob Blair

Now THAT'S funny Bob. I may just have to let my beard grow in the summer as well as winter.
Oh. Wait. I don't speed.

Never mind.

Jim
Jim Deatsch


Can't pass up this post. From 1985-1990 I was an OPP officer and posted in Northern Ontario and in Toronto. I love your posts, but you have to be on the other side to really hear the funny stories.

When I was 17 and dating the girl who became my wife, I was driving home late one night (3am)in Toronto doing 150km in a 90km zone. In my mirror I noticed a cop pacing my in my blind spot, so I pulled over before he could hit the lights. When your done your done right? I told him I was sorry, I was coming home from my girlfriends, I was tired and I just wanted to get off the road. He smiled, checked my papers and let me go with a warning.

5 years later, I was patrolling the same hwy in Toronto when a Katana blew past me at roughly 2am doing 160k. My old Ford cruiser didn't stand a chance of catching him up let alone keeping up, but I hit the lights to see what he'd do. Oddly enough, the kid pulls over. What does he offer as an excuse? You got it! He was heading home from his girlfriends and was tired. What goes around comes around. He got a warning. If that cop had given me a ticket, the OPP probably would have never hired me.

But my funniest story came from a co-worker who pulled over a woman one night on Hwy 69 north of Still River. She was in a hurry, and when he approached the woman, he jokingly asked her "Where's the fire?" The woman pointed to her crotch and said "right here and your hose is long enough to put it out!" Believe it or not!


Mati

This thread was discussed between 04/09/2003 and 19/09/2003

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