I got a ticket last weekend for speeding. The gears have been changed in my car so I have to do some math while I'm driving. When I got this ticket I was pacing the rest of the traffic though. I, and everyone else was going about 5 over. 60 in a 55. I was in the left lane of two when I saw this Expedition towing a u-haul trailer quickly approaching. I made the lane change to the right to let her through. When I was changing lanes I noticed this Oregon state trooper going the opposite direction. The speed limit changed in a few houndred yards to a 40 mph. The expedition continued at a clip well above the spped limit. A few hundred yards later we ended up at a traffic signal along side of each other. When the light turned green I noticed the trooper behind me and then he turned his lights on. He pulled me over and ticketed me for going 70 in a 55.
He asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I made the mistake of telling him about my gears and that I felt that I was probably going about 60 along with the rest of the traffic. He was not impressed with my answer...but told me that if I provided proof to the court that I got my speedo corrected that they would drop the speeding offense. There is no mention of this on the ticket so it makes me wonder a bit. My wife was with me as a witness but I'm sure that will not matter much. I just feel that he had to have been locked onto the expedition coming up behind me and that because I was in the GTO that he thought I must have been the culpret. I'm sure that the driver of the expedition was pleased that she did not get pulled over though.
Urghhh!!
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