Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Got lectured by a Cop today......

Where are you from?
I don't even want to visit there.

In San Antonio you can ask for deferred adjudication (6 mos/1 year probation then it goes away) or ask to make it go away with a defensive driving class for anything up to 25 over the limit.

On I10 to El Paso the posted speed limit is 80mph. On I37 to Corpus from here the speed limit is 75, fast lane usually runs about 90, 90 plus.

Been a few years since I drove to El Paso so cannot comment for sure, pretty fast IIRC.

Doesn’t prove anything but the only time I ever hit anyone was about 35 years ago. She was at a stop sign in a quiet neighborhood turning right, started to go but suddenly stopped. Since I was already looking left the front wheel of my motorcycle lightly scuffed her rear fender. She got out all PO’d but decided it wasn’t worth making a scene over.

So you'd prefer someplace where the cops look the other way for white, middle class lawbreakers I suppose.

Was that what I said?
GFY

I'm in the process of getting my 3rd CC permit renewal. The Sheriffs office has streamlined the process a great deal but I needed to show up to sign release of information forms including one for the County mental Health office. They look for records of treatment for any sort of disqualifying conditions.

I said I was pleased not to have to go back the the Mental Health office in person because the receptionist over there had annoyed me with a snarky remark about, "Why do you think you need a gun anyway?" The deputy just shook her head and said "They never should have asked that". She seemed pretty genuine with her remark.

I have a sense that in general LEOs have grown much more conformable with law abiding folks being armed.... I also have a sense that the % of snowflakes working in the Mental Health field remains pretty high.

They're also set for safety. You'd not look kindly on someone doing 20 over right after they killed your wife, mother, child or grandchild with their irresponsible, foolish driving habits.

Dude! I’ve been living in a highly Hispanicised environment fer like 30 years now. And then, ever since gender became an option, I realized race hadda be an option too. This is America and you can be anything you want, which is exactly why they include all those boxes you can check

Yepper, I’m Hispanic now. Yo.

You may as well have so f*ck you very much.

WTF does that have to do with the price of tea in China ? The response you quoted above was not to you.

Around here, they ignore 5 over, but will discuss it with you @ 10 over. At 15 over, you WILL get a ticket.

3 speeding tickets in 45+ years of driving, one of them back in the 55 everywhere days. +/- one about every 15 years.Last one was around 2004 or so. Getting close to time I think. I better be careful.

Geno

PS, general rule of thumb I was taught by some LEO's is 10% over you'll generally not get cited, at least up to the 70MPH limit. Never drove where the limit is 80.

Yes I do. They’re the ones pulling the load and should get more discretion. I don’t personally favor more laws and don’t think they do much except justify and employ an entire racketeering based system predicated upon minor bullish.it and in the name of keeping us safe from ourselves. They’re protecting us because we can’t do it for ourselves.

IME what can screw ya in NM is the fact that the suggested speed signs before the corners is the ACTUAL SPEED LIMIT. Different than everywhere else I’ve been. One time I was on a motorcycle outside of Angel Fire on my way to Silverton CO having a fine ol’ time in the mountains, I look in the mirror and there’s a NM State Trooper on my tail, all lit up, shades and stern expression.

Oh boy.....

Just then God intervened and sent a kid on a four-wheeler, flying down the asphalt in the opposite direction Cop hits the brakes, does about the fastest three point turn I’ve seen, and takes off in pursuit.

I disagree. The law should be applied equally across the board. I do wish there were alot fewer laws though.

Birdie,

Are those "suggestion" signs yellow or white? If yellow, NM is way off base compared to every other state I've driven in.

Of course, there's always the caveat of "never drive faster than is safe", and the officer is welcome in the eyes of many courts to decide what is safe. Thankfully, most I've run across don't use that tactic.

Geno

Yeah, but your a [bleep] ing idiot

You must be either too young, or too stupid to remember the double nickle.

It had nothing to do with safety.

I remember it just fine azzhole. That doesn't mean most speed limits aren't set with road conditions and public safety in mind because they certainly are.

some cops also agree wth gun ownership limits( assault rife ban) and magazine capacity limits....



I would much prefer a new Mercedes with the latest array of driver assist gizmos and gadgets 'doing 20 over'
than a wobbly old pickup sticking to the 'safe' speed limit.

yet bureaucracy says the Merc. is the danger on the road.

It’s been about six or seven years, but I’m remembering yellow, maybe the NM crowd can correct me.

I have a good friend that lives in Capitan, and at the time the curve-nazi Cop writing tickets at the turns in the highway over the Indian Divide was pi$$ing ever’body off.

IIRC for motorcycles a general rule of thumb, is, on an agile motorcycle, whatever he suggested speed is on a given curve you can comfortably double that without running out of your lane on asphalt. Obviously, in NM, this could get expensive.