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Special love for Tuesday.
We'll have to get together sometime and compare notes on the Roc's.
On 4/12/06, Todd Guse <toddguse@msn.com> wrote:
>
> Gotta love the WSP. I'm in Olympia, not too far to Shelton and I go that way
> a lot. I'm the only brazil brown mk1 around here as far as I know. One day
> I'm coming back from Portland. I am down that way a lot (family lives there)
> and quite used to the WSP's antics. I come around a curve on I-5, doing 85
> in the left lane in the middle of a line of cars all doing the same (limit
> 70, trucks 60). This is usually ok. If you don't go the speed of the traffic
> around here in the left lane, you get run over. If you pass the cops and are
> in the middle of the pack, you usually don't get nailed. Klaus (my mk1) hits
> 70 and wants to go. There were over 20 cops, yanking everybody over for no
> real apparent reason. There was another 10 or so on in the southbound lanes.
> They have bikes, Crown Vics, Camaros, SUV's, pickups, even saw a Dodge
> Intrepid with light bars. Thought I was had, because the last ticket I got
> was on the same stretch of I-5, in 1989 in a red Mustang.
>
> I get down to about 75 when I'm passing the fiasco, now in the middle lane.
> Foot off the brake and gas, and I cruise right by. I guess a stock (looking)
> mk1 with a 47 year old driving and a mild paint job doesn't attract
> attention. Made my heart pound though. I got home and thought "what was that
> all about". They were pulling everybody over. Then it hit me...if they even
> think you don't have the seat belt on, they can pull you over here. I always
> wear it. I remember the same wolf packs of WSP officers in the 80's. You
> could always tell the quotas were not met when you say 15 cops in Centralia
> running radar. Back then you got a ticket for 60 in a 55.
>
> As for the trucks, I avoid them. You can't go 50 miles on I-5 in WA without
> getting something tossed at the windshield; there is a lot of crap on the
> road. Try getting comp insurance on a 79 rocco...cracked windshield just
> about totals it according to the insurance companies. Good thing I save
> receipts...and know attorneys...
>
> Also...never give any cop in WA any lip at all. Say as little as possible.
> Throw the radar detector under the seat before they see it, it almost
> guarantees a ticket here. If they give you a ticket, take it to court. I've
> done this twice and got out of it, just because I have a clean record and
> can explain my way out of things. The judges around here are not heartless
> but the cops are...and I've heard more than one story about their speed
> detecting equipment being faulty...
>
> On the good side, there are a lot of twisty back roads around here...tons of
> fun in a tight handling car...
>
>
>
> Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
> Three extra large heapings of good wholesome pain for the day.
>
> My neice is flying back to Cincy today (she helped me drive across) so
> on the way to the airport there is this interesting stretch of highway
> (note the sarcasm) between Shelton Washington and Tacoma, Highways 101
> and I-5 respectively when thinking of ways to describe this section of
> road... terms like taint tweener.. um nevermind.
>
> So anyhow... I am cruising along following the flow of traffic I was
> in the R but we had two hours before her flight I REALLY wasn't in a
> hurry. All of a sudden there's a set of blue and red blinkies in my
> rear view mirror. Now a Honduh blew by me and I was SURE he was going
> after him and I was simply in the way. So I go over one lane and the
> cop on the BMW motorcycle was pointing for me to go over. Well
> shit...
>
> He comes up to my passenger window and he said he pulled me over for
> speeding. I told him that I wasn't speeding, and my radar detector
> didn't go off. He started getting pissy after that and said that they
> have laser in Washington State. It then occured to me that he pinged
> on me because of the Ohio plates on the R. I gave him my license (Wa)
> and told him that the laser detector on my radar unit didn't go off
> either. Then the guy tells me that he was guestimating my speed and
> that his laser wasn't on. Sensing that the speeder was slipping away
> then he goes I am not going to write you a ticket for speeding but I
> am going to write you one for "following too close". I asked him how
> they hell you can follow too close in morning traffic. My neice then
> tells him that we are from out of town and that we have to make a
> flight. I never saw such a smile of satisfaction on a cop before it
> was sickening. So he goes back to his bike with my license and
> fiddles around for a few. Then he comes back and asks for my
> insurance card. I had one handy but not the most current one--that
> was in the glove compartment. I start rummaging for it and he finally
> tells me not to worry about it. Goes back to his bike for a few more
> minutes and then comes back and tells me to slow down.
>
> We get back on our way and I see that there are about a dozen of these
> motorcycle fags pulling people left and right. The state academy is
> up the street so I am thinking it was training of some kind. It's
> $101.00 so I am going to fight it. Especially after what else
> happened today.
>
> So closer to Tacoma a rock the size of a marble hits the R's
> windsheild and ruined it. I called the insurance and they said if it
> all can be covered by a dollar bill then they can fix it. If not the
> deductable is $500. Shitty. Well it can be covered by a dollar bill
> so there's a little hope, Then I asked them if I can have it replaced
> with OEM glass, and they tell me no. I had to explain to about 5
> different people that a car with all OEM glass is more desirable than
> one without. I offered to pay the difference but they are giving me
> grief. WTF Do I have insurance for?
>
> Then the icing on the cake. We get to the airport and there is a 30
> minute cutoff to check luggage apparently. So she missed her flight,
> I had to pay to rebook it on a later one and I was QUITE sure to get
> all the reciepts so when I go to court to fight this I am going to ask
> the court to dismiss the charge and reimburse me for the fees
> associated with rebooking the flight.
>
> On the bright side it is amazingly simple to get a concealed carry
> permit in Washington. I filled out the paperwork and they asked me in
> so many words if I am a criminal or if I beat my wife, signed the
> affidavit and I will get the permit in 3 weeks or so. I asked about a
> class... serial numbers for the pistol and such and I got alot of
> laughter.
>
> Dude was like you bought the weapon? Yea. You have fired it? Yea.
> You have enough common sense not to point it at someone? Yea. Ok
> class dismissed. Hard to argue with logic like that. I did pick up
> the pamphlet on the laws concerning... BTW.
>
> I am leaving Thursday to go and get the Callaway.
>
> What a day.
> Chris
>
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