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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on August 07, 2009, 08:55:31 PM
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We all know that Police Cars are "tweaked" for enhanced performance, well,... this cop just had to know,...and got BUSTED!
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/08/05/gahannacycle.html?sid=101
Gahanna officer clocked at 149 mph pleads guilty
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 9:07 AM
By Josh Jarman
The Columbus Dispatch
A Gahanna police officer pleaded guilty this morning to speeding charges after he was ticketed last month for traveling almost 150 miles per hour on a motorcycle.
Gahanna Officer Christopher Thomas, 33, received a speeding ticket eight days after he was caught going 149 mph on I-70 near Buckeye Lake, and then only after the Ohio Highway Patrol made a courtesy call to his department. Trooper Jason E. Highsmith, 35, who was riding his motorcycle near Thomas, received a ticket for going 147 mph four days later.
Licking County Municipal Judge W. David Branstool fined Thomas the maximum $150 and suspended Thomas' driver's license for six months, citing the reckless nature of the crime. Thomas had faced a maximum suspension of three years.
Branstool said he was sure Thomas had seen the consequences of excessive speed first hand in his nine years as a police officer.
"Those experiences are more sobering than anything I can tell you here today," he said.
Before receiving his sentence, Thomas apologized to his family, saying his actions displayed a bad lapse in judgment.
"I know it was an extremely wrong thing to do," he said.
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It would be nice if these major hypocrites lost their jobs.
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they need to take his DL away as well as giving him the boot.
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Here I agree with TAB. Going 85-90 in a seventy mile an hour zone is dangerous and should result in the fine for the infraction and maybe a weeks pay for being a hypocrite. Going 150? No way in hell are you in control of that car or bike. A stoped car, a pedestrian running into the road, road debris? Forget about it. Plus this was at night. There are not headlights made that let you see far enough ahead to make a difference at that speed. You might as well turn them off. This is the equvialant of emptying a mag in air. Yeah, probably no ones going to get hurt, but you know they could. These are boys with dangerous toys who need to be seperated from them. If that is their level of judgement, should they have a badge and gun? Hell no.
FQ13
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These guys got off cheap.
MA charges 100 bucks minimum plus 10 bucks for every mph over the posted limit. This ticket would cost at least 940 bucks plus a surcharge of 50 bucks a month on your insurance for 6 years.
149 mph = approx. $4,540.00......plus you'll probably lose your license and definately your job!
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TW,
Police cars may be 'tweaked' but this asshat was riding his own motorcycle not a police vehicle.
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TW,
Police cars may be 'tweaked' but this asshat was riding his own motorcycle not a police vehicle.
I realized it after I posted it. OOOOPPPPPSS! :-\
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I realized it after I posted it. OOOOPPPPPSS! :-\
NP, my friend I just thought I'd clear it up.
(BTW there is that 'modify' button ;) )
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149 and he calls that "a bad lapse in judgement." He was going 149.
Fire the idiot.
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you know the good thing about all this is, he was on a bike, chances are good if something went wrong, he was just going to kill himself, not some one else. ( yeah I don't have a prob with idiots killing themselfs)
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He did get off easy.
Last summer a coworker's nephew got a ticket on his bike. The ticket was for a 100 mph over the limit. He was doing 155 mph in a 55 mph zone. He was with a buddy and the friend slowed down and was stopped by the police. The cops let the friend off if he ratted on the nephew, which he did. The nephew was never stopped and the police had never actually tried to stop him as they were never in a postion to do that. They went to his house and gave him the ticket. The nephew got a fairly heavy fine and 6 points against his DL. In MI you are allowed 12 points and your DL is suspended and is also suspended for certain violations. He probably got off as easy as he did because the cops had not attempted to stop him and more serious charges would have been difficult to prove in court.
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Blackwolfe,
Back in my day in MI, that would have gotten a reckless driving ticket as well and another 6 points for a total of 12 points. Bye, Bye, license....he got off easy too!
Heck, I slid my mom's '74 Maverick across two lanes of traffic with those little four inch wide tires, smoked the living shite out of 'em. It won me a "Careless driving" ticket and 4 points! ;D ;D ;D ;D
They never caught me on the Kawasaki though! ;D