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ewalberg · 08-31-2008, 09:26 PM

i was with an old friend when we were in college and we were in his 1987 Subaru XT (2 door sport coop with 4wd and push button ride height control so you could veritably go 4 wheeling in the thing if you wanted)... anyway, we get pulled over by the highway patrol... he's been going 72mph per for hours (on a long distance drive) as read by the digital speed readout and the guy is being a huge jerk, threatening us like we've been going at least 90mph... he yells how fast does this car go?... (looking at the speedo which is digital) and shruggs... "oh, jeez, who know's how fast it goes!" since it doesn't have a max reading... like it would mean anything... so lame.

So the icing on the cake of this story is my buddy is all flustered by this officer who's heckling him, and finally my buddy looses his cool, to keep from saying anything, since the cop had NO way of knowing how fast we were going based on that we were going the speed limit when he had any chance to clock us, "we couldn't have been going over 75" my friend says... and the heckling and hassling stops immediately, he walks away and writes a ticket for 75+... and we weren't even going that fast. Oh well. That's my one really frustrating CHP story. I've generally found the CHP and police in this area to be very reasonable... as long as they can't profile you for big rims, over tinted windows, or eccessively dropped suspension. In fact i think they really rather like the lotus, and probably know enough about cars to cut you some slack since they know it's a good handling car and that you don't have to be rich punk to afford one.

08-31-2008, 09:26 PM	#12 (permalink)
ewalberg Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA Posts: 487	i was with an old friend when we were in college and we were in his 1987 Subaru XT (2 door sport coop with 4wd and push button ride height control so you could veritably go 4 wheeling in the thing if you wanted)... anyway, we get pulled over by the highway patrol... he's been going 72mph per for hours (on a long distance drive) as read by the digital speed readout and the guy is being a huge jerk, threatening us like we've been going at least 90mph... he yells how fast does this car go?... (looking at the speedo which is digital) and shruggs... "oh, jeez, who know's how fast it goes!" since it doesn't have a max reading... like it would mean anything... so lame. So the icing on the cake of this story is my buddy is all flustered by this officer who's heckling him, and finally my buddy looses his cool, to keep from saying anything, since the cop had NO way of knowing how fast we were going based on that we were going the speed limit when he had any chance to clock us, "we couldn't have been going over 75" my friend says... and the heckling and hassling stops immediately, he walks away and writes a ticket for 75+... and we weren't even going that fast. Oh well. That's my one really frustrating CHP story. I've generally found the CHP and police in this area to be very reasonable... as long as they can't profile you for big rims, over tinted windows, or eccessively dropped suspension. In fact i think they really rather like the lotus, and probably know enough about cars to cut you some slack since they know it's a good handling car and that you don't have to be rich punk to afford one.