First one was speeding when I was 16, driving a souped up '36 Ford.
Funniest one was once I was driving through New Mexico in a '57 Merc. The NM State Patrol clocked me at 87 in a 70 zone after I'd come up hill for about a mile.
That was before radar was quite as sophisticated as it is now. One trooper was running radar at the top of the hill, another trooper was in a catch car. The trooper in the catch car went behind a pile of rocks to take a leak, I went sailing past, the other trooper scrambled him and he had to cut it off and take after me. I think the poor guy peed down his leg the first two miles.
When he caught up with me, he just didn't have his heart in his work. He said, "Dang, when you start running over ten miles an hour over the limit, they sock it to you sometimes. I'll just make the ticket out for 80 in a 70 zone".
It was mid afternoon, and I was going through Tucumcari anyway, so I figured I might as well get it over with, and stopped at the court house and went into traffic court. The old judge said, "Just because we caught you speeding, I don't want you to think we're treating you like a hardened criminal, but, dammit, we set the speed limits for a purpose and we have to stick to them".
He charged me a dollar per mile over the limit and a whole $5 court costs. I walked out for $15.
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