Termyn8or
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I can look down the barrel of a gun with not a quiver, I'll tell someone twice my size off, but I won't go 100 MPH. I agree LP, and I guess the OP is a bit like me. I have had my days. In those days I screwed it up pretty much permanently and now I can't get legal. So I just take my lumps as they come along. But in no way do I avoid admitting that I did wrong. But to get logical about this, would you rather use a phone at the hospital or call from a jail ? IIRC in this state anything more than 25MPH over the posted limit means bail and jail. They don't care who's dying, you get cuffed and stuffed, and it is not kinky at all. Any reason doesn't matter. Look at ambulances, they don't really go all that fast, their trick to getting somewhere fast is using lights and a siren. Even if someone is literally dying in the back they don't yell up to the driver to step on it. This has been calculated logically, and through reasoning they have determined that causing a half dozen deaths to save one life does not make sense. I am paying for my past in that every time I get stopped it is not a couple hundred, it is a couple grand. I am not whining, I caused it. I am now probably the safest driver on the road. My eyesight is not the greatest, but I am aware of that and adjust. They also seem to be testing me, twice in the last couple of years I could've gotten into an accident with a cruiser and narrowly avoided it. Once you go illegal you'll need some gravel in your gut. But people don't think. They are all jammed up and get caught drunk, on the way home from a bar, speeding and weaving. I mean if you are going to do something illegal, where is the common sense ? To the OP - get legal and stay that way. Take this shit seriously. You'll be sorry if you don't. If I counted it up I would guess that I have paid about a half a million dollars in fines and lawyer bills. My first lawyer told me straight out "The system doesn't work without money". You want to take my path ? You better make alot of money and have a pretty much bulletproof job in case you have to go to jail. This is a serious matter, and most people take driving for granted. It is not. I'll not argue that it is a right at this time. Actually it is but as long as those with the guns and keys to jails say it is a priveledge, there is nothing I can do about it. But really, in Ohio, the first stop would've likely resulted in an arrest. T
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