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MNBoxster · 01-13-2007, 09:02 AM

Hi,

The MN State Patrol uses a lot of aircraft surveillance to catch speed offenders. Supposedly, in Sept. '04, they wrote the fastest speeding ticket ever when they nabbed a kid on a motorcycle exceeding 200MPH (205 MPH actually), see: http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-09-21-speeder_x.htm .

I've never owned a detector, never had a speeding ticket, though I have been stopped numerous times. Got nice, sympathetic, cops sometimes, or successfully fought them in court, sometimes with a CFD (Continuance for Dismissal- agreement with the court that I wouldn't speed for a year and the ticket goes away).

A guy in one of the Car Clubs I belong to is an aircraft trooper. He once told a bunch of us that they look for two kinds of cars (since they cannot clock everyone, especially on a crowded highway). He said brightly colored cars and cars which make a lot of lane changes are the ones usually timed, so there may actually be something to having a car which is Ticket-Me Red or Stop-Me Yellow colored.

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99 (Guards Ticket-Me Red)

PS @ edevlin - sorry to hear about your mom, I'm going through something similar with my 84 y.o. mom right now too - hang in there, I hope for the best!

01-13-2007, 09:02 AM	#57
MNBoxster Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Posts: 3,308	Hi, The MN State Patrol uses a lot of aircraft surveillance to catch speed offenders. Supposedly, in Sept. '04, they wrote the fastest speeding ticket ever when they nabbed a kid on a motorcycle exceeding 200MPH (205 MPH actually), see: http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-09-21-speeder_x.htm . I've never owned a detector, never had a speeding ticket, though I have been stopped numerous times. Got nice, sympathetic, cops sometimes, or successfully fought them in court, sometimes with a CFD (Continuance for Dismissal- agreement with the court that I wouldn't speed for a year and the ticket goes away). A guy in one of the Car Clubs I belong to is an aircraft trooper. He once told a bunch of us that they look for two kinds of cars (since they cannot clock everyone, especially on a crowded highway). He said brightly colored cars and cars which make a lot of lane changes are the ones usually timed, so there may actually be something to having a car which is Ticket-Me Red or Stop-Me Yellow colored. Happy Motoring!... Jim'99 (Guards Ticket-Me Red) PS @ edevlin - sorry to hear about your mom, I'm going through something similar with my 84 y.o. mom right now too - hang in there, I hope for the best! Last edited by MNBoxster; 01-13-2007 at 09:09 AM.