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Originally Posted by luxury1
The Martha Fleishman/Ben R. situation couldn't be any more different.
Also, I am not saying he was right to speed but come on, have you ever done more than 20 over the speed limit? Have you ever had your porsche to 90 or 100??? I think that almost everyone on the forum has "opened up" their porsche a little and we were all lucky that we didn't come accross a radar gun (or even worse, an accident).
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Please. Ben R. felt like being capricious by not wearing a helmet and motorcycling -- something a person like him, a professional athelete, should have taken into consideration. I (surprisingly) side with Terry Bradshaw who I think was the person that said to him that he's making gobs of $$ and his team is counting on him -- just wait 'till you retire before you ride. Also, Martha made a mistake. That situation is different, in essence, because it resulted in an accident. Also, I don't think poor 'ole Martha was being egged on by a Buick Century nor did she choose to egg on any other car, willingly. She likely had a lapse and made a mistake. It wasn't a willing lapse, but it was a mistake. I guess since it happened to involve a person that was "important", no one in Pittsburgh can forgive her....?
And to answer your questions, no, I've never gone 20 over the limits (75 mph over here) no have I gone over 100mph in my Porsche. The reasons are simple:
(1) I'm not THAT important that I HAVE to be somewhere in the few seconds or minutes I would gain by going that fast.
(2) I think speeds like that should only be achieved on proper courses (or Montana...?) as we have no Autobahn.
(3) It's not going to change the size of my penis one way or the other. As Neil Young sang, "It doesn't mean much to me to mean that much to you." Translated for this scenario: I don't need any more "props" that would (?) be gained by telling a friend I got my car over 100 mph or from speeding away from a stranger.