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[kandrathe]

I have one speeding ticket on my record

This is sort of off-topic, but this reminds me of something. I have no speeding tickets, but when I was 19 years old I got pulled over for doing 90 km/h in a 40km/h zone. I should have had my driver's license revoked right then and there. Going 50 km/h over the speed limit should have been enough to grant me a visit with a judge.

Fortunately I was delivering pizza. I was driving the little crappy hatchback owned by the pizza place (Nissan Micra), and the officer recognized the car and let me off with a warning. He never even asked for my driver's license. He just said "Keep it slower at the bottom of this hill" and let me go.

Fun Fact: pizza places give free pizza to police stations to bribe cops

Me too. When I was 18, I overslept and was about an hour late for work. Being dumb and young I thought by driving faster than light I might reverse time and get there on time. I was doing well over 120 mph (speedometer pegged there) in a 65 mph zone when I passed the police car. He caught up to me while I was at a red light 15 minutes later. He said, "Well, my radar went off the scale, so I'll just write this one for 80 mph, ok?" I said, "Yes, sir."

Then, I was an hour and 20 minutes late for work. But, luckily, not in jail, or dead.