I was once doing about 115MPH and got pulled over. The cop had a laugh.

You see, I had the RADAR detector running but my buddy wanted to sleep and couldn't stand the ticking of the detector. So I shut if off. Well, you're on a road where next exit is 40 miles away so you tend to push it a bit.

He wrote the ticket down to 80MPH. My one and only speeding ticket ever. And luckily Florida was still doing the part time license thing so it never hit my RI record.

LaZBoy82: I once got a ticket for 109 in a 45. It was late and a stright road. The cop gave me a ticket but that was it. He was a rookie, I could tell because he didnt drag me out of the car with he gun out. That was my last speeding ticket (after about 8 in 3 years from age 16 to 19), I learned my lession and sold my little fast car and 8 years later I have great insurence rates.

/my dads a cop
//later the officer told my dad if he knew who I was he would have let me off
///I never brought up the fact my dad was a cop when I got pulled over cause Im not a douchbag

Uhhh, i'm calling bullshiat. Mostly for the part where you say he's NOT a rookie because he didn't pull you out of the car with his gun out. That sounds like EXACTLY something a rookie would do. A veteran cop, not quite.

Timmy the Tumor: lajimi: Lee: "What's your name? Bryan. You? Highsmith. Did you say Highsmith? Yeah. I think you were at the academy when I was there. Did I train you?

Cover-up machine activated.

As for the joking and lack of questions about reckless driving and racing, OSP said no two traffic stops are alike and the speeding charge was explained.

Cover-up machine in gear.

An OSP spokesperson said Lee's microphone should have remained on during the entire traffic stop and the issue will be addressed later.

If this were true why does it even HAVE an off button?
Cover-up machine now at full speed.


They have on/of buttons because they are battery operated. If the officer is on break or in the station, etc. he/she would turn it to "off" to save battery life and make sure that when returning to shift, that there was sufficient battery power to run it.

You're dead on, though. I'd expect that the cop/trooper that pulled these two asshats over will see plenty of disciplinary action for this. Admin might not nail him for the discretionary decision (although bad decision) to let two cops go after triple the speed limit, but they will likely jam it up his ass for turning off his mic and not fully documenting the stop. (And rightly so, if he's willing to "hide" that behavior, what else is he hiding?)

I'd be interested in knowing how this came to the light of the media/public. I'd bet heavy that these two dickheads weren't just opening it up on a straightaway, but were weaving in and out like Moto-GP racers, blew past dozens of motorists, scaring them shiatless. Ten miles later, the same cars/minivans/trucks see them pulled over and say "good, the cops got the pricks!" and then a minute later they get passed by the same two douchebags AGAIN. Putting one and one together, the motorists realize something ain't right and call the local HQ and say "what the hell is up with this? We got passed by two hooligans running at light speed, they got pulled over, and two minutes later they are riding like bats out of hell again. Why weren't they arrested???"

Or even better, someone called their local news crew and asked the same thing.

CTZanderman: pvd021: I hate cops but after reading this,

"I don't expect the court to have any leniency. What I did was 100 percent wrong. I made a mistake," Highsmith said in court.

I'd give the guy a simple fine and let him be on his way. Seems like a decent cop to me. And yeah he broke the law by speeding, but he knew EXACTLY what he was doing, breaking the speed limit, and handling his motorcycle.

This cop seems standup enough to admit his own wrongdoing. To me that says a WHOLE LOT, especially someone who's part of the FOP.

The cop admitted his wrong doing after being busted by the tape. When he got pulled over he said the officer needed to know they had badges. That sounds a lot to me like he wasn't planning on taking responsibility. We all know what we do when we speed, and we should all be punished the same.


It's common practice to announce that you're a (off duty) police officer if you're stopped, especially if you happen to be carrying a weapon. Here's why--every traffic stop involves the unknown and potential for injury or death to the officer making the stop. If the "violator" identifies him/herself as a police officer, the fear factor attached to the stop reduces immensely.

Before the "yeah, tell 'em you're a cop so you can get out of the ticket" responses, if this guy really wanted to take responsibility for his actions, he would have stepped up and done it when he was stopped, not after it was in the news.

If I were his supervisor, I'd be a lot more willing to say "ok, you made a mistake, you're owning up to it, now accept the appropriate sanction, and you can move on from here" than the guy who is pleading "not guilty" and likely defrauding the disability system--no question he should be fired.

If it's an initial court appearance, they usually don't let you plead guilty right away. A lot of times there are not guilty pleas entered for people who don't even show up. Basically they don't want you to plead guilty without knowing the full consequences of it.

As for the disability system...he could be, but we don't know what the original injury was. I broke my foot when I was about 23 and new to the job, i had surgery and was out for 4 months. That would not have affected my ability to get on a motorcycle and do 149 mph, it did affect my ability to run...which is why I was required to be out for 4 months.

I agree with you, they won't/can't do anything about him using his discretion. Turning his body mic off though....oh man, he's in trouble.

dan86turbo: Fark Ohio. Fark the OSP. Fark cops in general. I got a street racing ticket in college for a couple of quick runs between lights from 0-45mph... the speed limit was 40. It was 2am in my college town, and they had already rolled the goddamn sidewalks up. The only people on the street were me, my roommate in the other car, and apparently the cop on foot who saw us and radioed for the cruisers to come and pick us up. 6 points on my license, SR22 insurance filing for 3 years, suspended license for a month, and a 30 day jail sentence suspended for 2 years. This is why people hate cops.

Right, because the cop is responsible for your idiocy, or the punishments you received. I'd like to hear the other side of your story. You weren't just going the speed limit from light to light and got harassed, then convicted. Get serious.

Oznog: heyheyjerky: When he wanted to search my car, at first I said yes, then I said no. He got all excited and screamed "I got you! I got you!" I then informed him of my 4th Amendment right of unlawful search and seizure. You should of seen his face fall.
One of my passengers had a tape recorder and taped the whole thing. When I informed the D.A. of this I got off a with just a fine and no lose of license.
Actually, precedent says that after initially consenting to a search, it is NOT a violation of 4th Amendment to continue to search and collect evidence after you verbally RESCIND permission. You cannot effectively rescind permission once you've given it.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. A person who consents to a search has the right to, at any time after giving consent, rescind the consent. See United States v. Bily where it was specifically held that a person can give consent and then withdraw it at any time during the search.

cop riding a metric == douche.

What happens when you nail the front end of a truck while going 120+mph on a bike.


/used to ride that fast on my go-fast bikes, even as a trauma nurse
//stopped when I ended up in my own trauma room
//when I could walk again, jacked my Waverunner up to 230hp

A Statey from Ohio didn't write a ticket? Where's the newsflash?

Another bike thread with moike waving his ePeen...

Why do you try to get bikers to race your go-cart?

ditch: Another bike thread with moike waving his ePeen...

Why do you try to get bikers to race your go-cart?

Aww it's cute... someone's sad they lack talent.

moike: Thai Mai Xhu:

I had a few DNFs and never finished in the top 5, but I'm still faster than most humans.


You lost me right there.

For 2008 I finished 2nd overall in the Nation in Superside America FIM. 3rd in the 'West Coast Challenge' in the SRA-West. In a 200 horsepower 200 mile per hour Formula 1 rig. Right now half way through the season I'm tied for third overall and not far behind the two teams above me.

Some of us Bubba, we know how to go fast... and do it well. We don't just make excuses on the internet about why we can't.
Keep the speed on the track where it belongs.
The real fast guys know that the street is just a means to get place to place.
Anybody who thinks different is just a poser who's watched Torque or Fast & Furious too many times.

LOLZ!!!
I bow to you'r insanity.
Anybody that races hacks has to be pure freakin nutz!
I'm proud you are doing so well, and I am impressed with the company you run with.
As you know, the handling dynamics between a two wheeled machine and a sidecar rig are totaly different.
I have absolutely no experience with a hack, I've seen a few races but had no urge to run there.
I'm making no excuses for not being among the leaders in international GP competition, I tried, just didn't get there, but that's tough company, and a fast crowd to run with, but the parts of the tour I ran in I did pretty well, but like I said, a few DNF's (crashed off a corner or two,high sided once, low sided once, I prefer low siding, broke an engine once).
As for my age, that is no excuse, that's just a fact.
I'm closer to sixty than fifty, you know what is required physically, and you know that there is a reason for the over 50 class.
Anyway, thank you for disabusing me of the idea you were putting me on, it will be interesting to see how well you do in the nationals, I'll be cheering for you!
BTW are you the pilot or the counterwieght on that screamer?
I stand by the fact that I am still faster than most humans, just like you are.
Anybody who has ever run a GP course can make the same claim, there are lots of humans, percentage wise very few humans ever exceed 200mph on asphalt.
I've seen fast and furious but it seemed like a car movie, will put torque on my to see list.
My 'Busa can exceed 200mph without straining too much, but believe me, I may run over 100 some nights when I'm traveling and there isn't any traffic, but I don't play Ricky Racer on the roads,and I NEVER play in traffic like those cops did, because a motorcycle going very,very fast is a missile, and an unguided one should the rider get dumped.
But I'll race ya on my Cushman!
It's kind of like a (non-EMPI) VW race from light to light, the cops don't see a race, and the flow of traffic is faster than you are.
Good luck man, no hard feelings here, in fact you have a new fan!
Cheers
Thai

Hey Mike, I looked at the lettering and saw that you are the pilot.
Cindy must be the bravest woman on earth!

I supercharged my NO2-injected Vespa, am running 146 pounds of boost right now, can rip off 5-second quarter miles at 196mph so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

Timmy the Tumor: I supercharged my NO2-injected Vespa, am running 146 pounds of boost right now, can rip off 5-second quarter miles at 196mph so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

Dadgumit!
I knew I should'a kept my Allstate Cruise-Air.
It was so fast I was running 0 in the quarter mile because by the time the electric eye at the tree registered I'd launched I was already through the lights at the end of the track.
I had to use a J.A.T.O. retro-rocket setup on it so the chute didn't just shred when I popped it.
It was eleventy brazzillium Cubit inchez. They measure in cubit inches over in the Holy Land where it was customised by Ziggy Flashenstien speed shop in Tel-Aviv.
It only burned kosher nitro, so we couldn't race on the Sabbath.
And dat de troof so heps me Jeebus.

dan86turbo: Fark Ohio. Fark the OSP. Fark cops in general. I got a street racing ticket in college for a couple of quick runs between lights from 0-45mph... the speed limit was 40. It was 2am in my college town, and they had already rolled the goddamn sidewalks up. The only people on the street were me, my roommate in the other car, and apparently the cop on foot who saw us and radioed for the cruisers to come and pick us up. 6 points on my license, SR22 insurance filing for 3 years, suspended license for a month, and a 30 day jail sentence suspended for 2 years. This is why people hate cops.

Wow. You are an idiot. This is why people hate young punks.

moike: Thai Mai Xhu:

Some of us Bubba, we know how to go fast... and do it well. We don't just make excuses on the internet about why we can't.

Because you were never young and dumb and did it on the street ever?! Pfft.

Not saying I haven't had my share of trackdays, but I'm not about to discredit my past of being stupid either. Just because people have done dumb shiat and topped out on the street doesn't mean they still do it and have never scrubbed rubber on the track.

/have the worn knee pucks to prove it.





Keep the speed on the track where it belongs. The real fast guys know that the street is just a means to get place to place.

Anybody who thinks different is just a poser who's watched Torque or Fast & Furious too many times.

Thai Mai Xhu: Hey Mike, I looked at the lettering and saw that you are the pilot.
Cindy must be the bravest woman on earth!

That is Dr. Cindy Creech...

I spent three seasons on the back before I graduated up into the cockpit and on the throttle.

Me on the back... Like a peacock when cameras are around...





But these days at the controls, I push my competitors so hard they end up making mistakes and crashing. Example, our last race out at PIR where four laps in my rival got 90 degrees sideways across my nose with a banzai pass and shot off the track into the infield to flip his rig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFwxySz2OM (new window)(not a rickroll)