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View Poll Results: How reckless do you drive on public roads?
I don't street race or use excessive speed
9.88%
I occasionally use excessive speed when safe, but don't race.
66.67%
I occasionally use excessive speed, sometimes even when it's not safe to do so.
9.26%
I street race when I feel it is safe.
12.96%
I'll race anyone anytime. I'm a street racer.
1.23%
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by JLUDE,Jan 19 2010, 01:48 PM
I used to race people if need be...
What, pray tell would that "need" be?

People often confuse "need" with "want."

Like when people go to a fast food counter and say, "I NEED a Whopper."

When really, they don't. And often times, they really, really don't.
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 2slow2Bfurious,Jan 19 2010, 01:04 PM
He let me off with a ticket for failure to disobey a traffic control device 150 fine, no points.
You failed to disobey and got a ticket for it?

Next time disobey properly and you'll be...fine.

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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 04:56 PM
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^ congratulations, you passed your english class, pass go, collect 200.

tried to fix it, system wouldn't let me. something about posting a video along with it.

"failure to obey a traffic control device," I hope your happy

damn grammar police

now, stay on topic.
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by 2slow2Bfurious,Jan 19 2010, 12:04 PM
it's how i maim
why are you hurting people!?!
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 05:33 PM
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i needed a word to rhyme with flame and lame for my poem.

thx for you interest in my poetry, now, stay on topic...lol.
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 06:19 PM
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I almost never drive faster than 70 on freeways. I go all out on race tracks though
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Old Jan 20, 2010 | 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted by CKit,Jan 19 2010, 02:10 PM
What, pray tell would that "need" be?

People often confuse "need" with "want."

Like when people go to a fast food counter and say, "I NEED a Whopper."

When really, they don't. And often times, they really, really don't.
"need be" = "only when provoked to a point of disrespect"

This was like 10 years ago. We're way past that.
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Old Jan 20, 2010 | 05:15 AM
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Jeez. My driving history defines reckless. I will admit that I use to be silly and street race and wind the car up all day and everyday but now that I look back on it, I realize how stupid I was. I received 10 tickets (5 of them speeding) in my first two years with the car. I no longer drive like that and have been ticket free for awhile.

It's funny, I've only been pulled over/ticketed in red vehicles. I received my very first citation driving my dad's red f-150. Never got a ticket in my old black eclipse spyder or my very old white 95 neon.
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Old Jan 20, 2010 | 05:56 AM
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17 tickets in my life. 3 in the S. Fought all 3 and got them thrown out. In fact, of the 17, only 3 stuck.
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Old Jan 20, 2010 | 09:46 AM
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I typically move with the flow of traffic, which around here is between 70-80mph. I drive at about 75 on pretty much all highways unless road conditions will not allow it. I am a fairly patient driver and generally avoid stupid manuevers.

I have given in to bad judgement and gotten into the go pedal on the street once or twice, but for the vast majority of the time the most dangerous thing i do is a bit of spirited backroads driving when I am alone.

I'm 24, only been pulled over 6 times.

3 times were when I lived in CA and the officer was "fishing" (hoping to catch me doing something wrong) just because my old car was modified. Didn't even get a warning for those as I was doing exactly the speed limit all three times (tired after work, cruise control on the speed limit).

Once I was doing 80 in a 65 at 2AM (I was the only car on the road in both directions...well except for the police officer ), once I was hauling ass because I was late for work (I deserved this one as I was doing about 90mph. The officer was cool and reduced it to exceeding 65), and the other one was 47 in a 20 (which pissed me off because I was only doing 37 and the cop popped me, without clocking me btw, right after the speed limit change from 35 to 20)
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