Kansas Cops not biker friendly
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Kansas Cops not biker friendly
Get this. Traveling through Kansas this week on my bike. Riding on leading edge of huge storm that produced baseball sized hail. Doing 80 mph in the middle of nowhere on great highway and little traffic. Local cop--aka Barney Fife--stops me and says: "Did you know you were doing 80?" I said "I knew I was going fast, I'm truying to get ahead of this storm." Then, the guy keeps me on the side of the road for 30 min and the sky is getting blacker. Finally, wrote me the ticket and said slow it down. Then, as Barney was stopping me, another local stopped a young sweet thing cager with a Kansas licesne plate--she was pacing me. It was simple catch and release. Talk about bias.
For all you Kansas law men reading this. That little piece of chump change you will get from my ticket better taste good because it's the last time I'm feeding your greedy little hands. You guys have discretion in a case like this. This guy kept me long enough to let the weather catch up with me. I will ride out of my way to avoid Kansas in the future. I saw more cops than gas stations running through your state. You claim you are the natural gas capital of the world. I think you're the smokey capital of the world. I can spend my gas, food, lodging and tourists dollars in Nebraska or Oklahoma running east to west.
For all you Kansas law men reading this. That little piece of chump change you will get from my ticket better taste good because it's the last time I'm feeding your greedy little hands. You guys have discretion in a case like this. This guy kept me long enough to let the weather catch up with me. I will ride out of my way to avoid Kansas in the future. I saw more cops than gas stations running through your state. You claim you are the natural gas capital of the world. I think you're the smokey capital of the world. I can spend my gas, food, lodging and tourists dollars in Nebraska or Oklahoma running east to west.
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RE: Kansas Cops not biker friendly
ORIGINAL: 05LowRider
I guess none of you have pushed the speed limit to stay aheadof,or get out of, a bad storm?
I guess none of you have pushed the speed limit to stay aheadof,or get out of, a bad storm?
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RE: Kansas Cops not biker friendly
ORIGINAL: sleepman54
Not knockin' anyone for speeding, just saying if you're gonna speed why complain about a ticket? As for speeding yeah I do it myself, but you'll never see me come on here and complain about getting ticketed. As for speeding to "get out of, a bad storm" if it's bad enough that I don't want to be in it I'm certainly not going to speed to get out of it.
ORIGINAL: 05LowRider
I guess none of you have pushed the speed limit to stay aheadof,or get out of, a bad storm?
I guess none of you have pushed the speed limit to stay aheadof,or get out of, a bad storm?
Say you were going the wrong way down a one-way street, but your reason was that you happened upon a bank robbery in progress, the robbers were shooting at you and your only escape route wasagainst that one-way. You'd have a dimn good argument and probably would be found "not guilty" by almost any jury, right?
In fact, your attorney would probably ask the Court for summary judgement against the citation.
I'd at least write to the judge and make my argument, most respectfully of course, and I'd mention the lesser of two evils as my defense. Judges like law, you know. Who knows - maybe the judge has tried to get away from a storm, too.
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