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So where do you stand on people who get caught speeding more than once folks?
surely that would depend on what speed they are doing!! I was caught speeding about 5 years ago 35 in a 30. Why should a speeding ticket in a cage effect my insurance on a bike??
I have a good friend who has multiple slab speeding tickets this year. We're talking more than 10 mph over the limit, more like 20 mph over. Last one, he was lucky he didn't get to spend the night in the hoosegow! 
High speed will kill you just as dead as a drunk or cell-phone yakking teenybopper.
Ride safe guys!
Kevin - Luceo Non Uro
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If I'm wrong here please correct me, but isn't speed limits set for the safety of that stretch of road, which is based on pedestrians, traffic, and curves?
Sorry, I'm trying to not call the kettle black here, as I've had speeding tickets too.
Anyways, I've slipped through by the skin of my teeth on this one guys. I know that thats bad news for a lot of you on here who would like to see me learn my lesson in the clink. I've got a few classes assigned for me which are to help me better understand my impact on society as a drunk driver. Just on court, fines, and classes the total is $1828. I've gotten 2 years of supervised probation which requires a chemical test every month. I'll be losing my license as well for 90 days until I can get a hardship for the remainder of the year suspension. I promise I will never get behind the wheel of a vehicle after the consumption of alcohol. The taxi is a lot cheaper. Heck even a limo.
Aaron
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Man, You got off easy.
Here in Florida 2nd offense, within 5 yrs, is a minimum of 10 days in jail (more at the judge's discretion), 5 year suspension of license, heftier fines.
I know of someone spending 20 yrs. for a double DUI vehicular manslaughter. He was just a regular guy like all of us who went over the line.
Let's all learn from this, and be all the better for it...
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Aaron - go out and buy a lottery ticket while your luck is still running!
Brian,
Agreed I did veer off topic but I was trying, rather poorly, to comment how we seem to concentrate our resentment against drunk drivers more so than other groups of people who commit traffic offences that also leave a person incapable of operating a vehicle to a satisfactory standard and contributing to fatalities on the road and receiving lesser punishment for it.
I obviously don't think i'm as liberal in my views on sentencing as quite a few people on here.
But then we all have our viewpoints and debate is quite a good thing.
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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This is why you do not speed Girl
Ray(UK)
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Oh well, all things being said, I'll still be drinking & rideing, maybe even burn one too, EVERY TIME I ride with the bro's on the weekends. 99% of our group, which normally numbers 10-15, all do the same together. So when in Florida, WATCH OUT for that big group of bikers, cause we're all on the road to he--. Which group you ask, so you can avoid us? Pick any group. Cause when we're out on runs, everyone we see at the pubs or restaurants we stop at are doing the same. I will surelly burn in he--! 
And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
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Oh well, all things being said, I'll still be drinking & rideing, maybe even burn one too, EVERY TIME I ride with the bro's on the weekends.
99% of our group, which normally numbers 10-15, all do the same together. So when in Florida, WATCH OUT for that big group of bikers, cause we're all on the road to he--.
Which group you ask, so you can avoid us? Pick any group. Cause when we're out on runs, everyone we see at the pubs or restaurants we stop at are doing the same.
I will surelly burn in he--!
Where is Dwight with his "FRIGGIN' MORON" comments when we really need him???
"Burning in he--" COULD mean having to live with yourself in THIS life, because of some irresponsible thing you did which caused excrutiating injury or death to someone else or someone else's child. We all know that there will always be those such as you who insist on consciously doing what you say you do, but you actually seem to take pride in it and post it on a thread which started with a guy who appears to have learned his lesson about driving under the influence. I don't know how old you are or what your background is, but your attitude and thought process shown in your post would put you mentally at around 15 or 16 - and I'm being charitable.
JB
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bar hopping is not motorsickling. It's drinking and driving.
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Oh well, all things being said, I'll still be drinking & rideing, maybe even burn one too, EVERY TIME I ride with the bro's on the weekends.
99% of our group, which normally numbers 10-15, all do the same together. So when in Florida, WATCH OUT for that big group of bikers, cause we're all on the road to he--.
Which group you ask, so you can avoid us? Pick any group. Cause when we're out on runs, everyone we see at the pubs or restaurants we stop at are doing the same.
I will surelly burn in he--!
Where is Dwight with his "FRIGGIN' MORON" comments when we really need him???
"Burning in he--" COULD mean having to live with yourself in THIS life, because of some irresponsible thing you did which caused excrutiating injury or death to someone else or someone else's child. We all know that there will always be those such as you who insist on consciously doing what you say you do, but you actually seem to take pride in it and post it on a thread which started with a guy who appears to have learned his lesson about driving under the influence. I don't know how old you are or what your background is, but your attitude and thought process shown in your post would put you mentally at around 15 or 16 - and I'm being charitable.
I'll step up.
FRIGGIN MORON.
Erle, will you feel the same way when one of your drunk and high weekend warrior "bro's" careens from his lane into your wife of 24 years or your Eagle Scout sons?
"Let your soul shine,
It's better than sunshine,
It's better than moonshine,
****** sure better than rain."
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It's called "life" Like everyone else, I'm just telling it like it is. Are you in disbelief that what I said happenes, and I see happen, happens? I'd be out of my mind if anything happened to my family, wheather by a drunk driver, cell phone driver, unattentive youth driver, Perscription impaired driver, sleepy driver, old driver, driver with a dilapidated car that has mechanical failure, driver who looses control on rain slick road, etc., etc., etc. And I'm sure I'd HATE them all. They would probably all shake out of they're unattentiveness, After the fact. I don't ride to Church, but everywhere else I ride, I see just what I reported I've seen. God save us all!
And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
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Well, I bin a bitin' my tongue for quite awhile - Jus a readin an' a cullin' the sane posts from the insane. It all matches the pattern folks. The person with the problem is the last to recognize it. There's a million reasons why one shouldn't do this stuff. Equally, there's a million excuses one can use to justify (in their own mind) why it's just fine. Truth is, those persons with one form of dependancy or another won't recognize the reasons not to from the excuses until one of the following happens - When they've hit the absolute bottom, or When incarceration 'helps' them dry out. We can only hope that they harm no one in the often looooong and often elusive process (not even themselves). What must be remembered - Albeit, those that abuse, or, those that make the one-time mistake - You, and only you are responsible for your actions - There are no valid excuses. You and a whole bunch of people will be the recipient of them.
My hat is off to those that posted similar sentiments. The rest of you can go crap in your hats.
Peace, out
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bar hopping is not motorsickling.
It is if you are on a Hardly.
Well erle I just hope that when one of your drunk stoned idiot bro's falls and take half the group with him you remember hey thats life.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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Oh.
Well if everyone else you hang with is doing it, I guess that makes it okay.
Right on Paula.
They're all friggin' morons.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Anyways, I've slipped through by the skin of my teeth on this one guys. I know that thats bad news for a lot of you on here who would like to see me learn my lesson in the clink. I've got a few classes assigned for me which are to help me better understand my impact on society as a drunk driver. Just on court, fines, and classes the total is $1828. I've gotten 2 years of supervised probation which requires a chemical test every month. I'll be losing my license as well for 90 days until I can get a hardship for the remainder of the year suspension. I promise I will never get behind the wheel of a vehicle after the consumption of alcohol. The taxi is a lot cheaper. Heck even a limo.
I think the prevailing opinion was that you just needed to understand the severity of your actions - something that wasn't evident in your first postings. I don't think we were encouraging punishment just for the sake of punishment. If your "sentence" opens your eyes, then that's great.
My job revolves around "progressive discipline", sometimes the employee figures it out after a letter of warning, sometimes it takes a time-off suspension and some don't figure it out until after they've been fired. If you've accepted that society has certain expectations of safety while on the road and that you have a personal responsibility to comply, then you're ahead of the game!
Congratulations and best of luck with your future!
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Yep! AND...just imagine if those same little tennybopper chicks with that cellphone stuck up next to their little earlobes...
Like that little mutton-head that decided to do the u-turn in front of me, coming back from Jerome at SWTF1? (PS - thanks for not making fun of my "drerrs" after that one.)
But gotta admit, drunk or sober, the bigger mutton-head with the apehangers and turbo-charger that came out of the Spirit Bar, and lost it on the turn at the top of the hill, was an example of forgetting "know yourself, know your bike". It's tough enough on two wheels, without reducing your odds, by drinking too much.
# of wheels/2 = # of drinks + 30 minutes from last sip (and no, I don't drive a semi...)
Bob
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# of wheels/2 = # of drinks + 30 minutes from last sip (and no, I don't drive a semi...)
Bob
Oh SUUUURE Bob! NOW you've just given all the Long-Haul Truckers out there an equation(and excuse) to PAR-TEEE, dude!!!  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Aaron, I've been watching this post and hoping for the best for you.
I quit drinking, (not on a whim),18 years ago. The fact that society took a different view of drunken driving in my heyday does not excuse my irresponsible actions. I was lucky to be let go each time I was juiced behind the wheel,(about 4 nights a week).
If,God forbid, some drunk took out my whole family, I would be a hypocrite to hate that person,(that could have been me). That said, nobody who has driven drunk has much right chastizing you.
I hope that you never find yourself in this position again.
Strangler
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