171 MPH Camaro owner arrested

[Huskinhano]

Anyone see this yet?

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-cited-driving-171-mph-minnesota-highway-article-1.2600019

[studemax]

Dumb as a rock.

[Dan Barlow]

Not to be nit picky , but it says he was cited . Down here in Indy that means you got a or serveral tickets and were allowed to continue on your way . This may have been a jurnalism mess up because, almost assuredly down here that would be a lock up . A friend of mine, hisbson got locked up for 110 in a 40 in a somewhat urban setting . Way up there on a deserted interstate , it my have been not considered as much of wreakless behavior. My friends son had wreakly driving added to the speeding ticket. Which I believe can be added to any ticket down here that is 20 over the posted limit . So was the guy a Green Bay Packer or something ?

[Deaf Bob]

Anything over 100+ gets a ride to lock up for car and driver, I thought...

[DanStokes]

Clearly that Camaro is NOT faster than a police radio. An important lesson. Besides, I doubt it passed tech - no cage, rubber valve stems, no rear-mounted kill switch, etc, etc. The guy needs a rule book. I'm thinking The Cure is a ride in Keith's truck - that'll sort his butt out. (Folks who have raced with the ECTA know where I'm coming from)

Dan

[silver_bullet]

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[krusty]

Probably just haulin' the boat to a different lake...

[SuperBuickGuy]

Anything over 100+ gets a ride to lock up for car and driver, I thought...

that's Oregon.... they passed a law after people kept outrunning the police while riding their motorcycles on that nice straight stretch between Wilsonville and Salem.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Clearly that Camaro is NOT faster than a police radio. An important lesson. Besides, I doubt it passed tech - no cage, rubber valve stems, no rear-mounted kill switch, etc, etc. The guy needs a rule book. I'm thinking The Cure is a ride in Keith's truck - that'll sort his butt out. (Folks who have raced with the ECTA know where I'm coming from)

Dan

that's the weirdest story. The cop that was manning the DUI check point claimed that he caught the guy but only topped out at 135 mph. I'm not sure how that's possible, if my story-problem-solution skills are still intact from 8th grade.... if you have Person A driving at 171 mph, and Person B driving at 135 mph, the moment in which person B catches person A is infinity and beyond. After reading the report, I wonder if "DUI Checkpoint" is police code for cop drinking his "coffee" behind a billboard on the interstate.

[Dan Barlow]

Slowed down when he saw the flashing lights , ( already got clocked ). Maybe ?

[pdub]

I'm thinking The Cure is a ride in Keith's truck - that'll sort his butt out. (Folks who have raced with the ECTA know where I'm coming from)

Dan

Uh, yeah... you don't to want be on the receiving end of that. I've seen him do it to somebody ELSE.

Another story I read about it with a hotrodder slant was, the cop was mighty lenient for not impounding his car and putting him in the basement at the jail.

But from a media coverage standpoint, imagine how many Camaros that story sold. I'll bet a few, if not a bunch.

[Thumpin455]

that's the weirdest story. The cop that was manning the DUI check point claimed that he caught the guy but only topped out at 135 mph. I'm not sure how that's possible, if my story-problem-solution skills are still intact from 8th grade.... if you have Person A driving at 171 mph, and Person B driving at 135 mph, the moment in which person B catches person A is infinity and beyond. After reading the report, I wonder if "DUI Checkpoint" is police code for cop drinking his "coffee" behind a billboard on the interstate.

Cop math is different math. According to them, if you're following someone doing 75, you need to do 77 to keep up with them, the car behind you needs to be doing 80, and it keeps going up if you're following them. Seriously, had a Nebraska state trooper try to tell me that. This is why two seeds of weed have a street value of $100, a quarter ounce is $300, and a pound is $25,000. So obviously since he is a far better driver, he can catch a speeding camaro despite it going 40mph faster than his car is capable of going.

[pdub]

he can catch a speeding camaro despite it going 40mph faster than his car is capable of going.

The other story I read about that, the cop said was just amazed when he saw anything going by that fast. I can ID with that, if he sits on the side of the road all the time, you're not going to see anything go by that fast.

Sue Unit and I were sitting in lawn chairs at Maxton, spectators, and got to see Bill Warner go by doing 260 mph on that motorcycle. Now, THAT's fast. THAT's when you've never seen anything so fast.

I still say that news story on this thread was a plant to sell more Camaros. A conspiracy. And I'm not a conspiracy theorist, not at all.