I never got a ticket and I am in my the upper 30’s but it was a matter of time ...
Sunday I decided to have a burger with my wife in Upper State N.Y.
Instead of driving on the Hwy we drove along the small county roads.
At 2PM we stopped for the burgers. A lady in her 40’s jumps out from nowhere saying that I am taking up two places in the empty parking of the restaurant. Then she walks away. The owner of the restaurant tells me it is not a trouble but in order to avoid disturbances I decide to park my car again.
At 16PM we leave from the restaurant and take another small county road. I follow another car in from of me. We are riding between 55-70mph with the traffic in the woods.
Then a Trooper car appears in front of us …. The trooper makes a u-turn and stops me right away. Then another trooper arrives. 1 mile further two county sheriff cars stops along the road. Then an under covered Ford Taurus passing by . The Trooper asks me a lot of questions: what we are doing where we are heading etc. We spent 5 minutes chatting friendly like this with the trooper while the others were observing us. Then the Trooper returns to his car with my papers and does his work as usual.
10 minutes later he comes backup
He seems to be very stunned. The trooper asks me about my criminal background etc. He asks me if these are really my papers, if my date of birth is right etc. He tells me that he doesn't want to mistake my identity with somebody else's. He scares my wife and myself really. Final he tells me that my speed was not an issue but somebody called in earlier to report a black Viper highspeed racing somewhere in their county. Since a while the entire county was looking (hunting) after me. He tells me that they never saw a Viper here and they could not mistake me with another black Viper.
Then he returns to his car and we wait 20 minutes. He comes back again and tells me that my papers are in order and he is sorry to give me a ticket. Usually they don’t bother tourists with my speed and type of car. But since everybody was looking (hunting) for me and he was the first one to spot me he already radiod in my speed and so on. So he has the duty to write the ticket because of his collegues and he can’t be indulgent. He explains me that the way they received the report from this “unknown” person they thought that I was a heavy reckless driver. He was stunned by my clean driving record and this is why he asked me so many questions.
The Trooper was a highly professional person doing his job as required.
However there are some stupid persons around that area in upper State N.Y. who hate Vipers …
Sunday I decided to have a burger with my wife in Upper State N.Y.
Instead of driving on the Hwy we drove along the small county roads.
At 2PM we stopped for the burgers. A lady in her 40’s jumps out from nowhere saying that I am taking up two places in the empty parking of the restaurant. Then she walks away. The owner of the restaurant tells me it is not a trouble but in order to avoid disturbances I decide to park my car again.
At 16PM we leave from the restaurant and take another small county road. I follow another car in from of me. We are riding between 55-70mph with the traffic in the woods.
Then a Trooper car appears in front of us …. The trooper makes a u-turn and stops me right away. Then another trooper arrives. 1 mile further two county sheriff cars stops along the road. Then an under covered Ford Taurus passing by . The Trooper asks me a lot of questions: what we are doing where we are heading etc. We spent 5 minutes chatting friendly like this with the trooper while the others were observing us. Then the Trooper returns to his car with my papers and does his work as usual.
10 minutes later he comes backup
He seems to be very stunned. The trooper asks me about my criminal background etc. He asks me if these are really my papers, if my date of birth is right etc. He tells me that he doesn't want to mistake my identity with somebody else's. He scares my wife and myself really. Final he tells me that my speed was not an issue but somebody called in earlier to report a black Viper highspeed racing somewhere in their county. Since a while the entire county was looking (hunting) after me. He tells me that they never saw a Viper here and they could not mistake me with another black Viper.
Then he returns to his car and we wait 20 minutes. He comes back again and tells me that my papers are in order and he is sorry to give me a ticket. Usually they don’t bother tourists with my speed and type of car. But since everybody was looking (hunting) for me and he was the first one to spot me he already radiod in my speed and so on. So he has the duty to write the ticket because of his collegues and he can’t be indulgent. He explains me that the way they received the report from this “unknown” person they thought that I was a heavy reckless driver. He was stunned by my clean driving record and this is why he asked me so many questions.
The Trooper was a highly professional person doing his job as required.
However there are some stupid persons around that area in upper State N.Y. who hate Vipers …
