[ConnieNonnie]

I always told my 2 sons, & everyone else, to drive as if there was a cop in their
Rear view mirror. Good advice.

[BobnBev]

Good attitudes are rewarded........well, I guess you can figure out the rest-----

[l2ridehd]

Yes the law was broken. And yes it's the QP's fault. What bothers me is there are so many other serious crimes going on around here that to focus on minor speeding violations is the real crime. Without the Villages these police departments would sill be one man bands. And yet they punish the hand that feeds them. Spend there time finding the crooks that steal golf carts, the scams that people use against seniors, and other opportunists that come here to rip off the residents.

I don't support speeding and especially those that speed to excess. But 26 in a 20 in a car is not excess. Go after the real crooks and give the residents a break.

[asianthree]

One never sees the garage trucks or the lawn guys pulled over. 6 over seems excessive, for a ticket, but the commercial trucks are going faster than that.

[birdiebill]

I often drive 7 or 8 mph over the speed limit on interstates and up to 5 mph over the speed limit on other roads, I fully understand that I have no complaint if I am caught by the police and given a ticket. I choose how fast I drive. It does not matter how fast other people drive; I am responsible for what I do and for the consequences. However, I do abide by school zone speeds.

[ColdNoMore]

While saying it is "just 6 mph over the speed limit," given that the posted speed was 20 mph....it actually equates to about 30% faster than the posted speed.

Which on a 70 mph posted highway, would be the equivalent to over 90 mph.

Instead of whining about being "taken to the cleaners"... the solution is very simple.

Slow down and pay attention to the speed limit...or accept the consequences of purposely breaking the law

[Deseylou]

Whew
I consider us lucky. My hubby was going a little fast on Buena Vista the other day. A police car flashed his lights. He immediately slowed down.
I on the other hand, have never gotten a speeding ticket.

[Wing-nut2]

A warning? How many years have you been driving? Should know the law by now. Don't speed and STOP at stop signs. No problems.

[NECHFalcon68]

Originally Posted by phanatic luvr

the officer was only doing his job. However, i wish he would chase down other doing a lot faster like the city furniture trucks, the trash trucks and some of the landscapers who fly.

amen!!

But I am trying to figure out where there is a 20 mile speed zone in the Villages besides the roundabouts...most of the roads are 30, and the 4 lane roads are 35...although the signs entering TV say the speed limit is 20 unless posted....

[VApeople]

Originally Posted by snowbird22154

$140 for 26 mph in a 20 mph zone and not even a "school zone".

I doubt you were only going 26 mph. I suspect you were going faster, but the nice officer gave you a break and only wrote down 26 mph.

Since you will not tell us where you were speeding, I assume it was in a very congested area where only an idiot would exceed the speed limit.

[Bob McKeever]

But I am trying to figure out where there is a 20 mile speed zone in the Villages besides the roundabouts...most of the roads are 30, and the 4 lane roads are 35...although the signs entering TV say the speed limit is 20 unless posted....[/QUOTE]

Virtually EVERY street in the villages that does not have a designated Cart/Bicycle lane has a speed limit of 20 MPH, unless it is posted even slower. Flying around a golf cart on your neighborhood street is unsafe and illegal, and therefore a ticket-able offense.

[Taltarzac725]

It often seems to me a matter of bad luck when someone gets pulled over for speeding as I often see many golf carts and almost as many cars speeding in the Villages as they often pass me by while I am wishing that someone will slow them down.

I try to drive a little below the speed limit but once in a while do find myself going a little too fast.

Have not had a ticket since 1996 though outside of El Paso, Texas while driving from Rohnert Park, CA to Palm Harbor, Florida. Nothing but desert out there but still got pulled over.

[blueash]

Originally Posted by Nucky

It's a tough spot to be in. Nobody obeys all the time. Getting snagged must hurt. The officer did go by the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law I believe. We had PBA cards in NJ that were just like getting out of jail free card. My friends who are officers say they have total discretion over whether or not to write the ticket and to adjust the MPH down to give someone a break. They always strictly enforce the limit when someone gets snippy with them.

Is that really how it worked in NJ? If you could show you gave money to the police charities they let you go? And the cops have "total discretion" over ticket vs warning and what speed to choose to write down which certainly changes the consequences and expense of a ticket?

Isn't that a fairly damning report on the integrity of cops and equal enforcement of the law? Might not such a system of "total discretion" lead to over enforcement in one community and under-enforcement in another based on some factor other than the speed of the car? And wouldn't it be ironic if the community subject to letter of the law enforcement were to point out that discrepancy in policing and be attacked for doing so by the people who have been receiving BPA get out of jail free cards? At least you said snippy not uppity.

[devohna]

the road behind bealls, and homegoods off 466 all the way to walmart is 20 mph I have seen many cars stopped on that road. best solution is just slow down we are pretty much all retired why the big hurry.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Yeah, I hate it when a cop does their job better than I did mine.