205MPH Motorcycle ticket!!!

[JustMVG]

Saw this and wanted to share,
dre_2k2_f4i
Attention *****
205 MPH Speeding Ticket
I wonder how much this cost...
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_265090112.html
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Sep 21, 2004 7:58 am US/Central
Wabasha, Minn. (AP) With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a Stillwater motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.
On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61.
When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.
"I was in total disbelief," Loney told the St. Paul Pioneer Press for Tuesday's editions. "I had to double-check my watch because in 27 years I'd never seen anything move that fast."
Several law enforcement sources told the newspaper that, although no official records are kept, it was probably the fastest ticket ever written in the state.
After about three-quarters of a mile, the biker slowed to about 100 mph and let the other cycle catch up. By then Loney had radioed ahead to another state trooper, who pulled the two over soon afterward.
The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license -- and driving 140 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.
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Only a handful of exotic sports cars can reach 200 mph, but many high-performance motorcycles can top 175 mph. With minor modifications, they can hit 200 mph. Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.

[Kilrtoy]

JACKASS
WOW that is inasne

[ratso]

Hope he was wearing his helmet...

[Havasu Hangin']

Hope he was wearing his helmet...
At that speed...a helmet will just make you look better for the funeral (maybe)...

[wsuwrhr]

Jackass? I hardly think so.
Relatively speaking, compared to other dangerous hobbies, I think sportbikes are a pretty good rush. :hammer2:
I been 175 several times. I would do it again.
So that is my worthless .02
Brian

[Racer277]

So is this bullshit LEO held stopwatch admissable in court?
God, I hope not. Give me a break.

[Havasu Hangin']

So is this bullshit LEO held stopwatch admissable in court?
God, I hope not. Give me a break.
I agree. He probably just used an hourglass instead of a stopwatch.
That's almost as bad as those rediculous motorcycle officers who think that their radar is any better than an hourglass... :jawdrop:

[MagicMtnDan]

Helmet! That's funny!
At 205 MPH you don't need a helmet if you crash - the body will be a sack of pulverized bones if they find it. :skull:

[bordsmnj]

helmet hell. he's gonna need a proctologist for the bill the state is gonna give him for that :2purples:

[Kilrtoy]

I agree. He probably just used an hourglass instead of a stopwatch.
That's almost as bad as those rediculous motorcycle officers who think that their radar is any better than an hourglass... :jawdrop:
Hey if they pass that 1/2 cent sales tax the cops can get rid of their hourglass and maybe come into the 20th century with radars that will sterolize their nuts. I heard they really want to raise it a full cent so they can get lidars and come into the 21st century.
and yes that is legal for the airplane to do that. try reading 40802 of the V.C., I just did....