A rather uneventful evening on I29 with the local sheriffs.

[MisterCMK]

thrash;220472 wrote:
When I was a kid coming back from a concert in Ohio, we ran, and pulled it off.

The older you get, the less sense it makes to run, as the penalty to you from getting caught running way exceeds the penalty from getting caught doing whatever else you were doing.

A guy in his 30s that runs is going to go to jail or lose his license or whatever and fuck himself and his family pretty well for some number of months. That's assuming that the officer doesn't kill someone in a "chase". Any damage a cop does during a chase gets "billed" to the guy running. You or a cop manage to kill someone during a high speed chase and its pretty much game over for you.

A 16 year old can probably run, get caught, and shake it off in a year or two.

For basic speeding stuff, its always cheaper and easier to just hire a lawyer to make the ticket go away. The points schedules in ND are such that for just around-town speeding you don't even need to fight the tickets... 2pts or fewer are non-reportable to your insurer, and the tickets are so cheap that it's easiest to just pay them. If it's a >2pt infraction I'd fight it to get it reduced or dismissed to something that isn't a reportable moving violation. Insurance is where you get fucked on tickets.

It's also worth pointing out that generally, if you can't see a cop before he sees you, your situational awareness is too low to really be egregiously speeding. The times I've been ticketed in town all involved me not paying enough attention to what was going on around me.

For once I agree with you thrash. Well said.