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SPEEDER'S INFO: I95, DE to SC



I just took a car trip from Delaware to South Carolina and back (95 all
the way) in a long wheelbase Benz.  A friend of mine was with me to help
look out for the 5-0s.  I had a radar-only detector that saved my ass a
couple  of times.  Here is  what  I saw along the way:

DE: from Wilmington to the MD border, I've never seen a speed trap; also
my radar stayed very quiet.  I feel it's safe  to speed along this strip.

MD: Careful! --  MD was the worst of them all.   My detector didn't go
off once, but I  saw plenty of speed traps;  must use laser or
something;  they're SNEAKY bastards.  I couldn't believe some of the
places they would hide! WATCH OUT FOR THE MEDIANS, concrete dividers or
grassy.

VA: lots of K band (detectors illegal of course); cops  like to  hide in
the wooded medians (Official Use Only gravel turn-around strips); my
dector picked up the bastards' K band every time

NC: same as VA, not as much K band; not nearly as many speed traps as MD/VA

SC: the only cops I saw  were busy pulling a liquor cabinet's worth of
alcohol out  of  this guy's car; the secondary roads are also very
awesome for speeding.  I  averaged  90 on a two lane from 95 to Myrtle
Beach  (it  was 1 in the morning, though).

I'm very happy to say I made the round  trip without one  ticket (which
is saying a lot for me).  However, there were a number of very  close
calls, so I was lucky, too.    On the way back, we recorded our 
distance/time  progress and calculted an average of 72mph for the whole
trip, including time stuck in traffic on the DC beltway...

One thing  that became very apparent as I drove south was that driving 
courtesy increased.  I'm accustomed to asses not moving to the right as
I come up in the left lane, but to my amazement, NC and SC drivers moved
right over 90% of the  time.  

One exception, though: one bastard in a minivan was hogging the left
lane on one twolane portion of 95 in VA.  I flashed  him to move  over,
but to my amazement,  he SLOWED DOWN enough so that he ran right
alongside a school bus! and continued to stay along side the bus so I
could not pass him on the right! I could  not believe  my eyes!  After
20 min of  this  shit, I finally found an opening.  As I passed, I
opened up the sunroof and gave  him  a nice big FUCK YOU as I brought
the Benz back up to 90 (please, no flames from safety/courtesy nazis,
you would be pissed, too).

55 sucks... so does 65

Kayvon Pirestani



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