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We made it back (home)!

Enjoyed meeting everyone today except Lt. Obberman. Uh... Paul Brannon do you remember meeting Lt. Obberman before? I was less than 2 miles from my house H-72 (4 lane outside of town) and see one of the unmarked HP cars coming at us. I'm in the left lane doing about 65 with a Jeep and a big white van in the right lane at the same speed that are in front of me. As soon as we pass the HP car I see brakes and the lights come on. I tell my son, "That Pecker Head in the unmarked car is coming after us". Before I could turn left on the road I live on he's all over the back of the Cobra. After I turn, stop and slowly start to get out of the car as he walks up, "You don't mind if I get out, do you"? As soon as I'm standing on the pavement I ask the first question. "Why are you stopping me"? He says I clocked you doing 66 in a 55 zone. I replied, "NO WAY. I had the Jeep and the large van in front of me and I was in the left lane behind them since I was turning". Then he says he clocked me at 65, so I tell him "No Way" again and I totally understand how radar works and present my argument that he clocked the Jeep or the van, not me. So he starts stuttering again saying I was doing 66. I told him if he'd clocked Me at 66 I wouldn't be arguing. Then he tells me that he’s already stopped me for speeding before. I used the same argument, “NO WAY” and he says “Yes I have”. “Look, you have Never Stopped me before in this car or any car” and he starts to stutter more. This is the only car like this in Greenwood (he says). And I replied, No it’s not. There’s a solid blue one that’s from the lake area. He starts to back off at this point and decided to give me a warning. I also told him that in 9,000 miles I’d never been stopped have defensive driving and track experience. If I'm a State Trooper and I meet three vehicles and clock somebody out of the three doing 65 who would I stop? The one in the front or the one that would be most considered unsafe.

A word of warning... Watch traffic and try to stay out of the left lane. The other point I argued was, how are you sure you clocked me. He didn’t reply to this question since he knew as well as I did, he didn’t get a reading off the Cobra. Fiberglass cars bounce back less signal back than metal ones. Be careful and drive Safe! Hey Paul, look at you license to be sure it doesn’t have my name on it, and if Lt. Obberman stops you again tell him he missed a good one today. There were two more serious charges he could have busted me on, OK three actually!

Mike
FFR 2335 & 3917 SB