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Posted on 08/12/2013 5:36:23 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 41-year-old Darwin man who was caught driving more than 145 mph in his Ford Mustang GT said he was “airing it out,” according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Authorities said Richard Bernhagen was clocked at 148 mph on July 17 on Tagus Avenue, a county road just outside of Hutchinson, Minn.
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Got to blow the carbon out once in a while.
I thought everyone knew that.
Would his citation be a “Darwin award”?
Isn’t that how everyone dries their car after coming out of the autowash?
you have to die first.
he wasn’t even injured.
Back in 2007, my son came home for funeral leave for his grandmother.
He borrowed his Mom’s 2006 Mustang GT to take a short ride.
At the airport he whispered to me that he had it up to 145 and it was still accelerating but he was running out of road so he backed off.
They should issue him a warning, just for being honest and not pulling some lame “my speedometer is broken” routine.
Did they chase this guy? That would be dumber than the 145 or the 148 MPH.
Boy, was his Mom P*****!
In Germany, 148mph is called “driving in the slow lane.”
Many cars today quit at 100, I thought they all had that in the computer.
“excuse me while I air this out”
I am amazed that he didn’t add, cause I was smokin some weed.
The Taco Bell excuse again?
A Ford can go that fast,without driving it off a cliff?
Lock him up. At 148mph you travel the length of a football field in about a second and a half. A farmer in his truck gets on a rural two-lane road that from his vantage point is clear and death could easily ensue. Hopefully only the life of the nutcase driver, not the farmer or an oncoming vehicle.
The new Obama Dolt just bursts into flames if you exceed
50 MPH.
I learned that the hard way on the autobahn. Stay out of the left lane unless you are cruising at least 140.
There is nothing more frightening than have to use full throttle to avoid an accident and having “HAL” shut the friggin engine off! That’s why I still have a 1963 with no computer what so ever.
or “eh, got me on the way down”
As long as he wasn’t drunk or high, and was driving on an empty road — all of which seems to have been the case — good on him. Pay the ticket and consider it money well spent.
Of course! You don’t think the police get the Hemi Chargers and other souped-up cars (with minimal environmental-impact attachments, it should be noted) so they can putter along city streets?
These black-glove hotdogs just love a good high speed chase. When they pass robberies, drug dealing and other criminal activity along the way it all becomes a blur and they can focus on the real criminal.
My mechanic said to stop driving like an old lady....and “drive it like you stole it”....
I guess he figured the “I had to pee” excuse wasn’t going to cut it.
When I was 17 I was cruising down the interstate in a Ford Torino at about 110. I slowed down to exit and saw a state trooper in my mirror. I pulled over and his 427 Chevy was overheated and smoking like hell. He said it took him more than five miles to catch me. He was actually nice to me and gave me a ticket for doing 90 in a 70.
I aired out my 1990 Mustang 5.0, but I never had enough road to get beyond 125. Fun, it was!
LOL! Of course! He wanted your business for all the damage you would do to it.
420 HP gets pretty stale if you don’t air it out now and then.
“excuse me while I air this out”
Are we talking about Anthony Weiner?
I had an ‘80 ford escort 4 cylinder up above 120 once - course it was mostly downhill....
“The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.”
hahahahah!!
It was a gas station burrito that he was airing out.
As the former owner of an 86 GT Hawse, I completely understand.
But as they say...if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
Did she give him a good talking to?
In my younger stupider days I had my bike up to just shy of 120. Not hard to do at all on that bike. Kind of scary for my passenger.
Took me a while to remember where that came from. Then I remembered.
I hate Illinois Nazis
We gonna air You out, boy!.................
The best one I ever heard was the guy who said he had to go to the restroom real bad and that is why he was speeding. LOL
I was once driving down US27 in Florida, at night, doin 110, when I noticed a patrol car waiting in the weeds that night. I could have kept going and probably lost him, but I decided to play it cool. I slowed considerably, and waited for the car to catch up, which seemed to take an awfully long time. I pulled over when asked.
The officer was very formal, polite, asked if I was carrying any drugs, asked if he could inspect the vehicle..
Long story short, they were on the lookout for drug runners running drugs across the state of Florida that night, and I wasn't what/who they were looking for. He gave me a verbal warning to slow down, and let me go w/o a ticket.
It’s not a sport if it can’t kill you.
"This is definitely lower Wacker Drive."
For those of us who happen to be fortunate enough (/barf) to work in Chicago, the landmarks in that movie are priceless. A fair number of them don't exist at all anymore, and boy has the skyline changed.
Daley Plaza on the other hand (where they paid the assessment fees for the orphanage) looks exactly the same as it did in the movie.
What I wouldn't give to be young and dumb again! Had the wife on the back of the rice burner (Kawasaki Ninja 1100 w/Nitrous, racing gears, racing exhaust, etc..) and pulled a wheelie at 70.
Soon as I stopped she hopped off the bike and slapped the living daylights out of me (you know how women just flail at you? That's what she did ...)
She's never gotten on a bike with me since. That was around 1992 ... think I was still living in my first house then.
Gotta be photoshopped. Else the gas guage would be near empty :)
The owner’s manual for my 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner recommended “periods of full throttle acceleration” during break in. No problem!. I had the needle buried past 120mph on several occasions during the time I owned the car. Of course I wouldn’t dream of doing all that again, but how could a young guy do otherwise?
What we’re dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law!
Clicked at 156 in a 71 Duster.
Tossed in jail for the night.
At first appearance Judge Joe Dan Trottman,
having come of age with the model t, said,
“ah buiishit, case dismissed!”
State Trooper was livid!
A bit like flying, Duster was just floating
A buddy of mine in college worked on a garbage truck in high school/summers in Chicago. As the chase roars through that dark, underground lot he would exclaim “there’s my dumpster!” as it flashed by.
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