Back when the speed limit was 55, My husband and I were on a long road returning to Texas from New Mexico.
We had this conversation about the slow speed, about the amount of officers they had per mile on the lonely highway we were traveling. IOW, if we increased our speed, what are the chances of getting caught?
It was late, well past twilight, we decided they couldn’t have more than 1 per 100 mile stretch, so boosted it up to 70. I’m saying, we were out in the middle of nowhere. Nowhere !
As soon as we increased speed, a NMHP had his lights on us.
Rolling down the window, my husband says “ my wife and I were discussing how many patrol units were out here, we decided 1 in 100 miles......would you be he?”
LOL!
I don’t mind sneaky. Where the heck did this guy come from? No matter. We were breaking the law...going above the speed limit.
I’d rather have listened to that humorous exchange than get some stupid picture in the mail. Or perhaps I’m just old fashioned.
The picture in the mail does not have points with it, the cop's ticket to you gives you points against you licence.
I have a completely different experience. The few tickets I got in my life from cop cars were when I was under duress, one decades ago after my dad died and a family fight, the last one was I got no sleep at all the night before, each time I let my guard down and was not paying close watch. I have heard this claim before and it defies logic.
Each case I was able to replay events and understand how they got me and what my mistake was.
Maryland uses unmarked cop cars too. So that takes special diligence and I make it a game to ID them while driving.
Now I use a Iphone NAV app that includes reporting police and gives alerts for police and traffic so that is more fun.
I dont believe that cop who got you just appeared in thin air.
Back around 1990 or so, I was driving back to Texas from Lowery AFB on leave.. Going through NM, miles and miles of straight road and nothing or no one else.
(I was on a 600cc motorcycle).. Was cruising at a little over 130mph (I was young and stupid) and finally saw a car up ahead in the distance...
It went from being an ant in size to a full size car in less than 30 seconds.. was a NM state trooper! I quickly slowed down in enough time to avoid passing (probably had to change my shorts after that ;))..
I could see the driver looking in his rear-view at me and could imagine the big smile on his face.. He never stopped me (phew). He turned off several miles later.
Finally going across the border into Texas, I gunned it again, and not even 5 minutes later, I got stopped by Texas DPS >.< (hahaha)... I signed the ticket, waited 4 hours for the JP to get to his office so I could pay the fine.. and went on home (stying within the speed limit the rest of the way :p
(No, I would NOT drive that way now that I am older... I know it was stupid, all it would have taken to take me out was a rabbit running across the road :/)