top ten excuses for speeding
By honeyangel
@honeyangel (1991)
February 3, 2007 7:43pm CST
These extravagant excuses were actually recorded by police officers having stopped speeding motorists...
1) I had passed out after seeing flashing lights, which I believed to be UFOs in the distance. The flash of the camera brought me round from my trance.
2) I was in the airport's flight path and I believe the camera was triggered by a jet overhead, not my car.
3) I had a severe bout of diarrhoea and had to speed to a public toilet.
4) There was a strong wind behind my car, which pushed me over the limit.
5) My friend had just chopped his fingers off and I was rushing the fingers to hospital.
6) The vibrations from the surfboard I had on the roof rack set off the camera.
7) I had to rush my dying hamster to the vets.
A violent sneeze caused a chain reaction where my foot pushed down harder on the accelerator.
9) There was a suspected case of foot and mouth and I had to rush to see the cow concerned.
10) The only way I could demonstrate my faulty clutch was to accelerate madly
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@Spid4r (176)
• India
5 Feb 07
That's awesome. Kudos. You've earned it. That lot was funny.
Here is another one from me collections ,
A fellow bought a new Mercedes and was out on an interstate road for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80mph he suddenly saw a flashing red and blue light behind him. "They'll never catch me, " he thought to himself and opened her up further.
The needle hit 90, 100 110 and finally 120 with the lights still behind him. "What in hell am I doing?" he thought and pulled over.
The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car. "I've had a tough shift and this is my last pull over. I don't feel like more paperwork so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before you can go!" he said.
"Last week my wife ran off with a cop, " the man said, "and I was afraid you were trying to give her back!"
"Have a nice night, " said the officer.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
4 Feb 07
These are funny but a couple of them might work it you get the right cop. Especially if you tell him that the stress you are feeling now at being stopped is bringing on another bout of diarrhea!!!!
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@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
4 Feb 07
I love that joke as all those excuses were funny. It makes me wonder what other excuses people have used when caught by the police. I bet there are more funny ones that we do not know about. I know someone that got caught speeding but her excuse was that something happened to her aunt and she is in the hospital and was rushing to see her. She got out of the ticket, though nothing happened to her aunt. LOL Her aunt only worked at the hospital.
@dragonstar13 (1465)
• United States
4 Feb 07
Very funny. This reminds me of a motorist who went to court to fight a ticket my brother wrote for failing to stop at a stop sign. The motorist had all kinds of evidence and theories arguing that he got the ticket for failing to come to a complete stop for a full ten seconds as required by local statutes. He had some theory that the police watch the designs on the wheels/hubcaps to determine if the motorist came to a complete stop or if they made a rolling stop; that since his tires had no design there was no way to determine if he stopped completely. My brother sat quietly as the driver attempted to discredit him, then gave only one answer when called on to testify. The judge asked, "How did you determine he did not make a complete stop." My brother answered, "Because he was doing 45 when he entered the intersection."
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
4 Feb 07
and the question is?
I don't speed but I will if I ever wake up too late. and if I get caught I'll come up with something I guess.
