I have collected over $15K in speeding/parking tickets. Never
paid any until they showed up at my doorstep which saved me
at least half. in Holland they expire after 5 years and they are
simply too busy to collect all tickets they wrote out.
I still get stopped on Amsterdam Airport once every while and
have to pay a little to get through but nothing serious. I haven't
had any speeding tickets in the last 3 years and no parking
tickets in over 2 years now.
Biggest amounts on 1 ticket $950 for speeding on a bike.
Got stopped by a roadblock because the civilian police vehicle
that chased me couldn't keep up. I had to appear in court and told
them I thought some lunitacs tried to hurt me so I tried outrace
them which obviously worked.
The equipment they used to measure my speed couldn't
determine my speed because i was going too fast. I was riding
a Kawasaki ZXR 900R which was tuned. I did over 300Km/hour
on a 80Km/hour road.
The judge bought my story (I did really think this at the time) and
let me off with a ticket and a warning if I would get caught again
within 2 years I would lose my drivers license for 3 years so I was
really lucky.
Now I'm not that crazy anymore.....I guess I got older, at times
I still speed but nothing extreme anymore. I come from a
car/motor racing family and have raced bikes/dirtbikes/carts/ralley
myself. Now I realise that racing should only be done on a track
No matter how good you can drive speeding in an uncontrolled
environment is very dangerous and extremely stupid to do.
1 error.....even not your own could kill innocent people.
Allthough I never got into any accidents on public roads I still
regret my foolishnes. I guess I just was a lucky bastard.
DynaMite
