Double Standards

[MJZiggy]

Is that lenient or just not paying attention?

[mission]

Is that lenient or just not paying attention?

Whatever it is... they took my dad's address, $35 and gave me a license.

And since I don't drive in Wisconsin, I never lose any points or anything. The communication is poor between states needless to say.

Now all that said, I haven't been pulled over, let alone got a ticket, in 4-5 years.

[MJZiggy]

How long before they wipe the offenses from your record? I thought there was a set amount of time or is that just for insurance?

[packers11]

pft.com

Bernard Berrian joins the 100-mile-an-hour club
Posted by Mike Florio on December 5, 2009 8:05 AM ET
Running back Adrian Peterson isn't the only Vikings player to recently be nabbed driving his car in excess of 100 miles per hour.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that, on Monday night, receiver Bernard Berrian was busted for going 104 in a 60-mph zone.

Berrian was stopped at 9:38 p.m. local time.

We know that plenty of Vikings players secretly (or, in the case of guys like Steve Hutchinson and Sage Rosenfels, openly) are members of PFT Planet. So let me talk directly to you men for a second. (Don't worry -- no one else is reading this.)

Please click this link and read this article from the Sports Illustrated vault regarding a trio of NFL players who died during the 1992 offseason.

One of them was Eagles defensive tackle Jerome Brown.

"He had a weakness for Corvettes, one of which he totaled on a Florida highway in his junior year at Miami," Rick Reilly wrote. (Well, there goes our vow to never read another thing Reilly has written, which arose from the fact that he was one of the writers of Leatherheads, the single worst football movie of all time.) "He walked away from that accident unscratched, but he apparently did not take the hint -- maybe because he had a need for speed. Brown once recalled that the first time he drove a car was with his father on a highway. The traffic was doing about 75 mph, it was raining, and his dad was yelling, 'Hit the gas! Hit the gas! Boy, you don't hit the gas, and I ain't gonna let you drive no more!' Said Brown, 'I hit it and ain't slowed down since.'"

Guys -- especially those of you with wives and/or children -- we're begging you. Slow down. At a time when the NFL has has developed a full-blown case of OCD regarding the effect of an in-game knock to the noggin on a players' long-term health and well-being, driving 100-plus mph on a regular basis is the easiest way to trigger a much more serious impact to your long-term (and short-term) ability to live a productive life.

Or, you know, to live at all.

Guess they are having a competition. Who can get caught going faster

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I know plenty of people in Wisco (5-6) who have had license suspended for 6 months immediately for going >= 20 over.

6 month suspension for 20 over?

20 what? Light years? I call BS on that.

It's definitely not 20 but whatever the 'Reckless Endangerment' speed is ... what is it? 25, 30 mph over?

Now "plenty of people" ... I dunno, Wisconsin is pretty lenient. I haven't lived there in years and they're still the only state (that Ive lived in) that will give me a drivers license. lol

I'm dead serious. I know several people who this has happened to. 20 over is an automatic 6 month suspension. They may have gone to court and fought it. I'm sure they did. At the time of ticket they could not drive home, this is the extent of my knowledge of it.

Maybe it's 25, but I could have sworn it was 20.

[mraynrand]

Derrick Thomas and Wayne Simmons liked to drive fast too.