96 Year-Old Cited For Speeding in School Zone

Heartwarming video

I went threw a school zone once doing 35 the normal speed limit!
I the zone was 2 blocks wide and the sign was covered by trees !
I got popped cop ask wth you doing .... I told him there no zone we got out and walked back to it he pointed it's there to there I said to street's! That's a zone he said yes I said ok fine wheres the sign we walked to it and he said well if it were visible I could give you a ticket.
He said all his tickets from the day there had to be dismissed now . The next day they had a tree company out there clearing the sign !
Now when I see kids I slow down anyways because there un predictable especially the little ones . But this was basically a trap for people the school was way back in the area and no where near this zone !

I was driving back to the El Paso Border Patrol Headquarters in El Paso when my partner in the passenger seat told me I just blew through a school zone. I guess I was day-dreaming. I was not caught by a cop, but I felt so stupid I still remember it to this day. This took place back in the 1980's.

Around here the school zone signs say "Speed limit 25 MPH when children are present". I have asked numerous cops what "when children are present" means i.e. is it when school is in session or when children are actually visible in the school zone? None could give me an answer that's verifiable in writing.

I remember a photo as a kid of the speed limit signs a half-block from my grade school that was posted in the San Jose Mercury newspaper. The photo showed three speed limit signs all in a row: 35 MPH, 25 MPH, and 15 MPH School Zone. i don't remember what order the signs were in though. Pick and choose?

It's nice to see that there are still good people in this world.

I still remember the first time I hit someone.
Around 1988, I was driving my '69 Dodge Polara 4-door that I paid $40 for. Going down the street fairly slow when a trashman ran out from behind a garbage truck. I got on the brakes, and the guy reacted, but still knocked him down. I checked on the guy, and I ran back to the house to call 911 (no cell phones back then.) When i got back, the guy was up and trying to walk it off. The police and medics tried to get the guy to get checked out at the hospital, but he didn't want to go. I think he may have been an illegal alien? The police gave the guy a ticket for running out into the street without looking. Really lucky, things could have been way worse.

So the cop didn’t show for court or the judge felt sorry for him. Suspend fine or withhold adjudication maybe. It will be very heartwarming when he runs over a kid.

We hope he learned a lesson and will drive more attentively.

I work for the government and am frequently on the road in a government van, driving to the four towns that I work in. Most towns up here have the highway running right through town.
Last year I was leaving one town, on the highway. The school is beside the highway. I was driving 100kph, the highway speed limit. The speed limit through the town, though, because of the school, was recently reduced to 35kph. I was not aware of this. A cop spies me from his kitchen window, jumps in his patrol car, and gives chase. My home community is about an hour or so away.
Because I’m doing highway speed it takes him about ten miles to catch me. By this time he has worked himself into a frenzy, like foaming at the mouth mad. People get shot like this, he’s that angry.
I pull over. He approaches my van, purple with rage. My attitude is calm, relaxed. My thoughts are that I’m a careless speeder, not a bank robber, and that he needs to calm the **** down.
He proceeds to literally holler at me for several minutes. I remain calm, and this seems to aggravate him more.
He threatens several times to seize my vehicle, call my boss, and make my life hell. I say nothing other then polite responses. Finally, he storms back to his cruiser and speeds off.
I didn’t have the heart to tell him that as a respected, valued employee with an exemplary record my boss would have simply told me not to do it again.
My wife would have driven over to pick me up, we would have gone for dinner at the restaurant and then spent the night having great hotel sex.
The cop, however, would have been up to his ears in government paperwork having seized my vehicle. He’d probably still be filling out forms and being responsible for storing my piece of crap government van.
I wish I could tell him that.

When I was working graveyard shift with the California Highway Patrol in South Los Angeles, a Corvette zoomed by our patrol vehicle, passing us on the left. We pursued the driver and arrested him for driving under the influence. While the flat bed tow truck loaded up the the vehicle for storage, the drunk swore up and down he was going to make sure he was going to take away my badge (LOL).

You CANNOT beat these stories!

It was something I needed to see Thank you for posting this.

In australia all our school zones now all have variable speed limits with flashing lights.....thankfully, before the flashing lights it was so easy to forget the time and realise you are one step away from losing your license or knocking a kid down.....