Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!wateng!jvenner From: jvenner@wateng.UUCP (Jason P. Venner) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Request for help, more information Message-ID: <606@wateng.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 15:58:29 EST Article-I.D.: wateng.606 Posted: Sun Dec 11 15:58:29 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Dec-83 04:47:23 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 46 This is a follow up to the last article I posted asking for help. I was driving a motercycle on a country highway. I was cold and in a hurry to get home (and into a hot shower). But first lets develope some pathos with the background. I had only gone out on the trip because a friend had asked me to drive him to the town that his grandfather had been hospitalized in. After that, because we were in the area (within 50km/30 miles), we when to visit his father's grave. By this time it was starting to get late in the day, but it started to rain, so we waited till it had stopped (and the roads had dried), before continuing. One the way back, we got lost. By the time we fig- ured out where we were, we had been on the road for several hours in five degree C (41 F ) weather. It was also starting to get dark. Now what do you do in a situation like this if you can't afford a hotel room for the night? You drive faster. Needless to say this is what I did. When on good straight road, I would open my bike up. This meant that I was often travelling at roughly 200 kph (120 mph). at some point during this a cop started following me. Now you riders know just how often you look behind yourself when you are really moving. Appearently, he followed me for roughly four to five minutes (8km's/5 mi). When I saw him I pulled over. During the whole time I was driving, no one was interfered with, no accidents occured etc. I figure that this should just have been a speeding charge. I am really pissed off because a drunk driver who killed somebody the other day got a $200 fine and a 3 month licence supension. I on the other hand (who injured no one) got 60 days in jail, $750 fine and a _t_h_r_e_e _y_e_a_r _a_n_d _t_h_r_e_e _m_o_n_t_h licence suspension. As part of the reasoning that I was driving dangerously, the judge decided that wearing a full face helmet was a dangerous act, as was driving a motercycle. By the way, Dangerous Driving is a crimial charge in Canada, meaning that I get a crimianl record for this. -- yours sincerely, Jason P. Venner uucp: : physical mail: (jvenner@wateng) : Integrated Studies, (watmath!wateng!jvenner) : University of Waterloo, (allegra!watmath!wateng!jvenner) : Waterloo, Ontario., (decvax!watmath!wateng!jvenner) : Canada. : N2L 3G1