I've had speeding tickets before. I usually know I did something wrong. I've also gotten out of a few with warnings. This time, I really feel like I got cited because it was a slow night.

I was driving home late last night on the 101 south, through Ventura County. I was pretty tired, but I was doing ok. There is a big hill at one point and I always know that if I don't pick up a little speed ahead of time, I'll get close to stalling halfway up the grade. My car has a little tiny engine! I had been driving with my rear view mirror angled (you know that little tab you flip when some **** in a lifted truck with super bright lights is all up in your business behind you?). Honestly, I had to pee crazy bad, and I knew that I could make it to a certain Denny's I knew of, just over the hill, so I was on a mission.
So I *barely* start up this freakin hill when I notice the red lights flashin behind me. Ah jeez.

The officer said they were following me for HALF A MILE with the lights on. I remembered that my mirror was angled down and I explained that I was sorry I didn't see them, but there was a reason. He didn't get it. I had to repeat myself several times. I felt like he was harrassing me a little bit at this point. He didn't even give me a chance to explain about my weak little engine and how I was preparing to ascend the hill. He didn't say how much he clocked me at.
Then again, I didnt offer an explanation, and I didn't ask him my speed.

I got the ticket, and he wrote me up for 75 in a 65. Was I going faster and he was just being nice so I wouldn't have to pay a lot? Or was he being an **** and giving me a ticket because it was 12:45 early Sunday morning and he was bored and needed to make a quota?

I'm not bitter or anything.

Has anyone ever fought a speeding ticket? How did it play out?

Hooray! I got to do the video blog that's on the front page today!

Let me know what you think of it!!!

Ok, is it just me or is this hands-free law just a a pay-off from cell phone makere to get the whole state to buy those bluetooth earpieces? I'm sorry, but people who wear, especially when they ARENT on the phone, look like tools. Bluetools. Not to mention it is slightly ironic that the law takes effects just days before we celebrate our country's freedom....
so..... anyone who feels the clampdown from the CA government about the hands free cell phone law will join me in having a chuckle about the lack of any prohibiting about texting!! hahahaha!!!
And, if you text in to 98*7 this weekend, you can win a whole stack of killer new CDs!!! Among them are the new Weezer and (shriek!!!!!) BECK! I am totally stoked about the new Beck album! It was produced by Danger Mouse, who has made some amazing albums in the past, besodes being one half of Gnarls Barkley.
So keep texting this weekend and celebrate what freedom you have left!