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Genecag
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Stopped for Speeding on Hwy 2
On Sunday, while returning from Santa Veronica (40 mins SE from Tecate) was stopped by Federales on Hwy 2.
They got me with Radar cresting a hill and I was speeding......
Officer walked over and introduced himself and shook my hand. He said that I was speeding and that he could show me the reading.
He asked for my license and registration and asked if the truck belonged to me.
He told me that I would be getting a ticket and asked me to wait in the car.
5 mins later he came back and asked me to come with him to the back of the pickup. He opened my tail gate and used it as table and explained the
ticket and that I could pay it on line and that I get a 25% discount for accepting the ticket and 25% more if I pay within 15 or 30 days.
He pulled out his ID card to show me his Name and Badge Number and showed me the same on the ticket.
He asked me to be safe and to slow down.
Very Professional and absolutely doing his job!
Make it a Great Day!!
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John M
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thanks for posting
....what I consider a positive experience. So maybe all the signage about radar enforcement isn't there just for show.
John M
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Whale-ista
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Good to know. Is this between Guadalupe Valley and Tecate?
Maybe better roads-> higher speed -> more enforcement?
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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AKgringo
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Highway 2 south east of Tecate would be toward Mexicalli.
Was that on the toll road, or the free route?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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SFandH
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How fast were you going and what was the posted speed limit?
I find the posted speed limits to be way too slow. If it's 60 kph I'm usually driving 60 mph.
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bajagrouper
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I was stopped out side Hermosillo by a radar cop and I was clearly speeding, I asked him when was the last time the radar gun had been
calibrated.....He looked down and said pase, and I drove off doing the speed limit.........
I hear the whales song
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rts551
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around Guerrero Negro, the Federal police have been using radar for some time now.
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larryC
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I'm curious abut the part where you could pay online. Did they seize your drivers license? I've heard in the past that is what they do and you
retrieve it at the office after you pay your fine.
Larry
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
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bajabuddha
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I've been radar zapped (and fined) at the Punta Chivato turn-off bus stop. Of course, I was only doing 110 in a 40 (km) zone, and it was just before
xmas, so we both had a good laugh and his kids got some good presents thanks to my lead-foot. That was a while ago too, so Baja has had radar for
quite some time.
 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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rts551
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Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  | I've been radar zapped (and fined) at the Punta Chivato turn-off bus stop. Of course, I was only doing 110 in a 40 (km) zone, and it was just before
xmas, so we both had a good laugh and his kids got some good presents thanks to my lead-foot. That was a while ago too, so Baja has had radar for
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I have never seen a Federal Police take Xmas money.
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bajabuddha
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| Quote: Originally posted by rts551 | | Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha | I've been radar zapped (and fined) at the Punta Chivato turn-off bus stop. Of course, I was only doing 110 in a 40 (km) zone, and it was just before
xmas, so we both had a good laugh and his kids got some good presents thanks to my lead-foot. That was a while ago too, so Baja has had radar for
quite some time.
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I have never seen a Federal Police take Xmas money.
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You have now. And, I've seen a Federales shake down a friend who rolled his truck (one-car accident); scare the sh!t out of him and threaten two
thousand dollar fine and two years in jail, when in fact a one-car accident in Mexico doesn't even get written up for citation; just reported for
insurance purposes. My bud was so utterly panicked he was ready to faint, and this is after rolling over at least two times (curve right above
Santispac), so they both walked away with $200 u.s. each, and told him NOT to show up at the Sta Rosalia Federale office; they'd send the report to
Oscar's in Mulege (the wrecker).
They aren't all saints.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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ncampion
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I was stopped just South of GN about a year ago. He had me on a radar gun going 70 mph. He was also very polite and told me that was not safe on
that road and I should not go over 55 mph. He gave me that warning and said to "Have a good day". Very professional all the way. I do think that
the Federal Police are generally good, but of course there can be a few bad ones.
Living Large in Loreto. Off-grid and happy.
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Lee
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Sounds like DK here: I didn't see it, it must not be happening.
Not everybody is on the take, but many are and that includes the Feds.
US Marines: providing enemies of America an opportunity to die for their country since 1775.
What I say before any important decision.
F*ck it.
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | How fast were you going and what was the posted speed limit?
I find the posted speed limits to be way too slow. If it's 60 kph I'm usually driving 60 mph. |
Yes, the KPH is often more realistically a MPH number!
The speed limit on Hwy. 2-D (toll road) in parts is 110 kph between Tecate and Mexicali, that's about 70 mph, and pretty fast for most of us.
I have even seen 110 posted south of Puertecitos when they first had a long section opened... So, new, wider roads, with shoulders... are getting more
realistic speed limits. The old, narrow highways remain 80 kph (50 mph) however, as a top speed.
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by Lee |
Sounds like DK here: I didn't see it, it must not be happening.
Not everybody is on the take, but many are and that includes the Feds. |
Got me confused again...
I am also the one who sees and shows the sea level as anyone can see it, but populist opinion about sea level seems to go with government employees
and politicians who may have never been to the beach!
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sancho
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Come on Lee, a perfect normal reading thread, and you have
to get you know who, all lathered up. Takes it very personal,
a real hair trigger
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rts551
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Ah geeze. here we go again. The Nomind pit. Sorry I posted anything.
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bajabuddha
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Yo tambien, lo siento.  Sea levels and Nomania strikes again.
[Edited on 9-14-2015 by bajabuddha]
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha | I've been radar zapped (and fined) at the Punta Chivato turn-off bus stop. Of course, I was only doing 110 in a 40 (km) zone, and it was just before
xmas, so we both had a good laugh and his kids got some good presents thanks to my lead-foot. That was a while ago too, so Baja has had radar for
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..and Breathalizers too? Or do they still just ask you if you are drunk?
Bob Durrell
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rts551
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by sancho |
"Sounds like DK here: I didn't see it, it must not be happening. "
Come on Lee, a perfect normal reading thread, and you have
to get you know who, all lathered up. Takes it very personal,
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How many other DK's are here? How is it hair trigger or possible to not take it personal?
Let me know... In the meantime, I will get back to work on my writing... just popping in to see if something fun or interesting is on Nomad, like it
used to mostly be here... and can't we all just get along (and stop the personal attacks)?
Baja as it is and was... with the palapas and palm trees still along the beach in the same place they were in the 70's (why aren't they underwater
yet?)!
     
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Just popping in to interject a little politics into the nomind pit are we? You would be better off working on your writing.
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