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Originally Posted by CCIP
Man, that's terrible. Honestly, while the response might seem extreme, I don't think law enforcement should be above the law when no emergency is involved. If you're driving at very high speeds and crossing lanes back and forth while going twice the speed the other drivers are, it is creating dangerous situations. So it's not wrong to consider him a danger. As one of the youtube comments there said, doing 120mph in gusty weather and traffic, you deserve more than a gun to the face. Where I live, doing something like that is a mandatory $10,000 fine, vehicle impoundment, and license suspension.
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I'd have to ask my parents(They are both FHP officers, which is how I heard of the story), but I believe it has a major penalty here too.
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That said, having driven through Florida a lot with my friends there, all I know about FHP is that they are, by and large, highly retentive about everything. Still, I'd rather they be retentive about someone going twice the speed limit for no reason than about someone doing an extra few MPH on a clear stretch of road.
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Florida State Statute lets you drive 5 mph over the speed limit, legally. Most troopers and other law enforcement agencies wont pull you over until your doing more than 10mph over the speed limit.
I've only been pulled over once for doing 10 over the speed limit. The officer(Metro Dade) let me go with a verbal warning after I explained my speedometer doesn't work(which it doesn't, it'll choose a random number and stay there
). I know that I should judge my speed by eye, but when you're on a strech of road alone, it's hard to judge.