I'll give that a shot...I don't have any other tickets on my record...I can't remember the last time I got a moving violation, other than an expired tag (they didn't send a notice in the mail, so it slipped my mind), and that was 10 years ago, at least. I'll just go to court on 12/5 and see what happens. Maybe the cop won't show up.
The side of my house faces this road...it's a good 1/2 mile downhill stretch of straightaway. Everybody speeds in both directions. In this case, I didn't go past the cop sitting on a side street...they sit across the street in a Church parking lot, hidden by trees 'till you get right up on it. The turn into my street/driveway is before the Church lot...he must have shot me with the radar approaching his position, then when he saw I was turning (there's a middle turn lane) before reaching him, he zipped across the street and into my driveway with his lights on...I was already in the basement garage before I saw any Blue Lights...no siren. I had almost hit the button to close the garage door by the time he got to the top of my driveway, so he wasn't really "pursuing" in the normal sense of the word. By the time I got out of the car, he was standing in my basement door. I gave him my DL, he ran it, then came back and handed me the ticket...he didn't even ask for an explanation. He had a cocky attitude, and told me he could have gotten me for "eluding"...I responded that I was under the impression that one had to be aware of someone's presence before one could be accused of eluding, as that is a conscious act, and it's pretty hard to say I was attempting to elude when I parked my car in my own basement. He didn't care for that statement much.
So I shut up. I probably hit 74mph for a fraction of a second, because I have to slow down to 15-20mph to make the left turn into my street, then 25 feet to turn right into my driveway, so for at least 100 of the 300 yards, I was probably going under 40 mph. I don't really see how he zapped me from his position...it's a long shot with the radar gun. Any given day or night they could sit out there and write 20 tickets easily because you have to stay on the brakes to keep from running over 40 going down the hill in either direction. I hear crotch rockets doing 80 or 90 often when working in the basement or outside. It's just one of those places that begs folks to tweak the throttle a bit, no matter what they're driving. They set up their radar trap when revenues are down, I suppose.