NationStates Jolt Archive

Have to admirethe guy's imagination here.

A Swiss man caught speeding on a Canadian highway has blamed his actions on the absence of goats on the roads.

The man was caught driving at 161 km/h (100mph) in a 100 km/h (60mph) zone.

A traffic officer's notes said the Swiss driver had said he was taking advantage "of the ability to go faster without risking hitting a goat".

Canadian police spokesman Joel Doiron said he had never found a goat on the highways of eastern Ontario in his 20 years of service.

"Nobody's ever used the lack of goats here as an excuse for speeding," Mr Doiron told the AFP news agency.

"I've never been to Switzerland, but I guess there must be a lot of goats there," he said.

The driver was ordered to pay a fine of C$360 ($330; £175) for speeding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5322302.stm

Whats the best excuse you've heard from someone trying to weasel their way out of a traffic fine?
(I actually have gotten off fines b4, but never from using outrageous excuses)

Have to admirethe guy's imagination here.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5322302.stm

Whats the best excuse you've heard from someone trying to weasel their way out of a traffic fine?
(I actually have gotten off fines b4, but never from using outrageous excuses)I think DK had a nifty story about how he got out of a fine but got the crap beaten out of him by the German policement that stopped him instead. :p

That's a lot better than the one I heard about a British man who had been living in the U.S. for some time. He was caught doing 75MPH in a 55MPH zone, but he was on highway 75 and claimed he thought the highway number was the speed limit. He put the British-ness on pretty thick, and despite the fact that he knew better, he got off.

My boyfriend has a friend that's a car nut (he has this old VW Rabbit with a ridiculous sound system, into which he's sunk what probably amounts to thousands upon thousands of dollars). He has this great story about a cop trying to pull him over for speeding. Instead of pulling over, he decides to try to outrun the cop; he was out on these country roads that he knew well and he's an awesome driver, so he figured he had a good shot. So he takes off at high speed, making lots of turns to try to lose the cop. He stays pretty far ahead of the police car, but can't shake it; after five or ten minutes of this, he finally decides to pull over. The cop pulls up behind him, gets out of the car and walks up to him. My friend looks up and the cop is laughing so hard he can hardly talk; the cop says to him, "you know the only reason I could follow you is that you used your turn signals at every turn?" :p No ticket.

I've never had to weasel my way out of a speeding ticket, entirely because the coppers have never caught me.

And I don't drive anymore. Cars cost too much money, which sucks.

Personally, I've never seen a goat on a highway before and I've been here for all my life excluding two years...:rolleyes:

Somewhere in eastern Ontario... someone's crazily breeding goats to throw them onto highways...

i dont know what is more sad

the guys excuse.

or the fact they had a press conference about a guy going 40 over the limit.

Personally, I've never seen a goat on a highway before and I've been here for all my life excluding two years...:rolleyes:

I've been held up by cows, sheep and ducks in the past, but never goats.

But probably not on a highway. :P

Hell, you know how those lousy goats hold up traffic! When they aren't around you have to speed! Too bad he didn't check for police when he checked for the goats.