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I went out for a short ride last night and found myself rolling into the town of Springfield VT. at about 7pm.
Route 5 starts out as a 50mph zone then drops to 40mph, and then down to 25mph.
The officer had been going in the opposite direction when he spotted me and I was going a bit too quick as I was approaching the 25mph zone. As I pass another vehicle I see the blue lights in my mirrors and pull over and into a car lot.
I remove the helmet and gloves as he sits in his car and calls it in and whatever. As I'm awaiting my destiny I can't help but make a mental list of all the documents he may ask to see and their locations.
He informs me that I was going a bit fast back there and decided to pull me over. As I'm fishing my license and insurance slip from my wallet he gets interested in the bike. "Uni-track?" he asks, followed by "what year is the bike?". We chat as I hand over the documents and he mentions he had a Kawasaki as well in the past. This is going well and he notices the speedometer is in metric which gets us off on another positive tangent. At this point two other police cars pull into the parking lot and take up "hovering", he goes back into his car to verify my information.
Maybe a minute goes by and he hands me my things back and asks where in Canada I'm from. It turns out his sister went to university in the same city that I had just moved from and had worked at the US Embassy.
So, that's it.
No ticket or drama and the other cars left once we had completed our discussion. I have not been pulled over for a long time. Other than the officer back home who let me off for doing 135kph in a 100kph zone because I "missed my wife" (returning from a 5 day road trip to Indy) I have to say this was the most pleasant exchange I have ever had with a LEO.
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Originally Posted by Jank
