# Never speed in Virginia
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [December 6, 2014, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211 "2014-12-06T08:22:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/1 "2014-12-06T08:22:11Z")
> **[Never Speed In Virginia: Lessons From My Three Days In Jail](https://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my-three-days-in-1613604053)**
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> You never really get a good night’s sleep in jail. In the middle of my second night inside, I woke up on the uncomfortable plastic mat in my cell, my neck and back aching. I looked down at my orange jail scrubs and up at the buzzing fluorescent light...
:tdown:
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### Author:  [@Haenszel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Haenszel)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/2 "2014-12-06T08:50:48Z")
I’ve got 3 VA reckless driving tickets under my belt for cruising with traffic at highway speed (not an exaggeration). Somehow got out of all of them in FFX county which is unheard of, but still never speed in Virginia. NOVA police departments are money machines.
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### Author:  [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/3 "2014-12-06T09:59:40Z")
I spent an afternoon in a local lockup and I can agree with his assessment. Alone in a cell with absolutely nothing to do and a hard bench, no belt, and no shoelaces. Completely boring.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/4 "2014-12-06T11:48:57Z")
Looks like I got off easy for that 110 in a 50 in the city of buffalo. 😮
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/5 "2014-12-06T13:22:55Z")
im of the opinion that you avoid driving in NOVA at all costs
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### Author:  [@stuiephoto](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/stuiephoto)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/6 "2014-12-06T13:42:37Z")
For one lap of america, they warn everyone in the drivers meeting not to fuck around in VA.
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### Author:  [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/7 "2014-12-06T13:55:35Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> Looks like I got off easy for that 110 in a 50 in the city of buffalo. 😮
If you’re gonna break it…double it.
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### Author:  [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/8 "2014-12-06T14:05:37Z")
> [@1QIKZ](#):
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> If you’re gonna break it…double it.
Might as well it seems.
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### Author:  [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/9 "2014-12-06T15:24:06Z")
> [@Haenszel](#):
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> I’ve got 3 VA reckless driving tickets under my belt for cruising with traffic at highway speed (not an exaggeration). Somehow got out of all of them in FFX county which is unheard of, but still never speed in Virginia. NOVA police departments are money machines.
I was stuck on the belt way for 2 hours and went 20 miles in 2 hours. 15 miles the last 10 minutes of that time… There was an officer in an unmarked impala in traffic who pulled me over for 89 in a 55. I also thought it was going to be a rough speeding ticket.
I have a misdemeanor on my record because of this and I paid a lawyer. I won’t blame Virginia but fuck Virginia.
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### Author:  [@slo\_ride](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slo_ride)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/10 "2014-12-06T18:12:46Z")
Had this forwarded to me by a guy I used to work with. I used to drive from pittsburgh to DC to Williamsburg VA every Monday for lab building project for about 2 years. Once we were past the pentagon heading out of town the cruise was set at 80mph. Everyone from the DC office would constantly warn me about the ticket threat but no one seemed to mind getting to the site early enough to have lunch before the meetings or getting back to DC at a reasonable hour in the evening.
never got as much as a second look from any va troopers.
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### Author:  [@Bsp\_TC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bsp_TC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/never-speed-in-virginia/271211/11 "2014-12-08T05:20:39Z")
This is funny, i know the exact jail he got locked up in since I live about 20 minutes away. Funny thing is my first VA ticket I got caught doing 93 in a 55 and all I got was a fine LOL, was about 300$.