Jan 20 2009Wow, What A Go-Getter: Kid Buys Back Car To Prove Speeding Ticket Was Falsely Issued
One day Dale Lyle got a speeding ticket in the mail issued by one of those automatic ticketing cameras. It claimed he was doing 98MPH in his 14-year old Honda Civic, a car he insisted could only do 85MPH max on a downhill slope with a tailwind. So what did he do? He did what any badass would do -- he stuck it to the man like dogshit under a cardoor handle.
Mr Lyle, 21, who has a clean driving license, had already sold the car to a friend for £600. He had to take out a bank overdraft to buy it back. Then he had to pay an independent driving expert £600 to test the 1.3litre Civic's top speed at a circuit in Bedfordshire.
The result was as expected. Even when driven flat-out, the Honda could still only do a top speed of 85.4mph in fourth gear and 81.3mph in fifth.Next, Mr Lyle obtained the mobile speed-camera footage of his alleged offence - travelling at 98mph on a 70mph three-lane carriageway of the A38, near Plymouth, on December 13, 2007.
The three-minute film shows three other cars in the frame at the same time, he said, which he believes means his vehicle was mistaken for another.
Nice, Dale, way to make us all proud. Now make the court give you back all the money you spent. I swear, I wish I was more like you. I probably would have just paid the fines and then vandalized the ticketing camera. Yay, passive-aggressiveness!
Also, somebody make this website a freaking Wikipedia page already. Geekologie demands Wikognition!
Hit the jump for a picture of the test report Dale had run.
Thanks to mole, who doesn't get speeding tickets because they don't issue them underground.
Reader Comments
1. Cameron - January 20, 2009 4:56 PM
FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. known - January 20, 2009 4:57 PM
Darn, well King Cameron, you are my master and I am your bitch. I will proceed to suck you off now.
3. known - January 20, 2009 4:58 PM
Yes Cameron I let you have it, calm down now & don't be angry anymore
4. Cameron - January 20, 2009 4:58 PM
*SPLOOGE*
Ah, thanks known, that's just what I needed. Here's a tissue.
5. known - January 20, 2009 4:58 PM
#2 hahaha
6. Ollie Williams - January 20, 2009 4:59 PM
Seems like a lot of money just to make a point, and overdraft his account. Yay for stupidity?
7. Cameron - January 20, 2009 4:59 PM
lol, okay, I'm better now. I want to thank Thumperchika (spelling?) for motivating me to be FIRST!
8. known - January 20, 2009 5:01 PM
Just don't go firstarded on us Cameron, there's enough of them out there already
9. Cameron - January 20, 2009 5:03 PM
@8. known - Don't worry, I won't, in fact I don't think I'm ever going to click the refresh button again, that was hell. I must have clicked it like 500 times.
10. known - January 20, 2009 5:10 PM
Yeah I was counting your hits from here. I proceeded to leave the room when GW updated so you could take the prize. Not to my surprise there's a lot of firsties doing the same thing as you, but not like that
Cameron FTW!
11. Daisy - January 20, 2009 5:12 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because thew shadow's are all wrong.
TYhis is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and BAja miss the school pictures day so they go speeding through speed traps to get their pictures taken.
12. Cameron - January 20, 2009 5:13 PM
@10. known - LOL! Bullshit, how the hell were you counting the hits? Now I feel embarrassed....
13. AdamYYZ - January 20, 2009 5:14 PM
Dude, good for you. You have to have justice. I had the same thing happen in a car accident. It cost me a lot to fight it, but I won, and I am a happier man because of it.
14. Moose Knuckle - January 20, 2009 5:15 PM
Holy crap, its a sad day when 9 out of the first 10 postings are completely worthless!!!
And it's Olliie Williams ta boot!!
Weak, oh and owned, Dale stuck it to the man.
15. Ollie Williams - January 20, 2009 5:18 PM
@14
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sticking it in the man, but not to the point where you overdraft your bank account and spend a shit load of money just to make a point to a judicial system that really doesn't care anyway.
Hm. Did I just say "stick it in the man" up there? I need to lay off the sauce at work. Who am I kidding, I love men. Homosexual's, that is.
16. known - January 20, 2009 5:19 PM
Cameron don't worry, here at teh interwebz your information is protected by a room full of broken robots that live on booze, pr0n and weed. It's amazing anything get's done
neverbackdown
17. Thumperchica - January 20, 2009 5:19 PM
Wow, I get the whole "Hey WTF I didn't do it!" but it may have been cheaper to eat the ticket (which is why cops love traffic cams)...
Cam - you almost had it...
Known - But did you count how many times *I* hit refresh? *twitch twitch*
18. Boing - January 20, 2009 5:31 PM
not really sure why this is on geekologie, if I wanted to read fark.com, i'd be at fark.com.... oh yeah, I am *switches to fark tab*
Still an awesome story nonetheless, it's great to see that kid rub it right back in the faces of the judge who thought he was lying.
19. yumwaffles - January 20, 2009 5:36 PM
I have actually not seen Never Back Down.
20. known - January 20, 2009 5:42 PM
#17 I plead the fifth
#19 me neither, heard it blows though
21. Cameron - January 20, 2009 5:53 PM
I've never seen it either.... I think it's pretty funny that you haven't even seen it, known. Sometimes I wonder what geekologie would be like today if Never Back Down wasn't in existence.
22. bgwalker99 - January 20, 2009 6:04 PM
It is now posted my friend. You have been wikiepedia-ed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geekologie
23. Pew³ - January 20, 2009 7:00 PM
Sorry, but some homo named Anthony Appleyard has immediately deleted the Geekologie reference on wikipedia.
24. known - January 20, 2009 7:00 PM
I fell asleep....
#21 Cameron I think it'd be less entertaining for some of us and less annoying for others. Thankfully we have Daisy to keep it balanced
25. teh drunk - January 20, 2009 7:17 PM
THEY SHOULdHA SSTUCK IT TO THE BARRTEDNAR BRRRAAAAAAEEECHH becCAUSE WHeEN YOUR"E aS DRNUK AS MEE YIR SDRUNK!
26. Thumperchica - January 20, 2009 7:34 PM
23- They cited that is isn't important... WTF do they know?
27. Snoodle - January 20, 2009 7:44 PM
That -is- pretty damn badass.
28. Cameron - January 20, 2009 7:51 PM
I'm f***ing gay
29. john wayne was a nazi - January 20, 2009 7:53 PM
what country was this in? they charged him pounds for going 85 mph? and why the f*** couldnt he just borrow the car back from the friend?
Btw, to get GW on wikipedia you need to indicate "importance or significance" in other words
"sole entertainment to the cubicled masses"
30. Timbo - January 20, 2009 8:07 PM
it's not about the money it's about "The Man" pushing you around!
I would have spent twice that!
31. Emode - January 20, 2009 8:11 PM
As for now, 3 different versions of the world Geekologie has been taken down (all of them were created in last 24 hours). Haha!
32. QUASIMODEM - January 20, 2009 9:11 PM
I swaer to God that if any of these sub-mental idiot mongoloid windowlickers make a half-dicked, unfunny and factually incorrect Wikipedia entry I will curl out a fat turd on their faces and pound it in until they've more faecal matter in their dense skulls than brain.
33. Cameron - January 20, 2009 9:45 PM
Kick ass! I'm important enough to have imitators that hate me and try to make me look gay!
(#28)
34. known - January 20, 2009 9:50 PM
Me too Cam, because I would never use the word 'darn' nor call you king =)
35. Geekster - January 20, 2009 10:24 PM
"Also, somebody make this website a freaking Wikipedia page already. Geekologie demands recognition!"
Get over yourself... At least you aren't bragging about your "HUGE" dick anymore.
36. matt - January 20, 2009 10:53 PM
ok about the article yeah ok there is like a million ways to hop up one of those cars to do over 85mph in fact ive once heard of one coming close to 86mph,and to the gay or not to be gay discussion sex is sex unless your junk touches then rubs then becomes entangled in a bliscfull union that only one of love that only a man can give to another man ok maybe im gay.
37. Shoka - January 20, 2009 11:39 PM
It's not just an issue of paying or not paying the fine, if he was successfully convicted of speeding, he'd have three points on his license. Only takes 12 points and you lose your license. I'd have fought for it too if I knew I'd been bullshitted.
38. weaponx - January 21, 2009 12:43 AM
Oh hell yeah, that camera, and all others I found, would have to suffer my educated weapons building wrath. hhehehehehe
39. Spam Artist - January 21, 2009 2:44 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula's wife is making cakes for Dracula's 400,000th victim party when she drops her ring into the mixture.
Rather than fish it out and ruin the mixture, she waits to see who chokes.
40. UK driver - January 21, 2009 6:20 AM
Just to point out, i'd have done the same. We have a point system in effect here. If you get done speeding, you loose 3 points. for a driver who has had their licence for under 2 years, you only get 6 points to start with, so, if you lose 3 for a speeding ticket, you can only get caught one more time before you are banned and have to re0take your test. Our tests are alot harder than the US tests, and most people needs about 2 or three goes to pass them. and that costs money. you need to hire a new driving instructor and pay for the theory and practical tests.
41. Daisy_Read_Writer - January 21, 2009 6:52 AM
Cake! This is a complete Julia Child job. You can tell it's cake because it crumbles when you eat it and the shadows are all tongue.
I wonder, could not the dude utilize any motion blur present in the image to prove which is the faster moving car?
42. Pat - January 21, 2009 8:47 AM
@23 Removed because "Article...does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject." Are you kidding? Geekologie is the most important part of my day. Like breakfast, only with a more delicious chewy center.
43. Cameron - January 21, 2009 9:54 AM
@34. known -
;O_o I, uh, well..... I don't know what you're talking about.
44. Grammar Bitch - January 21, 2009 10:04 AM
No one is going to make a wiki page of this piece of shit site until you learn to spell and make sure you put all the words in: "I wish I was more you"? Almost every other one of your freaking summaries is incorrect in some way or another.
Have some work ethic. You're funny, now just proof the shit before posting.
45. Sly - January 21, 2009 11:32 AM
Bah! When they send me a photo of my speeding... I send them a photo of the money they want. Seems fair.
@ 44 I'm pretty sure that none of us are here for the grammar or correctness of the posts.
46. Jayfournines - January 21, 2009 11:33 AM
Hrm...I don't much care for Spam Artists "Fake!!!" comments, all hail the TRUE O.G. Daisy
47. Buttmouth - January 21, 2009 11:49 AM
Apparently, people have tried to put Geekologie on Wikipedia...But they don't understand the importance of the superficial writer's "blog"/lost book of bible(which contains pictures and funny comments which are way funnier than Genisis...but Genisis did have naked Eve).
48. softlicious - January 21, 2009 12:04 PM
BULLSHIT!!!
Speed limits are bullshit! No one is to tell me how to drive a car. Wheather I'm drunk or not, wheather I have a drivers license or not, HERE I GO! The government should not make rules for people to obey, then we will be living in a totalitarian society, the people should make rules and I AM A PEOPLE! That's why I make my own rules, and that regards traffic too!
"I probably would have just paid the fines and then vandalized the ticketing camera."
NO! Vandalize the ticketing camera first, then speed, that way you have to pay nothing. Stick it to the boss!
Curse you Obama!
Curse you Government!
Curse you cops!!!
Someday when this camera is broken, that is when I will exterminate your speeding tickets. As long as the stearing wheel is in my hand...
Btw: YEAH, WOOPIE! TOP 50!!! What an accomplishment!!!
Yo'r'all my bitches!
49. Mr. Man - January 21, 2009 12:19 PM
@45 f*** Yea!
@44 Go to bed! You'r (on purpose) killing my buzz!
And for the record, I was pulled over by an airplane for speeding...taking pictures of the top of my car relative to the white lines on my dashboard, I mean road.
f*** the man!
50. Thumperchica - January 21, 2009 12:55 PM
45 that is awesome!
51. Dave - January 21, 2009 4:51 PM
Wow, I actually did something like this a few years back when I got ticketed for not having my car registered even though it was. Of course, I didn't go to the extent this guy did, but I did write up a sizable report (which basically insulted the cop for his blindness and dumbassness) and submitted it to appeal my case.
I won, not that anyone here would care.
52. proteon - January 21, 2009 7:38 PM
Badasses sure don't look like they used to.
53. 25 - January 21, 2009 10:48 PM
f*** the police! i recently got a speeding ticket for going "63" in a 35 zone, in my TROOPER. cop totally lied. im not just saying this. i wouldve contested it but i have no proof or witnesses. i payed $315.00. i know i wasnt going over 55 for a FACT!
54. Abby - January 24, 2009 4:00 AM
Gosh! hats off to him! I'd have simply requested for a traffic school to get rid of the points and joined an online one at that or would have simply paid the fine. But I am inspired now, next time I'll stand up for justice:)
55. Shirik - January 24, 2009 12:59 PM
Way to go mate!!
I know this guy in real life and know all the shit he went through to sort this crap out, well done to him for winning this fight after all these bloody months!
56. v tard - January 27, 2009 1:46 AM
He sold it to a friend?
What kind of friend makes you buy the car back just to test it?
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