Bizarre, Criminal law

Getting That Windblown Look: Illinois Man Drives 100 Miles an Hour To Dry Off Car

Lucas Wright, 24, has a novel defense for driving like a madman at 100 miles an hour in Illinois: “he’d just gotten his car washed and he was trying to dry it off.”

That was the explanation when an officer finally caught up with 2006 Honda Accord. By the way, the speed limit was 50 miles an hour — which is usually sufficient to dry out most cars. He was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of speeding 40 miles per hour or more over the posted limit. This defense attorney may just want to throw in the towel on this one.

Source: Chicago News

Jonathan Turley

26 thoughts on “Getting That Windblown Look: Illinois Man Drives 100 Miles an Hour To Dry Off Car”

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  2. Blouise,
    I was indeed a “bad boy” for awhile in many ways. By the way after 7 days at Sturgis in 1977 I learned to ride a bike and realized I never wanted to again. Anything that can seriously injure me by hitting unseen sand on the roadway, wasn’t meant for me. Incidentally my favorite car that I ever owned was a 1954 powder blue Oldmobile Starfire convertible. That car won me a few street races, but burned up one day after I had averaged 100 mph between Syracuse and Albany. As a nice, Jewish boy from Brooklyn I have had some “interesting” times.

  3. Anonymously Yours
    1, September 9, 2010 at 9:09 am
    Blouise,

    Many states have laws against just such accouterments. In some areas that they are legal its an open invitation to be stopped, by LEO…

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    Shoot! I can’t, in all honesty, fail to reveal that info to my husband … there go my LED’s.

    We were at Sturgis a few years ago and the guys with the high handle bars had a spare low set to put on their bikes in the states where the high ones were illegal.

  4. How to keep the car dry even in rain… 200 MPH on the highway:

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCtp4CF7zU&fs=1&hl=en_US]

  5. Blouise,

    Many states have laws against just such accouterments. In some areas that they are legal its an open invitation to be stopped, by LEO…

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