{"id":51608,"date":"2026-10-22T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51608"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:44:20","slug":"seems-like-a-good-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51608","title":{"rendered":"Seems like a good excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-51609 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dunwoody_285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dunwoody_285.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dunwoody_285-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/dekalb-county\/drivers-excuse-after-going-124-mph-i-285-i-had-bad-day-work\/P5Q65LNO6JBWLLY5POO5RVGF4M\/\">WSB<\/a>: Driver clocked going 124 mph on I-285; cites \u201cI had a bad day at work\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Honestly, I\u2019m amazed that this guy was able to get to 124 mph on I-285 in the first place.\u00a0 If he was busted by Dunwoody police, he was definitely on the top end stretch of 285 that has the worst traffic among all other segments of the 64-mile circle around the city, and I almost find it hard to believe that the guy was able to find enough open road to open up whatever whip he was riding to get up to 124 mph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I\u2019m not going to pretend like I\u2019m the world\u2019s most safest driver and that I have never hit 124 mph or higher in my lifetime, but on this part of 285 that I\u2019ve driven with some regularity, I\u2019m lucky to ever be able to get to 80 mph, much less be able to sustain it to be able to go even faster, before either a sea of brake lights, and\/or the usual slop of untalented drivers all over 285 makes me have to slow the fuck back down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But citing a bad day at work as the excuse for going two times the legal limit?\u00a0 That\u2019s weak sauce, boss.\u00a0 I feel like when this cop propped the question, it was an opportunity to come up with a clever rebuttal that might have been able to get himself free, if it were funny or memorable enough.\u00a0 But I get it, it\u2019s heat of the moment, people generally clam up around the po-po, and this guy just blurted out the first thing that came to mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Because by that logic, if it were just a bad day, the top end of 285 would have thousands of idiots flying by at 124 mph+ on the regular, because driving around Atlanta is typically rage-inducing in itself, and no doubt if aggravation = speed, we\u2019d have drivers all around the city routinely hitting 120mph+<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Either way, I don\u2019t know whether to be glad to read of a story of police actually apprehending someone committing a moving violation in their cars, or even more disenchanted by the fact that a police officer doing their job and pulling over a speeder and writing them a ticket, is considered newsworthy.\u00a0 Because boy do I have a lot of tickets that I\u2019d write to a lot of motherfuckers for way less severe infractions than going 124mph if I had the ability to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSB: Driver clocked going 124 mph on I-285; cites \u201cI had a bad day at work\u201d Honestly, I\u2019m amazed that this guy was able to get to 124 mph on I-285 in the first place.\u00a0 If he was busted by Dunwoody police, he was definitely on the top end stretch of 285 that has the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seems like a good excuse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,112,45,143,52,105,10,49],"class_list":["post-51608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-rage","tag-traffic","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51610,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608\/revisions\/51610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}