Several days ago I was heading home to my house in the Virginia Heights neighborhood area. It was dark out but not real late, probably around 9PM or so. I turned from Brandon to Edgewood (at the intersection where there is a Family Dollar store) and made my way up and over the hill in the direction of my house.

Now, if you’re not familiar with this road, it’s only 25mph through this section but it’s one of those roads where it’s very easy to go faster than that. And perhaps even easier to want to go faster. But, it’s primarily a residential area and I think 25mph is appropriate.

Well, along the road before it runs into Memorial Avenue there is designated residential parallel parking on the both sides of the road. I have seen police set up with radar along here before, they pull in as if a regular car. I must say it’s a great spot. And given this was a Saturday night I was paying particularly close attention to my speed.

Sure enough, as I was driving past I could see the lights and reflectors of a police car pulling into one of those open spots along the sides of the road. They were just getting ready to set up radar I suppose.

This is where the story gets a little more interesting.

So, the windup is that I passed the officer and continued on my way. But, instead of going home I decided to make a loop and circle back around. I turned onto to Memorial Avenue, then turned to Grandin Avenue, and back to Brandon. Then, I came back and turned on to Edgewood again.

I proceeded back up the hill along Edgewood. The entire loop probably took about 5-10 mintues or so. But, this time there was no police car parked along the side of the road.

Can you already see where I’m going with this?

Just ahead as I again turned from Edgewood onto Memorial I saw the flashing lights, just behind a driver who’s night probably just got a bit worse. Just a few minutes of running radar and a speeder was pulled over.

And would you believe I have done this before on other occasions. I have seen police parked along this road in the past. So, I just circle around once or twice and they usually have a speeder pulled over. I find it quite entertaining for some reason, because so often when I obey the signs I’m in-turn tailgated when driving through there.

Why are people in such a hurry anyways?