Miguel Cortes - 107MPH Speeding Ticket
Yes, the “B-side” of Ohio.
Warren Haynes can not only play, but he can SING! If this were 1971 instead of 2011 Warren would be a household name, someone all over the radio.
Watch this video HERE. The title says “Gold Dust Woman”. But when Warren steps to the mic, he starts singing that legendary cappella CSNY song…”Find The Cost Of Freedom”. And then…at 1:10, Warren starts playing “Gold Dust Woman”. But this is not Gov’t Mule. This an all star band at the Jammys. In music what we’ve got these days is two roads. One based on recording and one based on performing. The recording one is often sterile, it doesn’t titillate us, and those performing are too often playing B-level material. But Warren Haynes performs.
And speaking of PERFORMANCES, one of the more disturbing aspects of the motorcycle culture is how the few seem to rewrite history for the rest of us as they ignore their own glaring stupidity.
I’m talking about Miguel Cortes (41) of Tualatin, OR. Yes, you Miguel! He wasn’t satisfied to be out riding on a relatively dry winter day and enjoying the freedom of the open road. No, he needed to PERFORM and make a spectacle of himself and by association drag all motorcycle enthusiasts along with his reckless behavior.
Mr. Cortes was riding a Yamaha F6S, 600cc, and raced past a parked Marion County Sheriff patrol car about 11:40 a.m. and then decided that “splitting” the lanes of travel as he continued northbound on I-5 at a high rate of speed was appropriate. Mr. Cortes was clocked at 107 mph in a 65 mph zone! Not only was Mr. Cortes arrested and released on reckless driving, he was also cited on accusations of speeding and failure to maintain a single lane of travel. The speeding fine is $1,143; lane splitting is $287. Mr. Cortes told the police officer that he thought he was only going “about 80” as he split the lanes of travel. Clearly Mr. Cortes found his ‘cost of freedom.’
In an open and free society it’s so adorable when we get to watch performances of the dumb and dumber.
Photo courtesy of Marion County Sheriff as Mr. Cortes proudly consented to posing for a photograph holding his citation.
Is he trying to give a sad face over that ticket?
If you don’t mind me telling stories; my first year of motorcycle riding brought a couple interesting incidents with sport bikers.
#1 – On week 5 of owning my first bike, I was on a Saturday trip to Tacoma. One of these sport bikers was changing lanes (more like flew, swerved over multiple lanes without signaling and in-between cars) and jetted in front of me and just past my front tire. His rear tire was probably a couple feet from my front. That scared me so bad I needed to pull off and take a break.
#2 – On my way to Puyallup with my pass card from a BRC to get my MC endorsement, a sport biker passes me in the opposite lane. Upon seeing me he then tries to wheelie twice and then started pumping his fist at me.
Thinking back on my basic motorcycle rider courses, I was warned about the “car” drivers…