Man Tried To Impress Girlfriend By Driving 126 MPH - Jailed

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A Georgetown University law student who was trying to impress his girlfriend admitted yesterday that he cranked up his new Infiniti to 126 mph on the George Washington Memorial Parkway -- among the highest speeds ever clocked on the stretch of federal road.

Drew Hoffman, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, and for this he will spend 12 days in jail and a year on probation. His attorney, Jim Clark, said Hoffman "had a new car for the first time in his life, and a great stretch of road at 4 a.m., with no one on it. . . . To say that he is remorseful is a gross understatement."

In a brief interview afterward, Hoffman, an Oklahoma native who lives in the District, said his early morning cruise was "a complete lack of judgment. There is no other explanation."

Sgt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman, said Hoffman was stopped at 3:55 a.m. on March 12 traveling south on the parkway at Turkey Run Park. He said Hoffman quickly pulled onto a ramp but wound up trapped because the ramp led to CIA headquarters.

"It appeared he was trying to lose the officer real quick," Fear said. "The officer just kind of smiled, knew he couldn't go anywhere and pulled up and got him." Hoffman was arrested and taken to a Park Police station before being released. His girlfriend, who had been a passenger, drove the silver 2006 Infiniti G35 back to the police station.

Prosecutors said in court that they could not recall anyone going faster than 126 mph on the parkway, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz told Hoffman: "In 15 years on the bench, having adjudicated literally thousands and thousands of speeding cases, this is the highest that I've ever had."

Law enforcement officials said later that two motorcycles were clocked last year going 160 mph on the parkway but were never caught. A third motorcyclist going 110 was charged and sentenced to 15 days in jail.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101829.html

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Best. Copname. Ever.

that HAS to be fake. I mean, does he work for Captain Justice?

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You see his ancestors were gynocologist in Poland and well...you get the rest.

zat it? I was still accelerating at 126 :eyes:

And no, I didn't get caught, I slowed the fuck down before my luck with the cops ran out :D

What a fucking idiot.

we just have to show our dates our decor tastes.

Unlike the 80 to 85 on the interstate.

This is not a high speed road, but a scenic parkway. A couple wrong moves, you are in a tree or the Potomac.

well. ok. It was pretty dumb and a crash would have been spectacularly scary.


I remember an buddy of mine driving us at 100 mph on the interstate once. Of course he was incredibly stoned....

I can understand in the middle of the day, but if no other cars are around, I dont see much harm.

This guy is luck to be alive

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