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Getting busted for doing over 100 mph is a lot like getting kicked out of camp for being in a girl's bunk after dark. Sure, you're pissed you got caught, but it's also going to make for a pretty good story.While we would never advocate extreme speeding, with the right combination of car and road, sometimes it's inevitable. Just make sure you don't let your speedometer approach triple digits if you are in the state of Virginia, where such a transgression will get you a $2,500 fine and mandatory jail time.
After the jump, check out our list of celebrity speeders who were clocked at the century mark but avoided jail time.
Epic Vehicle Crashes
Local fire crews seem to be trying to figure out if this is some kind of art installation.
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Creative parking. You could fit a MINI Cooper and two Smart cars in that extra space.
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This is why you never want bay windows when you live around the corner from the local pub.
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"Ice Road Truckers" would be our favorite show if this happened at some point in every episode.
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Finally, Tacos Jalisco got the drive-through they always wanted.
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Here's one of those wrecks where you wish your car was equipped with a ladder, rather than airbags.
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This trucker got one too many speeding tickets.
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Listen up, drug dealers -- when you're waiting for the importer to bring in your shipment, don't park right on the airstrip.
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A tornado caused this vehicle to experience two new kinds of AC -- an extra fan from a high-school gym and permanently opened windows.
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He used to skateboard. Now he can grind the rails in his Honda Pilot.
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10. Al Gore Jr. at 100 mph -- Little Albert did his poppa proud when he proved to skeptics that the environmentally friendly Prius could really move.
9. Nick Hogan at 100 mph -- The reality TV star's triple-digit speeding stop came months before he was involved in a tragic accident at a lower speed.
8. LeBron James at 101 mph -- The $80 million man brushed off his $150 ticket as "no big deal."
7. Steve Wozniak at 104 mph -- The Apple inventor and American citizen actually pleaded metric-system confusion. The judge didn't buy it, and fined him $700.
6. Matt Dillon at 106 mph -- Kevin's older brother was clocked on the open roads of Vermont.
5. Tashera Simpson at 106 mph -- While we've pegged DMX as a sure-fire celebrity speeder, it was his wife who was caught doing triple digits in the family Mercedes. (With four unbuckled kids in the back.)
4. Chris Tucker at 109 mph -- The "Rush Hour" star was pulled over for reaching 109 back in 2005, and we haven't really heard from him since.
3. Ben Affleck at 114 mph -- Top that, Damon.
2. Eric Clapton at 134 mph -- Slowhand has a lead foot. And his top speed got him banned from driving in France.
1. Koenigsegg CC at 242 mph -- Not technically a person, but the Swedish supercar which was allegedly pulled over for doing 242 on a Texas freeway during the Gumball 3000 rally race. If true, it would be the largest speeding ticket ever issued.
For more great adventures of celebrity speeders, check out 15 Celebrities Who Got Caught Speeding on TruTV.com.
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Wednesday 04 March
By Joe Seabourn
If you are running 242mph on a texas road coool if you hit a bump or a dip a buckled road surface I guess the next statement NASA we have problem becuase pretty car are lousy airplanes JMS
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Wednesday 04 March
By barra
vice pres.gore's son have low speed or mid speed or high speed not first times crashes each of the car accidents from ones else.
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Wednesday 04 March
By ringenbe5
I WAS CLOCKED AT 165 MPH IN A 69 THUNDER BIRD ONCE!WHEN I WAS YOUNG AN DUMB!
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Wednesday 04 March
By seabourn
I already said if you run 242 mph and get a bump or a dip you are now a airplane and cars are crummy airplanes cars are not good gliders either jms
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Thursday 05 March
By jimmy
I got clocked @ 131 mph in a Peterbilt 18 wheeler racing with a mustang on rt 60 in Florida.It had a V8 Cat Twin Turbo with 6X4 Twin sticks turned around to double overdrive.
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Friday 27 March
By FerrariDr
I once was travelling through Northern Georgia on the way to South Carolina in one of my Ferrari's. Doing about 180 MPH I came up over a hill and sure enough there was a State Trooper on the side of the road. Being only 10 miles from the border I quickly determined to Gun It as it would take me only 31/2 minutes to reach the border and the Trooper much longer to get going and than he could never catch me anyway. I looked out my rearview and he actually had his hand out his window waving me on obvously aware he could never catch me. No ticket, but a good and TRUE story anyway
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Tuesday 12 May
By Don Zunker
I recall Johnny Carson getting a ticket for DUI... a couple of weeks later, one of the stars of HILL STREET BLUES, Bruce Weitz, who played Officer Belker, was his guest. Seems a week or so earlier Bruce was pulled over for doing 110 mph on an LA freeway... when the cop approached the car he recognized Bruce as Belker... The cop's response, "It's you!" over and over...
In the end, Bruce didn't get any tickets...
So Johnny, after hearing Bruce's story, said, "110 and no ticket. One glass of wine I lose my license."
THE AUDIENCE ROARED!!!
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Sunday 03 January
By Red Bullet
While driving through the deserts of Arizona and Nevada, and there is little to no traffic, I routinely drive 135 - 140 MPH. I'm alone and despite the protests of my kids, the car rides and handles far more precise at 140 than at 70. When I hear the "Dad at 66 years of age your reflex's and eyes arent' what they used to be". I tell them that if I get killed going that fast, just to remember I was doing something I really, really enjoyed doing. After all, what do you think Corvetts were built for? Going to the grocery store? However after reading about aircraft enforcement, permanent video and mandatory jail time, I think I'll probably bring it down below 100 from now on.
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