Motorist booked for doing 773kph

PORT DICKSON: A 59-year-old resort caretaker here has been booked for travelling at 773kph.

New Ching Shit said he received a summons on April 4 for driving at 773kph along the 12th kilometre of Jalan Pantai here on Nov 30 last year.

STUMPED ... New posing next to his 18-year-old car which, police claim, can reach a speed of 773kph.

"I drive along the stretch daily because my house is just down the road,'' he said at a press conference organised by Negri Sembilan DAP committee member John Fernandez yesterday.

"But it is ridiculous to say that I drove at such a breakneck speed,'' he said, adding that the speed limit along Jalan Pantai was 60kph.

New, who drives an 18-year-old Toyota Corolla GL, said he was stumped when he was slapped with the summons because the car speedometer only goes up to 160kph.

"How can the traffic police here make such a blatant mistake? I am even more amazed when a police officer insisted that there was no mistake,'' he said.

New said he had sought legal assistance to take the matter to court.

On the lighter side, New said his friends now called him the world number one F1 driver, saying he was better than Michael Schumacher.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

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Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

Mr. Lilly, I'm afraid we're going to have to write you up for not putting a category for the header on this.

It should, of course, have been placed under "SHT."

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

LOL, I thought that's what he had done and misspelled it!

Doyou suppose this guy demonstrated with himself when he got stopped, punching the steering wheel and saying, "Oh, shit!"

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

ROTFLMAO, that should have been remonstrated.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

Carl,

I have suspected for a long time that the Japanese make better cars for their home market than they do for ours. I know the Japanese racing motorcycles can top out over 300kph on only a 500cc engine. So a Toyota with about 2000cc should be able to easily hit 773kph. Unless I'm making some basic math error here. Anyway, you can bet they won't sell that really "good" stuff to us, nosiree.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

Yep Gordon, all they sell us is the "Old" Shit...

Wish I knew what "Ching" meant....

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

P.S.

773 Kilometers per hour = 463 Miles per hour...

Wonder who sold Malaysia their radar guns, and what kind of warranty they came with?

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

I Ching means Book of Changes. . .

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

The Spanish slang verb "chingar" means "to f#@%."

helpfully,

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

And "chingching" is Japanese for "penis."

Other useful multilingual expressions

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Response to Shit recieves ticket for traveling 773kph in a 60kph zone

There is also the ever-popular "cha-ching," meaning mucho dinero.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001