SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE: Driver clocked at 148 mph was 'airing out' his 2001 Ford Mustang

Remind me not to use this particular excuse:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KARE11) - It's a number that grabs attention immediately.

Seriously... 148 miles per hour.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says a man from Darwin was the champ when it came to citations during a recent statewide crackdown on speeders. Richard Bernhagen, age 41, was ticketed for doing 148 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone on a road just outside Hutchinson.

State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske says a trooper stopped Bernhagen's 2001 Mustang GT on Tagas Avenue just before 2 p.m. July 17. The trooper says Bernhagen stated "I haven't driven it in a while and was airing it out, I was wrong."

Roeske says the driver admitted to doing 135 mph...

Can't you just imagine the judge at the hearing?

"Son, you were going about a hunnert miles an hour... over the speed limit!"


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