Man gets fistful of speeding tickets...

["Sedon, Doug (OD/ORS)" <sedond@domain.elided>]

>            RENO, Nev. (AP) ... An Illinois man testing the mettle of his
>         new, high-speed car acquired a fistful of tickets on a
>         cross-country trip that came to a temporary halt when his
>         pricey ride petered out on Interstate 80.
> 
>            Chong Su Yi, 38, of Lombard, Ill., was arrested Wednesday in
>         Elko after leading the Nevada Highway Patrol on a high-speed
>         chase through Nevada's high desert.
> 
>            The souped-up Camaro used by the trooper was no match for
>         Yi's 1999 canary-yellow Lotus.
> 
>            Not that the patrol cars are exactly sluggish.
> 
>            They can do about 160 mph, said Trooper Rocky Gonzalez.
>          This guy was probably in the neighborhood of 180.
> 
>            But the NHP's advantage came when Yi's $92,000 vehicle ...
>         brand new with only 3,450 miles on it ... began to billow white
>         smoke.
> 
>            The motor probably wasn't broken in yet because he blew the
>         engine, said Trooper Greg Johnson, who arrested Yi on charges
>         of eluding police, speeding and reckless driving. That vehicle
>         will do much faster than I could catch him. The speedometer
>         goes to 220.
> 
>            It wasn't Yi's first ticket in Nevada that day.
> 
>            He had been written up two times earlier, once for going 113
>         mph and another for doing 90, the NHP said. All three tickets
>         were issued before noon along a 100-mile stretch of I-80.
> 
>            It turns out Yi, who was jailed briefly in Elko, collected
>         quite a few speeding tickets as souvenirs during his odyssey,
>         which began sometime in early April.
> 
>            Besides the three in Nevada, he received one ticket in Ohio
>         on April 12; three in Iowa on the 16th; one in Nebraska on the
>         17th; and at least one in Wyoming on the 19th, the NHP said.
>         Highway patrol officials in these states couldn't say Thursday
>         whether he was slowed down by jail time along the way.
> 
>            Johnson said Yi indicated he owned a dry cleaning business
>         in the Chicago area.
> 
>            He said he was going out to San Francisco to take in the
>         scenery and then going back to the Chicago area, Johnson said.
>         Specifically he said he wanted to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
> 
>            Yi was released from jail after posting bail and went to
>         find a rental car, Johnson said.
> 
>            There are no Lotus dealers in Elko ... a small town about a
>         1-hour drive, at normal speeds, west of the Nevada-Utah line ...
>         so Yi indicated he probably would have the car towed back to
>         Salt Lake City, Johnson said.
> 
>            AP-WS-04-22-99 1653EDT
> 
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