Not unlike Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55", this song is dangerous.
Although I had a reckless driving citation and license suspension in 1982 after crashing my mom's car, and a subsequent speeding ticket from the same VA state trooper (1987), "Runnin' Down a Dream" has yet to get me in trouble, even though I have a tendency to put my foot down and speed when it comes on the radio.
"I Can't Drive 55" got me in trouble outside Pound, VA in 1987, as I mentioned... I was racing a Camaro while in my 1988 Chevy Beretta. Piece of crap car, ultimately, but I thought it was cool at the time. My radar detector went off, but I didn't hear it because I had the Sammy Hagar song blaring. The trooper was coming at me from the opposite direction. 70 in a 55. I was close to the State Line, I almost went for Kentucky...
It would have been a cool "Cops" video as I perhaps became a bullet riddled corpse.
(The Camaro driver was a pussy... I won, except for getting pulled over by the cop...my car at the time topped out at around 130 MPH. Yeah, I've verified it... not that particular day, but I can tell you the top speed of every car I had as a younger man.)
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