It had been a terrific Saturday night for Lawrence Pargo. But now the sun was coming up, and he had to leave the lovely young thing and get to his job, at a home for the disabled, and he was late.
At 5:47 a.m. on Sunday, May 21, the freeway — the Loop 101 — was empty, so empty that before he knew it his rental, a 2006 Hyundai Sonata V-6, was going 128 mph. Eight minutes later he was clocked at 147 mph, which works out to 82 mph over the limit. He didn’t know it, but speed cameras had taken pictures of him as he blew by.
Then he exited the freeway, bought $51 worth of gas, got back onto Loop 101, and at 6:17 a.m. was photographed going 102 mph, and later, 105. Pargo was about to make the newspapers in a big way.
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