[SOC] SOC Nominee

[Nick Yokanovich]

This is from the St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press. Good to see folks 
in my home state aren't just sitting on the porch, rocking and chewing 
grass stalks.
Nick K3NY

Al Loney couldn't believe his stopwatch.

The Minnesota State Patrol pilot had been flying near Wabasha on 
Saturday afternoon, watching a pair of motorcycles racing each other 
along U.S. 61. When one of the bikes accelerated dramatically, Loney was 
ready — clicking his stopwatch when the cycle reached a white marker 
painted on the roadside.

A quarter-mile later, he clicked it again. It read 4.39 seconds, which 
Loney calculated to be an astonishing 205 mph.

"I was in total disbelief," Loney said. "I had to double-check my watch 
because in 27 years I'd never seen anything move that fast."

The bike was moving nearly twice as fast as Loney's airplane. After 
about three-quarters of a mile, the biker slowed to about 100 mph and 
let the other cycle catch up. By then Loney had radioed ahead to another 
state trooper, who pulled the two over soon afterward.

The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old 
Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, 
driving without a motorcycle license — and driving 140 miles per hour 
over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.

Several law enforcement sources said Tilley might have set the record 
for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history.