Highway patrolmen have probably heard many excuses for why people were speeding. Some of them might actually be legitimate, but sometimes a driver’s excuse defies belief. Such was the case in Florida, when a driver caught going 120 mph claimed on a dashcam video that he thought the police were racing him.

A driver on Interstate 4 in Florida’s Seminole County pulled over for going almost twice the speed limit in a 65 mph zone at around 2:20 a.m. with a bizarre excuse for speeding. According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, recently obtained by Road & Track, the driver was doing his speeding in a Honda Civic. The officer, on the other hand, was in a clearly-marked patrol car.

Dashcam video of the traffic stop shows the trooper walking up to the passenger side of the vehicle. After asking for the driver’s license and registration, the driver can be heard telling the patrolman, “I’m going to be real with you. I really thought, like, this is… It’s not, uh, like, uh, an excuse or anything. I thought you were racing me.”

“Racing you? What? You passed me,” the officer responded incredulously. He then went over to the driver’s side of the car and told the driver to “step outside the car.”

“You’re under arrest,” the trooper can be heard saying. The driver responded, “Like, for real, for real?”

When the driver inquired about his speed, the trooper told him, “You gonna tell me that I’m lying to you now? How fast do you think you were doing?”

“I thought I was doing 90,” the driver replied, admitting that he was still going at least 25 mph over the speed limit. Either way, the trooper charged him with “dangerous excessive speed.”

Florida’s new ‘super-speeder’ law has led to numerous unusual excuses

According to the Daytona News-Journal, police have been hearing all kinds of excuses from drivers caught breaking Florida’s new “super-speeder” law, which took effect in July.

In addition to the “I thought we were racing” excuse, a man driving a Corvette in Palm Coast caught going 107 in a 70 mph zone told the arresting officer that he was speeding because he had an appointment with his barber.

Another driver, a man in an SUV, caught going 90 mph in a 25 mph zone in Holly Hill, told the officer he was going so fast because he was “almost late” to a party.

In another case, a Dodge driver busted going 155 mph on I-4 in Seminole County said he was going to a friend’s house. He also claimed he was only doing 80.

This past October, a Florida driver busted doing 124 mph in a street race told police he was speeding because “had to use the bathroom.”

All of this speeding, along with the new law, has led Florida law enforcement to utilize their own high-performance vehicles. In August, they revealed that cops had begun using unmarked Dodge SRT Charger Hellcats to track down speeders. More recently, police driving a Ford Mustang GT clocked a Florida teen at 154 mph in his own Mustang GT.