Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson is making no excuses for failing to buckle up while driving to a restaurant in Eden Prairie but wonders whether his tinted windows are what first caught the attention of police.
Peterson, whose triple-digit speedometer encounter with Edina police got him in trouble a couple of years ago, was stopped in his Range Rover and ticketed Monday afternoon in his city of residence for not wearing his seat belt.
"I'm to blame!!!" Peterson noted on his Twitter account. "Make sure you wear ur seat belt at all time."
Police pulled Peterson over at Prairie Center Drive and Columbine Road shortly after 3 p.m. That's about a half-mile from his dining destination.
"Noodle&Company sounds nice right about now! Unfortunately as of now I'm delayed," he told his Twitter followers.
Noting his vehicle's tinted windows, Peterson added that Eden Prairie police must "have super human vision!" He also suggested that the darkened windows may have drawn initial police suspicion, tweeting, "I got tint and that didn't help."
City spokeswoman Katie Beal said that officers were monitoring that location "specifically for seat-belt violations" and clearly saw through Peterson's front windshield that he was not buckled up. He was cited only for that offense -- his tinted windows were within the law -- and he didn't put up a fuss, Beal added.
In 2009, when police pulled Peterson over on Crosstown Hwy. 62 in Edina for going 109 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone, the Viking expressed surprise that he had been clocked going that fast. He pleaded guilty to driving 99 mph.
