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In the south (US) which was largely rural the early highways were built directly through all the little towns, or you might say the little towns were built on the early highways.
The speed limits on these highways are usually 55mph outside the town limits.
Now the town fathers worry about all those cars whipping through their main street (the highway) and set up these speed zones like 35, or 25, or even 20.
So someone is driving a reasonable 55 down a rural highway and all of a sudden he rounds a slight bend and he is in a 35 mile zone. Almost impossible to anticipate unless you know the highway, unless you know the route from experience.
And of course the little town's one patrol car sits there all night and the officer will ticket you.
Thats a speed trap and its not right. I have had officers let me off saying "I know its wrong, the town council are all a bunch of jerks, and they won't build a ball field for the kids".
Really, they should have more signs to warn people they are approaching redneck speed zones.
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Lung
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of my princess Anastasia!
Mar 1999
time: 15:23
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Years ago, my father was police commanding officer for a region of roads in Australia. He was constantly pressured to have radars placed in "revenue zones" such as at the bottom of a hill, yet he resisted, citing that their priority was public safety, not revenue. In other words, the revenue raising was the fault of the government, not the police. What was unpopular though, was having unmarked police cars with surfboards on the roof catching speeding drivers, although no one was ever able to come up with a good reason to label it "unfair"
What gets me though, is that in Australia, you can get fined more for speeding than for stealing a car!!  Seriously, car theft is legally considered a "misdemeanour". Where the hell is the justice in that?  Unless you're organising a car theft racket, you will never go to jail in this country!
Unfortunately though, occasionally some police do the wrong thing deliberately. My father himself was accused of speeding by more than 15km/h when he knew he wasn't speeding at all. It took showing him his Inspector's badge to get the policeman to back down. Fortunately, the cop in question was officially reprimanded after Dad told the copper's boss. Of course, such action is unavailable to civilians, but you can't eliminate human fallibility from police, or anywhere else for that matter.
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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
There seems to be relationship between speeding and being a loser. Certainly here in Canberra the biggest speeders are the base grade clerks.
Looking at this thread too it seems to hold true that those who defend speeding are a bunch of nobody losers.
I guess speeding is the only power they have in their sad pathetic lives. |
Heya, Horse dewd. You want to go there? Fine. You see it works like this.... I was the kind of person that would make fun of people like you in the hallways behind your back at school. I was popular, good looking, and I KNEW IT TOO! Which makes me an extra *****. People like you, were people that I snubbed in the hallway, the people that needed to use dandruff shampoo. You were the unkewl, and prolly part of the 'alternative' crowd that "CHOSE" not to be kewl. lol. Ya I know I'm an @$$ but you brought it upon yourself. I'm sick of acting nice for people like you.
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Horse dewd, you don't get it do you? You can never make me feel like a loser, especially coming from you. You are a nothing, an internet nobody of whom I honestly wouldn't care fell off the ends of the earth tomorrow. Besides you're like 40, which is creapy in itself of why you are even here. It gives me the chills just thinking about it.
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Dewd, ur 40, how can you even remember?
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