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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: Just Lou]
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07/23/09 04:33 PM
07/23/09 04:33 PM
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J Geoff
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Good. Posted speed limits on highways should be speed minimums!
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: J Geoff]
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07/23/09 05:03 PM
07/23/09 05:03 PM
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Good. Posted speed limits on highways should be speed minimums! Yeah, you ain't travelin' until you get a station-wagon airborne!
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: SC]
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07/23/09 05:28 PM
07/23/09 05:28 PM
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A couple of months ago I got a ticket for driving at 45mph on a 35mph area. In Dallas, the fine is $167. I was pissed off for a while because everyone drives at 50mph on that road and this stupid-ass cop decided to ticket me on that particular day when I was driving back home alone Anyway, I feel that the fine amount is very high for the offense. I decided to apply for a defensive drivers test to waive off the fine, this being my first ticket here. The court processing fee is $107, in addition to the $25 or so for the test itself!! Ever since that incident, I drive exactly at speed limit, not a mph more. I frustrate all the drivers by driving exactly at 60mph on 60mph speed limit roads. Every once in a while, one of the angry drivers would cut in front of me very close to show his/her anger, but screw them, I am not willing to pay $167 again.
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: Just Lou]
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07/23/09 09:35 PM
07/23/09 09:35 PM
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Reading this thread confirms my beliefs; no one (except SVGG) obeys the Speed Limit, or even knows what it means, but even worse, our country is full of people who don't know the laws, don't care to know the laws, could care less how they might fit into the flow of traffic, don't care what's behind or on the side of them and generally get behind the wheel and press down on the gas. They don't put their headlights on when it rains or is foggy (daylight running lights don't count because your tailights aren't lit), they don't use their directionals, AND yes, they talk on the cell phone or text and drive too slow in the middle lane. I wish I had a bazooka because I would blow these scummers off the road. Of course no one on this BB would be a target.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, whoever humbles himself will be exalted - Matthew 23:12
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: MaryCas]
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07/23/09 09:39 PM
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Reading this thread confirms my beliefs; no one (except SVGG) obeys the Speed Limit, or even knows what it means, but even worse, our country is full of people who don't know the laws, don't care to know the laws, could care less how they might fit into the flow of traffic, don't care what's behind or on the side of them and generally get behind the wheel and press down on the gas. They don't put their headlights on when it rains or is foggy (daylight running lights don't count because your tailights aren't lit), they don't use their directionals, AND yes, they talk on the cell phone or text and drive too slow in the middle lane. I wish I had a bazooka because I would blow these scummers off the road. Of course no one on this BB would be a target. if you done that a million probably would be dead due to bazooka blasts. lol
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: Just Lou]
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07/24/09 12:03 AM
07/24/09 12:03 AM
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J Geoff
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It is. But if you've ever driven in NJ, nobody does the speed limit. If you drive 65 in a 55 zone, they pass you like you're standing still. I've passed NJ State Troopers driving over the speed limit while they were below it. I also was following someone on the Parkway doing about 80 MPH (in a 55 zone) when I saw the lights behind me: the cops went after the first car, passing me. I also almost ran a cop off the road at about 80 MPH, cuz he was passing me on the right, chasing a car that had just passed me at about 100 MPH. I've also ditched and successfully hid from cops who saw me speeding (but just didn't actually catch me); but the only real speeding ticket I ever got (knock on wood) was the day I got my first radar detector back in the 80s. Unbelievable. And I used that radar detector -- in Virginia, where they're not allowed -- while racing a Corvette at 130 MPH (in said station wagon). I should've been a race car driver... but I've mellowed out a bit in my old age.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: Just Lou]
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07/24/09 01:24 AM
07/24/09 01:24 AM
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Long as I remember The rain been coming down. Clouds of Mystery pouring Confusion on the ground. Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun; And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain.
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Re: Pulled Over for Going to Slow
[Re: Mignon]
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07/24/09 03:03 PM
07/24/09 03:03 PM
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Posts: 19,624 AZ
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States should post signs reading, "slower traffic keep right." NJ is a terrible state for traffic violations. Article in the Star Ledger several years ago revealed that moving and parking violations account for between 4 and 18 percent of municipalities' budgets. Cases are heard in courts where the judges are appointed by the city councils. No wonder NJ is ranked as the toughest state in the union for a motorist to win a traffic case. AZ is obsessed with photo radar. Permanent photo radar is installed every two miles on the interestates and state roads in the Phoenix area. Mobile units are all over like dog s**t. Driving back from Sky Harbor to our home 100 miles away last Wednesday night, we passed 8 permanent and 3 mobile units. The state is required to post a sign, "Photo Enforcement Ahead," 300 yards before you get your picture snapped. They abide by this for the permanent sites. But the f***o's who operate the mobile vans (private contractor that keeps a percentage of all fines) either put the signs 100 feet from their vans, or put them a half-mile before, lulling you into thinking they're not ther--and then they snap your photo. The legality of photo radar is being challenged now. But the revenues have made it all but permanent.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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