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Exactly. I have never thought this whole argument made sense. They want to start ticketing people who follow the law??
10 posted on 12/10/2008 8:59:11 AM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

The law is.....slower traffic keep right.

It is the law.

Granny going 55 in a 75 in the left lane really gets old quickly.

Ticket her.


34 posted on 12/10/2008 9:05:27 AM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
They want to start ticketing people who follow the law??

That's the point -- they're NOT following the law. They're properly driving at or below the speed limit, but they're violating the law that requires motorists on multi-lane highways to stay to the right unless passing other vehicles.

It's also worth noting that the two laws are not equal. The law requiring drivers to keep right except to pass is related to the safety of the road, while a posted speed limit is a statutory limit that usually has nothing to do with the safe operation of the road.

46 posted on 12/10/2008 9:08:31 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
Exactly. I have never thought this whole argument made sense. They want to start ticketing people who follow the law??

Impeding traffic, even if you are following all traffic rules, is a ticketable offense. So, the guy who speeds in the left lane is violating the law, but so is the guy who impedes a row of drivers behind him.

49 posted on 12/10/2008 9:08:47 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
They want to start ticketing people who follow the law??

So, you ARE one of those?

I'll tell you exactly what I tell my sweet old mother.

Never! Ever! Drive in the left lane!

86 posted on 12/10/2008 9:18:41 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
"Exactly. I have never thought this whole argument made sense. They want to start ticketing people who follow the law?? "

In most states, mine included.... "following the law" means moving your @ss over to the right lane. In most states, that left lane is for passing only. Check your own state law, odds are it's the same there.

132 posted on 12/10/2008 9:31:25 AM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

>>They want to start ticketing people who follow the law??<<

Well, should you be ticketed if you are “following the law” with your speed but you are not wearing your seatbelt and your tail lights are burned out>

It is possible to follow one law but violate another at the same time. A perfect example would be someone doing the speed limit in the passing lane while not passing, and blocking other cars.


173 posted on 12/10/2008 9:55:34 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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