“Are there any “good” names for people like this? “
If you had speeders running up and down the street you would not be concerned?
If you speed in my neighborhood, You better hope you don’t get caught.
Not by the cops. But by us residents.
Lucky- as the exit from a Hospital with stitches?
Lefty- as they get run over attempting to stop a oncoming car?
Zippy- as they run from an unhappy road Rager?
Oh man, the HOA Gestapo Agents just got a Position to aim for.
I wonder how long it will be before the local police start writing tickets based on Traffic Tamer information.
>>who then sends a letter to the driver reminding them of the speed limit and letting them know they were observed speeding.
Cool! So I can stop going to the drag strip to get time slips! The neighborhood snitch can help me see if my tune improved performance now.
Recipients of such a letter then respond to the po-po advising them that any evidence gathered in this fashion is inadmissible and inviting them to FO.
Sounds like one hell of a Lawsuit against these “private citizens” for Stalking and invasion of privacy.
There was a case in Georgia where a couple did this and was Criminally Charged with Stalking for complaining about a Police Car going 17mph over the speed limit on a Radar Gun, by their house.
I'm all for trying to reduce speeding through neighborhoods, but this doesn't sound like a good plan.
I have no issues with making up your own speed limit on the freeway. Through neighborhoods, you do the posted speed limit and no more. Period.
A few years ago, some punk in my neighborhood made a habit of driving very fast, like 50-70 mph through my residential street.
One day, I was taking my kids for a bike ride and this little idiot pulled up next to me at a stop sign. I leaned into the open window and looked straight at the kid and said “Young man, you will immediately stop driving through my neighborhood at high rates of speed. Is that understood?” He looked at me with fear in his eyes, then he looked over at the passenger seat which was currently occupied by a very angry mother.
Hah. He drove really carefully after that.
When I was learning to drive an older kid from my HS with a fast car hit and killed a young kid less than a mile from my house. They estimated he was going ~80 mph over a slight hill and was unable to see the kid on the bike just beyond the hill. My father took me there to show me the skid marks, to have that talk and to make the obvious impression.
The speed limit was 30 mph.
What’s your special name for the driver?
life-is-over-star?
A couple of old biddies and a jerk know it all in my neighborhood fit that list.
I would describe people who drive through residential neighborhoods at 40-80mph as total assh*les who should have their licenses seized, but only after the neighbors beat them.
This all sounds like a reasonable idea now, but this will get out of control and then we'll have a bunch of power hungry indoctrated democrat Brownshirts.....
The Answer to the problem, is that they need to hire more police officers.