Posted on 10/03/2013 2:03:10 PM PDT by lee martell
I admit it, I drove in the car pool lane as a single driver. I got in a hurry and started playing that game of seeing what I could get away with. I drove from the Veteran's Hospital in Santa Rosa, toward San Rafael, past acres of vineyards, past sleep cows, past car lots full of vehicles and tried to save some time.
All was well until some other driver peered out of her SUV to see me whizzing past, then and decided to join me in the express lane. That single driver was soon followed by another in one of those new electric cars shaped like a toaster. Soon this growing caravan of 'naughty children' passed by a police car, windows all blackened, was it one of those empty decoys? The headlights of the cop car blink on as the 'monster' awakens. Everybody got out of the car pool lane and back to the middle lane except for me. At the last moment, I saw the colored lights come on. London Bridges coming down! Damn. I gambled and I lost.
When I'm driving other folks around, I am much more rule bound. Sometimes I slip a little when driving alone. This was a good lesson for me to calm down, and stay out of that car pool bear trap. I imagine others have had similar experiences. I was advised to contest the ticket in case the officer didn't show up in court, but I didn't want to wheel and deal with the court system, not this time anyway. I will pay about $35. a month for X number of months. Oh well, 57 years old going on 15, sometimes it's that way.
I once peed in a pool while swimming.
It's a slippery slope from one crime to the next.
“For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time”—Thomas DeQuincey
It is only about registering illegals to dilute your vote.
“ripping tags of pillows”
True: I did this with a scissors when I was about five years old. And that’s when it didn’t say “under penalty of law EXCEPT BY THE FINAL CONSUMER”. My father was horrified - a born anarchist!
how many actual minutes do you think you save?
and how much aggravation and worry do you cause other drivers around you?
Baaaaaa!
Until you elect a constitutional sheriff to protect you from the mercenary jackboot thugs hired by the leftists, expect to be sheared.
Oh, I don’t know. PA used to post their fines on the Turnpike and HWY 80 if I remember correctly. Their license plates were a bright yellow/orange so out of state cars could be easily spotted and ticketed. Best bet if you were out of state was to fall in behind an out of state Cadillac, Mercedes, big Buick, etc. as they were always preferred over a lowly Datsun or Toyota. Same with NY State although I don’t remember them publishing their fines on billboards.
My children only know of two ways to drive. Foot on the gas or foot on the brake.
They do weird things like accelerate to stop signs and stop lights, then stop abruptly.
I believe one cannot drive to safely and to defensively.
So - do you really eat pillows?
Motorcycles can legally use the HOV lane with only the operator on board.
Enough. And none. Driving faster than the speed limit doesn’t mean doing anything to other drivers, other than passing them. Meanwhile I’m paying better attention to the road (both looking for cops and just generally being not as bored) and keeping the traffic flowing better for everyone. The people that cause aggravation and worry are the ones that like to drive just under the speed limit, who also always seem to love blazing through the very end of a yellow light which would have been green if they’d just live a little.
I’m with discostu on this and am guessing he speeds on the highway makeing safe lane changes, not following to close or overdriving conditions or himself.
Speeding isn’t dangerous. doing stoopit things is.
I’m also gonna guess discostu doesn’t speed on local streets as conditions can change very quickly and they are already varied.
Kids, dogs, Chinese Drivers
I would routinely hit 136 on my interstate highway commute to Newark every day... Seton Hall’s college radio station plays pretty much all metal all the time... Anthrax, KMFDM, Ministry, Fear Factory.... the soundtrack for my commute was pretty intense.
Oh I speed on local streets. But things don’t change that quickly in Tucson. We’ve got nice straight streets with wide lanes and fairly clean half mile grid on lights and good overall visibility. Trouble is easy to see coming. We also have speed limits that are just stupidly low, like where I got caught yesterday, it’s on the stop light grid, but it’s 1 x 1, a really wide 1 x 1 with enough room for a left turn lane (though without said lane) and bike lanes (has them), light traffic, 25MPH, same speed limit the pure residential streets get. I usually do 30-35 on it, yesterday having fun and hit 40 at the wrong time. Such is life.
Part of it’s the city too, everybody speeds here. Because they built the streets for 50 to 60 and give us limits of 35 and 40, and it’s a large land footprint city without a highway system. People who don’t speed here are making people mad.
Car pool violations in CA are NOT moving violations(no points) but POLICY violations. EVERYBODY pays for those pool lanes with taxes but only a select few are granted the ‘privilege’ of using them( 2+ in car, motorcycle, or a ‘special state approved vehicle’) . Car pool lanes are meant to be driven in, medians and shoulders are not. It is a policy meant to change behavior and has absolutely nothing to do with road safety or efficiency.
A sensible question, I believe.
FMCDH(BITS)
Meh. Haven’t been on the Pike in decades. Wouldn’t surprise me if they had the entire fee/fine schedule on the signs, you certainly had plenty of time to read them....
When I lived in South Florida, I ALWAYS (okay, not in school zones) went at least 5 MPH faster than posted. Often 10 or 15 over. I had a Audi A4 and then a Mini Cooper and I went zoom.
New Mexico is different. Less crowded. The pace is slower. I laugh at what they call heavy traffic. I bought a four door Jeep, which we call the Constipated Turtle, and rarely speed.
I think where you live HEAVILY influences your attitude towards speeding.
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