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Posted on 04/08/2005 10:00:46 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan
On my way to work, there is no speed limit.
(Autobahn 45).
To: lennydetroit
Would the ticket be thrown out of court or would the gummint still extract its pound of flesh? LOL. Since this is in Genesee County.....I'm certainly betting on the latter.
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posted on
04/08/2005 11:08:07 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("If Stabenow were any bigger a roadblock, she could halt traffic on all of I-75.")
To: Dan from Michigan
Sounds like somebody figured out how to hack those signs.
It's not all that difficult to do....
L
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posted on
04/08/2005 11:13:19 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Remember the Beirut Bombing; 243 dead Marines. The House of Assad and Hezbollah did it..)
To: Mulder
LOL! It's good to see someone in this country still has a backbone, a sense of humor, and some American know-how.One of our more dangerous roads, frequented by soldiers, pineapple trucks, and tourists headed to the north shore driving 5 miles under the ridiculously low-set speed limit, has a speed limit sign of 35 posted not far from Schofield Barracks. Someone has quite neatly tagged the sign to close the 3 to an 8... and I do believe some take the "85" seriously.
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posted on
04/08/2005 11:15:47 PM PDT
by
Spyder
(I'm in the WPPFF)
To: Petronski
Hey now!
Mad Max's Interceptor is sacrosanct!
We'll have NO disparaging remarks, please!....;))
To: Salamander
My Vic disappears into traffic. That thing screams . . . ("no disparaging remarks") . . . something.
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posted on
04/08/2005 11:35:42 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
To: Petronski
My mother, for reasons unknown, once bought a bronze Vic.
She's a chubby little lady with a short curly perm but when she went down the highway, traffic parted for her like Moses and the Red Sea.
It was hysterical to watch.
We *almost* bought a decommissioned Vic with the MD state trooper colors still on it.
[no letters or badges left...just the olive drab/brown paint scheme]
That woulda been *so* cool....:))
To: Salamander
We *almost* bought a decommissioned Vic with the MD state trooper colors still on it.They're a very good buy. Have a Ford dealer add cruise control and a cassette player, and more importantly, change all the fluids.
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posted on
04/08/2005 11:48:12 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
To: ChiefKujo
On my way to work, there is no speed limit. (Autobahn 45).
I would say that you are lucky to live where you live because you can drive on the Autobahn...except for the fact that you live in Germany.
:^)
To: Petronski
The guy who had it backed out of the deal.....:(
To: Dan from Michigan
[I wish it was all 100. I could get to Downtown Lansing in 20 minutes]
I commute to work 48 miles each way and it's all straight and flat rural county roads at a ridiculously slow 55mph.
In a properly equipped performance car like I drive, it's possible to drive a sustained 120mph safely but of course it's considered reckless driving to do so.
This is the ONE typical American policy I would trade away to Germany in exchange for their Autobahn policy. .
To: Dan from Michigan
Boogity, boogity, boogity
My favorite part of Michigan driving is teh first mile north of the Ohio border on I-75.
Everybody mashes it down from the strictly enforced 65mph in Ohio to the "Speed limits are mainly a suggestion" attitude in Michigan.
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posted on
04/09/2005 6:35:34 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
To: Dan from Michigan
I agree. On the interstate, a legal 75 or 80 as traffic permits, isn't unreasonable.
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posted on
04/09/2005 6:45:14 AM PDT
by
corlorde
(Without the home of the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: Dan from Michigan
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posted on
04/09/2005 6:47:43 AM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(You can stick a fork in the Mullahs... they're done)
To: Petronski
No, I"m not a cop. But I do drive a Ford Crown Victoria with the police interceptor package."The day I get out of jail, my own brother comes to pick me up in a cop car..."-Jacob Blues, from the only musical I ever liked, "The Blues Brothers...
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posted on
04/09/2005 6:49:48 AM PDT
by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
(From Roe v Wade to Terri Schiavo, the RATS have become a death cult...)
To: Petronski; Dan from Michigan
Hey! I'm the only ex-cop lawyer around here.
Yessir, I can arrest myself, interrogate myself, and get myself off, er, um, get myself acquitted.
To: Dan from Michigan
I gotta tell ya. I have been living in Texas since 1975. When I drive in between cities outside Dallas I can drive 70 mph no problem. As long as its outside the city limits. Last time I visited my family in Michigan, I was driving between Fenton and Grand Blanc, and since I was out of the city limit of Fenton, I proceeded to head toward 70 mph. Yep, got stopped by a cop. I told him the truth and fortunately he let me off with a warning.
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posted on
04/09/2005 1:00:37 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: cyclotic
In Michigan the law says that all speeding fine money goes to the Library Fund. Nice backdoor way to eliminate this annoying part of life. Thus no real incentive for cops to raise revenue, thus limited harrasment.
see www.motorists.org for details.
AAA lists Michigan as the "fastest state in America" by avg. speed driven.
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posted on
04/13/2005 4:15:22 PM PDT
by
rasblue
(What would Barry Goldwater do?)
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