To: Rhiannon
I have noticed more than a few stupid speed demons speeding in my neighborhood, around the bus stop for elementary school children.
The short stretch of pavement is basically a shared private driveway out of two fairly large apartment complexes.
You want to face a cops radar or my gun?
There is no constitutional right to recklessly speed in a residential area.
OTOH, any idiot speeding through a residential area should be considered fair game, with no bag limits.
Oh some of us parents always honk,wave and yell slow down, but if you are the idiot who mows down one of our children,
don't expect the "cops" will be able to protect you from the consequences of your actions.
IMNSHO, this program seems bent on saving speeders from their logical consequences, as opposed to making the neighborhood a police state.
Of course, it helps to know that I am very comfortable with community based traffic enforcement techniques.
Having lived in many areas with extensive private dirt roads, where idiot speeders got their tires shot out for driving fast and recklessly on roads we just paid to get fixed, by direct contributions.
Why would you assume I would feel less personal involvement in maintaining safety standards on roads paid for by my taxes?
Remember, you have absolutely no right to speed.
17 posted on
11/24/2005 9:28:02 PM PST by
sarasmom
("The French are revolting." Some phrases are true on so many levels, it's mystical!)
To: sarasmom
"any idiot speeding through a residential area should be considered fair game, with no bag limits."
LMAO
To: sarasmom
Speed bumps would be the most effective way of cutting speed near schools..
31 posted on
11/25/2005 1:51:16 AM PST by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: sarasmom
37 posted on
11/25/2005 6:55:30 AM PST by
MonroeDNA
(Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
To: sarasmom
Are you seriously saying if someone does 30-35 mph in a residential neighborhood that they should be shot? I do not advocate reckless driving. You drive to the conditions. It is just conditions allow driving at higher speeds that are posted. If there are kids in the streets playing you should slow down. I have to in my neighborhood. However when these kids get to teen and 18 years old. They like to smoke their tires, which annoy me considerably. Should I shoot them? Call the police for someone being annoying? These teens do grow out of it.
46 posted on
11/26/2005 11:45:12 PM PST by
Rhiannon
To: sarasmom
What kind of place do you live in where you can fire at a moving vehicle and get away with it? Shoot someone's tires out in this state, and you're going to prison for a long, long, long time.
73 posted on
11/28/2005 11:06:05 AM PST by
Melas
(What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
To: sarasmom
I have noticed more than a few stupid speed demons speeding in my neighborhood, around the bus stop for elementary school children. Interesting, I live one and a half blocks from a middle school, and twice a day I see those same speed demons, and almost to a man they are women in (evil) SUVs dropping off or picking up their kids at the school. It amazes me that so many can be so rude and dangerously inconsiderate in driving and parking around the school and residential area, but then I (to my dismay) live in the most socialist/leftist area in America. Apparently progressive feminist moms have the right of way.
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