just when you thought you knew what stupid was

[RSR]

Here's some more fluff for you, my boys really have no clue what I've done in my life ...

Imagine my shock when in my mid-to-late 20's my dad (the most straight-arrow, boring person you could know) finally shared that in his college years he lost his license for a year because he got 5 speeding tickets in a 12 months span in his home state of Montana, which did not have a speed limit on the highways ... (His tickets were all on the highway).

 

[CalG]

"But officer, The sigh read "PRUDENT". "What does that mean anyway?

 

[Citydude]

It’s so nice to stop in and see everyone taking a breather from discussing the virus.

 

[the old grind]

I just read 74+ pages only to find that despite the title this thread isn't about me.

 

[/pine]

4-6 weeks for the results...

How does coronavirus spread at a concert? Germans do a test

 

[Jstpssng]

I just read 74+ pages only to find that despite the title this thread isn't about me.

:thumbsup: Stand in line! Too often while looking in a mirror I find myself asking "How stupid can one person be!?!"

 

[RSR]

4-6 weeks for the results...

How does coronavirus spread at a concert? Germans do a test

I *just* read that article as well. It should be interesting to see what the results are.

 

[Big Barn]

:thumbsup: Stand in line! Too often while looking in a mirror I find myself asking "How stupid can one person be!?!"

That exact phrase which may take 4-5 seconds to verbalize can flash through by brain in a millisecond..... usually JUST before the pain sets in.

 

[MoMower]

That exact phrase which may take 4-5 seconds to verbalize can flash through by brain in a millisecond..... usually JUST before the pain sets in.

Ayup.

 

[Dftodd]

Because I had a loaded .44 doing 1 MPH over the speed limit when I was stopped in Utah, I though it best that I didn't argue anything considering I had out of state plates (God forbid people use common sense).

As mentioned though, that state trooper was really a nice guy after we started talking for a while about different things after I took the ticket. Even though my permit was reconinze in Utah, because the gun was out of sight, I didn't realize that per their state gun law, the next "round" in the cylinder had to be empty. He could of wrote me up for that, but he was nice enough that he didn't.

The reality is even if I'm doing 1MPH over the speed limit, I'm still breaking the law. Exactly how do you determine what that line is per breaking the "law"? It was a speed trap as another trooper had someone else pulled over in front of me down the road and I thought "what a sucker". Turns out I was the sucker as well. BUT... I'd like to think the conversation I had with that trooper after the fact was worth the money in learning for myself (being sincere as I will always remember what a nice guy he really was).

1 mile over the speed limit is a fishing expedition unless it was a school zone.

Most departments won't pull someone over unless it's a minimum of 5 over with school zones being the exception. But then there is a 1 to 2 mph grace do to variances in vehicles.

I've found speedometers off by a couple mph one way or the other. Confirmed by GPS on my phone and those mobile radar signs on the side of the road. Two trucks we have are 2 mph under, my personal truck is 1 mph over, and my work truck is spot on so far.

We had a couple towns lose their officers ability to issue speeding tickets for 3 years over issuing tickets for 1 or 2 mph over. Sherriffs office had to monitor and enforce speeding during that time. There was a lawsuit filed against the towns by the states attorney over them being speed traps which was well known and reported. They realized that the bulk of the towns coffers were do to speeding and shut them down.