Extra tax this week

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> I, too, have seen plenty of it. </font>

I've never seen so many people locking up the tires to stop at a traffic light at the first sign of yellow either since certain intersections installed cameras. That just doesn't seem right.

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ....................-- why is it so hard to understand the meaning of my posts? .................... )</font>

How does it feel .................?? Now you and everyone else will know why I have stopped posting for a while....... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[RobertN]

Highway-50 in Folsom...

Ya, we were headed to the SF airport a few weeks ago, down I80. I'm doing 75, at flow of middle lane traffic. A pickup hauling a horse trialer with horse FLEW past me! He was going slow a number of miles later; assume he got pulled over...

I heard from some trucking folks that they are targeting trailers now.

For I80, folks fly through there. I think they just pull over the ones that appear to pose the biggest danger, not necessarily all the speeders.

 

[RobertN]

Naw, out here it is 55mph with a trailer, loaded or empty.

 

[cowboydoc]

It was Gatorboy or someone that said one time just say what you have to say and move on. It's not very productive to keep pounding your point of view across to someone. Just because someone agrees or disagrees with you doesn't mean much. There are plenty of threads just state your position and leave it at that. Just because someone doesn't agree with you or says they don't believe you're right is no reason to take your ball and go home. We all have our opinions and experiences. Heck if I got offended over everytime someone disagreed with my opinions and said I was full of it I guess I'd be "taking a break" every month too. I think the same goes for about everyone that takes an active part in posting here.

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> Looks to me like it's over a month late if payment was due on 7-9-04. </font>

It's due on 7 September 2004
Americans are backwards from the rest of the world. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif )</font>

Gotcha. Thanks /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. G

 

[BillyP]

This whole yellow light deal reminds me of the movie Starman.

Remember when the lady asked him about what the colors meant at the stop light? That's the way most people react to a yellow light.

I may be wrong on this but it wouldn't be the first time nor the last. When driving up to a traffic light and it's yellow, you are suppose to stop. If you are already upon the intersection, when the light turns yellow and can't stop without extreme braking, proceed.

Bird, what say you?

 

[SPIKER]

drove past a NICE NEW 5th wheel trailer just about 2 hrs ago, rolled up and smashed into a nice round shape, didn't SEE what had been TOWING it, but it had come across both lanes (per the skid marks, and hit the gaurd rail over it went...) appearantly ROLLING down the embankment, the tow trucks had IT hooked up and no sign of the tow vehical, unless it was still down the hill or behind the camper!?.

I did see to staties, comming other way, they wipped around like they were comming after me, yet I awsn't speedin. (65 on the nose) watched as the came a flying, only to do a 2nd U-Turn and fly off the other way!? no one was speeding that way either!? go figure they were doing acceleration tests the NEW 2004 crown vic vs the 2003 crown vic!? lol /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

(Don't ya HATE it when you decide to run the yellow and the guy in front of you decides to stop!? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif (George Carlin i belive!) )

speaking of running red lights, (I posted this about 3~4 months back I think) i was @ bank and put in the check, was setting at the red light day dreaming a bit, looked up to see it green, shoved in the clutch, put truck in gear and slowly started out. no hurry had open coffee cup in the drink holder, started to turn left, (turning onto two lanes one that side is a RIGHT HAND turning lane for the next road where I was going to go and then the left lane which is aTHROUGH LANE) as I was getting through under the light getting ready to turn left I caught something screeming at me in the corner of my eye, thinking it was some jerk pulling around me to the rights that had been behind me I jerked the wheel to the left into the "On Comming Lleft Turn Lane" lucky for me what I caught in my perfiral vision was a fully loaded 18 wheeler blowing through the red light at about 50 MPH! it/he nearly flattened me! (I didn't even realize it untill I got home it was even closer than I THOUGHT as I now have a TWEEKED Brush Gaurd with a WHITE rub mark on the right hand front corner!!!!) I did manage to pull it back to some what center using the tractor and my come-a-long. tell ya what I nearly wet my pants and it wasn't form the coffee in the drink carrier either! I know 50% or more of the people pulling out of that spot goes straight into the right hand turn lane to get the next road, something I've done myself Just lucky for me that day I wasn't in a hurry or I probably wouldn't be typing right now /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

anyhow had to edit that in since we were talking aobut running red lights... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif



Mark M

 

[Inspector507]

Gatorboy,
I DID mis-read your post........sorry, so I deleted that one. I didn't have time to type out a reply at the time.
I mis-read it......and posted before reading it again to see what you were actully saying.

 

[Phred]

I know that's the law but,....

If the light is very fast and the camera(s) get a picture of you in the intersection and the light having changed to red, I think it would be very hard to get out of a ticket they send you. Even if your right.
Your counting on the city's ethics and competence.

Fred