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You too.....!

Ours just flash "--"

 

Poor guy. Let me be the first Virginian to apologize for his igno.... I mean inconvenience. He's lucky he didn't stuff that Camaro up the a$$ of one of the big John Deers that frequent the curvy rural roads in VA.

 

Or, you could NOT drive 90 in a 55.....

Some of those comments seems to indicate that people think it's OK to speed as long as you don't get caught. Interesting point of view.....

I know a lot of MINI owners/drivers don't seem to think the laws apply to them either.

I bought a classic, it's pretty hard to exceed the speed limit anywhere in it! :biggrin5:

Not that it won't do it - it will - but it's so loud and uncomfortable that lower speeds are just a whole lot more pleasant - the perfect speed control. Lol.

 

I have found over the last couple us day that people drive quite fast in VA. Haven't seen nearly as many caps as we have in OH

 

I'm trying to understand what principal it is your trying to stick to.....that civil disobedience is OK, no matter what the venue, or only that civil disobedience of speed laws is OK?

My problem with your ideal is, where does it stop? How much is OK? How far can you break the law and consider yourself as sticking to your principals?

Is 20 over OK, 30? where do you draw the line? Or is there a line to be drawn?
Do you only speed on highways, or is it OK to speed in a school zone, as I asked before? You say I took your statement to comical proportions, that's only because it is comical, that you can pick and choose when and where you break the law and it's OK to do so...and how do you know where the "bad law" lies? Have YOU done engineering studies to justify your position that the law is wrong, or are you just winging it? Because unless you have, your justification of your behavior is just as wrong as the guy's postion who imposed the speed rule, isn't it? You can't hold others to a standard that you won't uphold yourself.

And if ignoring speed limits is OK because YOU believe them to not be accurate for the road your driving, what other laws are OK to be broken too?

It's a slippery slope you're on, and your position is indefensible, IMHO.

And I also am trying to have a simple respectful discussion here, I'm not name calling or anything else....simply asking you to clarify and justify what you wrote....but I don't think you can other than to say that it's what you do and what you're going to do.......it sounds like self indulgence hiding behind a mask of principal to me.

 

All interesting points, some I agree, some not so much.

My view 5 over sometimes, 20 over not so much. In the city not at all. To many kids, pets and stupid people walking into the street on the phone, texting, eating, etc.....

If I do I pay my fine, sometimes the long lonely mountain roads get some high speed runs, but then a deer or elk will get you.

Don

 

of course you were posting about yourself. You self-centered....






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Not at all, I'm not perfect, nor do I claim to be....

But if you remember this thread was started by a guy who got a ticket for going 90 in a 55......justify that!

And then others came in and talked like they think that's fine as long as you don't get caught.

Then others piped up that they speed whenever and wherever they want.....as long as they pay the fines it's their problem.

Then DDave came in and said he speeds because the laws are bad.

None of those are defensible positions IMHO.

I recognize that folks do it, and my position is "cool it" on the road, and take your need to speed to the track. I also feel I work way too hard for my money to give to the police benevolent foundation.

That's all......

 

Man your MINI is very fast! :arf:

 

Does anyone remember when New Rome, west of Columbus, was like this? They would give you a ticket because they could tell as you drove by at 35 that your tire was 1 lb short of properly inflated. 1 mph over 35, ticket. It was nuts.

 

They used to set those up a couple miles from our high school on the country roads. We used them to see who could get the high score for the day, lol. Loser bought the winner lunch, lol!

 

George was a smart man!

 

Just drove though there yesterday. I'm lucky they didn't send me to Supermax.

 

He mentioned how annoyed he became after hearing the inmates talk about nothing but what put them in jail in the first place. That's kinda how I began to feel and about where I quit reading. He got the point across too soon. Besides, how many times was he told. Learning curve?