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Worst Tickets? Best Letoff?, stories of your speeding |
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Dec 11 2007, 11:30 AM
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I understand speed limits in and close to the cities, but I think once you get out into the rural areas and open highways, that basically have either light or no traffic, they should bump the limits up to 80mph, or eliminate them all together with a law like "No faster than road conditions safely allow" or a "Common Sense Law". With that if you were driving through the desert on a clear sunny day, and there were no other cars on the road, you could go as fast as you wanted. If it was snowing and you were driving 80mph on ice at night, you could and should be ticketed for "unsafe speed for current road conditions" or "Lack of Common Sense" lol. Maybe a set limit for night time driving to take long range visibility into account. I also think that if the speed limit for passenger cars is 80mph, semi trucks should be allowed to drive 80mph too, instead of being limited to 55mph like in some states. Forcing large trucks to drive way slower than the normal flow of traffic causes too many accidents. I wouldn't be opposed to higher fines for speeding if the speed limit was 80mph. I think running red lights or stop signs should always be a ticketable offense, because too many people die every year because of that. I also think drivers that get pulled over for being under the influence of alcohol or drugs should lose their liscence for several years, and their car should be either sold at auction, putting the money into a fund to help drunk driver victims, or crushed and sold for it's scrap steel value with the money going to help innocent people. I'm not talking about the "California Stop" where you slow down to nearly a full stop (like coasting under 2mph), see that the road/intersection is clear and then go. I think if you get caught drifting or racing on city streets (at least if it's during high traffic times, not necessarily at 3am on deserted streets in commercial areas) you should get a major fine the first time, after that you lose your liscence and car.
As far as prisons go, I hate knowing that as taxpayers, we are supporting so many people on death row. I also hate reading that it cost's taxpayers $millions to finally execute a person when their appeals finally run out. Bullets are cheap, and rope is reusable. I don't care if one method of execution is considered "inhumane" or not, most people on death row are there because of inhumane acts they perpetrated towards innocent people. Let em suffer a little sample of the type of pain they caused their victims. If found guilty in court, and there was creditable DNA evidence, video, credible witnesses etc, there should be no appeals. If setenced to death, hang them or line them up in front of the firing squad at sunrise the following day and be done with it. I feel car thiefs, and carjackers should be hung from the nearest tree once they are caught. Though not typically enforced anymore, most states still have stealing horses as a hangable offense on the books, why should cars be any different. Ok enough of my ranting, off my soapbox. lol
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Dec 11 2007, 08:00 PM
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Our society has just gotten to soft on criminals, so now the criminals are looking at big payoffs/paydays, with minimal risk. I know in the county I live in right now, the courts have resorted to a reevolving door policy. I know a guy that stabbed an old guy 16 times and tried to kill him, because the old guy asked the guys GF to bring back his stuff that she stole when she was working for him. The stabber spent less than 2 weeks in jail, even though at the time he was arrested, he had a "hit list" he was trying to get put together with the names of all the firefighters and ambulance personell that responded to the stabbing call. This same guy is a repeat convicted felon, that had just been released 2 months before for attempted kidnapping rape and sodomy of a famale hitch hiker. He only spent a few months in jail for that one too. Basically you can commit nearly any crime now, and be back on the streets to offend again in record time (if you even get arrested at all). Makes me sick thinking about it sometimes.
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