Re: Too Fast For Conditions (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)

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From: Brandon Sommerville
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:00

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Scott M. Kozel wrote:

>Brandon Sommerville <grimrod@mindless.moc> wrote:
>> 
>> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
>> 
>> >"Mark B." <spam_*this*_@see.my.sig> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What kind of *MORON* believes they can paint one "magic number" on a
>> >> sign and declare it "The One True Speed" -- day or night, summer or
>> >> winter, rain or shine, Porsche or Winnabego, new tread or none?
>> >
>> >The law.
>> 
>> Says it all, thanks Scott, it takes a brave man to admit it.  But
>> we've known it for a while...
>
>Oh, I see, Brandon.  You're concluding that the law is a "moron".  My,
>how un-Canadian of you.

Hmm, we all complain about the idiocy of the bureaucracy.  Stupid laws
are stupid laws, bureaucracies as a group are generally incapable of
reacting to new information.  Speed enforcement costs money, money
that is generated by speed enforcement.  Raising limits to the 85th
percentile would reduce the income generated by speed enforcement,
thus causing the bureaucracy to reduce it's size, something that is
very difficult to do.

>I'll bet you've got tickets coming out the yin-yang by now.

Just one.  ;)  Despite spending a year and a half commuting a 75 km
route with a cruising speed 40 km/h above the limit.
-- 
Brandon

"Spooooooooooonnnnn!"

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From: grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon Sommerville)
Subject: Re: Too Fast For Conditions (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)
Date: 1998/07/07
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