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The Following Is A Rant, Be Warned.
{RANT} What has the world come to when all the news channels have to report is that some guy left his two children in their locked mini-van to watch a movie while he went into Lowells to pick up some stuff? Why is this news? We have all been left alone in the car while our parents ran into the store for something. Why now is this considered a "News Worthy" story? Worse yet, why was the man cited and his kids placed into protective custody? He did nothing that has not been done before. It was not hot out, the kids were old enought to roll down the windows if need be, and all they were doing was minding their own business watching scooby doo. Good god these ultra "protect you from your rights" fanatical lefties really need to step the hell back and seriously consider MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS! And shame on the Channel 12 (Fox 12) for running the story as if it was major news. OMG how our news has degraded into TABLOID TV. What do you say to people who report crap like this as news? I simply just cannot figure them out. Now if he had left the car running or it was a hot day and no AC, then hell ya, bad man, but he didn't, and the children were 7 and 10. *shakes head* What has the world come to? {\RANT} [ April 02, 2004, 05:21: Message edited by: Atrocities ] |
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Must have been a slow day for news.
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They do this all the time. Someone was caught smoking the Clark County Court House a few weeks back and they ran that as a leading story.
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WTF you can't leave 7 and 10 year old kids alone for a few mintues? When I was 10 we used to head off into the woods to play after lunch and not come back till dinner.
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AT it saves them from the real news...
Such as news about corperations and the enviroment. When I was in the states i noticed it was a steady news of Poor people with guns, Black Males or Hispanics. Then these white people crimes such as locking the kids in a suv... Oh and beware killer bees or something like that. I just thought that the media adjenda was to promote fear for the middle class. I would rather see in the news Corporate Crime and decisions that affects thousands of people over some convenice store being held up. But hey you cannot take some rich white haired white guy in his 50's and toss him around like a rag dog. ( just keeping in line with the sterotype) No one would watch... which would hurt product sales and hurt the corperation that is presenting the news. |
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I should probably make myself scarce then, being one of those left wing types! lol
Seriously though, a slow media day is common here in England espc in the smaller counties (like were I live) and all kinds of social commentary gets put up without a hint of irony. I dont have kids so I couldnt say wether I'd leave them alone in a car, my dad used ot leave me in the car alone all the time...on the other hand he was one of the worst parents ever, yet it is a fairly common practise... Jail terms and the like shouldnt be political currency. |
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I don't remember ever being left alone, but then, I come from a very large family, with 7 brothers, 3 sisters and 67 cousins out of my 5 uncles, and I am the youngest, so there was always a lot of older family members around me.
The point is that I don't know if what that guy did was justified or not, but it was definitively something that I will not do the day I have kids. He should have left his kids with his family. |
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In Arizona it is illegal to leave a DOG or Child alone in the car.
Of course, this makes some common sense in a HOT desert. BUT... I do not know if the law is written in a common sense way. My brother was visiting and one cool night we decided to run to the store. The dog jumped into the car with us, and since he liked the dog, we brought him along. We shopped quickly and headed back to the car. Standing by the car were two ladies, and one of then was on the cell phone talking to the police! The other one started to scold us, and said "Do you know it can get above 140f degrees in that car in minutes?" I rolled my eyes, looked at the sky, and said " I don't see how, it is night time, the sun is not going to heat up the car. She gave me a blank stare, and started up talking again... I said "Let me introduce my brother, the High School science teacher, I'm sure he can explain it to you." The other one told the ploce never mind and hung up the phone. We exchanged a few curtious words and left. |
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Where are involved the left fanatics in there ? Did the news said they were ? I don't get it. Has it anything to do with the Patriot law (whatever name) squeezing away some freedom of yours ? I though the Patriot thing was a Bush creation ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif |
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I'm pretty sure the Patriot Act doesn't cover leaving your kids in the parking lot of the home improvment store watching Dvd's.
Unless maybe they are watching "Bowling for Columbine" or something. There might be a clause buried in there for that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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And we have these laws because some parents are stupid enough to leave their kids in the car long enough that they -die- from heat exhuastion. |
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Yep. Sounds like a typical dumb news story. I don't get the big deal. 7 and 10? When I was little, my siblings and I would CHOOSE to stay in the the car rather than tag along for an hour in a boring old home improvement store. Of course we were instructed that if someone were to try anything to try anything we were to grab sharp objects and repeatedly beat on the horn. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Anyway, dumb news story.
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I don't think that good parenting is constant surveillance 24/7. Aim of good parenting should be to finally enable them to look for themselves. 7 and 10? If they cannot be left alone for 10 minutes, when can parents start to let their children alone? At 18? 20? 30?... Maybe that's why so many stupid adults are running around these days who really should not be left alone.
Turning off the DVD, getting children out of car, discussion and whining ("why can't I stay here and watch? I don't wanno go that stupid store!"), will take more than 10 mins. Unnecessary stress for both, parents and children. I wouldn't leave the key in the car, wouldn't do it if the car is parked in a sloped road, and would lock the car. Of course it is possible to construct any kind of lurking dangers that can threaten them. But remember, you can die while walking your dog http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif "We used to play in the woods when I was little too. But life was different then." Not really. Standards were different then. Todays parents would start discussing the dangers of falling trees, dangerous rivers, diseased animals, possible broken bones etc. I doubt there is a "right" way to do it, but making parents to slaves for their children surely isn't. Over-protectivness is widespread these days and seems to result in todays people - not able to care for themselves, unable to take any responsibilities, and crying for laws and government to protect them against anything and everything including their own lazyness and stupidity. |
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Geo why would anyone watch that bowling for combine movie... That thing is just brutal....
He should go after cars... since more people die each year in car accidents... Or swimming pools... That guy is a nut and his documentaries are brutal one sided piles of ........ Like all those blogs I used to visit. Little did I know they were fronts for Democratic Good vs Republican evil. Once I figured that out they held no value to me. P.S. I know you were saying that one for me.... It is how I truely feel the news should be. Maybe have a local news cornor where that stuff might be mentioned... I have mentioned it a few times over the years on this forum. Why does everything become left vs right? Drives me nuts...... P.P.S. Geo your post eariler. All I have to do is stand up and clap. And remind my self I should not post before I eat breakfast and drink a cup of Joe. |
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Definitly Not Politically Correct HUMOR....
REPUBLICANISM SHOWN TO BE GENETIC IN ORIGIN Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:49:20 -0800 The discovery that affiliation with the Republican Party is genetically determined was announced by scientists in the current issue of the journal NURTURE, causing uproar among traditionalists who believe it is a chosen lifestyle. Reports of the gene coding for political conservatism, discovered after a decades-long study of quintuplets in Orange County, CA, has sent shock waves through the medical, political, and golfing communities. Psychologists and psychoanalysts have long believed that Republicans' unnatural disregard for the poor and frequently unconstitutional tendencies resulted from dysfunctional family dynamics -- a remarkably high percentage of Republicans do have authoritarian domineering fathers and emotionally distant mothers who didn't teach them how to be kind and gentle. Biologists have long suspected that conservatism is inherited. "After all," said one author of the NURTURE article, "It's quite common for a Republican to have a brother or sister who is a Republican." The finding has been greeted with relief by Parents and Friends of Republicans (PFREP), who sometimes blame themselves for the political views of otherwise lovable children, family, and unindicted co-conspirators. One mother, a longtime Democrat, wept and clapped her hands in ecstasy on hearing of the findings. "I just knew it was genetic," she said, seated with her two sons, both avowed Republicans. "My boys would never freely choose that lifestyle!" When asked what the Republican lifestyle was, she said, "You can just tell watching their conventions in Houston and San Diego on TV: the flaming xenophobia, flamboyant demagogy, disdain for anyone not rich, you know." Both sons had suspected their Republicanism from an early age but did not confirm it until they were in college, when they became convinced it wasn't just a phase they were going through. The NURTURE article offered no response to the suggestion that the high incidence of Republicanism among siblings could result from their sharing not only genes but also psychological and emotional attitude as products of the same parents and family dynamics. A remaining mystery is why many Democrats admit to having voted Republican at least once -- or often dream or fantasize about doing so. Polls show that three out of five adult Democrats have had a Republican experience, although most outgrow teenage experimentation with Republicanism. Some Republicans hail the findings as a step toward eliminating conservophobia. They argue that since Republicans didn't "choose" their lifestyle any more than someone "chooses" to have a ski-jump nose, they shouldn't be denied civil rights which other minorities enjoy. If conservatism is not the result of stinginess or orneriness (typical stereotypes attributed to Republicans) but is something Republicans can't help, there's no reason why society shouldn't tolerate Republicans in the military or even high elected office -- provided they don't flaunt their political beliefs. For many Americans, the discovery opens a window on a different future. In a few years, gene therapy might eradicate Republicanism altogether. |
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Congrats to Fox for a well executed political propaganda stunt. Seems like they got the response they wanted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
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Well, I'm a little confused why every topic becomes a left vs right thing.
I have a 7 and 10 year old. Call me an irrational overprotective parent if you want, but I'll be damned if I'm going to leave them unattended in the car out in the parking lot. What's wrong with taking your kids into the store with you? Afraid they will act up? Well be a freaking parent for once. Teach them a little discipline maybe? For that matter get them interested in your home project. Teach them to build something and be creative. At least use them for slave labor and make them carry stuff. Heck, getting someone else to carry stuff has been a primary motivation to have kids for thousands of years. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Why the heck do we even have Dvd players's in the car? That's a rant I'd like to see someone make. And beyond that, kids do stupid stuff sometimes. You can't be troubled to take them into the store with you, but you are going to leave them unattended in a car where they can damage it, or other cars in the lot? On the other hand, I agree it's stupid arresting this guy. Last I checked stupudity and poor paranting aren't illegal. This doesn't quite fit my defintion of neglect. But he shouldn't have left them either. As to why it's news, it's news for the same reason that kids getting kidnapped is news. If this van had been carjacked and his kids molested or killed it would be news. We'd all be clicking our teeth at the sad state of the world today that you can't leave your kids sitting in the car while you run into a store to get some nails. Or if you are of the "It's stupid they arrested this guy." persuation I would think you would want gross abuse of police authority to be news. Either way it's news. At least by the standards of local news in a country with an overabundance of 24 hour news networks. It's not exactly earth shattering national news level stuff. We used to play in the woods when I was little too. But life was different then. But we didn't play in the parking lot. And if we tried to play in Dad's car we got yelled at. Car's aren't daycare centers, and Dvd's aren't babysitters. Be a parent. [ April 02, 2004, 13:22: Message edited by: geoschmo ] |
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ROFLMAO - Hey wait a minute! Thats not FUNNY http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
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I thought it was very funny. It would definately explain alot, wouldn't it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
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I think it comes down to two problems:
1) Parents don't protect their kids from things they should, and 2) Parents protect their kids from things they shouldn't. Germs/dirt? Evilwickedbad. Break out the hand sanitizer and Lysol. Sex? Oh, let 'em make their own choices. They need all the available information to decide, even if they are just 5. Chores? Avoid like the plague. You wouldn't want to warp them by holding them personally responsible for helping at home. Profanity? Why not? The little buggers are just expressing themselves. Restricting activities or friends? You can't do that! You have no right to decide what's right or wrong for your child! Immediate gratification of all desires? Well, they deserve it, don't they? After all, it helps make up for the fact you're never home. |
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I mean if your gonna claim cars are as dangerous or more dangerous than guns make sure you collect some stats on how many lives automobiles save. You know like that ambulance or fire engine that comes and saves your life. or the doctor that uses his car to get to work instead of walking and arriving after the patient dies etc etc etc etc etc. |
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Or the number of guns used to stop robberies, home invasions, etc..
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David G I cannot believe you called me an A-hole.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif "some other A-hole"
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p.s. i am not upset...
On the Car end... you can also look at how the car has helped design urban sprawl and all the problems associated with that. P.P.S. I do not like guns either. To me they have no use in our society in the cities. |
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Some people should not have children.
But now we have so many laws on the books that a good parent cannot discipline their child without loosing them and being charged with a crime. No wonder more and more kids are going up with an "I don't Give A S**t" attitude. I honestly believe that the STATE has no right to interfere with a family unless there is clear-cut evidence of neglect, abuse, or abandonment. Right now they get involved at a drop of the hat and kids know this and use it to their advantage to get what they want. I think Robin Williams said it best: "Why you little Ba!" "HIt me and I will right a book!" We have to many laws that do nothing but protect us from doing the right thing when the right thing is the only thing that matters. The tried and true method of spanking has worked for centuries, but only in the Last 20 years has the establishment ruled that that methods of discipline to be illegal. When I was growing up, if I did something bad, like paint obscenities on a wall or something similar, I would have gotten my arse spanked and spanked hard. Today the parent would go to jail for not supervising the child, the child would go into therapy and society would blame his behavior on violent video games and Rap music. I can go on and on about this and even point the finger squarely at those responsible for this, however that would accomplish nothing so why bother. There are still some good people out there who do what they can to instill ethics and morals into their children and I pray that God has their backs because society sure as hell doesn't. [ April 05, 2004, 04:17: Message edited by: Atrocities ] |
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My opinion:
Here in the LAND OF LIBERTY, I think it is utter BS to have laws against: Leaving your kids in the car. Not wearing a seatbelt. Not wearing a bike helmet. Education is how you get people to behave prudently. Here in the LAND OF THE FREE, laws like these should not exist. PvK |
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Yes, I hate that law about the seat belt.
I understand a law when it protects others from me, but a law that supposely protects me from myself its a violation of my freedom. I have never used seatbelts, and I will not use them. Period. |
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Seat belts and helmets don't just save lives, they lessen injuries. People don't always die from their injuries. Sometimes they are seriously injured and incapacitated. The cost of their health care falls, at best, to everyone else in their health plan, and at worst to the all of us through government assistance.
But I would support people being allowed to sign a waiver that says they can drive without a belt/helmet if they agree not to accept the use of of community health care resources that would not have otherwise been used to care for them. And I'm not talking about a DNR here. I mean even injuries that you would probably have recovered from. If you can't pay your bill out of pocket without my insurance premiums or taxes, I'd rather let natural selection take it's course and give my money to someone with enough sense to buckle up thank you. No offense. Don't want to step on your freedoms after all. |
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Riding a bike, peddle, motor, whatever, without a helmet is just plain dangerous. I know from first hand accounts and many hours of helping people who have been injured. Some did not make it because they opted not to ware a helmet and their heads hit the fallen trees over the trails. To many poeple ride without helmates and they pay the price.
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And I feel manatory laws such as helments , seatbelts and any safety laws are required. People are careless. If fear of a 50 dollar fine forces people to put helmets on when bike riding I am all for it. It is a law that benifits everyone. Your choice is to ride or not ride. And if you ride without a helmet. It is your insurance companies choice to void the policy.
The only one I am against is photo radar. That to me is a cash grab. Especially when it is placed on a highway or a major street. Why not set it up around schools when there is heavy children traffic flow or on neighbourhood streets where there are parks. Then the photo radar would actually ding motorists where driving fast is dangerous. And have an officer there to hand out the ticket to the driver. |
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I always use seatbelts because I was educated about them. However I would be proud to defend Yef's right to not wear one, and not to be harassed and fined by the police if he doesn't.
I don't ride bikes, but I am tempted to get a bike and ride one outside a police station, just so I can scream bloody hell about it. If we want to be unsafe, that's our own business. We can certainly do it in other ways besides the ones that busybody laws cover, too. In my case, these laws are not making me any more safe. They are however making me entertain thoughts about violent uprising against my tyrranical bastard safety-perverted government. Such laws are not appropriate in a supposedly free nation. Maybe people who want to live under such offensive laws should split from the United States and for a "Land of the Forced to be Safe." PvK |
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I can agree on the seatbelts, but again not on leaving your kids in the car. I mean most people would be horrified if you locked someone in an oven and cooked them to death with it....but when you do it accidently in a mobile greenhouse they shrug it off?
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Ever thought about "setting up" photo radar?
Here's my evil plan: Cover your real license plates with fake 666 plates. Get a devil mask and drive fast past the radar site while giving the devil finger salute. News is so slow here, they'll probably probably do a story on the mystery devil speeder. Some of these laws that are meant to protect us go way too far. The USA is really missing out on some good economy cars from overseas just because of minor things like the placing of turn signals and tail lights. Portland use to have some city buses from Hungary, but they had too much power. They added so many governors to them that it made them break down way too many times. Oh my god, too much horsepower for hilly terrain! |
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Just pure speed on a suitable highway is not dangerous in itself. In fact, a general speed limit without reason slightly increases accidents, because it lessens your concentration when you are forced to drive way below your skill limit, and causes so called "micro-sleeps" when even slightly tired or fatigued, which then can cause accidents. In these situations driving faster, at a comfortable speed, is in fact safer, because it enhances attention and reactions. "Too fast" is very much depending on the situation, there are situations when even 40 mph is way too fast. But the US standard 55 mph on highways with little or no traffic are just ridiculous and unmatched, no other country with general speed limits has such a low limit. |
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Wardad your a funny guy, first the dog in a car at night with those 2 old crones then that artical, funny stuff. Could you post the link to that article? Thanks
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It could be a big sum at national level. Still, I can't wear those dam things. So I'll keep doing what I've been doing, but I'll refrein from making an issue of it or giving it free advertisement. You have convinced me that its in my best interest that other people wear the seatbelts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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Well, sort of. I've been through very bad situations and I never got an scratch. |
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If as a soceity we had the nerve to allow you to suffer the consequences of your own poor choices, then we wouldn't need seatbelt laws. People could make rational, considered decisions whether or not to use them. If they didn't and damaged themselves beyond their ability to pay for the doctors bill... well you know what happens when you don't pay your phone bill. But instead as a soceity we are incapable of making those kinds of tough choices. It makes us feel less then human, and probably rightly so. So we insist that you have access to emergency medical care even if you can't pay for it. And we all foot the bill, whether it's through higher insurance premiums, higher taxes, or just higher overall medical costs to offset what the hospital ends up writing off. It might be less then optimal care at a county-run hospital, but we don't leave you on the curb or send you home to die. If we as a soceity are going to be footing the bill for your stint in intensive care, then we as a soceity have the right to ask you to do some little inconvienent things, like wear a seat belt, that might lessen the burden to us all. [ April 05, 2004, 18:32: Message edited by: geoschmo ] |
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The artical "REPUBLICANISM SHOWN TO BE GENETIC IN ORIGIN" was emailed to me. I googled it and it has gotten around to a lot of forums. A lot of people want to know where it started. BTW: The ladies were not crones. They were kinda cute and younger than me, well mid thirties. |
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Just pure speed on a suitable highway is not dangerous in itself. In fact, a general speed limit without reason slightly increases accidents, because it lessens your concentration when you are forced to drive way below your skill limit, and causes so called "micro-sleeps" when even slightly tired or fatigued, which then can cause accidents. In these situations driving faster, at a comfortable speed, is in fact safer, because it enhances attention and reactions. "Too fast" is very much depending on the situation, there are situations when even 40 mph is way too fast. But the US standard 55 mph on highways with little or no traffic are just ridiculous and unmatched, no other country with general speed limits has such a low limit. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well of course I was talking about traffic accidents which pretty much always happen on roads. And also I said speed was "in some part" responsible. Of course not 100% responsible. I don't buy at all that "driving below your skill level" causes lack of concentraction and thus accidents. Sounds like you are saying you should be going like a bat out of hell to keep up the concentration level?? Accidents are caused by something unexpected happening. When this happens the guy going the speed limit is much more likely to avoid the incident. that's just simple physics. |
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"What Has The World Come To"
Oooo! Ooooo! Pick me! I know the answer! Its in the same sorry state it was 7000 years ago. The names have changed, but people haven't. |
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PVK Safety is part of the laws. If people wish to use Public roads and Highways then they must follow the Road and Safety act. Or what ever it is called in your area. Their choice is to use the roads and follow the laws or not use the roads.
Safety belts is one of these laws. Other ones are drag chains on Trailers. Child seats in the back. Etc... They are designed to make the roads safer for those who travel on it. And in the times when there is an accident to lessen the damage to people and vechiles. Fatalities take alot longer to clean up than non fatal accidents. And this time frame also affects everything that needs to travel down that road. And all other roads that are affected by the run off of divirted traffic. If they are on Personal Private Property. Then that is a different matter and they will follow the Laws of that Property. DavidG to me that is just another taxation on us. It does not make us any safer. Everyone could be doing 110 in a 100 zone. How does taking a picture of all those vechiles make us safer ? Does it stop the person passing on the right or doing dangerous lane changes travelling at 100 km. In the Photo Radar world that person is the safe one. |
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