[billethkid]

Originally Posted by bluedog103

BTK, have you ever broken a traffic law? If so, were you ticketed for every occasion? If you didn't receive a ticket for every traffic law broken I must assume that you drove to the police station and turned yourself in.

I don't follow the line of question or the issue?
No I am just like evrybody else that breaks traffic/moving violations every single time I am driving.....EXCEPT....... when I am in those towns or areas known to enforce those laws. Then like everybody else I slow right down and become a model driver.......until we get outta sight.

All I am advocating is the law be enforced to a point here in TV that everybody knows to slow down and be a model driver while on TV roads.
I long for the day when TV becomes noted for it's lifestyle, it's friendliness and IT'S most stringent TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT/speed traps.

Book em Danno!!.

btk

[BobnBev]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

Absolutely they should if the driver has proceeded safely. In fact in many states that is the law. They found that the police were simply harassing people for no valid reason. They also found that something like 90% of the people don't come to a full and complete stop when it is unnecessary.
Like I said, I often am rolling at less that 5mph and can see for half a mile in both direction. I am going plenty slow enough to stop if I have to, but in many instances it is unnecessary.
Police ticketing people for things like that is only to raise money for the town.
I have had people who were at a full stop, see me and still pull out causing me to step on my brakes. Which is more dangerous?

Absolutely they should if the driver has proceeded safely. In fact in many states that is the law.

I can't think of ONE state where that is the law. I guess, by your way of thinking, we should get rid of all stop signs, replace them with yield signs.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by BobnBev

Absolutely they should if the driver has proceeded safely. In fact in many states that is the law.

I can't think of ONE state where that is the law. I guess, by your way of thinking, we should get rid of all stop signs, replace them with yield signs.

No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying that LE should and usually does use a little common sense. If someone is proceeding safely, there is no reason to ticket them. If someone comes to a complete stop and then pulls out in front of an oncoming car, that is obviously a problem. If someone completely blows through a stop sign that is an obvious problem and those drivers should be fined. But someone that almost comes to a complete stop and can clearly see that there is no oncoming traffic and proceeds after slowing down to 2 mph, that is not a problem.

I think that more of a problem is people that don't understand that the car that gets to the intersection first has the right of way and if the both get there at the same time, the car on the right has the right of way. I don't how many times I've arrived at an intersection at the same time as a car to my left and they sit there either not knowing what to do or waiting for me to go first. I finally realize that they want me to go first and as soon as I start, they start as well. Those people should have their licenses revoked. There are much more serious violations than people going through a stop sign after slowing to 2 mph.

You do bring up and interesting point however. I lived in the Philippines for about a year and except for a very few "Americanized" areas there are virtually no stop signs. Everyone slows down or stops when they get to an intersection and they proceed safely. There are almost no accidents at the intersections. It actually works out very well.

[Virtual Geezer]

The one thing the local sheriff need to do is stop profiling. I witnesses a speed checkpoint on Buena Vista at the Bridgeport gate. The sheriff was clocking traffic heading south from the Palmer roundabout. Now there were at least 4 chase sheriffs on motorcycles just waiting for the next victim. Along comes a car over the speed limit but along side of him being passed going at least 10 mph faster was a local construction worker in his truck. The construction worked did not get stopped but the car driver did and received a ticket. The construction worker never slowed down through the entire area and went on his way. Now they both should have received tickets if they were over the posted speed limit but I guess that is not the way it works in TV. Profiling at it's best.

VG

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Virtual Geezer

The one thing the local sheriff need to do is stop profiling. I witnesses a speed checkpoint on Buena Vista at the Bridgeport gate. The sheriff was clocking traffic heading south from the Palmer roundabout. Now there were at least 4 chase sheriffs on motorcycles just waiting for the next victim. Along comes a car over the speed limit but along side of him being passed going at least 10 mph faster was a local construction worker in his truck. The construction worked did not get stopped but the car driver did and received a ticket. The construction worker never slowed down through the entire area and went on his way. Now they both should have received tickets if they were over the posted speed limit but I guess that is not the way it works in TV. Profiling at it's best.

VG

A few assumptions being made here.

[Virtual Geezer]

I call them the way I see them.

VG

[buggyone]

Originally Posted by Virtual Geezer

I call them the way I see them.

VG

Why not call the Sumter County sheriff office and file a citizen complaint against the profiling you saw?

[mickey100]

Originally Posted by rayschic

You are not supposed to CHANGE lanes within the roundabout but you can exit from the left lane. If a driver is exiting from the left lane and you are in the right lane and hit him, YOU will be ticketed. It took a long time for me to get used to people exiting from the left. Here's a link to the guidelines.


http://www.districtgov.org/community...t-02-08-12.pdf

I think you may have misread my post. I came up to the roundabout in the right lane. Someone came up at about the same time to the roundabout in the left lane. They accelerated ahead of me, cut in front of me and immediately turned right. This was going north on Buena Vista. They turned right onto Camino Real. From the lane they were in, their only legal options were to go straight or turn left.

I agree, it is bizarre, and having lived here 7 years, this is the first time its happened, and twice in one month. Scary to say the least. What more commonly occurs, and it happens VERY frequently, is some joker enters the right lane and tries to go 3/4 of the way around the roundabout in the right lane, so they can make their left turn. This is incorrect. When you enter the roundabout in the right lane, your only legal move is to turn right or go straight.

[tommy steam]

Originally Posted by Virtual Geezer

The one thing the local sheriff need to do is stop profiling. I witnesses a speed checkpoint on Buena Vista at the Bridgeport gate. The sheriff was clocking traffic heading south from the Palmer roundabout. Now there were at least 4 chase sheriffs on motorcycles just waiting for the next victim. Along comes a car over the speed limit but along side of him being passed going at least 10 mph faster was a local construction worker in his truck. The construction worked did not get stopped but the car driver did and received a ticket. The construction worker never slowed down through the entire area and went on his way. Now they both should have received tickets if they were over the posted speed limit but I guess that is not the way it works in TV. Profiling at it's best.

VG

Some years back I got a speeding ticket in an hov lane. When I said to the PO what about the other three lanes to my right who were going faster than me? His answer was,it's like fishing I can't catch everyone but I caught you.

[kittygilchrist]

haha! my Tennessee aunt and uncle were pulled over on an interstate. My aunt leaned over from the passenger side to deliver this in her best Elizabethan/American English:
"We wasn't going no faster than anybody else. We was just the onliest one you could catch."