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To: rstrahan

I’m not worried about that since I haven’t had a ticket in ten years. The last time I went to driving school was when I lived in CA and did 65 in a 55. I explained how the interstates were designed for 70mph and the class was stupid. The instructor told me that if I didn’t sing the party line, I wouldn’t graduate. Early ‘90’s. Yes, your, highness. Nothing but a money grab.


6 posted on 01/18/2020 7:34:51 PM PST by ebshumidors
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To: ebshumidors
I’m not worried about that since I haven’t had a ticket in ten years. The last time I went to driving school was when I lived in CA and did 65 in a 55. I explained how the interstates were designed for 70mph and the class was stupid.

That 55 MPH speed limit is probably 65 now. In any event, most of the interstates are designed for speeds much higher than 70 MPH. (After the Republican Congress repealed the "double nickel" in 1995, the State of Montana had NO daylight speed limit for two years; anyone caught at a buck or higher was pulled over and given a warning.)

23 posted on 01/18/2020 7:44:33 PM PST by Captain Walker
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To: ebshumidors
Between El Paso and Carlsbad, NM., there isn’t a speed limit on some desert highway I was on.

I was doing about 115 in a rental Cadillac STS at night and came up on two very forlorn, sad and faint little orange lights. The distance between us closed at breakneck speed and I made a hard left rudder in the nick of time. Little old lady behind the wheel of a 1967, VW bug doing about 45 mph up a slight hill. Poor little German piece of crap about put me out of commission for good.

Be careful out there

40 posted on 01/18/2020 7:52:51 PM PST by atc23
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To: ebshumidors
The last time I went to driving school was when I lived in CA and did 65 in a 55. I explained how the interstates were designed for 70mph and the class was stupid. The instructor told me that if I didn’t sing the party line, I wouldn’t graduate. Early ‘90’s. Yes, your, highness. Nothing but a money grab.

I got a few tickets for going over 55 on Interstates back when the Double Nickel was in force. A couple of traffic school instructors were real a-holes. One of them used the class as a soap box for promoting his fanatical belief in seat belts. Among other things, he told us that not wearing a seat belt counted as a moving violation, which it does not. However, another instructor invited a cop to address the class and answer questions--and, of course, he knew the law.

Interestingly, it was a "conservative," Richard Nixon, who imposed on us the Double Nickel and a liberal, Bill Clinton, who finally got rid of it.

91 posted on 01/18/2020 8:59:21 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ebshumidors

I never got a ticket in 50 years of driving until last year when I made an illegal left turn. The cop was all business which surprised me. No hello, how are you doing. Basically, here’s your ticket.


113 posted on 01/18/2020 10:33:28 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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