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  • #31
    I always love how people whine when they get caught breaking the laws... typical. It's always the cops who are wrong... heaven forbid they should take responsibility for their own actions.

    If I get caught when speeding, I'm usually very polite, and more than willing to pay the fine, go to traffic school, or just take the ticket on my record. I broke the law, so I pay the price.

    In many cases, they are so surprised with my overall attitude, they end up not giving me a ticket...
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    • #32
      Speed traps are a crime. It is a source of income and a crooked way for a town to make money. Of course legitimate speed limits in residential neighborhoods etc. are necessary. I heard a radio interview once with a guy who made those radar dector things and he had quite a few facts about speed traps that are set up all over the country. No wonder some people hate cops.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by tandeetaylor
        I'm sorry, speeding is not a "crime" unless you are driving recklessly and much faster than the rest traffic so that you are legitimately putting others' lives in danger.
        I'm sorry but if you are going fast enough to earn a 300$ speeding ticket, that qualifies as reckless driving.
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        • #34
          Originally posted by Lincoln
          Speed traps are a crime.
          Do they not have signs saying "Speed cameras in operation"? That's what they do here.
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          • #35
            I love how people call them "speed traps"... All that means is that cops strongly enforce the "posted" speed limit. People who are silly enough to be speeding through it are caught. They have broken the law, but all they do is whine that they were caught... and that the cops are wrong for arresting them...

            The speed limit is POSTED... It's not a "trap"... If you want to ignore it, that's your problem.
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            • #36
              Did you see Top Gear the other night SD? Apparently it is possible to go so fast that you don't even set the speed cameras off ..... the only catch is you have to do about 170mph.
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              • #37
                A speed trap is properly thought of as the situation where the cops hide behind some object, completely obscured from view. That is the (illegal or at least unethical) part of a speed trap (well...that and speeding). Plenty of cops will slime their way around that rule by hiding behind a billboard or something like that where technically they aren't hidden. Problem is that if you're driving (speeding or no speeding) and you strain to see the mostly-hidden cop, you're taking your eyes of the road. Bad cop, no donut!
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                • #38
                  That is fine, the cameras but occasionaly you have the cops waiting for people speeding... and I am not sure over 80 mph... 90 is thoo high.... 100 you can lose the licence, i think. Many people do 90, but it is tricky. I have not been caught yet, as well as having a Citroen AX that cant go over 95 , and being careful for cameras on the normal roads, does it for me so far.
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                  • #39
                    The speed limit is POSTED... It's not a "trap"... If you want to ignore it, that's your problem.


                    I could see it as a trap if they have a sudden decrease in the limit, especially at the bottom of a hill, and then rigorously enforce that.
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                    • #40
                      ha-ha!
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                      • #41
                        It is not unethical or illegal for cops to hide in order to catch SOMEBODY THAT IS BREAKING THE LAW... oh please. You can whine all you want about "speed traps"... but to get caught, you HAVE TO BE SPEEDING... so who's fault is it the YOU got caught...
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                        • #42
                          Speed limits are there for a reason you know.

                          I was given a speeding ticket once in a school zone (45 km/h in a 30 zone, at 4:50 when it ends at 5:00) But the day was a frickin professional development day so there was no school in, and it wasn't in effect. Anyway, I explained to the cop that there WAS no school that day and I was actually going 5km/h UNDER the speed limit when he pulled me over, and he told me that I shouldn't speak to him with that attitude.

                          So I let him write me the stupid ticket, at which point he actually checked off that I VOLUNTEER to pay the fine rather than challenge it. I told him there was no way I'd pay a ticket when I wasn't speeding, so he ripped up the ticket and wrote me a new one and gave me a date to challenge it.

                          I wrote down his name and badge number and showed up a month later in court with evidence from the schoolboard that the day was a PD-day. Lo and behold I wasn't speeding at all.

                          I wonder if the Cop would pay more attention next time...

                          He was probably just giving me a hard time because the car I was driving at the time cost more than his annual salary.
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                          • #43
                            No, the cops are legitmately allowed to hide. Illegal speed traps are places where the speed limit is lowered suddenly, without warning, and for the sole reason of catching people speeding. You're doing 55 and suddenly you're in a 35 mph zone and bam you've got a cop on you. That's a speed trap.
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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Garth Vader
                              I could see it as a trap if they have a sudden decrease in the limit, especially at the bottom of a hill, and then rigorously enforce that.
                              Even if that is the case... the speed limit MUST BE POSTED for them to pull you over. If you don't see it, or respond quick enough (and every big decrease like that comes with a "reduce speed ahead" warning sign), who's fault is that?

                              I know many people get pissed off when they get pulled over for speeding... probably because you can get away with 9 out of of 10 times... but that doesn't change the fact that it is against the law, and if you get caught, you are the one responsible.
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                              • #45
                                Speed limits in highways are basically unnecessary. Tail-gaiting, not speeding, should be punished.
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