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15 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - What Is The Most Dange... · 0 replies · +1 points

Clover1, formerly known as Randy:

Jews are prohibited from manually operate machinery on Saturdays so they use their knees to steer cars. Christians drive to churches on Sundays to meet their Maker. What is your point?

The explanation of the statistics in the article calls for generalization of the driving population, not your fetishistic focus on alcohol.

15 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - What Is The Most Dange... · 2 replies · +1 points

On weekends, especially Saturdays, the first day most people are off from work, they run around like chicken with heads cut off to run their errands, grocery shopping, going to Home Depot, and whatnot. The rate of traffic and its frenziness is therefore much higher on weekends than on week days. Everyone is trying to cut everyone else off on the roads to get to where they want to go first. That is why I prefer running my errands after work on week days and stay home on weekends to beat the rush.

Fridays and Thursdays follow because those are the last and the second last days of the work week and people are tired and frazzled and therefore pay less attention to the roads.

Mondays follow because people are changing their rhythm and routine from weekends to week days, typically work days, and their stress level rises, so the driving gets affected and becomes erratic.

Wednesdays are the "hump" day of the week, so people are already well into their work routine but not yet tired enough to see their driving skill suffer.

Tuesdays are the safest because people are already settled into their work week routine and the stress of work has not gotten to them to cause bad driving.

15 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Another Ticket Camera ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Where is the moderator of this blog? This JimSamsung is obviously Randy Reincarnate. If you compare their writings, it is eminently clear that those two are the one and the same. Can we please do something about this scourge?

15 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - The Rise Of The Ticket... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hey Randy/JimSamsung, you moved and got a new IP address? How soon do you think you will be banned again on this blog?

15 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Guilty in Ohio: Speedi... · 1 reply · +2 points

I always subscribe to the idea that the best way to fight a ticket is not to get one in the first place. My traffic ticket lawyer, against his own interest, once told me that the best way not to get a ticket is to blend into traffic and not stand out.

My experience has taught me to drive in the right-most lane whenever possible because cops look for speeders in left lane(s). As a matter of fact, if you are driving faster than the guy to your left and a cop clocks you both from far away with a radar gun, he is more likely to pull over that left-lane hog because radar guns cannot identify, in a two-vehicle, same-direction situation, which vehicle's speed shows up on the screen. At a distance, say half a mile away, a cop is not going to be able to tell, visually, who is going faster so naturally he is going to pick the guy in the left lane. That's another reason one always wants to be in the right-most lane whenever possible.

Unless and until the laws are changed, people like me who use Ohio Turnpike frequently are going to fight the trench warfare one mile at a time.

16 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Making Functional Laws... · 1 reply · +2 points

You guys in Illinois had it easy. Vehicle registrations fees have almost TRIPLED in my state. Yes, you read it right: almost tripled. You can look to the usual suspects, i.e., those states with budget crisis to figure out which state it is (I do not intend to compromise privacy by mentioning the specific state).

Just as the auto companies went bankrupt because they wanted to reap in profit first and build cars second, the government has also let its proverbial tail wag the dog, by collecting revenue first but only paying lip service to fulfilling its originally intended functions. The only difference is that GM cannot hire armed goons to force you to buy their cars, whereas the government obviously flaunts its ability to collect revenue via forcible means if necessary.

At this rate, in another decade, the government is expected to charge for the air one breathes by forcing one to don a metered mask 24/7 that is linked wirelessly to the nearest cell tower and automatically collect the tax revenue via withholding of one's paycheck.

16 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - How To Cope With Traff... · 0 replies · +2 points

How about alternative routes? Get on an online map site such as Google Maps or Mapquest and study different routes between your destinations. Zoom in and out, drag your routes to different roads, etc. Sometimes a longer route actually takes shorter time to travel because of less traffic.

16 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - 58% Of People Who Foug... · 3 replies · +5 points

Have you heard of "GEICO gun"? GEICO bankrolled police departments nationwide with the purchase of LTI 20/20 laser guns so the cops could write more tickets armed with those laser guns.

GEICO in turn scans its policy holders' state driving records every time their policies are up for renewal and jacks up their insurance rates whenever there is even the smallest blemish showing up on record. That is why it is very important to fight every ticket--to keep those insurance companies' hand out of your pocket.

They are not called insurance cartels for no reason. Slick commercials can only soften their public image so much.

16 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - 58% Of People Who Foug... · 0 replies · +1 points

I was at a bar recently and overheard a guy talking about mailing in his guilty plea for a six-point moving violation. That's more than half of someone's license around here, where state DMV starts to suspend licenses with eleven or more points.

What irked me was the lightheartedness in the tone of that gentleman, as if he could live easily with at least a month of license suspension out here in the country with no public transportation, plus fines and surcharges, plus hiked insurance premiums for the foreseeable future. Granted, he was youthful by appearance and probably had not tasted too much pain the world could cause him. I felt very sorry for him, who basically cut up and mailed in half of his license.

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