LOL! Awesome headline!!! It gets funnier every time.

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Georgia already passed a similar "$uper $peeder" bill

I love politician's logic. "Due to the poor economy, people have less money.
Tax.
Up.
EVERYTHING"

$ome people ju$t don't under$tand that you can $imply avoid a $peeding ticket by not $peeding.

/voting enabled?? sure...

I clicked on the link expecting it to be Virginia. I'm surprised it was another state.

SPEED KILLS!

It'$ better than lowering the $peed limit.

Anyone who speeds more than 80mph on a road is an idiot except in cases where your wife is pregnant or someone is dying.

Barakku 2010-03-17 06:36:59 PM I love politician's logic. "Due to the poor economy, people have less money. Tax. Up. EVERYTHING"
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Well, see, in a perfect world we would UP the taxes in good times and LOWER them in bad times.

Of course, that also means that the 'high' should be enough to get a good surplus... which only Bill Clinton has ever done (1936ish onward)

TheDroidYouAreLookingFor: $ome people ju$t don't under$tand that you can $imply avoid a $peeding ticket by not $peeding.

/voting enabled?? sure...

That's why I love cruise control. I have a forty-five minute commute to work, and it's not unusual to see at least ten police cruisers on the side of the road-and they go after anyone who dares ti break the speed limit even a little bit.

THe fee$ are only for tho$e who are going "15 mph over the $peed limit".

Tran$lation: $low the fark down jacka$$e$. You didn't need to get there that fa$t anyway.

I'm $ho¢k€D. $ho¢k€D!!!

In all fairness, the lawmaker wants to define super speeders as people going 25+ mph over the speed limit. This is pretty reasonable unless you have cops setting up speed traps near construction zones.

damn...glad we don't have that in WA. I got hit going 40 in a 25. Ticket was only $181. Sure am glad that I didn't get charged that extra $19, that would have been ludicrous!

What about super litterers, or super parking offenders.

Inibrius Ludicrous is totally a different speed not money.

/damn liters

Andytimebomb: What about super litterers, or super parking offenders.

It's kinda a running joke in my hometown. The town landfill is on a mile stretch of road away from the town.. so naturally, it has a farking ton of trash all over it.

Signs went up that said "FINE FOR LITTERING: $850"

To this day, not one person has been caught for littering on that road.

I maintain that if the local PD would spend a week with one, maybe two officers in cruisers parked out there, issuing tickets left and right to people either throwing shiat out their windows, or not securing their load properly in their truck beds, our town would no longer be short on cash.

/voting? sure why not.

This is perfect for dudes like the one next to me today... getting all wound up in his mini-van. I finally slowed up so he could get in front and punch it balls out to the next stoplight.

Sure the fine's a little more, but you get to be a Super-Speeder.

/Italics make it look faster.

Do_Not_Want: TheDroidYouAreLookingFor: $ome people ju$t don't under$tand that you can $imply avoid a $peeding ticket by not $peeding.

/voting enabled?? sure...

That's why I love cruise control. I have a forty-five minute commute to work, and it's not unusual to see at least ten police cruisers on the side of the road-and they go after anyone who dares ti break the speed limit even a little bit.

Yup, I've learned to do this too. I drive to work at 3:45 AM, on a road whose speed limit starts at 55, drops to 45, drops to 35, then goes back to 45. At every point where the speed limit drops, there's a hidden spot where the cops hide waiting to nail you, hoping you're drowsy and you don't slow down when the limit drops. You don't have the luxury of blending in with traffic that early. I had a couple of close calls driving half-asleep and not paying attention to how fast I'm going, so cruise control keeps me from getting busted.

TomServo24: You don't have the luxury of blending in with traffic that early. I had a couple of close calls driving half-asleep and not paying attention to how fast I'm going, so cruise control keeps me from getting busted

Radar detector. Cops who set up traps leave their speed radar on and broadcasting, meaning you can detect it a good mile or two away.

Come to think of it, most of the cops in my neck of the woods leave the damn thing on all the time anyways, meaning that you get warned anytime the fuzz is nearby.. which is a good thing for any person, IMHO.

Speeders inconvenience other drivers for a second or two then they're gone. Slow drivers are a whole different story. Give me speeders any day.

We need money, so you're naughty.


Damn, I shoulda been a politician.

Funk Brothers: Anyone who speeds more than 80mph on a road is an idiot except in cases where your wife is pregnant or someone is dying.

There's a big difference between 80mph on a city street where the speed limit is 30mph and 80mph on an Interstate Highway where the speed limit is 75 mph.

But not according to you?

Barakku: I love politician's logic. "Due to the poor economy, people have less money.
Tax.
Up.
EVERYTHING"

No... due to the poor economy, the government has less money coming in. Taxes are a percentage of the economy pretty much. When the economy goes down, but the cost of social services (like police, fire departments, trash collection etc) stay the same, we get budget crunches.

I love all these Fark articles on local governments trying to get money to pay for the social services that the people demand. Politicians don't get a cut of the taxes. They get paid the same amount either way, so stop biatching, you people would cry your eyes out if your standard of living was affected by a cut in government services.

In Ontario (Canada) we now have fines for going 50 km/hr (~31mph) over the speed limit that include immediate suspension of your driver's licence, roadside impounding your vehicle, and fines of up to C$10,000 (US$9,900).

F*cking pigs....speeding laws are now and always have been there to fund the local corrupt governments. Most cars made in the last 5 years can safely travel at 100+ on an interstate hiway. The speed at which you drive should be dictated by personal responsiblity, not government greed. If you drive a Prius or a 10 year old heap you should know better, and keep the piece of shiat to 60.....if you drive a Mercedes, BMW, etc...,push it to the floor and have fun, that is what they are made for.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Funk Brothers: Anyone who speeds more than 80mph on a road is an idiot except in cases where your wife is pregnant or someone is dying.

Almost the entire state of California then.

/80 MPH on most California freeways is just keeping with the flow of traffic. Then again, in most parts of California, we don't have much in the way of ice, rain, snow, fog, etc, and the freeways are fairly straight (the real problem out here is inattentive drivers, seriously people, get off the phone).

Funk Brothers: Anyone who speeds more than 80mph on a road is an idiot except in cases where your wife is pregnant or someone is dying.

Wait, do you mean 80 mph above the posted limit, or 80 mph ground speed?

Now if they would only adopt California's "basic speed law" which says that the actual speed limit is whatever the officer who cites you determines it is, then they would have something...

BillArr: speeding laws are now and always have been there to fund the local corrupt governments. Most cars made in the last 5 years can safely travel at 100+ on an interstate hiway

Your point would come across clearer if it wasn't horribly misspelled, and containing a huge mess of run-on sentences.

Anyways, buddy, do yourself a favor, and look into the methodology that went into creating the speed limits. I concede that they are long overdue for a revision (upwards), but in general, they are not numbers that some politician pulled out of his ass.

I've also heard there's a prius driver who somehow managed to drive a runaway prius for like 30 minutes at 90 MPH on a mostly 2 lane freeway.

/but I don't believe that guy :P

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Yep...agreed....There should be no punishment if nobody was harmed....again, personal responsibility should be the rule. Speed is a number....how is 80 any more or less safe than 100 if your car is designed for it? I will make the same argument about drinking age...how is 21 useful, I personally have no problem with a 14 year old enjoying a beer with a meal (And yes...I am WELL beyond 'legal' age). Laws that are designed to extract our money are always wrong, especially when they are based on numbers that have no meaning.

CowboyNinjaD: In all fairness, the lawmaker wants to define super speeders as people going 25+ mph over the speed limit. This is pretty reasonable unless you have cops setting up speed traps near construction zones.

which is what they did here. School zones are also a great revenue raiser - especially when the speed limit on a hwy drops from 80 to 40 instantly. Of course, they could put a fence on the side of the road to stop kids running out from the school onto the road, but that would save lives, and govt only cares about the $$$

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BillArr: how is 80 any more or less safe than 100 if your car is designed for it

Hint: Cars are not the only engineering concern for speed limits. Roads have to be designed for it also.

BillArr
Most cars made in the last 5 years can safely travel at 100+ on an interstate hiway.

The laws aren't made for the cars, they're for geniuses like yourself. :D

they are not numbers that some politician pulled out of his ass.

I am not suggesting that we drive 80 through a school zone. I am saying that when we drive on a 4-8 lane road, that a speed limit is not really necessary. I have driven my SLK in excess of posted limits with no problems because that is what it is designed to do.

darth_shatner: CowboyNinjaD: In all fairness, the lawmaker wants to define super speeders as people going 25+ mph over the speed limit. This is pretty reasonable unless you have cops setting up speed traps near construction zones.

which is what they did here. School zones are also a great revenue raiser - especially when the speed limit on a hwy drops from 80 to 40 instantly. Of course, they could put a fence on the side of the road to stop kids running out from the school onto the road, but that would save lives, and govt only cares about the $$$

/$
/$$

I got a speeding ticket in a school zone. There's actually a bus stop on the other side of the street, and putting up a fence wouldn't do much. As I mentioned earlier, the government only cares about money, because it pays for the social services that the people demand. Nobody in the government ever gets a percentage of the taxes they pull in.

In conclusion, you are wrong, and an idiot.

BillArr: F*cking pigs....speeding laws are now and always have been there to fund the local corrupt governments. Most cars made in the last 5 years can safely travel at 100+ on an interstate hiway. The speed at which you drive should be dictated by personal responsiblity, not government greed. If you drive a Prius or a 10 year old heap you should know better, and keep the piece of shiat to 60.....if you drive a Mercedes, BMW, etc...,push it to the floor and have fun, that is what they are made for.

Stop that... enough talk about being sensible.

I would add in, I think they should test your abilities when you get your drivers license and have speed levels on high ways. At certain milestones - such as new cars in notably different classes, or at age 16, 21, 30, 50, 60, 65, 70 then every year - you get retested. Your license and the little sticker you put on the plate get a colored bar through them denoting your driving level. Go 115 in a Geo Metro when you are rated for 65, and revoke the license.

If I've proven I can handle 125 given my abilities in my car, let me freaking do it. If Grandma Jolene's abilities or College Student Bill's beater limit them to only handling 50 safely, restrict their asses from the highway.

This everyone's equal bullshiat needs to be quashed. You should be allowed what you can handle, not what the lowest common moron can handle.

\Of course voting

Get the money by fining left laners who don't pass, intersection blockers, rubberneckers, lane weavers, and those who can't count to 4 at a 4-way stop sign. Those people cause problems for everyone and never get fined.

I really have no problem with this. Don't want a ticket? Don't speed. Pretty simple. Most people don't know that TN is one of only seven states that don't have an income tax. Therefore they have to make money from somewhere. If you are going 15+ over the speed limit, I would hope they would penalize you enough to make you rethink your behavior.

I find it difficult to feel sympathy for speeders. I've gotten one speeding ticket in the past 22 years -- 1997, caught going 51 on a rural road that was poorly marked as a 35 zone. I paid the fine.

I go the speed limit on streets and highways, and you can imagine the angst and shiatty looks I get from other drivers who swerve around me in frustration (and sometimes rage) so they can go faster. Well guess what; I'm not the asshole, you are. That's why you get speeding tickets and I don't.

TsukasaK: BillArr: speeding laws are now and always have been there to fund the local corrupt governments. Most cars made in the last 5 years can safely travel at 100+ on an interstate hiway

Your point would come across clearer if it wasn't horribly misspelled, and containing a huge mess of run-on sentences.

Anyways, buddy, do yourself a favor, and look into the methodology that went into creating the speed limits. I concede that they are long overdue for a revision (upwards), but in general, they are not numbers that some politician pulled out of his ass.

There are many factors, from weather conditions, average driving ability, etc. But different people in different vehicles have totally different abilities, it isn't right to pin hole an attentive 25 year old guy in a sports guy to the same speeds an 85 year old grandma can handle in her 1980 Volvo tank. It can be downright hard (and sometimes terrible on gas mileage) to go 55 in a nice car.

In other words, Mr. Nostril would be out a lot of dough, every day.

/thankfully don't live in TN

Roads have to be designed for it also.


Again, this is why I have mentioned personal responsibility. Only a fool would push his vehicle past it's safe limits. Dirt Road with potholes...I think I will take it slow and be careful....8 Lane bypass...I think I can navigate it safely at 100+. All I am saying is that law enforcement should target the people that are a danger. Drive drunk, you are done forever. Hit and kill someone...again, done forever...no more driving for you.

Shvetz: Barakku: I love politician's logic. "Due to the poor economy, people have less money.
Tax.
Up.
EVERYTHING"

No... due to the poor economy, the government has less money coming in. Taxes are a percentage of the economy pretty much. When the economy goes down, but the cost of social services (like police, fire departments, trash collection etc) stay the same, we get budget crunches.

I love all these Fark articles on local governments trying to get money to pay for the social services that the people demand. Politicians don't get a cut of the taxes. They get paid the same amount either way, so stop biatching, you people would cry your eyes out if your standard of living was affected by a cut in government services.

No.

FTA: Tennessee lawmakers are considering ways to add new monetary penalties on speeding drivers as a way to boost funding for the state's trauma centers.

They are trying to increase spending at a time when revenues are down.

It can be downright hard (and sometimes terrible on gas mileage) to go 55 in a nice car.

OK....last comment, but had to comment on this.

Absolutely true. I have measured my MPG and it does not peak at over 30 until I maintain 82-84. 55-60 is somewhere in the low 20s.