Shame on you! I was driving to Halifax on Saturday, on what is considered a nice day for January in Halifax. The neat little sign that lets you know your speed limit wasn’t on when I approached the bridge…strange, it’s been on every day for months. So considering it wasn’t freeze your ass off weather I checked my speed and slowed to the 50KM posted sign, and there they were, bright yellow jackets, radar in hand, Halifax’s finest on a bright sunny day…I laughed cause had it been a cold day, minus 10 degree temperatures there wouldn’t have been a “finest” in sight and the little sign to remind you of your speed surely would have been turned on! I’m not “dissing” our city’s finest, but seriously turning off the speed sign and then stopping the speeders, kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, don’t you think? — Halifax Commuter
This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2013.
If only cars came equipped with something to let them know how fast they were moving; as compared to the POSTED speed signs.
Tickets not your fault right?
There are many ways to catch speeders. This is only one of the ways. If they weren’t speeding they would have nothing to worry about. Or get mad at. I praise the boys in blue for doing a job that many of us would never want. Most of us would be darn right afraid to do their job. My hat is off to the boys in blue.
Funny, cos the 50km/hr speed limit sign is well before the flashing sign. Next time get your ass down to 50 when the sign tells you to
only if the fish are stupid enough to put themselves in the barrel by speeding, despite the bloody sign.
do you actually think you have been wronged?
OP ,isn’t speeding against the law,regardless if they are there or not?If your breaking the law and pulled over ,then you will be ticketed.What is it you dont understand about this concept? Fuck some people can be stupid at times.
between this posting and the toilet paper one, it’s turning out to be a fine friday.
starting to feel a tad sorry for op here, i can just imagine that lower lip starting to quiver with affronted entitlement and dismay at our responses thus far.
were you just too focussed on your texting to look down at your speedometre? is it just not fair that you, the driver, should have to monitor your own speed? do you think perhaps the ‘government’ should have these nice flashy signs in more places, because ‘dammit, there’s only so much a poor gal/guy can concentrate on at one time’?
It was probabally off because there would definitly be a discrepency between the radar gun speed and the posted sign thingey speed.
If they can’t prove that the radar gun used to issue you a ticket was calibrated within a certain period of time the ticket is thrown out in court.
I agree ustwess.
Plus, when you have dozens of cars travelling through the same small stretch of road at the same time, how do you know if the speed the sign is flashing is yours or the car next to/behind/ahead of you?
Fuck speed limits, they’re for old ladies and retards that can’t drive!!!
I believe the bottom of the sign says “Maximum” not “Suggested”.
lets face it, anyone driving the speed limit on the bridge has got to be driving like an asshole weaving in and out of each lane like an indy racer on prozac.
You don’t have to endanger people, but doing 10 over the limit when you’re in a rush is forgivable. As long as the weather is good, and you are not in a school zone. Just keep your eyes open,and be safe. If you can’t find the g-pedal, and must do 40 clicks, F-U. I hate rolling speed bumps. Your bumper stickers incite violence from the impatient jerks like me. Especially if you were extra horny to cut me off.
Chances are it wasn’t Regional Police that gave you the ticket but the Bridge Patrol – Special Constable Commissionaires.
well, go ahead and do your 10 klicks over when YOU are in a rush, and there is no one else on the road with you. but do you expect people who are already at the maximum posted speed to speed up because YOU are in a rush and behind them? the word on the signs is MAXIMUM, not minimum. if they are doing the maximum (or even slightly below) you have no valid argument except your own ‘me, myself and I’ wants.
why do people expect the guy ahead of them to risk a ticket or accident because they are an impatient driver/in a rush/slept in/stopped for a coffee or any of the other personal reasons that are important only to themselves? why would someone expect the rest of the world to stand aside, move over, gang way here i come the centre of the universe!
i have done my share of speeding, when only myself was at risk. the transcanada east of calgary is a driver’s delight and it’s fun to see what the old jalopy will do. you can see other cars from a long way away. i wouldn’t do it now, because the older you get the more you value the time left, it seems. but i can’t think of a time when i have tried to ‘push’ other drivers. thinking about it, and trying to figure out my reasons for not doing so, all i can come up with is ‘it isn’t polite’. that seems to be the ’emotion’ behind my behaviour. i would be ashamed.
so what goes through the minds of impatient drivers? drivers who try to ‘push’ the drivers ahead of them? i would really like to know. are they powerless in some area of their lives and need to exert some influence in other ways? repressed rage at someone else? total self absorption?
Really? You bunch of fucking hypocrites are bitching about people going 10km over the speed limit, and being an “impatient drivers”. So it’s ok to jam up the roads doing 20 km under the speed limit, giving people the right of way when they clearly don’t have it (to be nice), waiting at lights turning left when you have enough time to pedal a tractor trailer through, not turning right at red lights, waiting until the last second to merge into the proper lane at 30 km less than the person you’re cutting off. That’s right, you’re all being totally safe cause your hands are at 10 and 2, and you’re doing less than the posted speed limit. It’s safer to follow the flow of traffic than it is to clog up lanes of traffic with your slow, nervous asses.
GDM, “only when I’m at risk” is total self serving bullshit. If you speed, you speed. Period. You make that clear, then you justify why you can do it “properly”. The entire point of a speed limit is that driving is unpredictable. There could be someone broken down in the middle of a deserted highway completely in the dark, possibly kids in the car, etc. Then you come bombing along “as fast as the old jalopy will go” and smoke them. Fuck off!!!!
As far as I’m concerned, if you are 10-15 kms around the speed limit is and should be considered “respecting the speed limit”. Any douchebag cop that pops someone for doing 10 over the limit should be shot with a ball of his own shit.
SHITD “”should be shot with a ball of his own shit”
Which I hope has a frozen centre !
I want it to splatter & hurt ~;)
oh for heavens sake harper, call me parnelli molly…did i say i thought it (speeding on the transcan) was the right thing to do? and if i actually thought it was safe wouldn’t i still be willing to do it? no and yes. was an example to illustrate i can understand the allure of speed. do not stereotype me because of age or sex.
i am neither a slow driver nor a nervous one. but i am not, for love or money, going to let an asshole intimidate me by riding my bumper. i have mentioned before that some impatient drivers will ride your bumper even when you are yourself exceeding the speed max. so it is not a matter of being a slow driver and blocking traffic flow. would that mean one should continuously increase speed til the asshole behind is happy? ain’t gonna happen, because the asshole will never be happy. there’s something about their inability to have anyone or anything ahead of them. i am sure you have seen it on the highway. clusters of cars, then long empty stretch, and another cluster. the rabbits pass, go like stink til they reach another cluster. at times i have zoned out on an empty highway re: speed until some guy zooms past me, i look down and crap! i was doing 125.
this has more to do with the impatience and rage of the passers/honkers/tailgaters than the schmuck ahead of them.
and of course there are some poky drivers out there. but not as many as impatient drivers bleat about. chill out for crying out loud. it is not going to kill you to do 67 in a 70 zone. they are only impeding traffic for assholes who want to do 90.
hmm, i get the impression that shitd is a good driver. i take pride in my driving skills, oops, another deadly sin…wheeee
I liked your post Kontee though I’m not sure why.
Anything to slow people down in that area because it’s the last place you want an accident or traffic is screwed.
Its just gotta be a conspiracy involving many levels of the local government and law enforcement agencies. Stephen Harper, unless you’ve looked at your drivers handbook lately, please stay out of the rules of the road discussions.
Sorry Harper, forgot to say teehee.
I didn’t read the comments, so maybe this has already been suggested, but maybe the radar is just broken?
Don’t want a ticket? Don’t break da law, brah.
What do you expect at end-of-the-month quota time?
Police officers do not have quota’s to fill, while popular in belief it is entirely false. They do have an expectation but that is not a quota. Having an expectation to do your job is not an end of the month quota to fill. Example; Employee’s at Tim’s have an expectation to sell donuts, but not a monthly quota to be held against. They are just expected to do their job.
How do you know what goes on behind closed doors at the police station, Sonic? You a cop, Brah?
Mr Harper, do you not realize the logistical nightmare in implementing this conspiracy? How many levels of government departments and officials it would take, and the amount of people that would be in the know, then to not have one of those people leak the information. Come on man, this isn’t 1984 (George Orwell, not the actual year), not everyone and everything is out to get you. And no, I’m not a cop, but the Canadian taxpayer does cover my salary.
I am confused….. does not every car have a speedometer? This worries me! Should we be asking the city to post more of these signs to tell people how fast they are going? Are you kidding me seriously??
I agree with the OP.
If, as law enforcement claims, the main goal is to get drivers to slow down, than why create “speed” traps that clearly are there to collect revenues, and that ONLY WORK if drivers are going too fast? If you remove the reminder sign that says “slow down”, you kinda lose your moral highground there, Dudley Do-right.
Recently there was a story in the US about a woman who was fined for holding up a sign warning motorists that there was a speed trap ahead. Cars slowed down when they saw the sign; that’s the point, isn’t it?
Isn’t it? Or have we been lied to?
bmf!!! missed you, it really is you right, not a facsimile?