Pranksters using speed cameras to get revenge!

[UnderseaLcpl]

This is another good reason why I don't register my vehicles.
We're also beset by red-light cameras here.


You know, you'd think that if the state cared so much about people's safety, they'd bother less with trivial moving violations (not considered 'reckless driving') and more with making sure that the driving test wasn't so easy to pass. Anymore, I think it's easier to get a license to drive than it is to buy a gun.

Imo, the driving test should involve challenging, timed obstacle courses that must be traversed forwards and backwards both in the daytime and at night, while talking on the phone, in a stick shift.
It should also include a supervised road test, where you are evaluated not only on your ability to operate the vehicle safely, but to do it without impeding the flow of traffic. Merge onto a freeway going 40mph and you fail.
Forget to use the turn indicators or use them half a second before you turn? Fail.
In the wrong lane and decide to try to wedge yourself over, stopping two lanes at once, rather than take a different route or circle and try again? Fail.
The light turns green and you just sit there? You fail forever.
And you only get to take that test if you have at least 300 hours of road time with a certified instructor.

There should be a written portion as well. It should be at least as long as the SAT. Unlike the driver's test, the questions should be relevant and difficult. Nobody cares what the penalty is for a second-time DWI offense.

You wouldn't let a pilot take a book home, get a signature his parents saying that he has all his hours, give him a twenty-question multiple choice test and hand him his licencse, right? So why would you let a person operate a 2-ton chunk of metal powered by exploding, volatile, vaporized, fuel at 70mph in areas with hundreds of people around?


If we didn't have so many crappy drivers, maybe we wouldn't have to worry so much about people speeding or rolling stop signs, or being on their cell phones.

[nikimcbee]

Ha, that's pretty funny. i hate those things. I totally avoid the red light camera intersections. Someone should just smear vasilne on the lense.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Ha, that's pretty funny. i hate those things. I totally avoid the red light camera intersections. Someone should just smear vasilne on the lense.

I'd opt for spray paint myself.

[Bill Nichols]

That's where I've always thought a paintgun would be handy...

[Hylander_1314]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

This is another good reason why I don't register my vehicles.
We're also beset by red-light cameras here.


You know, you'd think that if the state cared so much about people's safety, they'd bother less with trivial moving violations (not considered 'reckless driving') and more with making sure that the driving test wasn't so easy to pass. Anymore, I think it's easier to get a license to drive than it is to buy a gun.

Imo, the driving test should involve challenging, timed obstacle courses that must be traversed forwards and backwards both in the daytime and at night, while talking on the phone, in a stick shift.
It should also include a supervised road test, where you are evaluated not only on your ability to operate the vehicle safely, but to do it without impeding the flow of traffic. Merge onto a freeway going 40mph and you fail.
Forget to use the turn indicators or use them half a second before you turn? Fail.
In the wrong lane and decide to try to wedge yourself over, stopping two lanes at once, rather than take a different route or circle and try again? Fail.
The light turns green and you just sit there? You fail forever.
And you only get to take that test if you have at least 300 hours of road time with a certified instructor.

There should be a written portion as well. It should be at least as long as the SAT. Unlike the driver's test, the questions should be relevant and difficult. Nobody cares what the penalty is for a second-time DWI offense.

You wouldn't let a pilot take a book home, get a signature his parents saying that he has all his hours, give him a twenty-question multiple choice test and hand him his licencse, right? So why would you let a person operate a 2-ton chunk of metal powered by exploding, volatile, vaporized, fuel at 70mph in areas with hundreds of people around?


If we didn't have so many crappy drivers, maybe we wouldn't have to worry so much about people speeding or rolling stop signs, or being on their cell phones.

Or to add to it,

Shaving and or putting on makeup

While talking on the cell phone

Eating a meal

And tuning in a different radio station or believe it not, watching a dvd on a dash mounted screen.

And trying to scald themselves with a cup of Starbucks so they can sue them like the lady did to McDonalds.

Out west in the Rocky Mountains, winter mountain driving instruction should be mandatory. I did this with both my kids. It made a very big impression on them. Therefore they are much more observant and cautious behind the wheel.

Just out of curiosity, how do you not register your vehicles? ANd still operate them?