utahjazzfan
Posts:96
 | | 07/22/2007 8:06 PM |
 Alert | | Where is the Police to start passing out speeding tickets. Are they that concerned with Stop sign violations that speeding can be ignored. I was traveling 30 mph in the 25 mph zone on Honeycutt in front of Senita. Someone in a little white car (looked like a Nissan Sentra) zoomed around me by driving on the shoulder at about 55 mph. I guess the only reason I cared was because I had my baby daughter in the car. This guy lives in Tortosa in the neighborhood at the end of Terragona (one past mine). I know because despite his need for speed, he still got caught in traffic at Hartman and this allowed me to catch up. Imagine that, I was going the legal speed limit, and still got home when they did. Stop speeding people, it doesnt really get you anywhere faster, and it's dangerous. | | | |
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CrownNCoke
Posts:810
| | 07/22/2007 8:31 PM |
Alert | | the copa popos are to busy bailing out the fire department!! | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/23/2007 12:57 AM |
Alert | | Speed limits on Honeycutt and Smith-Enke are wacky... | |
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AzSandSlinger
Posts:526
| | 07/23/2007 4:21 AM |
Alert | wacky or not, they're still speed limits.. abide by them...
.. and it's 25mph in through Villages all you Honeycutt/JWP bypassers...
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caveman
Posts:1027
| | 07/23/2007 11:55 AM |
Alert | | Jason how do you expect the town to make any money on speeding citations if you don't use wacky speed limits? | | | |
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LampLiteSniper
Posts:463
| | 07/23/2007 12:46 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By CrownNCoke on 07/22/2007 8:31 PM
the copa popos are to busy bailing out the fire department!!</div>
That and trying to get people to race their new Chargers and doing brodies in the school parking lot past whiteparker and honeycut. | | | |
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livinginthecopasux
Posts:944
| | 07/25/2007 5:52 PM |
Alert | | i just recently saw a copa 5-0 drift around the roundabout @ tortosa... quite amazing. i waited till he left to try it myself. | |
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richfellow
Posts:233
| | 07/25/2007 6:07 PM |
Alert | | Did they take the whoopty-do out of Honeycutt yet? | | | |
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rule11
Posts:344
| | 07/25/2007 8:45 PM |
Alert | | copa pd should start placing radar on stright-a-ways, good place to catch speeders | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/25/2007 9:27 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By rule11 on 07/25/2007 8:45 PM
copa pd should start placing radar on stright-a-ways, good place to catch speeders</div>
Yep, nothing like a good speed trap!<img src='http://www.85239.com/desktopmodules/ntforums/images/emoticons/angry.gif' height='20' width='20' border='0' title='Angry' align='absmiddle'> | |
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cptpizza
Posts:67
| | 07/25/2007 9:47 PM |
Alert | I'm sorry, but this post makes me laugh...
I took a critical thinking class in college that talked about something called Logical Reasoning Fallacies. One that sticks out in my mind is the "lesser of two evils fallacy" (btw, I can't believe I am ctually using this information....)
This is almost a textbook example of that lesson....
I was traveling 30 mph in the 25 mph zone on Honeycutt in front of Senita..."
Someone in a little white car (looked like a Nissan Sentra) zoomed around me by driving on the shoulder at about 55 mph.
How can you talk about someone wrong because they were more wrong than you? If you are doing 30 in a 25 you too are speeding and in my opinion should be offered a speeding ticket.
What makes me laugh also is that you say "Imagine that, I was going the legal speed limit, and still got home when they did".....but you weren't...you were going 5 miles over. If you were going the legal speed limit, you would have been doing 25, not 30.....
Sorry, maybe its just because its late, but I am finding this extremely funny.
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rule11
Posts:344
| | 07/26/2007 4:10 PM |
Alert | weeeeeeel, i think there's discretion within about 5mph, if pd has nothing better to do then they would pull you over and just warn you about the over 5mph, if if you're going 55 in a 25, then that, in itself, is not just a civic matter, but a criminal.
comes to think of it, i wonder if it's a criminal traffic matter if you're over 25 at any mile posting? | |
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Jason
Posts:3378
| | 07/26/2007 4:17 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By rule11 on 07/26/2007 4:10 PM
weeeeeeel, i think there's discretion within about 5mph, if pd has nothing better to do then they would pull you over and just warn you about the over 5mph, if if you're going 55 in a 25, then that, in itself, is not just a civic matter, but a criminal.
comes to think of it, i wonder if it's a criminal traffic matter if you're over 25 at any mile posting?</div>
There's discretion at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35...etc. Speeding is speeding, whether you're 5 over or 20 over. Furthermore, a mom doing 5 over may be far more dangerous than the concentrated driver going 15 over. Especially when the speed limit obviously does not match the circumstances (as happens in several places in Maricopa). Either way you slice it, the OP has no room to complain when they're speeding themselves.
As for when it becomes criminal, only within a residential or business district (meaning there is a building within 600 feet of the road) is it criminal at 21+ MPH. Otherwise the limit is 85. So you can conceivably go over the Queen Creek overpass doing 75 and not get a criminal speeding ticket, even though you're going 30 MPH over the limit. | |
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utahjazzfan
Posts:96
| | 07/29/2007 1:38 PM |
Alert | | give me a break! you're so quick to know all the laws except for when you get behind a wheel. You know as well as I do that give or take 9 mph of the speed limit is what everyone does. Technically it isnt legal, but it's known to be the safe zone. Even the 101 cameras dont get you unless you are doing 11+ over the limit. Enough already with your technicalities. | | | |
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caveman
Posts:1027
| | 07/29/2007 10:40 PM |
Alert | <div class='NTForums_Quote'>Posted By utahjazzfan on 07/29/2007 1:38 PM
give me a break! you're so quick to know all the laws except for when you get behind a wheel. You know as well as I do that give or take 9 mph of the speed limit is what everyone does. Technically it isnt legal, but it's known to be the safe zone. Even the 101 cameras dont get you unless you are doing 11+ over the limit. Enough already with your technicalities. </div>
Thank you. And while we are at it what is with all the whining about speeding? People are calling each other whiners about the fire department ordeal but what about people whining about speeding? Why can't we just get over it? If someone is speeding and they piss you off just let it ride and let them go on. You will be much safer behind them. | | | |
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CrownNCoke
Posts:810
| | 07/30/2007 10:24 AM |
Alert | Most copa cops do 60 65 so must be acceptable 
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Sinbad
Posts:3036
| | 07/30/2007 10:27 AM |
Alert | ***official stop by***
I have read and understood the posting on this thread and have nothing to add.
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Just doing it one day at a time. Change is good and it should be looked upon as an improvment! not a problem.
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CrownNCoke
Posts:810
| | 07/31/2007 8:14 AM |
Alert | | Damn the police are waking up earlier I guess...Seen the sport bike around 6 out by tortosa probably to watch a stop sign!!!! Keep your eyes on the prize | |
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