Driving automobiles

i like to eat my cereal with a stop sign.  i put the cereal in the
bathtub and scoop it with the stop sign.
i once caught my house on fire by making a jelly bean sandwich.

bob z.

Hi All,

TheWorldwide Highway Library has just added new photographs of six US
Federal Routes from three states.  The states represented are Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri:

http://worldwide-hwys.calrog.com/repository.html#us

Enjoy!

Cheers,

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From fark.com…. Fark Headline: It only took 63 convictions, 23 license
suspensions and two fatal crashes before Maine decided not to let this guy
drive anymore

http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=147232&zoneid=500

<…>
Hewitt, 34, of Caribou, pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in the
crash, which caused the death of Tina Turcotte, 40, of Scarborough.

"The death caused by Mr. Hewitt was a needless tragedy, and it is my sincere
wish that he never get behind the wheel of any motor vehicle ever again, in
Maine or any other state," Dunlap said Wednesday in a statement.

Hewitt.s driving record, which included 63 convictions, 23 license suspensions
and a previous fatal crash, outraged many Mainers and prompted the Legislature
to crack down on motorists with suspended licenses who refuse to stop driving.
<…>

http://www.sequoyahcountytimes.com/articles/2007/03/09/news/front3.txt

Of course, there are certain posters here who would give city police
officers the benefit of the doubt because the force and individual
officers "believe" it’s really about safety …

Ain’t it great when illiterate drivers are given driver’s licenses?
ROTFLMAO.

Similar problems seen at bus wreck site

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_us/georgia_bus_wreck_acc…

By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA – Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier
where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed
last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at
the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.

Today, with her left knee still not healed from the 2002 accident, she
feels upset that more hasn’t been done to prevent accidents there.

"It really bothered both of us," she said of the Bluffton University
accident that killed seven. "In retrospect, we probably should have
done more as far as insisting they do something to correct the
situation."

Investigators said the driver of the Bluffton team bus also apparently
mistook that same exit ramp for a highway lane on March 2 and overshot
a stop sign at the top of the ramp. The bus slammed into the concrete
barrier, flipped and fell 30 feet onto the pavement below. Six people
were killed and 28 people were hospitalized. One of the injured died a
week later.

On Friday, Atlanta police released to The Associated Press through the
Georgia’s Open Records Act three reports on accidents at the
intersection of Interstate 75 and Northside Drive from 2002 to 2003,
all involving drivers who didn’t know they had left the I-75 high
occupancy vehicle lane. In all three, including in Hartman’s accident,
the drivers said they were confused by the exit or did not realize
they had left the highway.

Before the March 2 Bluffton University accident, the Georgia
Department of Transportation said there had been two deaths from seven
accidents involving that exit ramp in the last nine years.

"It’s horrible to categorize fatalities but two fatality accidents,
all involving motorists who ran stop signs, is not an inordinate
number over a 9-year-period," said spokesman David Spear. "I don’t
think it speaks to the design of the ramp or signalization of the
ramp."

As a result, the Georgia transportation department has no plans to
close the ramp. But Spear said the agency is trying to "come up with
potential additions" to alert drivers, including additional signs or
traffic control devices.

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Ask me about drunk driving for fun and profit!

"Docky Wocky" <mrch…@lst.net> wrote in news:9SBIh.221$Bi2.84@trnddc01:

>> ______________________________
> Gee. This is a great example of justice in the liberal Northeast.

> If the People’s Republic of Maine takes his license, he can always
> move his base of operations into the People’s Republic of Vermont, or
> the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, or the People’s Republic of
> New Hampshire, or the…well, you get the idea.

[garbage snip]

I wasn’t going to respond to your post but I feel compelled to throw in
my two-penny worth. First, your ignorance is appalling. People like seem
to have their heads shrouded in utter stupidity and ignorance. To you and
people like you, the enemies are the "liberals" – not the terrorists or
criminals like this trucker, Scott Hewitt. You are keen to jump on the
"liberals" while blindly condone criminal acts committed by your masters
George W. and Dickhead Evil-hearted Cheney.

I wouldn’t doubt that this piece of shit Scott Hewitt is a Republican,
a.k.a. "conservatives", Moron-by-Birth, Hypocrite-by-Choice.

FYI, I don’t consider myself a "liberal" or a "Dem". So, there choke on
your pretzels and die, asshole!

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90% of tires on the road are under inflated. How are yours? – from the
automotive section of www.odd-info.com

90% of tires on the road are under inflated. How are yours? – from the
automotive section of www.odd-info.com

Just now on MythBusters, they had a speed camera set up and had a bird
trainer come in (with a falcon) and they set off the speed camera with
false settings… or at least, the camera was picking up the bird.

They ran the test twice to confirm.

I was driving from Piazza’s in San Mateo, CA in my (stock) Honda Civic
down HWY 92 (from Hillsdale Blvd) for about 2 or 3 miles when I saw
blue and red flashing lights. I didn’t want to stop on the freeway so
I kept going until I hit Foster City (place of my home). The cop asked
me if I knew how fast I was speeding. I was honest, and said "I don’t
know." He asked me this several times.

The reason I didnt’ know my speed was because I was coming home from
work, feeling very tired. But mostly because I was following another
car in lane two (the granny lane) of a two lane freeway. I was going
with the flow. Why should I be on the lookout for speeding if I’m
going with the flow?

There are lots of freeways around here like the San Mateo-Hayward
Bridge that nobody drives the speed limit on. Plus the stretch of road
I was traveling on (if you have travelled on it before) takes a fairly
steep dive for which your car can accelerate very quickly if you are
not careful.

I asked the cop where he saw me or where he was hiding. He told me he
had been following me from De Anza Blvd. De Anza Blvd was the exit
previous to Hillsdale Blvd. It’s about 1 mile before it. I thought
about it and thought how he could have been following me from De Anza
Blvd when I entered the freeway from Hillsdale Blvd? Also, when I
entered the freeway from Hillsdale Blvd I was going slow. I was going
slow because if you have ever driven this road, you know that it goes
up the hill fairly steeply (which prevents you from accelerating
quickly and then it briefly levels out, and then it joins the freeway,
and then it slopes downward.

By the time my car could have exceeded the maximum speed limit of
55mph I must have been close to a mile from Hillsdale Blvd.

Do I have any kind of case in front of a judge? Or should I just pay
the fine and forget it?