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SMLCHNG wrote:I was 19. Did a U-Turn. No sign posted, but in the city of Denver, ALL U-Turns are illegal. Who knew?

The guy writing the ticket?

I don't know about the seatbelt law.
If I choose to get to know the dashboard or window up close and personal it should be my choice. Under 18 should be mandatory though.
That said I'd still wear it since most of the time I have the doors off my Jeep. If motorcyclists don't have to wear a helmet......on second thought, it's not as if a helmet's gonna help much in a crash.

sonofabeach wrote:I hate the seatbelt law.
If I choose to get to know the dashboard or window up close and personal it should be my choice. Under 18 should be mandatory though.
That said I'd still wear it.
If motorcyclists don't have to wear a helmet......on second thought, it's not as if a helmet's gonna help much in a crash.

as long as the cops don't get to stop based on suspicion of failure to wear a seatbelt, I am fine. That would be way too intrusive. and if you wear clothing the same colour as your car interior, how do they ever know...

I didn't think like that until I recently had a conversation with a police officer who told me he never cares to stop people for seatbelts and other minor infractions, even a little speeding.
He said there are much bigger fish for cops to fry than to worry about that and that common sense should not have to be legislated.
If only they all felt like that..maybe he is just lazy.

sonofabeach wrote:I didn't think like that until I recently had a conversation with a police officer who told me he never cares to stop people for seatbelts and other minor infractions, even a little speeding.
He said there are much bigger fish for cops to fry than to worry about that and that common sense should not have to be legislated.
If only they all felt like that..maybe he is just lazy.

No, sounds like he has a better grasp than most. A homicide detective who comes into the shop told me that when he was working Patrol, traffic was usually his last priority.

Now, like my last ticket (the no turn signal in a turn only lane), that 'munch should be off the Force. Young guy, being taught by an old guy. Yet they let people (in both cars and semis) claim they were "in the intersection" on a left-hand turn 10 seconds after the light goes red. That, is a much more dangerous thing than most of the stuff.

RinglingRingling wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:I was 19. Did a U-Turn. No sign posted, but in the city of Denver, ALL U-Turns are illegal. Who knew?

The guy writing the ticket?

Hush.

I was 16, it was a few weeks after I got my license. It's been pretty consistent since then. Thank God for court supervision, otherwise my insurance would be unreal.

RinglingRingling wrote:

sonofabeach wrote:I hate the seatbelt law.
If I choose to get to know the dashboard or window up close and personal it should be my choice. Under 18 should be mandatory though.
That said I'd still wear it.
If motorcyclists don't have to wear a helmet......on second thought, it's not as if a helmet's gonna help much in a crash.

as long as the cops don't get to stop based on suspicion of failure to wear a seatbelt, I am fine. That would be way too intrusive. and if you wear clothing the same colour as your car interior, how do they ever know...

In Indiana a cop can stop you for not wearing a seatbelt. Also gives them the right (if they wish) to search your car.

thats really quite a lot for an illigal u-turn

comming back from a baseball game a few days ago, i made an illigal u-turn right infront of a cop and he didn't even pull me over or anything. . i was very lucky.

thats really quite a lot for an illigal u-turn

Yes it is. And it didn't take place on a major highway. Just a small street. I'm ticked about it. A cop seeing a nervous kid who's had his license for less then one month should have given him a warning or a ticket with no points. I just don't get it. Son sitting in car says to friend, do you think I'm allowed to make a u-turn here. Friend says I guess so. So son does it, not seeing the cop at the next corner.

I was 16, about 9 months after I got my license. 72 in a 55, judge dropped it and it didn't go on my record

Now I've had a bad day.

I was thinking of this thread as I was getting a ticket a just couple of hours ago It's the damndest thing!!!!
I was clocked by a motorcycle cop going 61 in a 45.
I was on the freakin Nextel with my mom and was not paying attention.
I was also driving my wife's vehicle which I hardly ever drive and it does not feel like you're going that fast. My Jeep can barely make it to 45 I know that's no excuse but I thought for sure he would just warn me but instead he said he'd cut me a break and made the ticket $115 instead of the $185 that it could have been.
It's 3 points and I'm gonna have to take the test to remove them.

Then after that I was with my wife and five year old son at Blockbuster.
My son and I were standing by the gum machine waiting for my wife to pay when I reached down and started rubbing the top of my son's head for what seemed like an eternity.
Then I look down and see that it's not my son's head I've been rubbing but another woman's son with the same buzz cut.
Man was I embarrassed . There were like 10 people in line who saw it and I heard a few laughs.
I turned blood red and walked over to apologize.
She was like "no biggie, it happens all the time"
I practically ran out the door

Hoosier PH wrote:

RinglingRingling wrote:

sonofabeach wrote:I hate the seatbelt law.
If I choose to get to know the dashboard or window up close and personal it should be my choice. Under 18 should be mandatory though.
That said I'd still wear it.
If motorcyclists don't have to wear a helmet......on second thought, it's not as if a helmet's gonna help much in a crash.

as long as the cops don't get to stop based on suspicion of failure to wear a seatbelt, I am fine. That would be way too intrusive. and if you wear clothing the same colour as your car interior, how do they ever know...

In Indiana a cop can stop you for not wearing a seatbelt. Also gives them the right (if they wish) to search your car.

Nothing like state legislators taking away your 4th and 5th Amendment rights under the US Constitution...

Then after that I was with my wife and five year old son at Blockbuster.
My son and I were standing by the gum machine waiting for my wife to pay when I reached down and started rubbing the top of my son's head for what seemed like an eternity.
Then I look down and see that it's not my son's head I've been rubbing but another woman's son with the same buzz cut.
Man was I embarrassed . There were like 10 people in line who saw it and I heard a few laughs.
I turned blood red and walked over to apologize.
She was like "no biggie, it happens all the time"
I practically ran out the door

Imagine if you had gotten caught doing that after a day of shoplifting at Blockbuster..

RinglingRingling wrote:

Then after that I was with my wife and five year old son at Blockbuster.
My son and I were standing by the gum machine waiting for my wife to pay when I reached down and started rubbing the top of my son's head for what seemed like an eternity.
Then I look down and see that it's not my son's head I've been rubbing but another woman's son with the same buzz cut.
Man was I embarrassed . There were like 10 people in line who saw it and I heard a few laughs.
I turned blood red and walked over to apologize.
She was like "no biggie, it happens all the time"
I practically ran out the door

Imagine if you had gotten caught doing that after a day of shoplifting at Blockbuster..

ya got me there

sonofabeach wrote:Now I've had a bad day.

I was thinking of this thread as I was getting a ticket a just couple of hours ago It's the damndest thing!!!!
I was clocked by a motorcycle cop going 61 in a 45.
I was on the freakin Nextel with my mom and was not paying attention.

On that note, cell phone use while driving really should be banned completely.

I know we have all become completely used to/dependent on this new "freedom of communication".
but we also used to be able to drive around with an open can of beer, too.
Seemed like a cool perk, but it really didn't work too well for many of us either.

I wouldn't feel any better (if not seriously injured) about getting T-boned at an intersection, if I knew that the other driver wasn't impaired by alcohol...
but was yapping on the celly!!

Lightning Bolt wrote:

sonofabeach wrote:Now I've had a bad day.

I was thinking of this thread as I was getting a ticket a just couple of hours ago It's the damndest thing!!!!
I was clocked by a motorcycle cop going 61 in a 45.
I was on the freakin Nextel with my mom and was not paying attention.

On that note, cell phone use while driving really should be banned completely.

I know we have all become completely used to/dependent on this new "freedom of communication".
but we also used to be able to drive around with an open can of beer, too.
Seemed like a cool perk, but it really didn't work too well for many of us either.

I wouldn't feel any better (if not seriously injured) about getting T-boned at an intersection, if I knew that the other driver wasn't impaired by alcohol...
but was yapping on the celly!!

yeah I usually don't like doing that either.
I need to get one of those hands free contraptions for those times I do.

sonofabeach wrote:

Lightning Bolt wrote:

sonofabeach wrote:Now I've had a bad day.

I was thinking of this thread as I was getting a ticket a just couple of hours ago It's the damndest thing!!!!
I was clocked by a motorcycle cop going 61 in a 45.
I was on the freakin Nextel with my mom and was not paying attention.

On that note, cell phone use while driving really should be banned completely.

I know we have all become completely used to/dependent on this new "freedom of communication".
but we also used to be able to drive around with an open can of beer, too.
Seemed like a cool perk, but it really didn't work too well for many of us either.

I wouldn't feel any better (if not seriously injured) about getting T-boned at an intersection, if I knew that the other driver wasn't impaired by alcohol...
but was yapping on the celly!!

yeah I usually don't like doing that either.
I need to get one of those hands free contraptions for those times I do.

I didn't mean it to look like I'm pickin' on you, Son. I'm really not.

I've done the same thing... talking on cell, realize I'm about to miss my exit, make an otherwise ridiculous, no-signal, lane change. It was just inconsiderate,
stupid, dangerous driving when I look back at it. I had to be honest with myself about it. I just wasn't paying close enough attention.
I've really scaled back my cell use since that. NOTHING ELSE REALLY is as important as YOUR driving when you're driving. When I hear people go off
on the murderous dangers of drunk driving, I always wonder how THAT person handles his/her driving when their PRECIOUS cell rings.

sonofabeach wrote:

Lightning Bolt wrote:

sonofabeach wrote:Now I've had a bad day.

I was thinking of this thread as I was getting a ticket a just couple of hours ago It's the damndest thing!!!!
I was clocked by a motorcycle cop going 61 in a 45.
I was on the freakin Nextel with my mom and was not paying attention.

On that note, cell phone use while driving really should be banned completely.

I know we have all become completely used to/dependent on this new "freedom of communication".
but we also used to be able to drive around with an open can of beer, too.
Seemed like a cool perk, but it really didn't work too well for many of us either.

I wouldn't feel any better (if not seriously injured) about getting T-boned at an intersection, if I knew that the other driver wasn't impaired by alcohol...
but was yapping on the celly!!

yeah I usually don't like doing that either.
I need to get one of those hands free contraptions for those times I do.

The studies out there recently are showing that even the hands-free stuff is a danger. Seems that it's the process of forming sentences that distracts the driver from the road situation as much as the juggling.

I"m a true blonde. I can't talk on the cell phone and drive.I've tried it. I'm a menace to society. I also feel like I jinxed you with this thread.