>>>>>>As I'm sure you know, the interstate highways were designed to be safe at 70 mph. Good luck getting up to that speed in some urban areas, of course.
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>>>>>>I give a wide berth to the guys (and they are always guys, aren't they?) who drive 100+ and weave in and out of traffic. Half of them are wasted and the other half are bombs waiting to go off. I don't want to be close enough to join them in paradise.
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>>>>>And half of them are being filmed by a chopper for "The World's Scariest Police Videos" or whatever it's called?
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>>>>>In the UK the speed limit on motorways is 70. But generally the avge speed of the traffic is c. 80, many do 90, with a few in Beemers and Merks zooming past at >100. It seems the police turn a blind eye to 80 (as they'd have to pull over half the traffic).
>>>>If you are over 79 you'll get a ticket from the M4 speed cams
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>>>Aye but they're not human like the bizzies are, who'll say "ah, sod it, I can't be bothered".
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>>>>I got one on the dual carriageway outside Bournemouth for doing 58 in a 50 limit. I accelerated a bit to hard coming off a roundabout to gte past some slow traffic and pop there you go 3 points and 60 pounds.
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>>>FFFFFF! Just 3 mph over the 10% leeway! Slow traffic - they're the worst!
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>>A while back, the police were on a work-to-rule job action, and there was a report in the newspaper about a driver who got a ticket for doing 61 kph in a 60 zone. Apparently nobody had ever heard of a ticket for driving 1 click over the limit before. It was eventually thrown out.
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>They don't have to allow +/- 10% for speedo inaccuracy over there?

When the guys are working to rule, anything goes, I guess. It did get quashed though. A Friend of my neice was very embarassed by the fact that she got a ticket for doing 55 in a 50 zone. She wasn't angry about the ticket as much as embarassed by the crummy 5 clicks over.

We even had a cop in our area (not my street though) ticketing people for parking in their own driveways. You have to be x feet from the center of the road, and the bottom of the driveways are less than that, so if you don't park at least about half way up your driveway, I guess technically, you are in violation. He did an entire street, and again all the tickets were thrown out. The people were less angry about the tickets than about the fact that apparently he was laughing as he went from car to car.