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Originally posted by Moral Hazard In addition, there have been people in this thread boasting of driving in excess of 200km/h on a 400 series highway... so thank you for stating that they are idiots, I'm glad we agree.

I re-read every post in this thread and not a single person boasted of that. But they're still idiots!

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Originally posted by fayraree I re-read every post in this thread and not a single person boasted of that. But they're still idiots!

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Originally posted by jonnystel i dont understand.. itsn ot dangerous to drive over the speed limit lol... i found it safe when i was going 230 in my 03 jetta

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Originally posted by RickyM you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down

I was driving down Cootes Drive (a road in Dundas, close to McMaster U) that used to be an 80km/h zone, but recently got down graded to a 60, then closer to the school it becomes a 40 (for a student crossing area). A mustang flew by me, must have been doing 100.... I eventually caught up to it, and it was pulled over by a cruiser. Turns out the guy was an old buddy from high school, he was standing outside of his car getting his ticket. LOL. I'm assuming a $2000 fine was tossed his way, and suspension was handed to him as well. I chuckled a little bit.

Idiot.

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Originally posted by Moral Hazard

pwned. why would someone do that?!

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Originally posted by Moral Hazard I think what you failed to understand in my post was that the law is both just and generally accepted thus is is not likely to change. All I ask is that those who choose to drive fast (myself included) understand that driving at high speed is both illegal and dangerous and they (we) are essentially gambling with both their (our) safety and money.

Unlikely to change, that is for sure. Just, I don't know. The speeds limit on Ontario freeways are underposted (not by a ridiculous amount, but by about 20 km/h), and the system as a whole actively discourages people from exercising their due process rights.

In fairness, I should point out that speed limits on city roads usually are not underposted. Sometimes the posted speeds are actually a little higher than you'd want to be going in heavy precipitation or when the roads are slippery. Rarely, but sometimes. Speeding more than 15 km/h on city streets is not a smart idea.

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the problem with the 50 over law is that it gives the police way to much power..it allows them to be judge and jury right at the side of the road. I dont know about you but I dont think they should have that kind of power.
it is also nothing more than a cash grab. in less than a month they made over 2 million dollars from this...

were any of those people "racing"? fuck no. cruising isnt racing.
drive on the 407 sometime..or on the 401 outside the city and watch as you get passed by at least half the people out there as you cruise at 140.

This new law was a knee jurk reaction to that one "Street racing crash" where that couple was killed. later found that they werent racing..just driving too fast...but the big point. the guy who got killed(who pulled in front of them) was loaded! (Drunk).

going 50 over in a school zone...ok you need to get in big trouble.

doing 50 over on the 400 series if conditions allow for it... isnt a big deal. (no its not), should you get a ticket for it if you get caught. yes! but not a $2000-$10000 ticket and automatic impound, + loss of license for a week.

you are better off driving home drunk.

and theresea maybe I mistook you for someone else with the same name..



and yes heart disease is the number one killer in canada.
"Street racing" deaths are such a small amount(not even 1 percent)...


more accidents and deaths are caused by bad driving(see: diginuts post).

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The bottom line for this long-winded post is that politicians and lawmakers, for the most part, completely ignore the most relevant real-world data and substitute totally meaningless data in its place. And your average law-abiding citizen often falls into the same trap because he doesn't see the obvious fallacy. Insurance companies are a bit of a different story because the actuarial math is all about probabilities and takes into account the inherent uncertainty and incompleteness of the statistics we do have. But for those in the insurance business, please keep in mind that actuarial statistics are not meant to imply qualitative phenomena; they are designed to balance the books in aggregate form, not predict individual occurrences.

I like!

its like the lawmakers who ban certain guns(I know a whole other can of worms) based on the fact as to how scary they look(seriously thats how they do it) You can buy a completely identical firing weapon because it doesnt look as scary...they both fire the same bullet , the same way and with the same force... lol its bs.

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Originally posted by Euphorica you are better off driving home drunk.

maybe i missed your point but you are NEVER better off doing that!

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Originally posted by Jeff Button I was driving down Cootes Drive

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Draconian laws lead to Big Brotherism
David Booth, National Post
Published: Friday, November 09, 2007


It turns out I wasn't paranoid enough.

Ontario's new "racing" law, which actually has nothing at all to do with racing, so thoroughly discombobulated me that I recently Motor Mouthed one of my patented (less kind souls would say angst-ridden) screeds that said the heavy-handed regulation was: (1) unjust; (2) likely to cause youngsters to try to run from the law; and (3) the slippery slope of Ontario's decline into a police state.

I got a number of favour-able letters -- more than a few from driving instructors who guide our youngsters in the art of avoiding getting run over by 18-wheelers -- agreeing that, indeed, many a young, testosterone-fuelled male is likely to try fleeing the gendarmerie rather than trying to explain to Dad why his brand new Lexus LS 460 got impounded. Of course, I also got a few "There, there, Dave" e-mails tut-tutting my descent into full-blown paranoia, their basic premise being that slower speeds on our thoroughfares might save lives and, of course, we can trust our constabulary to apply these new laws efficiently and fairly.

Wrong, it turns out, on both counts. First comes the news that, as of last Sunday, more than 1,000 drivers have been charged with travelling more than 50 kilometres an hour over the speed limit. That's almost 40 drivers a day that have been caught "racing" on our streets, making me wonder how it is that I have managed to drive these last 25 years in Ontario never having personally observed one of these crazed street races.

Most interesting was Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino's response. Rather than admit that the new laws were perhaps a little too draconian and catching more middle-aged college professors than young, speed-seeking youngsters, Ontario's top cop lamented that his one regret in implementing the new regulations was that he "didn't go after 30 over [the speed limit] as opposed to 50 over."

Imagine, just for a moment, the chaos if he had succeeded. Virtually everyone in Ontario would be branded a street racer. My mom has driven faster than 130 km/h on the 401. So has my dad. It would be quite difficult, I would think, to actually find someone who hasn't exceeded the speed limit by 30 klicks. Following Fantino's logic, why not reduce the threshold to 10 km/h over and brand even Buick drivers as law-scoffing drag racers?

Of course, this may not be all about safety. The province stands to collect between $2-million and $10-million for that first month's speeders alone. Some of that money will go to the municipalities whose police forces wrote up the charges, leading me to wonder why Mayor David Miller doesn't get the law re-written to charge everyone moving 10 km/h under the speed limit so he could collect fines from everyone moving faster than a bicycle courier and balance Toronto's budget.

And the insurance companies are just eating this stuff up. Why wouldn't they? Under previous rules, a 50-year-old dentist with no convictions might see a modest increase in her insurance for a speeding ticket. But with a "racing" conviction on her record, her insurance rate will be hiked through the roof. She'd be no worse a risk than before, yet she would generate a far heftier profit.

But, perhaps, being a very slow driver, none of this leaves you alarmed. This should. I've already received a letter -- detailed and well thought out, I might add--from a dedicated family man, a surgeon even, who has come face to face with the problem with making police the judge, jury and executioner of any law.

Dan (the name has been changed to protect the slightly guilty) was stopped by police after having just turned onto Eglinton East after exiting Allen Road. He wasn't much worried about a serious offence since he had been boxed in by a car in front and a car to the side. Imagine his surprise when the police officer accused him of travelling 102 km/h, "conveniently," as Dan notes, just over the 50-km/h threshold.

Dan says he felt "cheap and degraded" by this "terrible abuse of public trust and power." The police commissioner might call that "tough policing," but the first step toward the Orwellian Big Brotherism is to create laws so restrictive that everyone is guilty and so feels relieved when granted clemency by our benevolent dictators.

Still think I'm paranoid?

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Source: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/...ccb9e294715&p=1

That was a fun EDITORIAL.

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Originally posted by geroin Draconian laws lead to Big Brotherism David Booth, National Post Published: Friday, November 09, 2007 Most interesting was Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino's response. Rather than admit that the new laws were perhaps a little too draconian and catching more middle-aged college professors than young, speed-seeking youngsters,

And what does Mr. Booth base this assumption on ???

Last time I checked the transportation minister (fanta something) said 80% of those caught were male, and at least half were under 27.

*edit* does it matter who it catches as long as they are going 50 over?!?!?! */edit*

I'm 25...oh no I must be middle aged as well AAHHHH!!!!!!

Geroin...there are parts of this law that I disagree with entirely. specifically that the cops basically convict you on the spot without fair trial or due process. HOWEVER, I am willing to sacrifice my right for due process in this matter until people stop driving 50 km over the limit (a decision I may regret if I were to be wrongly accused). Anywho...I don't know how long this will hold up...I think it just may get tossed out within the year as it seems to violate our constitutional right to a fair trial. (Isn't that why photo radar got tossed???because the mailed ticket did not allow the accused to plea not guilty???)

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