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The police slow down thing amuses/irks me too - the popo isn't going to drop what they are doing to nab you for going 3 over, simmer down.
Interesting about the elephant race thing, I had never heard the term before Germany.
Today's winner - a Lexus LS that pulled out of an expensive/exclusive health/social club that was doing everything possible to emulate a 25 year old in an abused M3, not a signal to be seen.
The actual law said either move out of the right most lane OR slow down while passing, but the signs and quotes usually make it sound like both are required even for more distant lanes. Hence the total slow down on interstates in this area.
The Ohio law came out of someone on a bypass freeway here near Dayton who didn't slow down despite the snow and black ice on the road one morning. That driver slide into the wide median hitting a policeman and others in the median with the other multiple cars that had already slide off. That stretch of interstate bypass was always notorious for speeding, aggressive drivers since it had opened. But this day the aggressive driving cost lives.
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So while your example probably started with the very BEST of intentions, yada, yada, it can be well on the "road" to sappy sentimentality.
There are still plenty of older neighborhoods around that don't have HOA's. But many of the towns are so bad with code enforcement they might as well be HOA's. I've heard the next town over from me, Bowie, disparagingly called "the world's biggest HOA". Many of the newer communities do have their own HOAs, but the majority of it, that went in when they broke ground in 1958 and finished up in the early 70's, has its own city code enforcement.
And, even where I live, occasionally county inspectors will get you for various no-no's. I got hit back in 2010, because my '79 New Yorker didn't have a front license plate on it, and it was backed into the driveway, so it was cited as an "untagged car". Fortunately, the inspectors aren't allowed to come onto your property, so they can only cite you for what they can see from the road. At least that's what I've heard. My neighbors got busted a year or two earlier for that for having a Ford Ranger with no tags, that they were storing for their son. It was a good 600 feet off the road, so I have no idea how they got caught. I think their driveway has an easement on it though, that allows the property owners behind them access to the road. And I have an easement on it, to get to the back part of my property, which is on the other side of a creek. So maybe that gives the county permission to go back there? Or someone from the county could have been back there for another reason, I guess.
As for gated communities, the only one around here I can think of is an apartment complex, of all places. Hardly high-society living! Back in the 1990's, one of my friends lived in a gated condo community in Garden Grove, CA. Real nice place...at first. But then the area went downhill. He had an '89-era Maxima, with a removable stereo. I remember him saying that someone hopped the fence, broke into his car, and even though he had taken the stereo out, they still stole the part that it inserted into!
Eventually that neighborhood went to the dogs, and his $120K condo became worth about $20K, and he walked away, doing a deed in lieu of foreclosure.
Unkempt houses, much higher crime rates, tacky strip malls everywhere etc.
McDonnell-Douglas got bought out by Boeing, but that wasn't until 1997. By that time, I'm sure the damage had been done, although I don't know if that ended up depressing the area even more.
That tragic incident at the end might be more of a factor of bad driving skill and poor road maintenance as much as aggressive driving - speeding isn't always or even often aggressive driving, but speeding on ice and snow is stupid driving.
Where I live now, many apartment and condo developments are gated, I suppose, as they have underground garages that aren't open to the public, and usually locked lobby doors. Where I live is locked with a garage gate, but now and then people get in anyway.
Our board tries to be a bit lenient with the rules but unless you have rules some people can and will do some bad things that will make the place look tacky. We can't have boats or motorhomes in view from the street and we are (somewhat) restrictive on paint colors etc.
I swore I'd never buy in another one of those.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Aggressive driving implies that they meant to drive in a reckless manner at 10/10th's of the cars capabilities during less than ideal weather conditions.
The aggressive driving on that road occurred rain, shine, sleet, dark of night. It had been the target of several police efforts to slow people down and get the aggressive drivers to go with the flow rather than trying to dominate and bully the other drivers on the road.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Being offended by speeding doesn't make the speeder aggressive, either, and slowpokes can be just as aggressive.
Inconsiderate boat driver - and of course not arrested, as Joe Schmoe Civilian wouldn't be either, yep, right, sure, uh-huh, wink
Pretty tame week here other than the two cars leaving the nearest high school mid-morning the other day and passing three cars on the double yellow in a curve going up a hill. Was wishing for your dash cam @fintail.
This morning I was out, saw a Microsoft shuttle van literally going 55-60 on a 35mph suburban arterial. I wonder if they have GPS trackers.
said speeding is aggressive by itself.
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Well, just as the procession was about to move ahead, this Subaru Forrester that was trying to make a left turn onto the street we were on, suddenly gunned ahead and almost did a kamikaze into the front of the hearse! How you can't see something that big and that black, with its lights and flashers on, and with people waving stop signs around, is beyond me. But, fortunately he stopped pretty quickly and backed up.
Then, once we were out on the road, a Honda Pilot makes a left turn, pulling out in front of the procession, but then only goes a few hundred feet up the road and stops, sort of off to the side, and someone walks up to it and gets in. The procession actually started to overtake the Pilot, and was passing around it, at a point where the road was about to widen, to two lanes in each direction, with a median strip. We were traveling pretty slow, but the PT Cruiser, and the hearse, had passed the Pilot, as it suddenly guns it and took off ahead of the procession, driving up the shoulder, which turned into a right turn lane, and made the turn a few hundred feet up the street.
But, both of those were fairly minor in the overall scheme of things, and the rest of the trip was pretty uneventful. It was a fairly short ride, through a rough neighborhood....this is in poor taste, but I almost blurted out "This is the part of America we never get to see. Look at all this plight! Are you noticing all this plight, kids? Okay, roll 'em up, roll 'em up!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwBoa-NbNL8
Outsiders, in terms of bought and paid for politicos and their crony capitalist funders, definitely contribute to blight.
I've only dealt with one funeral procession - not a big thing in my area, probably due to the latent heavy traffic that exists most of the time. I was in a rural area, and it was oncoming - I felt like I should pull over, but there wasn't a good place to, so I just slowed down.
On FUN eral traffic? No comment.
Now, I'm not one to judge, but as far as I know, weed isn't legal in Maryland, except for medicinal purposes. And, I'd imagine that smoking it and driving isn't a very good idea...
Not too many bad drivers today. I think when I drive the old car, I am less likely to catch the errors made by others, as I am constantly monitoring the health of my own car.
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So for example, there is precious little transparency on the alcohol (wine, beer, spirits ) taxations. More to the transportation point, same is true for ethanol (corrupted for human consumption). The consumption of (10%) ethanol is a HUGE tax on transportation. It also has another HUGE role in massive price increases in food costs, i.e., TAXATIONS.
Talking heads on FiNet/cable tv, say the monies saved on recent lower gas prices were spent on (surprise surprise?) rents/GROCERIES.
Which is why I support it being legal, rather than having that much more of my money thrown into the fire pit of the incredibly wasteful and poorly planned "war on drugs" which has produced little or no beneficial result, other than make-work projects for the already out-of-control Praetorian sector.
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Not being TOTALLY impractical, I would, IF my industy happened to be a hydroponic pot growing operation
Some things are TERRIBLY TWISTED!!!! ??
http://www.safercar.gov/rs/takata/index.html
People doing other things while driving
Any loved one that you care about will work; like, say, the roadster in the garage you only drive on weekends. :-)
As long as laws have no real teeth and no encouragement for the enforcers to enforce, we'll get what we've got.
Saw an incident today where someone was inconsiderate - a 1st gen Saturn and an early CRV got in a tangle. It was like a time warp to 1998. Somehow the Saturn was spun around and was facing the wrong way. Cop was on scene when I drove by - didn't think it was exciting enough to get a dashcam capture.