October 2, 2007
Not 28, now 36 reasons and counting: why speed?
Here’s a list, for starters… anyone reckon any of this represents a valid, logical and reasoned argument for speeding?
- I’m in a hurry
- I was overtaking
- I’m rich
- It’s my right
- It’s a democracy
- I’m a good driver
- I don’t want to hold up traffic
- I don’t get caught anyway, so what’s the problem?
- If I do get caught I just pay the fine, it’s like a toll not a punishment
- It’s revenue raising (see below for police conspiracies against me)
- What harm can I do by speeding?
- Everyone does it
- Fuel’s so cheap, I can do it without real cost
- Breaking the law gives me a buzz
- I like to go fast, it feels good
- My mates told me to
- Sometimes you have to speed to avoid an accident
- I wasn’t watching the speedo
- It’s dangerous to watch the speedo
- I was on the phone
- I was distracted
- I missed the sign
- There are too many signs, it’s their fault
- This car’s too quiet
- This car’s too powerful (ie blame GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Hyundai, whoever, but not me)
- The laws are too complicated
- The police were hiding, I shouldn’t have been caught (see below for police conspiracies against me)
- You should catch the bad drivers who get in my way and stop writing this trash (I just can’t stop writing this trash!)
- I’m not well, I just can’t stop doing it
- It’s my medication (hey, that’s not a bad one)
- They are out to get me and it’s all set up to trap me, so I’ll let them get me anyway (perhaps it’s the medication)
- The police are revenue raising and forced me to speed past their cunningly disguised traps (conspiracy theory 1)
- The police are revenue raising and out to get me, no matter what I do, so what the heck (2)
- The police are revenue raising and have poorly calibrated measuring instruments, so how do they know anyway? (3)
- I was only just over the limit, that’s not speeding (see also ‘everyone does it’) (4)
- The law is an ass.
Comments
October 3, 2007
Jonno said:
There are too many speed signs designed to trap you into paying the wages of the Policeman who just pulled you over. It seems who ever wrote this bit of trivia is all too aware of those nasty motorists who must be treated like formula drivers when exceeding the limits by minor amounts, making a mountain out of a molehill to keep the “law” in the money.
If I were a Police man I could like to justify my booking thousands of motorists by writing this piece of comtemptable crap.
Speedometers are not exactly accurate and RADAR and Lasers are subject to many technical problems, so are not certified by the legal measuremnt authorities, and its about time they were. We have governments and corporations, ill equipped testing this stuff when its been proven to make terrible mistakes causing people to loose their jobs and families due to this. Get it right first the nwrite dribble like this with ALL the facts. From Australia
where speeding kangaroos are shot!!!
Administrator said:
Nice one, mate. Apparently only your “facts” are “ALL” the facts, leaving no room for anyone else to have a view. I can see both sides, the solution lies in a compromise, surely. General revenue – our taxes – pay the police their salaries, not fines. Fines cost money to issue and more money to chase up the defaulters, and it ends up a piddling amount left over when you remove the costs. Whereas the police are funded to a similar extent to hospitals and schools – as in billions of dollars. Fines don’t matter in revenue terms. And there are easier ways to collect revenue – like taxes. So what do we do with people who speed? let them off because they didn’t think through the consequences? The problem is that we have made driving so necessary and public transport so poor that we need to keep our licences intact – losing your licence (and your job) because you genuinely have a physical or neurological problem keeping to the speed limit is perhaps a sad indictment on our society and definitely regrettable on a personal level – however some people deliberately speed because they see no reason not to… and there are plenty of reasons not to, if you think about it. It’s just we don’t like to admit it’s antisocial to speed.