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The first vid was funny as shit... when people behave like lunatics when expected to obey the law, you've got to be able to tell that something's wrong.
A couple things to clear up: In Colorado, at least, you can't be pulled over or given a citation for going up to 5 mph above the speed limit (although I'm sure cops would probably make exceptions in a school zone-rightfully).
Also, in Colorado, speed limits do change with the weather - another traffic law dictates that you may be pulled over, even if you are doing the speed limit, if that speed presents a danger to yourself or others during those road conditions. Posted speed limits apply for optimum road conditions, and it's up to officers to judge whether or not you're going too fast. Usually this works, because most people will realize that 75 is way too fast for whiteout blizzard weather with icy roads.
Again, I'm not sure of traffic laws in different states, but I think what these people did was a good way to bring peoples attention to how artificially low the speed limits were. While it may be reasonable for a city to nail a guy for doing 100 or more, having artificially low speed limits on large highways which can quite obviously handle much more is NOT the way to do it. Roads should be judged for their maximum safe speed, and people going slightly over that should probably not be prosecuted. Those doing in excess of 25 over, on the other hand, are driving at severly unsafe speeds (unless the limit is 55 on a high speed highway, mind you) and should get hammered.
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And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be
banana-shaped.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again
how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Oh, certainly, sir.
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