Ontario Highway Traffic Act

90% of my posts are complaints about speed enforcement, but my main pet peeves are:
1) Lack of due care and attention
2) Improper behaviour (signalling, poor lane discipline etc.)
3) Lack of proper vehicle maintenance
In that order of importance.

I'm just pissed off that hands-free is still legal. Even when chatting with passengers I get distracted, so I keep that to a minimum. People should put 100% of their focus on safely operating the deadly hunk of metal.

I don't find that shocking.. All sorts of "interesting" people are on the roads.. Here are a few examples from my life experience..
1) Old lady, just short of being legally blind, afraid of her own shadow. When she detects a car heading in her direction, she pulls over to the right, waits for the car to pass, merges back onto the road and keeps ...

[slightly o/t]
Bear,
I tend to agree with you on most counts. Everybody makes the occasional mistake. But ever since Bill 203 got passed, that occasional mistake can cost an innocent person a lot of money that they'll never get back even after being found not guilty.
Even for minor tickets, a missed bus or too much sugar in my coffee won't cost me ...

It's not about a lack of enforcement. It's more about the wrong focus on enforcement. Speeding is easy to prove, "speed kills" brainwashing campaigns have been successful and the revenue generation has been solid. Even big municipalities can make some cash after all the expenses and most of it is from speeding tickets. That's why unsafe drivers ...

Chances are you'll be fine. You obviously intended to stop and did stop. Had you blown by the bus, chances are he would have taken the trouble to write down your plates.

In my case it's just being cheap. The p.o. (maybe even the one before him) blew the packing on my pipe. The way it's installed, it's not really practical to repack so either way it'll run me $500, so I'm leaving it as is and keeping the rpm's low at night in residential areas. I'd prefer a stealth setup.. Less police attention

In this case, the constable has no admissible way to measure the offender's speed. Personal vehicles do not have calibrated speedometers and no radars/lidars.

P.S. It opens up in OpenOffice without any issues 8)

Your Worship,

- It is common knowledge that a defendant is to be assumed innocent until proven guilty.
- The prosecution, in my opinion, has NOT been successful in Proving Without a Reasonable Doubt that this offence has occurred.
- Acting in my own defense to this charge, I have identified ...

I only have MS Office...did not want to open :?

A Microsoft product not doing what it's designed to? I'm SHOCKED :roll: When I was a child, playing on my C=>64, I dreamed of buying a laptop preloaded with Vista. After a couple of months' "use" I couldn't contain my excitement with another fine Microsoft product, wiped it off, installed Linux and ...

hwybear wrote:

Bookm wrote: 2nd one I can not open at all, think it's based on a cheap program of some sorts

I think it's called MS Office Stick with OpenOffice guys.. 100% free, handles all file formats, flawless export to PDF, what else do you need?

Could be interpreted as "stunting" (in the trunk). Even if it doesn't fall under that part of 172, it could be misinterpreted as such on the side of the road and you could still get your truck impounded.

I did some winter field work in the Gowganda/Shining Tree area. I agree it's beautiful country. Great people too.
Now back to the topic.. This is a clear case as to why this is too much of a responsibility for a constable to decide on the side of the road. This issue should be decided in a court of law and I'm even iffy about JP's sitting in on it ...

Personal experience.. In Europe, where the speed limits are generally more reasonable, I rarely found myself doing more than 5 over the limit. Over here I literally have to force myself not to do more than 20 over on most streets, with 2 exceptions..
1) School/park zones when the kids are out
2) 3-4 streets where the speed limits have been ...

Had it been me in Bear's driver seat, I'd pull over those left-lane bandits and people with mounds of snow on their vehicles, ticket them for speeding and anything else I could find and then tell them exactly why they got singled out from the crowd.