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Thanks for keeping us posted, lrndthehardway, and we're glad it worked out for you. Personally, I live in the hope that there is a particularly cozy corner in hell reserved for these rude and suicidal cyclists who think it's cute to be ignorant of the laws and who expect the rest of us to look out for them.

I remember that it was out of Ontario that the law got struck down... I still need to go to the library and check it out there… Im sure its out there somewhere!!

You won't find it, ricosuave: the aircraft technique wasn't struck down, but merely abandoned in Ontario because of the cost. That, and the fact that it doesn't work in bad weather or ...

Proper1, did you just read this post the 1-st time?
I did see it earlier, racer, but didn't think anybody'd be all that interested in my details. It dawned on me only when I came back recently after a period of inactivity that I am, in a way, already part of the "family." Like a crazy old uncle who lives in the attic and is never mentioned, I ...

Just curious...

Why do you think that people in Toronto don't share similar concerns about more coal-fired power plants?

Point taken. It was unfair to swipe everybody in Toronto with the same coal-tar brush. Plug-in electric cars (in Ontario) do essentially run on coal, and they are not, today, of much use outside the province's biggest cities ...

Q. What do I need to drive a motor tricycle?
A driver of a motor tricycle must be at least 16 years old and have a valid M1, M2, or, an M2 or M licence with an M condition . The M condition is added to your licence if you pass the Level One or Level Two road test using a three-wheeled motorcycle. The M condition means you are licensed to drive ...

This looks a bit more like a subsidy for the Volt than a commitment to energy efficiency. By tying this province to plug-in technology, McGuinty may be freezing development of other ideas. There certainly are people who are uneasy about encouraging the pounding of yet more coal into yet more fossil-fuelled power generating plants out in the ...

CoolChick wrote:I can show you a few successes...

And they are ... ??

Dog the Bounty Hunter and many of our finest would never go after a nasty perp without their shades. Not having them would just spoil the whole image.

Say, what ever did become of the Village People?

CoolChick's arguments about "our rights and freedoms" would (perhaps unfortunately) work better in the US than they do here. We hear so much about that country that we sometimes think our situation as citizens is like theirs: in significant ways, it is not. Think of the famous distinction between their "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ...

Congratulations on the quick reaction time. That dork owes you.

1. Section 172.

2. Hands-free cellphone drivers: they are blissfully and utterly out of it.

3. Hand-held cellphone drivers: they're out of it, but have a vestigial understanding that they may be doing something wrong.

4. Cutters: those bastards who cruise past a line of cars obviously waiting their turn to go through a choke point, then muscle ...

I'm not a new member, but Ive been hanging about long enough that a formal intro may be in order. Having driven quite a lot for fifty years, Ive had my share of tickets. None recently, but Ill be on the road today and you never know… Members of my immediate family have been or are Ontario police officers, but Im just a civilian.

Long ago I worked ...

All good points, but the initial post in this thread mentioned a person in plain clothes, and said he flashed a "badge" that had the word "Constable" on it. That's what makes me wonder if the initial poster didn't meet someone who is actually in another line of work, and prompted me to wonder just how we do know if somebody in plain clothes ...

Looking forward to your input from the heavy truck user's point of view. Should make an already valuable community more valuable still.

And, if it is a badge, would it have the word "Constable" on it?

I thought $20 was too good to be true.

No, the OHTA goes on about how anybody violating one of its many provisions "is guilty of an offence" (and please pardon my misspelling). Unfortunately, I can't now cite whatever it was that I read. The principle, though, sounds reasonable to me.

Just for fun, I've been taking note of rear number plates recently. (Many cars pass me on the highway: I am a boring driver.) It's remarkably consistent -- just about 60 percent have some part of the wording on the plate obscured and the drivers are thus vulnerable to a conviction. I'm not talking about the "dirt" provision -- every driver can be ...

I remember reading about one of these cases that had actually made it to court. The defense argued, successfully, that the accused was attempting to prevent the commission of an offense.

This is encouraging -- a frivolous charge that actually had a positive outcome! Plenderzoosh, you've made my day.

Why, thankee kindly, RI. I backed off for health reasons: thinking about that damnable 172 was making me sick (as it will anybody who has respect for the rule of law), and reading about it every day was just too much. So why am I here again? I'm not sure... Masochism? The considerable value of so much else on this site? The laughs we sometimes have ...

Now that's funny!

We've run into this one on this board before. Your not being aware of the law is, unfortunately for you, irrelevant. It's there, and it is used, and you're not the first Ontario motorist to be charged for not moving more than one lane to the left, regardless of the wording (and the intention) of the law. That you could not move over two lanes and ...

I ain't no English professor (hehe), but I believe the " By " being on the left of the comma restricts subsections i to iv to "[C]" only. If the " By " had been on the right of the comma, [A], AND [C] would have been associated to subsections i to iv.

I think it could be argued that the officer's conduct would fall under .

Well, I am a former ...

I'll be interested to know how this one turns out, justme123, because I had exactly the same thing happen to me years ago, in Dundas, Ont. Car in front of me stopped on the crosswalk, I stopped behind it, just short of the stop line, then proceeded, without stopping again, when the way was clear. I'd seen the parked police car and when he pulled ...

Just stay below 49km/h over the limit and you'll get to work just fine.

If only that were true, I'd support 172 myself. But it is not true. There is an astounding number of sloppily conceived definitions of what 172 calls "Stunt Driving" hiding under the deliberately misleading "Street Racing" title, any of which leads to instant, brutally ...

If your feelin' confident.... GET CHARGED!! ;)

That would be an impressive way to demonstrate your conviction (in more ways than one), but unnecessary. You're a citizen of Canada, the law applies to you, the law is an assault on you, and there's no other effective way to challenge it. Kvetching in an online forum, even as admirable a one as this ...

I see the OPP is getting rid of the American-style cowboy hats and going back to the uniform cap. Seems to me a good thing, to return to the more professional, "official-looking" headgear, but what do I know? I'd be interested, as always, to hear the Bear's views from his side of the badge.

The OPP's version of the American-style hats always ...

All true, but the folks who make their money selling radar units nevertheless must have heaved a small sigh of relief, to see their gadgets vindicated in court. The Taser people will be envious.

Good! The charge sounded pretty fishy from the beginning.