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03-14-2013, 09:42 AM | #45 | |
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03-14-2013, 11:40 AM | #46 |
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I get the feeling some of the people posting in this thread don't actually own a home in a residential area. I don't care if the road is as straight as John Wayne sitting on a horse with a naked lady sitting in front of him, 45 MPH down a residential street is too f*cking fast.
Unless you drive a car that can stop in a 1 foot distance when someone's kid chases their ball onto the street suddenly, then slow down.
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03-14-2013, 11:49 AM | #48 | |
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It's also about reaction time. At 45mph, you're traveling 66 feet per second. On an average tract lot, that's about 1 house every 1 to 1.5 seconds. That presents a lot of opportunity for risk. Slow the f*ck down speed racer.
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03-14-2013, 12:00 PM | #49 |
is probably out riding.
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All residential streets around here are 20mph which i generally obey. Rarely if ever get to 30mph. Most of the time i'm rolling at 20. One time with my last M3 i was running a loud exhaust and was in 2nd gear doing the limit. There was a guy watering his garden and decided that because my engine was loud and at higher RPMs at the time that i was speeding. he decided to punish me by spaying my car with his hose as i drove by.
You can imagine how happy i was about this since my windows were down and sunroof was open. I of course stopped to have words with this man. He explained that i was speeding, i explained that he was mistaken. He actually needed a ride in the car to understand that the sound doesn't always = speed.
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03-14-2013, 12:22 PM | #50 | |
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03-14-2013, 12:28 PM | #51 |
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yes, he did and waived at me from then on. I didn't have to get medieval on his garden.
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03-14-2013, 12:48 PM | #52 |
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03-14-2013, 01:52 PM | #53 | |
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03-14-2013, 02:23 PM | #54 |
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Nobody wants to mind their own business and be responsible for themselves. You can only expect more of this from our society in the future.
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03-14-2013, 10:29 PM | #55 |
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I think the letter is a good idea, if he doesn't listen, tell the cops at around what time, and hope to catch him every time. If your going to speed, speed on a known road that you can consider safe if you know what your doing, residential is too much, innocent lives can get taken because you want to act dumb.
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03-18-2013, 11:52 AM | #56 |
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I'd probably just mind my own business. If you have kids, this is a good time to teach them not to play in the street.
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03-19-2013, 03:23 PM | #59 |
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It's not like kids even play in the street anymore these days. They're spending every waking moment on some kind of screen. I was thinking the other day about how sad it is that I don't see kids playing football and shit anymore. And no, I'm not an old man.
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I grew up in the mid 80s, we didnt come home until the sun went down. Now i wont even let my teenaged son walk to the park even if he has a cell phone.
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03-20-2013, 12:03 PM | #62 |
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I remember the time me and my "Sandlot" crew took off on our bikes and rode probably 20+ miles to visit my grandma who lived several towns over. Never made it. I took a wrong turn and we ended up coming back home. I think we were 10 or 11.
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