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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Thats a 3rd gen corvette. The ones made in the early 70’s were famously slow. That’s the “malaise era” when the fuel crisis and emissions regulations meant that new cars coming out were less powerful than older ones. Technology hadn’t caught up, especially for American cars which had large engines with older block designs.





  • Maybe you would say I deserved to be extorted by the government for passing a semi truck instead of hanging around behind it. But essentially, making the threat that your insurance rates could go up by a lot OR you can the fine PLUS an extra fee to a private company, is dastardly. If their purpose was public safety rather than extracting money, they would not be doing this. They also lie saying the fine will be waived to get you not to argue and exercise your rights.

    And then, of course, for a while after something like this you start to REALLY notice every time a cop does 11mph over the speed limit. Or 20mph. Or 30mph. Or doesn’t use their blinker, and so on (and no, I obviously dont mean with their lights on for an emergency).




  • Speed limit: 65 Trucks: 55 I pass a truck at 76… That’s a ticket, 11mph over puts you in the “real fines” zone. Never mind that the truck was going 21mph over his speed limit.

    Oh, and then the officer says… Since its a first offense, you can waive the fine if you take our online class, and it won’t be reported to your insurance.

    The online class has a fee of exactly the fine +$10. Payable to some private company of course.

    I wanted to turn around, drive back to Nebraska and [fedpost].