You can't fix stupid

My MH friends always tell me they are not a truck pulling a trailer so the speed limit doesn't apply to them. Of course they know better.

chevman

No need to speed up to see how fast he was going. Note the exact time he passes you (starting a stopwatch is ideal), then pick a landmark, like a bridge, a short ways down the road, as he passes it ahead of you note the time he passes it and then the time when you pass it. Then you can calculate how much faster he is going. Good mind exercise to keep your brain sharp.

So, yeah- it IS our business!

Yes, indeed it is!

It may be your business Francesca & Ray but it's not mine. If you want to make it your business, go for it. As for me, I have enough on my plate already. I'm not going take on your "stuff" also.

A quick call to the SP to alert them is not taking on someone else's "stuff" - it's potentially saving someone's life, possibly even your own. If that driver had taken out one of your loved ones and it could have been taken care of by a 30 second phone call, you'd be carrying the burden and sadness of a whole lot of OTHER "stuff".

Speeding up to see how fast he was going DOES fall under the category of stupid is as stupid does. Makes you as dangerous as the original idiot because you are paying attention to HIM and not what you are doing.

True story: Reported in departmental news I am afraid so I can not link to it.

Some years ago early in the week (Mon or Tue) the Michigan State Police "Parked" an aircraft (Either a fixed wing small plane or a helicopter) over a stretch of I-696 international speedway in Oakland county.

Before the eye in the sky had to return to base (Lansing) for re-fueling they wrote 85 tickets.. The slowest you could go and get a ticket was 85, the person who won the fastest 105.

Later that same week (Thu/Fri not sure on the exact day) they parked the other kind of aircraft (if the first was a fixed wing (Plane) the 2nd was a 'coptor or ther other way around) Same stats exactly 85 tickets, at least 85 MPH and the top ticket was 105.

I suspect, but the item did not say, it was the same guy at 105.

The subject line in this thread.. Almost true..

Turns out you CAN fix stupid.. For more on how http://www.darwinards.com Wendy has a lot of examples of stupid being fixed on that site..... Most of them were fixed... fatally, however.

If someone is driving like that on the same highway that I am on then I think that it would be my business.

Fransesca Knowles X 2 and safety is everyones business.

May I add to this what I saw this weekend?

A 1/2 ton truck towing a 3-axle Aisteam trailer which looked liked a minimum 35 feet in length...add this to your list

It may be your business Francesca & Ray but it's not mine. If you want to make it your business, go for it. As for me, I have enough on my plate already. I'm not going take on your "stuff" also.

I happen to think calling someone else out as "Stupid" is worse then the crime.

Francesca Knowles wrote:
Sorta puzzled at the folks that evidently think the O.P. is concerned here about something that's "none of his business"-? I frankly think a call to the Highway Patrol was in order since the idea of sharing the road with a massive, grotesquely speeding "guided missile" is unappealing to me.

But maybe that's due to my Mother's having been passed by a speeding vehicle one fine morning, and in the next moment she saw the within-the-speed-limit pickup he next slammed into from behind (at "only" 80mph or so) go sailing straight across the freeway right in front of her. It tumbled fifty feet down a bank to land upside down on some railroad tracks. The driver of the struck vehicle and her 12 year old son were killed.

So, yeah- it IS our business!

Right on!! Some drivers do not care about their safety or any one else's safety.

Ray

Sorta puzzled at the folks that evidently think the O.P. is concerned here about something that's "none of his business"-? I frankly think a call to the Highway Patrol was in order since the idea of sharing the road with a massive, grotesquely speeding "guided missile" is unappealing to me.

But maybe that's due to my Mother's having been passed by a speeding vehicle one fine morning, and in the next moment she saw the within-the-speed-limit pickup he next slammed into from behind (at "only" 80mph or so) go sailing straight across the freeway right in front of her. It tumbled fifty feet down a bank to land upside down on some railroad tracks. The driver of the struck vehicle and her 12 year old son were killed.

So, yeah- it IS our business!