Eli Ricks Arrested-Charge Dismissed by Court

[BamaMark.]

Yes. Plenty. That was my implication


Maybe he was maybe he wasn't. I just don't think we should assume

Fair enough. My experience does not align with yours though.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Based on what?

I am sure he was just keeping for the novelty.

 

[RollTide_HTTR]

I am sure he was just keeping for the novelty.

Just because you have weed in your car doesn't mean you're smoking it in that moment. How do you think people move it from point a to b. Or after buying it. Or various other situations.

I don't doubt he smokes weed. I also couldn't care less that he does


Again maybe he was high maybe he wasn't. I'm just not going to assume he was. I personally don't get stoned and then start driving 90mph. That's not how it effects me. Obviously people are different and it's entirely possible.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Just wanted to take a shot at civil engineers.

Sometimes jobs like this are done in house. Basically a civil engineer that works for the city. They also bid them out. No idea how this was done.

Also the design process can get changed or altered do to budget constraints or environmental factors. Then there is bureaucratic nonsense and some idiot in the government with no idea how to do the job and no background in engineering said, I want it this was, make it work. 95% it is this.

If it was an Interstate, that isn't left to a local engineer. The Feds have strict guidelines on Interstate design, unless a politician with a vested interest gets involved...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I still consider it utter nonsense to try to lump all speeding into one single category. Not all speeding is dangerous. Period, full stop. We have enough data to show that a higher speed limit does not automatically mean more deaths, even you alluded to a particular type of driving. In a hurry, trying to do this or that. A speeding ticket doesn't have to have to do with any dangerous behavior at all, other than going over an arbitrary limit. In this case it wasn't any other driving related charge so there's no reason to believe he was doing anything dangerous at all.

I've been in the car and been pulled over on a four lane highway with no one around going ten miles over the speed limit. No one was in danger, nothing was dangerous, just a good chance to meet a quota. So I refuse to buy the notion that just speeding as the offense, nothing else (I think reckless driving can be as low as 15 MPH over the speed limit) is some great danger posed to others. If this was the case people in Germany would be dying at much higher rates on the highways when in fact they die at much lower rates. It's oversimplification to say "speeding" in general is going get people killed or something. Driving dangerously will and there is a difference between the two things.

I don't think the issue is whether all speeding is dangerous. If it was above the speed limit, it was against the law. That is why he was pulled over...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I am sure he was just keeping for the novelty.

He didn't inhale...

 

[Ole Man Dan]

If I had weed in the car, I definitely wouldn’t be speeding.

If I had WEED in the car I definitely wouldn't be in the car...

 

[81usaf92]

honestly I think idiots who drive slow in the left lane are just as likely to cause accidents in rush hour as people who speed on the interstate with hardly any cars on the road.

 

[BamaMoon]

Since we turned this into a discussion about driving...can someone do something about 18 wheelers driving in the passing lane???

If I'm ever elected President, I'll move to make all interstates at least 3 lanes and to make it illegal for trucks to drive in the far left lane!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

honestly I think idiots who drive slow in the left lane are just as likely to cause accidents in rush hour as people who speed on the interstate with hardly any cars on the road.

Define "slow" in the left lane. Because there seems to be a misunderstanding of what that means. Some people think the left lane is the "fast lane". Meaning they are allowed to go any speed they want.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Define "slow" in the left lane. Because there seems to be a misunderstanding of what that means. Some people think the left lane is the "fast lane". Meaning they are allowed to go any speed they want.

Technically the left lane is for passing only, not to be used as the right lane. It is very dangerous for two cars to be traveling at the same speed and be right beside each other, one in the right lane and one in the left.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Technically the left lane is for passing only, not to be used as the right lane. It is very dangerous for two cars to be traveling at the same speed and be right beside each other, one in the right lane and one in the left.

True, but you are still supposed to obey the speed limit, hence the name.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

True, but you are still supposed to obey the speed limit, hence the name.

Correct, but in every driving situation sticking to the "speed limit" isn't always the safest thing to do. I don't feel comfortable traveling in a "cluster" of vehicles down the interstate. So the first chance I get, I "get out in front of them" and move on. Normally I have to go above the speed limit to do that, but in my opinion, that is safer than driving the speed limit and being clustered up with five to six cars for long periods of time.

 

[mdb-tpet]

True, but you are still supposed to obey the speed limit, hence the name.

We have a driving culture that assumes some random number above the speed limit is okay and the REAL speed limit, and nobody should slow me down for any reason while I'm passing/driving in the passing lane at this random number, lest I get irate. Unless you're in cities like Atlanta, then the interstate is more like an obstacle course, where you pick a random number above the speed limit and weave through traffic at that speed regardless of the danger to traffic around you.

And if everyone really just drove the speed limit, we would have a tiny fraction of the accidents we currently have on all roads.

 

[Con]

We have a driving culture that assumes some random number above the speed limit is okay and the REAL speed limit, and nobody should slow me down for any reason while I'm passing/driving in the passing lane at this random number, lest I get irate. Unless you're in cities like Atlanta, then the interstate is more like an obstacle course, where you pick a random number above the speed limit and weave through traffic at that speed regardless of the danger to traffic around you.

And if everyone really just drove the speed limit, we would have a tiny fraction of the accidents we currently have on all roads.

And a higher fuel efficiency.

 

[81usaf92]

Define "slow" in the left lane. Because there seems to be a misunderstanding of what that means. Some people think the left lane is the "fast lane". Meaning they are allowed to go any speed they want.

Going far less than the speed of traffic or going 50 in a 65. It’s just as dangerous as people speeding. I see just as many if not more wrecks caused from people who want to be THAT guy in the left lane than someone thinking 10-15 over on a highway with no cars.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Since we turned this into a discussion about driving...can someone do something about 18 wheelers driving in the passing lane???

If I'm ever elected President, I'll move to make all interstates at least 3 lanes and to make it illegal for trucks to drive in the far left lane!

Not true in every case, I'm sure, but you have morons who are poking along in the right lane and these trucks need to get where they are going so they pass. Then the morons speed up.

I agree truckers don't need to be moving around like they're driving a GT, though.

 

[mdb-tpet]

Going far less than the speed of traffic or going 50 in a 65. It’s just as dangerous as people speeding. I see just as many if not more wrecks caused from people who want to be THAT guy in the left lane than someone thinking 10-15 over on a highway with no cars.

Cars driving the speed limit, or even a few mph slower are NOT a problem. Cars driving over the speed limit create a differential speed hazard that our roads, laws, and driving culture are not designed to handle. It's plain RARE to see a car going more than a few miles an hour slower than the speed limit, and it's not their job to keep you from slamming into them while speeding. I rarely see anyone driving under the speed limit in the left lane, but I see HUNDREDs of drivers stacked up in the left lane, tailgating 6-10 feet off of another car, driving aggressively so they can get to their random number of the speed limit they want to drive at.

I get drivers tailgating 6-10 feet off of my rear bumper nearly every time I'm on the interstate because I'm passing another car while going near the speed limit. You'd think their bladder was about to explode the way folks are so pushy.

 

[81usaf92]

Cars driving the speed limit, or even a few mph slower are NOT a problem. Cars driving over the speed limit create a differential speed hazard that our roads, laws, and driving culture are not designed to handle. It's plain RARE to see a car going more than a few miles an hour slower than the speed limit, and it's not their job to keep you from slamming into them while speeding. I rarely see anyone driving under the speed limit in the left lane, but I see HUNDREDs of drivers stacked up in the left lane, tailgating 6-10 feet off of another car, driving aggressively so they can get to their random number of the speed limit they want to drive at.

I get drivers tailgating 6-10 feet off of my rear bumper nearly every time I'm on the interstate because I'm passing another car while going near the speed limit. You'd think their bladder was about to explode the way folks are so pushy.

You can say it all you want and come up with “how driving should be”, but people not driving with the flow of traffic are just as much of a danger as people driving fast.

 

[BamaMark.]

They are, but the older I get the less inclined I am to try to keep up with traffic. Especially when it's raining or dark. A speed limit of 70 is plenty fast enough.