All manner of computerized enforcement is flat prohibited by state law. Cops with radar guns do exist, but not in the areas where the situation is truly out of control.
On the rare occasions I do see somebody pulled over in crazytown I always think “Now what did that person do that could possibly be outrageous enough to have attracted that cop’s attention?”
I and many others routinely zip along at 100mph pacing the police as they roll down the freeway just leisurely going from here to there. When they are actually in a hurry with lights and sirens they really get it on.
By and large the insanity is limited to the freeways and tollways. The arterial boulevards are generally signed for 45 and folks top out around 60 if they’re making the lights and congestion permits. Getting crazy on surface streets will get you stopped pretty quickly; the townie cops in the burbs take a dim view of serious speed on boulevards and are death on crazy in residential areas. As they should be.
Likewise, if you keep up the urban speeds as the freeway moves out of suburbia into ruralia, then more normal standards begin to apply. Doing 100 past a parked out-county highway patrolman or rural sheriff deputy will be an expensive mistake.
Though not so bad as the far more sensible standards imposed in Canada as @wolfpup has so helpfully reminded us.
I’m not exactly proud of having learned to drive like this. But it is fun and saves a great deal of time getting around a solidly urban/suburban area that’s over 125 miles long and ~30 miles wide. Scale matters, and we have a lot of it.
No, actually - and as this is my 5’6" daughter, who has roughly the strength of a piece of undercooked spaghetti, I REALLY do not. I’m just surprised they don’t have cameras or something to catch these people. A security guard would be out of the question, i’m sure; I doubt their shrinkage is enough to make that cost worth it.
There are arguments that speeding tickets as a source of revenue can result in excessive enforcement (sometimes inappropriately targeted). Quotas are or at least sometimes have been a thing, too.
Well, my store has cameras everywhere but having a camera doesn’t mean the shoplifter is stopped, it just provides a record of the crime, hopefully shows who did it, and provides evidence for the legal system later.
There are paper bags in New Brunswick. I’m assuming that the self checkout systems are the same between same owned stores so that the need to accommodate NB results in ON self checkouts having some features that are not relevant.
As an aside, it is nice to encounter a situation where someone in Ontario may need to adapt as opposed to a New Brunswicker getting shafted for a change.
Good paying jobs, brought to you by the efforts of the Amalgamated Union of Shoplifters, Pilferers, Sneak Thieves, Footpads and Looters. Look for the AUSPSTFaL label!
Over the last few years though, I have noticed that supermarkets here in the UK have started to post people who look like security staff at the entrance. I have never seen them confront anyone though.
Maybe they hope that the appearence of security will have an effect?
