Especially on that particular street in Charlotte. I’ve seen it. It is eight lanes wide with no center dividing line. There are square boxes every 100 feet or so over each lane with either green arrows or red Xs. Their idea is to control the flow of traffic in and out of the coliseum, but it’s easy enough to get in a “wrong” lane just with normal driving. Drag racing there really is crazy.
psycat90: I hear certain sexual acts are against the law in some states, never been arre…oh nevermind.
In Virginia, there are specific laws against sodomy, forcible at least. Voluntary sodomy outside of marriage is grounds for divorce.
In Georgia, one man was convicted of sodomy, albeit voluntary, against his estranged wife, with whom he thought he was reconciling. During their divorce trial, she accused him of it and he (ignorant of the illegality) said he had. Not only did he get 5 years in jail, but because he is now a convicted sex offender, he’s lost all visitation rights to his kids.
The wife’s sister testified in court that the wife had planned this all along, but it didn’t matter.
I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright
I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush
Me? I’d like to vote for Gary Bauer, then I’d have a shot at reelection. “Hey, its not my fault I legalized prostitution and pot, and outlawed the noble penny. I voted for Bauer.”
Heh, my plan is all coming together now.
Back to the OP though. I see the point about having speed limits, especially for city streets and curvy streets. It would be nice to have more stretches of interstate have no limit though, following the Montana(?) model.
Peter McWilliams’s Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do (Prelude Press, 1996) has a table on pages 630-631 showing all the anti-sex laws on a state-by-state basis.
According to that table, the State of Virginia has laws against oral sex (heterosexual or homosexual), anal sex (heterosexual or homosexual), adultery, prostitution, fornication (sex between unmarried individuals), cohabitation, and pornography. The table also says that Virginia’s Age of Consent of only 15, but if fornication is illegal there the age of consent would hardly matter.
The truth, as always, is more complicated than that.
Come now, folks, do you really think he would have died if he had been racing at, say, 35 MPH?
The cause of death was speed. Driving at over 100mph increases the risk of accident regardless of where you drive. Yet, left to themselves, many would be quite willing to drive that fast.
The accident does prove the point, albeit by way of being an extreme example.
No, the cause of death was stupidity. People go over 100 mph all the time – they just do it in appropriate places, like race tracks. He did it in an inappropriate and stupid place.
David:
You are exactly correct. I’ll be darned. (just kidding)
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. -Harriet Woods-
When do I get my $10,000? 
WHEW! I thought you said, “WHERE do I get my $10,000?”!
A) Of course he died from stupidity, that goes without saying.
B) Saying he died of ‘racing’ shows lack of understanding of cause and effect, IMHO. Ask yourself: 1) if he raced at 35 MPH, would he likely have died? 2) if he had driven at 100 MPH and NOT been racing, would he have had serious risk of an accident?
His car went out of control. It went out of control because he was exceeding a resonable speed for the road. The fact he exceeded that speed because of a race (as opposed to, say, being terminally stupid in believing he had to get to home to watch the 2 a.m. SportsCenter) doesn’t mean the speed didn’t cause his death.
I maintain that he would have been stupid to drive at 100 MPH in that area regardless of the reason, precisely because he would likely lose control. Indeed, since that is the main premise behind speed limits, this would be open and shut negligence per se, assuming that he was cited for the excessive speed.
Racing on city streets can be done perfectly safely, you just have to obey the traffic laws. Rallies do it all the time. Driving 100 MPH on a city street is never safe.
Just a note: I didn’t mean to imply that there shouldn’t be any speed limits at all. Montana had it’s famous no daytime speed limit, but had to give it up because just saying “drive at a safe speed” was too vague.
I was thinking of an infamous local speed trap, I-94 in Minneapolis. Posted limit 55 mph. Average traffic speed 65-75 mph. Every so often a police car will pull someone over and give them a ticket, but no one regards this as anything but tribute to the local highwaymen. The government gives us the speech about safety, conserving energy, yadda-yadda. In a sane world, they’d make the official limit 75.
In fact, I think I’ll postulate Lumpy’s First Law: Never make illegal that which everyone will do anyway.