Don’t want to use your turn signals (for turning or lane changes, doesn’t matter)? You get to walk home. You can pick up your car the impound lot. (can I do that?)
No brake lights? Biggest ticket I can come up with.
Driving while talking on a cellphone? I’ll cite you for wreckless driving and impound your phone (assuming I have that power).
Hee! Was that pun intended?
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Why can’t I remember to drop the “w”?
Red light runners. There are a zillion here in the Bay Area–and these aren’t simply Accelerate-at-Yellow-but-Get-in-Late. These are Light’s-Red-Before-Entering-Intersection-But-Proceed-Anyway.
There are things that annoy me no end, but this is much much worse. :mad:
How about, you know, sppeding? I’d just sit on the road I live on, where the limit’s 25 and people regularly go 50, and I’d have my quota met (if there is such a thing) in just a couple of hours.
I’d also wait by the bars late at night and bust lots of drunk drivers. That would be fun!
It’s like deja vu all over again, Susan. 
As for the OP:
I’d bust everyone.
Nope. Sorry. Speed limits are set reasonably in school zones and residential areas. That’s about it, unfortunately.
Everywhere else, they’re between 1/3 and 1/2 of what they should be. If you’re on the back roads driving less than double the speed limit, your tires don’t even get warm enough to actually grip the road.
My two biggest pwt peeves - people who illegally park in handicapped parking places and highway drivers who weave in and out of traffic as though they were dancers on a ballet stage. I think they’re more dangerous than anyone else.
StG
And I’d also give tickets to people who didn’t read the post they quoted. I said I don’t drive in the left lane often, except to pass, because I know that’s the rule. I still don’t see why it upsets people so much; the left-lane drivers complaining shouldn’t be there either except to pass, only they continue to be in the passing lane so they can pass everybody for 30-40 miles at a time. It feels as if they’re berating those slow-lefties for not following a rule they themselves choose to ignore.
How about lazy-ass drivers who can’t wait at a light like the rest of the civilized world but have to cut through a business’s parking lot.
Anybody else notice this happening more and more?
Biggest tickets would go those that cut across one or more lanes of traffic at the last second to take the exit/turn they were about to miss.
Double parkers would be towed. Triple parkers would be ticketed, blown up, towed, then ticketed again.
I would move to have a special lane created on the main highway just for drunk drivers. It would be very wide and straight, and enclosed with a concrete divider on both sides. It would also be the same lane for both directions.
The elderly who have no Earthly right to be driving due to obvious visual/mental impairment, shall not.
If you blow past a schoolbus that is flashing its yellow lights, you will be shot.
Tickets and a mandatory driving course for people who cannot grasp the concept of a merge. Tickets for those who remain in the far right lane with no intention of exiting the highway any time soon.
I’d just meander down to the corner of the street I live on, and if I pocketed all of the usual fines handed out for various offenses, I’d be pretty damn rich in… oh… three or four hours, tops.
But there are so many annoyances to choose from, which ones to bust first. Hm. Like StGermain, people illegally parked in handicapped parking spots would be very high on the list. (My favorite: seeing a cop car parked thusly.) Next would be red light and stop sign runners. Then it would be the idiots who equate a parking lot with a NASCAR race track crossed with a bumper car ride.
I think those would keep me occupied for quite some time.
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I’m guessing you’ve never been in a car accident and are, fortunately, ignorant of the destructive power of a ton of steel. You’ve also probably never lost a friend or family member to a car crash. You must not realize that a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed is like a bomb that you’re aiming at innocent people that don’t deserve to die just because you want to get somewhere relatively trivial faster, and that the faster your car is going the harder it is to control should something go wrong.
In communist Russia, traffic bust YOU.
Wasn’t there a Sniglet for this? Esso-asshole, I believe.
Yeah, this was my first thought too. Many of the things people have mentioned in this thread are merely annoying. Running red lights gets people killed. And it’s standard practice here in Baltimore.
:Wipes away a tear for the innocent:
I’ve lived in the US for five years now, and i also lived in Canada for two years and made trips into the US. I’ve personally driven on multi-lane interstates in Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. I’ve been a passenger in cars or buses on interstates in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Illinois, and North Carolina.
And in all those miles, a two-hour stretch in Arkansas was the only place i ever saw American drivers stick to the right except to pass. It was so unusual that i actually commented on it to my road-trip companion at the time.
People in the UK and Europe know how to drive on multi-lane freeways. Some Americans talk the talk, but i’ve virtually never seen it put into practice.
People riding bikes the wrong way on the street. I’m really scared that one day I’m going to kill one because he’s riding the wrong way (that I don’t look before turning right) while wearing black at night with no lights and no helmet. Oh, and headphones. I’ve seen it, folks.
I once saw a kid come about 1 second from being killed because he appeared out of nowhere going the wrong way through an intersection. He had the stupidity of youth to not even be scared after the car laid rubber for about 30 yards and fishtailed to not hit him or another car.
No. But it does generally mean you are driving slower than most traffic. When people are driving along and come upon you driving slower than most traffic in the left lane, they tend to brake. Reacting to brake lights in front of them, the people in the car behind them brake. Pretty soon, if there’s any amount of traffic on the road at all, you have stop-and-go traffic.
If you’re in the far right lane, going below the speed limit, people kind of accept that, and someone in the chain will move out to the left and pass you.
Above all, unless you are a highway patrolperson, state trooper, or whatever, it is not your job to prevent others from speeding. Just let them pass you. The only people driving below the speed limit that I have a problem with are the ones who don’t get over into the right lane to do it, and the ones who try to keep me from passing them.
If I’m already going the speed limit in the left lane, then you have no right to expect me to exceed that speed limit. This may come as a shock to you but you do not have a right to go over the speed limit, PERIOD. That includes the left lane. No one in the passing lane has any obligation to go faster than the speed limit. The sense of entitlement that people seem to feel about exceeding speed limits amazes me. What right do you have to demand that other people break the law?
When I lived in New Jersey, I actually saw a state trooper pull over a clown who was doing this. There is some justice.
My candidates are the people who rush past a line of cars waiting to enter a freeway ramp from a road, and push in ahead of anyone not tailgating. For the third offense I’m for hanging these clowns from a lightpost as a warning.
I’d also hang out at intersections looking for red light runners.