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Dog-faced pony soldier
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: A Rock Surrounded by a Whole lot of Water
Posts: 34,187
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That's okay - see, they'll all have false addresses anyway so they won't end up having to pay the fines, since the fines will never make it to them. What's the government going to do? Fail to renew the registrations they don't bother to get either? Of course, this will only mean those oh-so-poor-off, cash-strapped government agencies will have to jack up the fines/taxes on everyone else to cover their costs - of paying for/supporting more social programs for those illegals who are exempt from the fines in the first place.
Lovely society this is coming to, isn't it?
And Wayne nailed it - if you slow to a crawl, check both ways twice before proceeding, what's the problem?
This is (yet another) example of having to dumb-down laws to cater to the lowest common denominator. In this case, the one idiot out of 100,000 that can't "get" the intent that a "STOP" sign means, "this is a potentially dangerous intersection - look both ways before proceeding, stupid".
And frankly if a uniformed officer wants to cite me because I rolled through a stop at 2mph or whatever, fine. I have all the problem in the world with some for-profit corporation (with every incentive in the world to falsify or "tweak" data to pad their profits) being given the authority to do it for them.
What ever happened to police officers simply doing their jobs? We want to pass all these rules/restrictions on society, then pay the price (including officers' salaries) to support the enforcement of them. Seems simple enough a concept.
Once again, it's all about the money. Any safety benefit is incidental and unintended.
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