Legislation would help speeders catch themselves

[The Straight Story]

Legislation would help speeders catch themselves

From an editorial published in the Fayetteville Observer on March 4:

State Rep. Rick Glazier of Fayetteville has introduced a bill, HB 145, to interfere with the national pastime.

No, not baseball. Speeding.

Glazier's bill would use cameras and sensors ("electronic speed-measuring systems," in the jargon) to catch speeders in the act, cite them and make them pay - almost before they knew what hit them.



Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/07/2117991/legislation-would-help-speeders.html##ixzz1G0vdXzb8

[GKirk]

1. We should be able to

balance the budget with that. Everytime we go over the speed limit 50 bucks gets deducted from our checking accounts. I should be able to pay off a good chunk of our debt all by myself.

[Turbineguy]

2. Great idea!

This country needs more people with more "convictions" in their dossier.


Apparently.

[katnapped]

3. And make sure that it

Hits their credit reports too!

:sarcasm:

[Turbineguy]

4. That goes without saying.

Maybe we can determine a score below which they automatically go to prison (privately run of course) until their score improves.

[MindPilot]

5. Let's just make being alive a misdemeanor.

Then everyone gets t go to jail for whatever violation they have or will commit.

Think you can get out of it by simply dying? That's a felony.