May Day target - Kyleigh's Law. by Fremdfirma

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May Day target - Kyleigh's Law.

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Saturday, May 1, 2010 23:46
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Saturday, May 1, 2010 6:06 AM

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But as the controversial rule takes effect today, 10 members of the lower house - including six who voted yes - are working to rescind it.

Oops.

That's what you get when you write legislation on a knee-jerk without thinkin about the consequences.

National youth rights group urges NJ drivers to sabotage 'Kyleigh's Law'
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100428/UPDATES01/100428055/Nation
al-youth-rights-group-urges-NJ-drivers-to-sabotage-Kyleigh-s-Law

Move seeks to rescind decal rule for new drivers
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100430_NJ_teens__lawmaker
s_hope_to_dump_driver_decal_law.html

Guilty till proven innocent is not the american way.
Collective punishment is always a tyrannical act.
http://www.youthrights.org/

-Frem

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Saturday, May 1, 2010 6:30 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

So as long as you are violating the law, or driving illegally, or being an illegal driver, it's like being an illegal alien - not caught, no harm, and try to prevent the cops from enforcing the laws?

Now I hope nobody holds it against me if I agree with Frem, but because the laws now allows such nonsense as seatbelt compliance as a primary offense, this law just provides another avenue of police abuse, so I'd have to agree it is bad.

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Saturday, May 1, 2010 7:20 PM

BYTEMITE

I also agree with Frem, though, I have to admit... I probably ought to be required to put a decal in my window for a different reason.

I've often considered whenever I *DO* have to drive, putting a sign up that says "Sorry! Didn't mean to! I'm a REALLY bad driver!"

It doesn't help that driving scares the hell out of me. I try to avoid it wherever possible, but with my work, well, it's required. I take backroads because I'm less likely to see other cars and I tend to be overly cautious and I drive really slow, so pedestrians are fairly safe. I just get really tense when there are other cars around.

But that just illustrates the point. Here I am, the worst driver in existence, but it's KIDS, who often are eager to learn and in modern day can practice pretty well with video games, and normal-adjusted, who get all the suspicion? Yeah, that's discriminatory.

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Saturday, May 1, 2010 9:25 PM

TRAVELER

BYTEMITE:

You are not alone. I am a bad driver too.

As stated, this is a knee jerk reaction and this law will probably be removed. It almost appears to be more about creating another tax then creating safer streets.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:08 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Well, my reaction to it was along the lines of - "Gee, should we make them wear a colored star, too, cause that's been done before..."

Which is prolly an overreaction, but given how society likes to blame the one group of people without any legal right to fight back, over and over for the damndest things, it annoyed me.

Most young folk are utterly terrified of dinging up the family car, and the shitfest that would follow when the insurance company decided to be dicks about it cause how dare you actually expect coverage, despite payin for it, grrr.

Not to mention they'll automatically be at fault just because of their age, with zero chance of protesting in court even if they get rammed from behind at a stoplight by some cracked out maniac in a mustang suffering from a bad midlife crisis - he's an adult, thus a human being, with legal rights, and they're just an unperson...

Shit, if anything young drivers are overcautious to the point of paranoia, not that it ain't justified - the ones that worry *ME* are the elderly folk too proud to admit their eyesight and reflexes ain't up to the task no more, but they get by with it cause they're a dependable voting bloc no politician wants to provoke by bringing up that little problem.

As for my driving, well shit folks, appalacian hills ancestry, michigan residency, and a long family history of runnin shine ?
I could drive the damn thing in my sleep, I wanted to - but I do tend towards caution, although sometimes that caution means putting a developing "situation" like a pair of escalating road-ragers, in the safest place for em - my rearview mirror, and because of my security training, my first reflex when things get wonky is the gas, not the brakes - get AWAY from the situation, yanno ?
(If you're transporting the principal and something goes wrong, the LAST thing you wanna do is stop and give potentive hostiles an easy target)

Another of my pet peeves is why I do not, and will not ever, possess a handicapped tag/sticker, a small part of that is stupid pride, but I do manage well enough and other folk need those spaces more, but the main part of it is that everyone I have ever seen with one drives like an asshole! - therefore I refuse to demean myself by slapping one on MY car, hell no.

This friday I got caught out on a long stretch of road behind someone bearing one of them plates with what appeared to be a palsy of some kind, who was not only doing 22mph under the speed limit, but weaving dangerously back and forth in (and just BARELY in) their lane - and folks behind me hammering on the horn, as if *I* could do anything about it ?

I mean, no disrespect intended, but if you cannot safely operate the damn thing, you really shouldn't be trying to do so.

Anyhows, teen drivers are the least of my worries out there, when most of the real morons I've seen are older than me.

-Frem

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Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:46 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Taxation is the solution to all problems.

And police state death squads.

This what happens when only 1% of drivers fight traffic tickets.

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