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Re: Solve speeding by limiting cars! NOT!



lily1@ix.netcom.com (WARNING--Contents Protected With Permanent 
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>Montana has effectively had no limit even while the NMSL was in effect.
>When you get stopped in MT you get a ticket for wasting fuel or
>something.  There's not really a whole lot to run into if you crash on
>the Interstates in MT, so who cares if some dumbshit crashes and kills
>himself because he exceeded the limits of his skill and his vehicle?  

Isn't that the truth.  They have a $5 daytime speeding ticket, 
which does not go on your record, and it is illegal for 
insurance companies to jack up your rates if (when) you get 
one.  The MHP publicly announces that they give 10 over before 
they'll even look at you.  They have better things to do with 
their time.

I used to live out there, and got about 8 of the $5 tickets.  
As often as not however, I'd be tooling down a road at 75 and 
have a cop come up in the other lane.  They usually left me 
alone, in some cases not even bothering to flip on the lights.

MT's $5 speeding ticket is a great anti-radar detector law.  
For the price of even the cheapest detector, you'll have to get 
a lot of tickets to cover it's cost.  8 tix * $5 = $40.  
Nowhere can you get a detector for that little, and as a result 
I never had or needed a detector in Montana.  That changed when 
I moved to NY then WI.


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Bob Morrow N7PTM
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