Guy Speeds, Pays Fine in Pennies

[iacas]

What a dick.

[Groucho Valentine]

Ikr? At least he could have taken the paper wrappers out of the buckets. 

[saevel25]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/us/traffic-ticket-paid-with-buckets-of-pennies-trnd/

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The Friso, Texas, man was incredulous the city police cited him for going nine miles over the speed limit. And he was livid that a jury decided he deserved the ticket.

9 over in the city limits is going pretty fast. I tend to keep it 5 over in any city limit and I only get close to 9 over on the freeway. 

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"I was on my residential street when I got a ticket for going nine miles over the speed limit," he told CNN. "I thought it was unfair. I did not injure anyone, and I did not endanger anyone."

Here are some values, 

Stopping sight distance, the distance required to stop a vehicle once you have perceived an event, for the following speeds. 

25 MPH: 155 feet
35 MPH: 246 feet

He would require nearly an extra 100 feet to stop his vehicle in case of an event happening. 

At 25 MPH the percentage a pedestrian will die from being struck by a car is in the 25% range. At 35 MPH that jumps to about 65%. 

I find it hilarious that the city called him to say he overpaid by $7.81 

 

 

[Jeremie Boop]

I'm sorry, "extortion money" "policing for profit"? Because he got fined for speeding? Seriously, this guy's a jackass... 9 mph over, in a residential area where kids could at any time chase a ball into the street, and he thinks he didn't endanger anyone...

[iacas]

He did endanger people. Just because he didn't KILL or HURT anyone doesn't mean he didn't endanger them.

A woman was speeding by about the same 9 MPH in a neighborhood not far from where I lived as a kid. A younger brother of a classmate ran out between cars and was struck, and died, from the impact.

[GolfLug]

Nice. Similar to how my 7-year old retaliates when put in time out for being unruly. His favorite protest line - 'But nothing happened!!'.

The notes on the buckets similar to his 'you are the worst dad in the world'.. etc.   

[colin007]

i couldnt finish watching it. he is a total dick. and i didnt think i would have an issue with what he did when i first started the vid, and then i did a complete 180. that guy is trash.

[newtogolf]

Just another idiot who has jumped on the current trend to protest against law enforcement.  

The jerk wants people to rally behind him despite his breaking the law and placing peoples lives at risk.  He must have way too much free time on his hands if he could go through the effort of getting all the pennies, unwrapping them, spray painting buckets, and putting together a video.  

I doubt they accepted the payment so eventually there will be a warrant issued for not paying the ticket.  

[Jeremie Boop]

9 minutes ago, newtogolf said:

Just another idiot who has jumped on the current trend to protest against law enforcement.  

The jerk wants people to rally behind him despite his breaking the law and placing peoples lives at risk.  He must have way too much free time on his hands if he could go through the effort of getting all the pennies, unwrapping them, spray painting buckets, and putting together a video.  

I doubt they accepted the payment so eventually there will be a warrant issued for not paying the ticket.  

No, they accepted it and called him to get his change for overpayment, rofl. The guy's voice on the message was dripping with "kill them with kindness" tone.

[4GSwag]

46 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

Nice. Similar to how my 7-year old retaliates when put in time out for being unruly. His favorite protest line - 'But nothing happened!!'.

The notes on the buckets similar to his 'you are the worst dad in the world'.. etc.   

That's a simple and easy fix.  First, time out is obviously not working, so the next time your child protests the punishment for whatever, corporal punishment is in order.  A quick belt on the buttocks usually prevents future occurrences of smart aleck children from continuing the trend much longer.

Which leads me back to the dude in the video.  Let's think this thing through.  You are speeding, because your time is evidently very valuable to you.  So as a protest, you spend how much time concocting this insane ritual of painting buckets and abusing pennies just to make a point in front of a $10 an hour clerk who had nothing to do whatsoever with your traffic violation?  That's like going into McDonalds and pissing on the floor, because you didn't like the taste of your burger at Wendys.