polar3

Just saw a cayman on a tow bed with a cop at Gardiner/Islington. Probably got busted over 150km. Seems to be a hot spot as I saw a mercedes C63 in the same situation a month ago. Hopefully the cayman tonight isn't anyone on this forum.

Zookie

mmmmm situation sounds fimilair... time for them to make some donut money...

b5audia4

I saw the Cayman pulled over too. It was dark and I was going eastbound, but you can never miss a Porsche.

theiceman

not many guys on here with Caymen .. i think maybe one

atr911

Ottawa area just announced a blitz on speeding.

I was 'accused' of speeding by an airplane on the 401. I initially thought it was a joke but alas 'tis true.... they have airplanes!

Targatoo

Nahh! Really? Airplanes?

I thought that was a tactic they tried once in the 80s. It's like the ADT alarm system I don't have in my house, but still have all the signs...

amaist

They do keep painting the markers for airplane speed spotters.

If you see a perpendicular stripe every 200 meters by the shoulder you can be clocked by an airplane.

It's a guy with a stopwatch nothing more than that.

If you don't see those stripes they can't measure your speed from an airplane unless they use military grade tracking systems. Not enough speeders to pay for those.

Targatoo

Oh, I see plenty of stripes and marks for this purpose, but I can't see why they would use airplanes. An officer is still needed on the ground in order to issue the ticket so the airplane just decreases the net revenues taken in.

...and revenue is the entire purpose of speed enforcement.

atr911

All I know is that some guy on a motorcycle pulled me over as he was getting onto the highway and told me that an airplane clocked me at 141 and the he couldn't even reduce the fine because he wasn't the charging officer, just the issuing officer. GRRRRRRR

amaist

The airplane enforcement thing is a spendy option and doesn't pay for itself even with the cheap stopwatch method.

I don't see the tickets themselves as a great source of revenue. Running a police cruiser and paying full officer salary is not cheap and he/she can't be writing tickets constantly.

Toys like airplanes are used to justify budgets in the name of "safety".

I notice that among many police officers and many members of the public it's the speed itself that is viewed as a vice. It's not necessarily unsafe driving but speed. If someone somewhere is having fun those types of people can't rest. It's like sex, drugs, and alcohol. Yes, all of them can be done in a way that is dangerous to the participant and others around. Just like driving faster. So they are treated like evil things by many.

carguy88

I saw that Cayman also and was wondering if anyone knows it..not sure if it was speeding or mechanical issue.

IXLR8

If speed was the case, how would this thread read if a RLer was hit, seriously hurt or worse yet, killed by an idiot speeding?

Wanna go fast? Hit the track and find out how slow you really are.

amaist

How many innocent people get hurt by someone going faster on the 401 when the conditions are favorable (no traffic, good weather, etc.)?

Blind blaming of speed for all safety problem is treating it like drugs or alcohol.

Going 150 by a playground is dangerous. Going 150 on the 401 by Cornwall is much safer than going 110 on the 401 by Yonge.

IXLR8

True, but that wasn't the point of my post.

amaist

What was your point then?

We don't know what were the exact circumstances it this case. Maybe the person being towed was a total duchebag. Maybe not.

The 50 km/h over limit towing law is plain stupid. On many levels.