Taking a Gamble on the Road

on Monday, September 11, 2006

I am so pissed off!!!!!

Got caught speeding on my way back from the skin clinic - I was going 92kph on a 80kph freeway. What pisses me off isn't the fact that I got caught. What pisses me off is the fact that I was driving in the middle lane and there were heaps of cars going faster (easily 120kph) on the right lane yet THEY didn't get caught!

The stoopid cop explained that detection is done by a radar gun, which transmits signals at fixed intervals. If however a car passes the radar gun between intervals, the driver goes undetected. Basically, what this means is, we have a system that is based on pure luck - if you're lucky, you don't get caught; if you're not so lucky, you get caught. How utterly dumb!?! Worse still, logic dictates that the faster you drive, the lower the chances of getting caught. So from now on, I'm just going to drive either very slow or very fast. ... And this is a system that, according to the same cop, costs RM1 million.

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