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Feb. 28th, 2006 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvar"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution." -- Ulysses S. Grant
Watch what happens when people conspire to act legally -- in this case, to obey the 55mph speed limit on a major interstate highway in tandem, thus forcing everyone behind them to do the same.
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Watch what happens when people conspire to act legally -- in this case, to obey the 55mph speed limit on a major interstate highway in tandem, thus forcing everyone behind them to do the same.
Note: link opens an auto-playing video on Google Video. If your sound is on, you may wish to turn it down before you click.
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Date: 2006-03-01 06:32 pm (UTC)I have to completely disagree with this.
One, they are *in no way* showing how dumb the law is. I fail to see how this will force speed-limit or penalty changes.
Two, they are pissing folks off... increasing the liklihood of road-rage.
They might be all high and mighty about it, but they're just stroking their own egos with this 'experiment.'
It reminds me of when a convoy of truck drivers staged a protest last year in LA by stopping (or going very slowly... I forget) in the middle of the highway. They didn't get the money they were looking for, and apparently lost a whole lot business as well.
To note, I have no problem with folks driving the speed limit. And yes, it *is* the law. A law that is really only in place to 'keep things under control,' and not as a hard rule... unless of course the cops are in a particularly bad mood :)