It appears that the Editor will be throwing some more people off the blog as evidenced by your language.

flippin' sunny beach there's nothing wrong with a few four, five or six+ letter words now and then. So go fluff yourself.

(sorry about the language Cal, I lost my head for a minute. Can I say "head" on this blog?)

"Your, yore, you're all idiots." (T.Floyd)

Is this your first time posting?
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Are you really that big of a whining pansy?

It's funny ain't it, it's, like, ya know, what part of 35 don't ya understand.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Every day I am pushed to work when I try to maintain the speed limit...I look in my rear view mirror, and all I see is the the front grill of one of those big SUV's trying to force me to speed. The driver is waving their hands at me! But, I will not be intimidated and get a ticket. Slow down folks and the officers can take on the criminals in our county rather than writing tickets!

Move over to the right and let those SUV's go by.

all I see is the the front grill of one of those big SUV's trying to force me to speed.

Let me guess.... it's that bad ole banker and that bad ole George Bush that made you buy that home you couldn't afford and now struggle to make payments on.

But, I will not be intimidated and get a ticket.

One minute he's a speeder and and the next he's whining about speeders

Slow down folks and the officers can take on the criminals in our county rather than writing tickets!

Yeah... slow down. Then our crime stats will improve. (eyes rolling) And pissing away billions of dollars on social programs is going to revamp this country too...... Sheesh.

that I am NOT Silverbullet.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

Wouldn't have thought that one in a million years. Hey... whatcha think of about all that money that is being pissed away through that Government Swelling.. I mean Government Stimulus Package? Have we entered into the Twilight Zone?

It is making me sick to even consider the state that our currency is in right now. I don't believe that there is any going back, but I sure would like to see a currency that is based on commodities, and actually worth something.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

and ruefully shake my head everytime these idiots start whining about a speeding ticket. They really can't be that stupid, can they?

"Your, yore, you're all idiots." (T.Floyd)

Examples of speed traps include their usage in the town of Big Cabin, Oklahoma, which raised three-fourths of its revenue from traffic citations, and a significant percentage of that was related to a section of highway where the speed limit dropped from 65 mph to 45 mph. The state of Oklahoma enacted a law in 2004 that penalizes towns where the citation revenue exceeds 50% of the annual budget.[3]

Limiting speed traps
In response to speed trap towns such as Iowa Colony, Texas, the Texas Legislature limited the revenue that smaller cities may collect from traffic tickets. All funds in excess of this amount are remitted to the state. However, this has failed to stop many speed trap towns such as Wells, Texas on U.S. Highway 69. Oregon and other states have similar laws. Another tactic to discourage speed traps is to limit traffic law enforcement on numbered highways to state police or a similar entity. Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officers are not allowed to enforce speed limits with RADAR speed detection devices, but instead must use devices such as VASCAR and ESP. In these techniques, officers record the time that it takes for a vehicle to traverse the distance between two markings (often two white lines).

In Arizona, the use of speed traps has been limited by state laws that limit the amount a posted speed may change in a given distance.[citation needed]

other places try to do something about them. We pay enough taxes. This is unfair and will take a lawsuit or 2 to stop it here. The people with the lawsuits are going to collect big bucks cause this is out of control, especially in Tyrone.

A great big steaming pile of bull manure you're excreting here. First this isn't a speed trap, you come down Jeff Davis the speed limit is 35 mph, you cross 54 and before the construction is sped up to 45, now it stays 35, no big drops, and like I said the cops have to give you 10 mph so these people are doing more then 45 in a 35 zone, if you can't do the speed limit you can't cry when you get a ticket, I just wish I could get them to run radar in my subdivision, I live 7 houses down the road and people are doing 50 or more when they pass my house in a 25 mph zone, where the kids are walking or playing and somehow I feel you would be one of those speeders since you seem to think the limits are just suggestions.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

It is my understanding that we do not make statments pertaining to your first sentence, and you are not to make personal attacks. Say what you wish but avoid attacking the writer. I will contact the Editor regarding this.

That's OK bullet, we all have misunderstandings sometimes. What do you mean by "WE", you got a mouse in your pocket? When I make a personal attack on you, believe me, you'll know it.BTW, what's a statment? Say hello to Uncle Cal for me.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

And while you're at it..... report me too. Here...let me give you a little ammo here.

SilverBullet: You are a limp wristed, whining, bedwetting pansy that needs to stop wearing his mother's panties.

Now go pay your ticket and stop being a cry baby.

I think you have really damaged poor Bullet's psyche. Here we have a tenderhearted soul just trying to make it with all those big bad SUVs descending on him and all he is asking is for a little understanding. All you big bad boys are being mean to lil ole Silverbullet and he may feel so bad about it that he will never post again--or, horrors of horrors, he may report you to THE EDITOR. Is that sorta kinda like telling the teacher on you? Better be good or you will be put in detention.

and I am still laughing. Silverbullet, this is a tough league.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

I'm still laughing too....I suppose I am honored that the "tough league" took such an interest in my speed trap blog. I am just shaking in my boots that I even had the nerve to blog. We all know (me and my mouse in my pocket) that (you people) meaning a small group of men or women that reply with negative remarks no matter what the subject....me and my mouse are perfectly happy that we have a life, and don't have to live for this blog. I'm sure (you people) are perfectly harmless. LOL P.S. And, for those that really don't have a life, and have become human check spellers...thank you! Really LOL now!

You and suggarfoot were the only ones being negative on this thread, I said before and I'll say again, it wasn't a speed trap, isn't a speed trap, whatever. The speed limits are there for a reason, it's obvious that left on our own, we would all be going 80 mph through there. If disagreeing with you makes it a negative response, so be it. BTW, if you law abidding, positive people, with a life, get naped at the provillion for speeding does that make it ok?

P.S. I'm curious, what did Uncle Cal say?

I yam what I yam....Popeye

to entertain. LOL!

HONK IF YOU ARE PAYING MY MORTGAGE

It is a gift that I really appreciate.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

silverbullet, was it the reference to "steaming" that got to you? It really isn't steam you know, just condensation in motion.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

It is not my intention to approve excessive speeding but you know as well as I do that 35MPH would tie up traffic at going home time fiercely.

Now if 45 is acceptable, why not 55?

Do you drive for miles at 35? I doubt it.

Another speed trap is from the intersection of GA 85 and 54 towards Peachtree City all the way to the Clinic.

There is no reason for that situation there, otherwise.

They could make just as much fine money whacking these people who switch lanes rapidly and carelessly over and over for fun only.
That is harder work for a traffic cop but more dangerous for the citizens.

45MPH these days with a straight driving car ( no lane switching repeatedly) and lane signalling is just as safe.
Must not be any laws either for horrible mufflers, pulp wood trucks, motorcycles speeding, and pickup trucks with loose crap flying everywhere!

The 35 section is only at most a couple of miles and that's only because of construction like I said before. I've driven from Fayetteville to PTC on 54 thousands of times and hardly ever see a cop and never had a ticket there, I don't know what you base that on.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Maybe Nitpickers knows more than you do!
There is no road construction om 54 West from the courthouse!

I know several people with tickets in this area. The cops sit at the ends of the streets coming into 54.

Now that there is a light for the Tiger Trail, there is no need for 35 to that point even!

All things point to a money maker!
Better for the cops to patrol other places.

You do know that the cops dont set the speed limits right?

They have nothing to do with it. GDOT sets the limits according to state laws and population. If a city wants to change a limit they have to request it through DOT.

I was coming out of Fayette on 54 and saw 3 different people pulled over, blue lights going, and tickets being written. It was around 5pm, just when people are trying to get home. It was ridiculous. We pay enough taxes here. There is no need of this.

I may have told this before, but my teenager was in the car with another. They weren't doing anything, a cruiser pulled in behind them. They turned left, it turned left, right, then it turned right. They stopped at a service station to go to the bathroom and the policeman not only stops as well, but comes into the bathroom with them. That is harassment, but it is kids words against the police, and the judges always side with the police to make money. They are making it to where the kids don't feel protected by the police, they don't trust them. That is the wrong message to send.

That we shouldn't have speed limits and people can go as fast as they want, or, there should be no enforcement of speed limits. Still a great big pile of steaming you know what, you know?

I yam what I yam....Popeye

As we all know $nit has his head up the same butt as you. Nobody said there was construction on 54, the subject was construction on Jimmy Mayfield and 92. Tell you what, next time I see the Mayor I'll bring up your recommendations.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Is that a sobbing chicken?

naww, its a blubbering Duck.

My topic head line was supposed to say "What is a Speed Trap" too, but my fingers got in the way of my brain.

I just caught that myself after reading it before.

good one! thanks for the chuckle

Tee hee....Sugarfoot gotcha on that spellun thang.

About 10 or 15 years ago I was constantly getting nailed in Riverdale and Forest Park for speeding and yellow lights. Heck...I guess I too could have whined about it but you know what? I discovered that if you slowed her down a bit and really watched when those yellow lights turned yellow you could beat those coppers at their own game. They ain't got ole Git in very long time. Now there you have it. Git's secret to fighting tickets.

(Now...why do I have this feeling that I have just jinxed myself?)

Look at the original blog, next to last line, I was just quoting.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

No wonder you never get caught.

Just don't ask me when Eisenhower died.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

That isn't true!!!! I got my 1st traffic ticket in over 8 years right here in Tyrone! I stopped, the officer said I didn't . I got to court and this same officer, had ticketed the lions share in court! We have in excess of 20 policeman in Tyrone. (Only a few that do the dirty). When I objected n went to court the 2nd time on the same ticket. It seems ...all...were there with this same policeWOMAN..all over the same things and all middle aged woman. We all were found guilty. There is no money in finding us otherwise.
I feel...It is a money making racket and everyone from the policewoman to the judge ...to the victims....knows it.

If you are innocent. ask for a jury trial and get a lawyer.

It will never go to trial!

Maybe Ellicott should follow your advice Dollar and go to trial. Whoops--- looks like he is gonna get three hots, a cot and a wood shampoo.

I represented myself, so did everyone else, against the same roly poly officer...we all thought we would prevail...there is no money in letting the public win...lawyers cost more than these tickets cost. That is how they get you. We have a corrupt deal going on\.

these are speeding tickets, since the local cops have to give 10 miles an hour, it shows just how fast they were going.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

speeding tickets. I am talking about the same thing, just stop signs, the object is dishonesty and money.

I said this to bonkers the other day... you need to stop watching TV, only in Hollywood is there a conspiracy on everything.

In court the burden of proof is on the cop, a cops testimony IS evidence (the same as a video or a finger print at a crime scene). when a cop tells a judge I saw them (add your infraction here) they are submitting evidence to the judge that you did wrong. If your argument is, "I didn't do it" the judge is going to take the officers word over yours. its not a money making scheme its how the Court system is.

Under your rules then there is absolutely no need to hold court.

Let the officer just take whatever fine he can get from you, just like they used to do years ago to Florida bound people, and save the court costs!

Again, you missed what was said and jumped right to your everyone's a liar conspiracy crap.

On behalf of others, I think you are the one who assumes that everyone who goes to court about a ticket is a liar, the officer is not ever mistaken.

Where do you gert this conspiracy stuff?

What did you say if not the officer is always right?

You're saying the cops giving the speeding tickets are dishonest for doing so?

I yam what I yam....Popeye

I drive below the speed limit.
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I agree Cy. I will take heed myself.

But hey!... Like you Cy I drive up 85 daily. And yes.. the Fayette Police, Fayco Sheriff's Deputies and the Riverdale Police each set up so called speed traps on a regular basis. It's no big deal to me. It slows this ole boy day. Imagine the traffic through there without a police presence. Holy cow... there would be nothing slowing those Merriwether NASCAR Rednecks down.

Yeah...you'll find ole Git watching his speed while going through Tyrone. I sure don't feel like subsidizing that part of Fulton County financially.

"Subsidizing that part of Fulton County financially"----- I totally agree Git. When you roll down 74, Tyrone and Fairburn are seamless and indistinguishable. When PTC tossed out Barry Amos and Jim Williams one went to Tyrone and other went to Fairburn. Both became sewer hungry, high density, speed trapping fools. What a mess.

Watch those NASCAR comments.

Wait until Fairburn gets going on that 165-acre shopping center up on 74 north, the one billed as one of the largest shopping centers in GA. And just last week a Fayette County planner was at the Tyrone council meeting to get Tyrone’s collaboration in moving forward with a proposed 480-acre (!) development up near Wendell Coffee’s. I don’t know how Atlanta-bound commuters are going to get out in the morning.

Tyrone is bankrupt, and has already squandered all of it redevelopement grants, as well as run off several established bussinesses in the process of restricting their bussiness activities. No knowledgeable corporations are going to relocate to the town of TYRONES. As far as Fairburn and Fayette Countys part in this developement, they talk as if they already own the property in question, while they do not, and even if they used condemnation procedings, with the economy the way it is now it would be 20 years before they could ascertain the funds required by law to compensate the land holders in question, and we are not going to go quietly or cheaply by any means, so do not panic, thanks to the depression we are in now you are good to go for the next 20 years, since it will take at least this long to get back to the way things were. Besides that Coweta county has already started developing Collinsworth Road exit and has recently extended water and sewer there as well and is planning to extend the Coweta North industrial corridor up from hwy 154. Can you say beat ya to it Fayette County, and Fulton County is on the way out, anyway..... PEACE...