Garbage truck nabbed under street racing law near Goderich, Ont.

[duck]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080424/koddities/oddity_street_racing&printer=1

 

[quadzilla]

I wonder if he was trashed?

[dr_spock]

It's 5pm and our garbage truck hasn't shown up yet.  The garbage is still on the curb.

[tpl]

Well they should park the garbage truck outside the court in the sun for the 7 days.

[marineboy]

Now the Ontario government will perceive garbage truck racing as a growing problem...I sense a new law on the books.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

A provincial police officer pulled over a fast-moving vehicle on Wednesday just east of Goderich near Lake Huron. It was a garbage truck and it was caught on radar doing 112 km/hr in a 60-kilometre zone.

52km/hr over the limit? Pretty much asking for some kind of retribution.

[Titanium48]

Well they should park the garbage truck outside the court in the sun for the 7 days.

I'd suggest the police station where the officer is based.  The driver may deserve the fine and suspension, but impounding a garbage truck is a completely boneheaded idea.  Why should the citizens of whatever municipality owns the truck be punished for an employees bad driving?  Another example of why we should have zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies.

[articsteve]

A provincial police officer pulled over a fast-moving vehicle on Wednesday just east of Goderich near Lake Huron. It was a garbage truck and it was caught on radar doing 112 km/hr in a 60-kilometre zone.

52km/hr over the limit? Pretty much asking for some kind of retribution.

Not really.  What happens in that area is you've got wide open 2 lane highways were the speed limit is 90 kph.  Then you enter an old hamlet with maybe 3 structures that is all but abandoned.  Now the 60 sign and limit will be retardedly in advance of the actual place and the cops, because of this new law, will target vehicles just as they cross the line and so 112 in what a few feet earlier was a 90 is not so terrible.

It's one of the worst laws to happen in Ontario and are turning the cops into adversaries and tax collectors.  It's bad mojoe for the future when all OPP do is bust ppl for weed and speeding and can't solve real crimes or to be generous, don't have the "manpower".   

[jcon]

I'd suggest the police station where the officer is based.  The driver may deserve the fine and suspension, but impounding a garbage truck is a completely boneheaded idea.  Why should the citizens of whatever municipality owns the truck be punished for an employees bad driving?  Another example of why we should have zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies.

Your assuming it's a publicly owned dump truck. Couldn't it be a private owned one?

[Winklovic]

What has 6 wheels and flies?   

 

[barrie1]

Around Goderich the City owns their own Garbage Trucks and public service vehicles. To impound the truck is rather dumb indeed but the law is the law remember. It does sound like they were on the highway outside of town which you have to go off of to enter or bypass as thats the way its set up. The downtown is totally unique in Goderich as it has very weird History and shape. It is built like a Fort with all the streets running to a totally round circle in the downtown. The courthouse is in the middle in a very nice park area. When they were building the towns of Ont the Kings Representative got the plans mixed up with a different town, Tillsonburg I believe was the other one and they were both built to the others design. The one inland was built like a Seaport shape and the Town of Gonderich while right on the water was built like a Fortress instead. Really Neat Town to see and visit. I do at least 2 carshows a year there every year. 

[tenpenny]

I like the fact that any time there is a story posted here about someone nabbed under the so-called 'street racing' law, the usual gang comes out railing about how stupid the police must be.

Hey, here's an idea:  watch the speed limit signs, and drive accordingly.  There is no excuse for doing 112 in a 60 zone and then complaining because you got caught. 

And when you constantly whine that the cops are wrong, you sound like a 7 year old.

[quadzilla]

I like the fact that any time there is a story posted here about someone nabbed under the so-called 'street racing' law, the usual gang comes out railing about how stupid the police must be.

Hey, here's an idea:  watch the speed limit signs, and drive accordingly.  There is no excuse for doing 112 in a 60 zone and then complaining because you got caught.

And when you constantly whine that the cops are wrong, you sound like a 7 year old.

Are you saying that at EVERY town you come to you will have to slow down? When did that start happening. 

[Vmango]

Honestly, I think this might be an issue in the next election.

Whining or not - I might vote for a party I wouldn't normally just to have this law changed. It's much too strict and non-specific. I mean,  a garbage truct doing 50 over in a 60 is a much bigger problem than going 150 on the 401 at 2am.

I'm not even a notorious speeder - I have a clean record but for some reason I've always hated this law.

[Giant Dwarf]

Honestly, I think this might be an issue in the next election.

Whining or not - I might vote for a party I wouldn't normally just to have this law changed. It's much too strict and non-specific. I mean,  a garbage truct doing 50 over in a 60 is a much bigger problem than going 150 on the 401 at 2am.

I'm not even a notorious speeder - I have a clean record but for some reason I've always hated this law.

Amen to that... the problem isn't so much with the police or not wanting to pay the price for doing a crime -- it's (as I've 'whined' before), how the government went about making this an all-encompassing law for so many things, all apparently 'street racing'.  What's more, street racing per se isn't even nearly the problem the media (and government) have made it out to be.  SO many better ways to spend police time than this crap.

[The Mighty Duck]

^ We've had this talk before, and the media and certain forum's member's insistance on calling it a "street racing" law does not make it a street racing law.    I have my own concerns with the legislation, but when people complain about it being a "street racing law", it sounds kind of ignorant...

[tenpenny]

Honestly, I think this might be an issue in the next election.

Whining or not - I might vote for a party I wouldn't normally just to have this law changed. It's much too strict and non-specific. I mean,  a garbage truct doing 50 over in a 60 is a much bigger problem than going 150 on the 401 at 2am.

I'm not even a notorious speeder - I have a clean record but for some reason I've always hated this law.

Amen to that... the problem isn't so much with the police or not wanting to pay the price for doing a crime -- it's (as I've 'whined' before), how the government went about making this an all-encompassing law for so many things, all apparently 'street racing'.  What's more, street racing per se isn't even nearly the problem the media (and government) have made it out to be.  SO many better ways to spend police time than this crap.

Okay, so let's call it the 'driving waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast' law, or DWTF for short.  How does this law somehow make the police spend more or less time?  Do we all somehow think that this garbage truck would NOT have been issued a ticket for speeding without this particular law being on the books?

Anybody driving more than 50 over the limit should be held accountable - even including miserable old farts on their way to the doctor. 

Every single time anybody other than a young male in a Japanese car gets nailed in these circumstances, everyone whines about how unfair it is.  It's not unfair - all you have to do is drive less than 50 over the limit.  That aint hard to do.  If you CHOOSE to drive faster, you CHOOSE to accept the risk.  What's the hard part about that?  What part of that do people not understand?

[Vmango]

People understand the law - they just don't like it.

[wing]

I much rather the QC version which has different limits based on the type of road and limit of the road rather than an arbitrary #.

[Vmango]

I much rather the QC version which has different limits based on the type of road and limit of the road rather than an arbitrary #.

     That's all I'm saying