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California speeder claims ignorance of metric s

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California speeder claims ignorance of metric system


Law & Order | 207846 hits | Apr 29 6:23 am | Posted by: kitty
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Another speeder has felt the wrath of Essex OPP -- and this time the driver is Californian. OPP said the U.S. woman's Mercedes Benz was clocked at a speed of 140 km/h heading west on Highway 401 just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

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  1. by avatar hurley_108
    Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:32 pm
    I have a small amount of sympathy for her. When we vacationed in Hawaii, the Grand Prix we rented had an interesting system. The speedometer only had one scale, but the needle would indicate mph or km/h on that same scale, depending on if the computer was in metric or imperial. Of course the car came to us in imperial, but my wife and I both like to poke around at things and found the conversion in the computer, and switched it over so we could get temperatures in celsius. We didn't notice this flip the speedometer, which, as it was analog, we assumed was locked to mph. So we're going down the road at 30 km/h instead of 30 mph, piling up traffic behind us, and feeling like we were going ver slow, but we were doing the limit. I think the Aloha spirit stopped anyone from honking at us. We figured it out soon enough, though, and just had to get used to fahrenheit.

  2. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:40 pm
    If those who refuel aircraft screw this up, why is it hard to believe someone who doesn't use the system at all would be confused? Trying explaining imperial measurements to someone who only knows metric.

  3. by avatar Blue_Nose
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:46 pm
    Ignorantia juris non excusat.

  4. by avatar Brenda
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:49 pm
    Que?

  5. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:50 pm
    ignorance of the law is no excuse

  6. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:50 pm
    nec scire fas est omnia

  7. by avatar hurley_108
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:51 pm
    My guess is it means something like ignorance of the law is no excuse. I would agree, I just have sympathy for the lady as I've been in a similar situation.

  8. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:55 pm
    "Brenda" said
    Que?


    jeez...did you take tulips 101, windmills 105 and whittling your own shoes instead?


    Oh, I got it. Being dutch you chose Plugging a Dyke 201. But which dyke did you choose? Greta or one of the ones near Madurodam?

  9. by avatar hurley_108
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:05 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Que?


    jeez...did you take tulips 101, windmills 105 and whittling your own shoes instead?


    Oh, I got it. Being dutch you chose Plugging a Dyke 201. But which dyke did you choose? Greta or one of the ones near Madurodam?

    What the hell? All Brenda did was ask a simple question. No reason to unload on her like that. Lighten up...

  10. by avatar dino_bobba_renno
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:06 pm
    "hurley_108" said
    My guess is it means something like ignorance of the law is no excuse. I would agree, I just have sympathy for the lady as I've been in a similar situation.


    I can have some sympathy to a point but when your wizzing down the highway in the dark and your passing every other car on that highway wouldn�t you kind of think to yourself �gee maybe I�m going a little too fast?�

  11. by avatar Brenda
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:06 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Que?


    jeez...did you take tulips 101, windmills 105 and whittling your own shoes instead?


    Oh, I got it. Being dutch you chose Plugging a Dyke 201. But which dyke did you choose? Greta or one of the ones near Madurodam?

    I am sorry Shep, my Latin is kinda rusty :roll:

  12. by avatar hurley_108
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:12 pm
    "dino_bobba_renno" said
    My guess is it means something like ignorance of the law is no excuse. I would agree, I just have sympathy for the lady as I've been in a similar situation.


    I can have some sympathy to a point but when your wizzing down the highway in the dark and your passing every other car on that highway wouldn�t you kind of think to yourself �gee maybe I�m going a little too fast?�

    Yea, but you trust your technology. She was doing 140km/h, which translates to 87.5 mph. This was on Highway 401. I don't know what the limit is there, but I suspect it's 100 or 110. If so, and if she's being honest about not knowing about metric, then she WAS restraining herself, as far as she knew, doing more than 10 under the limit as she understood it.

    As an aside, 140 on the QEII here in Alberta would get you honked at for holing up traffic...

  13. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:13 pm
    "hurley_108" said
    Que?


    jeez...did you take tulips 101, windmills 105 and whittling your own shoes instead?


    Oh, I got it. Being dutch you chose Plugging a Dyke 201. But which dyke did you choose? Greta or one of the ones near Madurodam?

    What the hell? All Brenda did was ask a simple question. No reason to unload on her like that. Lighten up...

    Go blow yourself, it was a joke.

  14. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:15 pm
    "Brenda" said
    Que?


    jeez...did you take tulips 101, windmills 105 and whittling your own shoes instead?


    Oh, I got it. Being dutch you chose Plugging a Dyke 201. But which dyke did you choose? Greta or one of the ones near Madurodam?

    I am sorry Shep, my Latin is kinda rusty :roll:

    I sure as hell hope your Greek and Hebrew is better. Damn public schools and their liberal education.



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