On 31 Dec 2004 20:20:35 -0800, "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend"
> wrote:

>>Dave Head Dec 26, 11:36 am
>
>>No, on a big road like that, I'd simply set my cruise speed (not
>necessarily
>>cruise controlled) for whatever the traffic was doing, plus a few mph
>more.
>>I-465 is not in Virginia. Get a ticket from ISP? I can pay it. Ditto
>>sheriff, etc. It wasn't the death sentence that they try to inflict in
>>Virginia.
>
>That proves my point about speeding penalties being too low. You admit
>that you just pay the fine and keep right on speeding. If you faced a
>week in the county jail for each mph over the limit, you wouldn't
>speed. And don't tell me the jails would be jammed then, because I
>guarantee very few would speed if penalties were severe.

Well, penalties are severe for dealing drugs - life in prison is some places
like Michigan if I remember right - and people still do it anyway.

DPH