February 12, 2008
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I’m a very happy man. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has started issuing tickets for driving at, or below, the speed limit in the passing lane.
All I can say is praise Jesus and it’s about f*#%ing time!
The OHP (that’s “trooper” to you) explained that emergency vehicles have been having a tough time getting down the highways in Oklahoma because of the dildos parking their cars at the speed limit in the passing lane. (Ok… they didn’t actually use the word “dildos” but it’s appropriate).
It’s really pretty simple. If you don’t want to ever exceed the speed limit, no one is forcing you too. Just please stay in the right lane so that those of us who are hell bent on dying in our vehicles at 100 mph can get around you.
One of the local TV stations interviewed the first few people who got tickets and as you can imagine, there was a huge outpouring of righteous indignation.
“I don’t understand! I got a ticket for driving the speed limit?!?!? This doesn’t make any sense! It’s my duty as a citizen to drive slowly in the passing lane to keep other drivers from speeding!”
I’m not making that comment up. The “interviewee” was an older gentleman in a land yacht (obviously) who was turning some very interesting shades of red. I hope he didn’t have a heart attack though, because the ambulance wouldn’t have been able to get to him because people just like him are driving too slowly in the passing lane!
If I could find a trooper I’d kiss them right on the mouth, and I’d do it at 90 mph.
Now, if they’ll just start giving tickets to people who stop at the end of expressway entrance ramps I’ll be an even happier man.
Comments (20)
My truckdrivers are going to LOVE to hear this!
I had no idea that road rage was something that occured outside of California! I suspect you could get ticketed for any trooper mouth kissing, so, dude, hold your horses.
that’s pretty stinkin’ amazing
i once saw 52 mph signs in okc – i swear i did – on the loop
And say hello!
I guess that is a good thing that the, ahem, “dildos” parked in the passing lane, will be ticketed. But I hope you are not one of those ultra-impatient types I see on the highway, speeding up behind someone who is already going over the speed limit in the passing lane – but it’s not “fast enough” for said impatient type. So the poor guy’s bumper practically gets hit while the impatient perpetrator is gesticulating wildly and honking madly, trying to get the driver to move to the right! LOL I think they ought to give tickets for that, too!
Kathi
Interesting indeed! Even, I, a very competent woman driver, have been very “stressed” due to humans driving slowly in the passing lane forever and ever without moving over ever or ever when I need to get someplace.
All them idiots on the road is why i don’t drive. Wellpart of the reason anyways. LOL
Illyria
That’s it, I am moving. In Georgia, there is some very strange tradition of stopping at a green light to allow someone in the opposite lane to make a left hand turn.
Whoever came up with that law should be nomintaed for sainthood immediately! I wish they’d do that here!
the kissing thing? Put it on YouTube and charge people money! I’d pay!
ya, baby!!!
The focus has been on emergency vehicles around here too. I saw an ambulance attempting to turn out of a side street onto a main drag today – took for-freakin-ever before the cars stopped to let them out, and then… some of the boneheads who didn’t stop previously… came to a dead stop in the middle of the road when the ambulance was behind them. Cell phone in hand, naturally. Fucktards !! All of ‘em !!
(And when do you suppose Kathi has seen me driving ?)
meh, I just pass on the right.
Progress!
That trooper kissing thing is a holdover from your Mexican vacation, yes?
I’m laughing as I agree with you….especially about the end of the ramp pause.
You drive like a maniac, so if you think it is a good idea…I’m going to disagree with you.
Oh gawd, Mark. Please don’t tell my husband. He’d put the for sale sign out in a nanosecond and move to your state….
how does that pan out in court? isn’t the speed limit the maximum legal speed, so if you go faster you are technically breaking the law which then warrants another ticket?
As a semi-reformed speeder, I’m with the troopers on this. Technically, I think if they’re not passing, they’re not supposed to be in the far left lane at all.
Although if the posted speed limit is too slow, I do wonder what the actual speed limit is.
I’m one of those people. I mean the ones who stop at the end of ramps. That’s because I-CAN’T-MERGE. Because of this problem, I stay off the freeways completely.