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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you drive 136 mph on a busy public highway (which he was arrested for previously) it should be treated the same from a legal standpoint as indiscriminately firing a gun in public place like a shopping mall. This piece of sh*t should have been in prison a long time ago for his recklessness. [/quote]

Yes, it should be, but it isn't.

Another question is why it's legal to have cars that you can drive 136 mph. Why aren't cars speed-limited to a maximum of 80 mph?[/quote]

Because it’s rare that anyone actually drives like this.[/quote]

First of all, it's not at all rare for people to drive at dangerous speeds on 270. There have been several times in just the past week where I was driving on 270 and someone zoomed past me and all the other cars on the road.

Second of all, so what? What would we lose, if cars were speed-limited to a maximum of 80 mph? Compare to the police officer, who lost his legs.[/quote]

Driving like this isn’t rare at all. It happens regularly and you just don’t hear about it. Listen to a police scanner anywhere around the dmv on a weekend. You can find your local police on some website. Someone shared a website name and I’ve listened maybe a total of 4 hours total over a year and you’d be stunned at the number of times they are dealing with a reckless driver.  In Loudoun a motorcyclist was driving in excess of 120 mph on rt 7 west of ashburn one afternoon in traffic. The deputies could not safely chase. On Friday and Saturday night groups of youths will get together and race up and down 28 at high speeds. It’s hell for the police to manage. They arrest who they can. I’m all for cameras on the roads like they have in England. Anything to help the cops arrest these wanna be murderers. [/quote]

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