1. Wear your seat belt or get a ticket (Click it or ticket)- We have all heard this one a million times. Put on your seat belt, it saves lives. And ya know what, I DO wear a seat belt, I am a rather large fan of the seat belt. Seeing as the seat belt has prevented myself and quite a good many others from launching out of the front window of our cars and having our head cave in on the pavement. But there is a commercial here in South Carolina with a lady saying "I just don't have time to put it on," and my favorite, "It's my car, I shouldn't have to wear a seat belt if I don't want to." And you know what I love what that second lady said. She has a point, it's not like the state of South Carolina is making my car payment, or my insurance payment, or paying my property tax on my car, or paying for my tax and tag on the car, their not putting gas in the tank, they aren't paying for my car to be maintained, I think you get the idea now. And that girl is right, it is your car, if you don't want to wear a seat belt you shouldn't have to, and you sure as hell shouldn't get a ticket for it. But you know what pretty lady, when you don't have that seat belt on and you drive down HWY 123 from Greenville to Walhalla, and your car suddenly swerves and drives your ass into a tree or a ditch or some shit like that, and you propel out of that car like a potato cannon, i bet your gonna wish you wore that seat belt then. So go ahead take that law off the book, because if your so stupid as to not wear one, then you will eventually face the consequences, survival of the fittest folks, and that bitch sure ain't fit.
2. Getting a ticket for no tread on your tires. Guy I work with got pulled over for this shit, adn got a ticket of about 100 bucks. let me tell you something folks, if you have never bought tires for your car, then you don't know this, but those fuckers are expensive as hell. Now the average price for my tires on a 2011 Scion tC sits around 175-215 bucks EACH. That shit adds up quick when you throw in the following: Parts and labor (whose gonna put those fuckers on there?), the tires themselves, balance the tires, rotate the tires, and all that other shit. now your talking about a bill for TIRES being somewhere around 700-900 bucks!! And now you have been pulled over for not having enough tread on your tire (the tread should not be below the top of Abe Lincoln's head on the penny, past that your fucked). So throw in that 100 bucks your paying for the ticket, unless you find the time to go to court and waste an hour of your life, so now your paying even more. Do cops not realize we just came out of a recession, and unemployment is still hovering around 9% and over 10% in South Carolina alone? how the hell do they expect somebody making minimum wage and working off of tips to just up and one day go out and buy brand new tires, hell no you save money for that shit. once again it's a personal responsibility. you want your emissions to go up, your gas mileage to go down, and your car go out of control while making a turn? then go ahead run those tires bald, i don't give a shit, your problem not mine.
3. No Right on Red- This is really stupid folks. You have seen the sign a million times if you drive, pull up at a stop light turning right, your in a hurry to get to wing zone before the close and bam there it is, NO RIGHT TURN ON RED sign hanging above the street, like it's taunting you "HAHAHAHA IM UP HERE AND YOU CAN'T TURN BECAUSE I SAID SO JACKASS!!" This shit is for people that can't drive, feel like they need all 4 lanes to be empty to be able to turn, and they hold up everybody else too. We live in a fast paced, always going, on the move society, I don;t have time to NOT turn right on red, I depend on that and when I see no right on red signs i am immediately pissed off. shit's gotta go now, otherwise we are going to start seeing "No Left Turn, No Questions Asked" signs, then you will always have to turn right, unless of course there is no "Right on Red."
4. Random Sobriety Checkpoints- This has got to take the cake on stupid bullshit. Really? Are we really setting up checkpoints to arrest drunk drivers? Have our drunk drivers become such great drunk drivers that we can't tell if they are actually drunk so we have to set up a check point to make sure? Now in my time of driving (like the bob dylan reference?), I have seen, and driven past, behind, in front of, and beside people I assume are drunk. Each time they are swerving, all over the road and scaring the shit out of me, literally. if I, a 20 year old dude from south carolina can notice a drunk driver, wouldn't you feel safer if a cop could do the same? Well if the sobriety checkpoint is any indication, it's clear they are not qualified to detect drunk drivers. But ya know what the worst part about sobriety checkpoints are? It's a waste of our tax dollars. think about it, if you have a friend that always drinks and drive, doesn't care about the risk they are taking and sees nothing wrong with it, then thats their problem. thats a prime example of ignorance is bliss. and if we just let all the drunk people drive, eventually natural selection will rear its ugly head back, and show you exactly how ignorant that person was to drive drunk. i mean if all the repeat, continuous drunk drivers drove drunk eventually it will catch up to them, and like that they crash, they die, and now one less drunk driver we gotta worry about smashing into your house on sunday while watching the biggest loser or jersey shore. so sobriety checkpoints, waste of time, waste of money, waste of resources, and most of all a foolish way to solve the DUI problem. But the biggest kicker of all is being subjected to this bullshit like we live in Berlin in the 40's or Moscow at the peak of the Soviet regime. to have to produce photo id, and all that bull shit is so un-American and so anti-constitution (violates 4th and 5th amendments) that there in lies the real problem
just food for thought for you on this sunday.
have a good one and happy reveling
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