Canadian Drivers
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Topic: Canadian Drivers
Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Subject: Canadian Drivers
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:50pm
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I took a spring break trip to Canada to snowboard with some friends (Mtn Tremblant, about an hour north of Montreal). As I drove down the Canadian high way I realized something, I was doing 70 mph (112 km/h) in a 100 km/h zone and I was zooming past people. For the entire 8 or so hours that I drove in Canada (round trip) I can count on 1 hand the number of people that passed me. However, as soon as I returned to the states I started doing 75 mph in a 65mph zone and plenty of people passed me. Why do Canadians follow the speed limit so strickly? Are there some very harsh fines and such for speeding more so than in the US? ------------- 
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:51pm
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because they're smarter than us americans.
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Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:52pm
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Speeding is punishable by death. They really are a barbaric and uncivilized people. ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:56pm
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Really?
I thought it was the other way around. A month or two ago, we went for a trip to sault ste marie. On the way up, we went through Canada but were doing 40 over the speed limit and weren't passing anyone often. On the way back, we went through the US and were doing the speed limit (smokeys are supposed to be real pricks about speeding) with nobody passing us. |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:58pm
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Man Bites Dog wrote:Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:59pm
That isin't ironic. |
Posted By: Snake6.
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:59pm
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There is only one road in Canada, and its pretty hard for someone to pass you when they are mushing sled dogs ------------- 
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Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:02pm
"Isin't" isn't a word. -------------
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:04pm
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people in this town suck. i'll be doing 5 under the limit and still be passing people, if im lucky enough for them not to be driving side by side in all 3 lanes, that is. as for highways, you can get by with 90 on I70, but on US 41 you MIGHT be able to get away with 65 in a 60. ------------- 
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:23pm
| See how fast you can drive in a car with square tires. |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:27pm
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Speeding isnt cool. ------------- 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:35pm
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Their cars have been in frigid temperatures longer than the American cars so it can't keep up with you.
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Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:53pm
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Old ladies are blowing by you if your doing 85 on I-84 during rush hour. It connects CT to NY, so everyone is going to the city to work or is coming home so they book.
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Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 3:56pm
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on a side note, is gas sold by the liter in Canada? $10.97 per liter of gas or am I retarded and read the sign wrong.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 4:41pm
It wasn't $10.97, but yes we use litres. Canada uses the metric system, why would we sell by gallon? As for speeding, every single person I know except my aunt speeds. Some more than others, but enough so that its annoying when someone in front of you is doing the limit. |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:42pm
| I know in some parts of Ontario they now impound your car for speeding 30-40 over. Maybe near Montreal it's the same. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:58pm
That's 50 over. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:59pm
Wow, that sucks if its true. I've been pulled over at 50 over 
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Posted By: notom66866
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 9:43pm
| Actually in Quebec they just passed harsher speeding laws. Depending on your speed and the speed limit you can loose up to 14 points. They also passed new legislation to seize vehicles of habitual speeders. |
Posted By: phil_stl
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 1:43am
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Yup, if you are doing 50 over they automatically catigorize it as "racing" (I beleive that's 9 points)... the car get's impounded, you get up to a $10 000 fine and/or six months in jail... There is this massive sign right on the highway exit going towards my house... I see it every other day and I think to myself how much it would suck getting caught for that. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 1:47am
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My friend got pulled over for doing under the speed limit once.
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Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 1:53am
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Yeah it true if you go 50 over they impound your car and give you a nice fine. However you almost always get a nice cop who will drop it down like 10-20km depending on how fast you where going. You have to be a real douche to the cop to get a speeding ticket that says the exact speed you where going.
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 2:11pm
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The Canadians once detained my friend at the border because they swabbed his windshield and it came up positive for THC.
Supposedly they threatened to put him in jail, even though they couldn't find anything illegal in the car (other than residue on the windshield). I thought you all liked pot? ------------- 
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Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 3:23pm
Not to mention all the people driving maseratis, aston martins, ferraris, etc. I followed a guy in a lambo doing 110 through traffic last week. 84 can be a pain, no one goes the speed limit...ever. |
Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 3:54pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 5:16pm
Going into Canada or leaving it? Leaving, it would be Americans stopping him. And not everyone loves cannabis, Alberta is conservatvive-ish, so if you were in that area you'd get a bigger hassle than elsewhere. Why did they swab a windshield though? And was it just a false positive or what? |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 8:54pm
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I was once passed by a Viper on the Interstate. Odd thing is, I was doing 130 (it was a one time thing). -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 10:12pm
| In 'Merica (Dallas), here we can go to about 10 over the limit. Any more and they will positively stop you. I just go 5 over. I still pass people all the time and save some gas. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 10:13pm
Yeah, impeding traffic. Why was he going so slow? lol mary jane? |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:14pm
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Someone mentioned points? Canadian use a points system? How does that all work? ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:22pm
| Depending on the people you hit, you get more points. The person with the most points wins, of course. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:43pm
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Lol @ Robo. What happens if you are an American in Canada (or vice versa) and get a ticket? Do they scan your plates at the border? Does your respective country harass you for money?
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:45pm
Paying tickets is optional in Canada. Most people assume you have to, thus why the system still works, but nothing happens if you don't. |
Posted By: Savage93fvss
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:47pm
Good question? |
Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:48pm
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 2:35am
He had smoked in the car a few days before the trip, but the car was clean of everything (except apparently residue on the windshield). I don't remember exactly how he got into the situation, but he was coming into Detroit from Windsor. -------------
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 2:41am
Wait...you'd think they'd congratulate him or something for only bringing weed into Detriot. I think it would be an improvement over the usual shipment of crack and machine guns... |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 10:31am
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You must have been driving through the twilight zone. Quebec is known for its maniacal, lunatic drivers. I've seen terrifying things happen on Quebec highways. I find it really weird that people were going under the limit. you sure you weren't reading the sign in kph, but reading your speedometer in mph? Going 30 over is pretty normal where I live and where I work... If the weather's fine, and other people are going the same speed they won't generally bother you. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 12:37pm
We don't use machine guns here in Detroit. Just lots and lots of pistols. And crack. -------------
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Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 30 March 2008 at 1:56pm
The weather was mid 30's and sunny, very few clouds. I was wondering the same thing about the kph and mph but I checked, double checked, and even used the little digital speedometer feature on the car I was driving and switched it into KPH just to make sure. -------------
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