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142 Km/hr
Chrystia Freeland recently commented that she didn’t own a car, and was therefore immune to recent gas prices. She was tagged for speeding at 142 KM/hr in Alberta, earning her a $273 speeding ticket (which has been paid).
Freeland, for those many fortunate souls not to know, is Canada’s current and least qualified Finance Minister in Justine Trudeau’s Liberal government.
She was driving a rental car while visiting in Northern Alberta, and as many do put her foot down to bring that horizon just a little closer a little sooner. We would never have known about this little incident if a blogger hadn’t picked up on it from public records. There are a few things I appreciate about this. As far as I know, she didn’t try the “Do you know who I am?” stuff when the Mounties pulled her over. She quietly paid the ticket and was done with it…
Anyone can get a speeding ticket, let’s not make a federal case of it. But it’s ironic, because in Alberta speeding tickets are issued by the RCMP, Canada’s federal police force. A speeding ticket is a federal case.
So, a couple of questions: How fast do you have to drive to earn a $273 speeding ticket? It’s kind of funny, but 142 km/h translates to 88 mph. Maybe it’s just me, but I think she was secretly attempting to escape her own government’s policies by traveling back to 1955.
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I find it hard to believe she didn’t use the “do you know who I am” line but I am immediately starting the rumor that she was too drunk. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving
personCanadian.Actually no, I believe it.
There was a very famous (in Canada anyway) case of police brutality. The RCMP pulled over a native Chief for expired plates. The chief started in on the line “Do you know who I am” and 4 officers gave him a roadside tune up, that left lots of bruises. They tried to claim it was a racial thing, but I think the officers were offended by the attempt to pull privilege on them. Like he should be above the law kinda thing…
Unfortunately for the officers, they did it front of their cruiser, which just had dash cams installed.
The “just had” doesn’t seem to matter, US cops go right ahead and abuse people when they’ve had cameras in their cars and on their persons for months or years.
“Just had” maybe an exaggeration … But for a 10 year veteran officer a dash cam, can sit there for 2 years and be a new piece of kit.
But really, how dense does someone have to be to go right ahead and beat the snot out of someone when there’s been cameras installed on their vehicles – and maybe their persons – for months or years?
The 40 Km sign gets obeyed because its a school zone/play ground zone – Police are far more diligent about enforcing the speed limits in these areas… No argument there…
Police have taken to parking the cruiser “Nose in” so the tail sticks out into traffic – they claim that its for officer safety – that the car shields the officer from on coming traffic. But really its so that the dash cam’s view gets blocked by the pulled over car.
If they don’t have any rules/laws about blocking the cameras, they should. And they need to be enforced.
To be fair to
the Ice QueenMs. Freeland, 142 km/hr doesn’t strike me as egregiously fast. A ‘close friend’ of mine has been known to do 90 mph on I-15 in Southern California and I… er… he wasn’t alone. That’s 145 km/hr in Canadian. Some cars were even passingmehim.My TR-8 really settled down and started to “cruise” at 90.
But I had VR-rated tires on it, good up to 160mph or higher.
When we drove the Alaska Highway in 1985, we were cruising pretty constantly all day for 3 or 4 days at 80-85 mph, road conditions permitting.
Once we got to anchorage and had to drive 25-35 on most streets, it felt like we could get out and walk faster.
If you really want to open up, go to El Mirage Dry Lake. There is no speed limit. I took my roadster to 120 mph there.
Highest I got was about 135 on a stretch of I-5 north of Salem. It was a piece between overpasses/exits, you could drive north and check for waiting cops, you could see both sides and any hiding places etc, and once you found it was clear, get off the northbound, cross over to the southbound, and blast south without getting caught.
You know its hard to drive 55.
Nobody in Alberta drives 55. That get you a stern finger wave on any highway.