• 567PrimeMover
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    419 months ago

    In my experience living in a small town, the good ol boys are allowed to drive like maniacs, but the cops are up your ass the minute you’re over the limit.

    • ares35
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      449 months ago

      they can sniff-out those out-of-state plates from miles away. they know you aren’t likely to come back to hickville to fight that traffic ticket.

      • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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        279 months ago

        I’d heard this happened but I didn’t believe it until I moved from Maine to Massachusetts and went back to visit for the first time. Got pulled over and ticketed for doing 59 in a 55, on a road I (and everyone else) used to drive 65 on every day. Only difference was the MA plates.

    • Scrubbles
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      219 months ago

      Damn straight. Hillbilly douche bro blaring country music while driving his pickup at 55mph through downtown?

      It’s okay, I know his dad and they’re good people.

      Out of towners/poor people/“lesser stock”/or people they plain just don’t like?

      you didn’t use your blinker long enough to signal. Sorry, nothing I can do about it, $200 fine.

    • @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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      159 months ago

      Really? They’re all over the place where I live. Not saying they’re a majority, but maybe 10%, more out in the country

    • Lexi Sneptaur
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      29 months ago

      I got a 6 speed and my car isn’t even sold outside of North America. They’re coming back among enthusiasts

    • @Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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      9 months ago

      The numbers are bizarre, I know some old sports cars had inversed gear sticks but r -> 2 looks weird, any car amateurs around to help?

      Edit: Thanks! It’s not weird! Maybe slightly unusual but that’s all!

      • @tilcica@lemm.ee
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        99 months ago

        uhh looks normal to me

        i drive a 2009 alfa romeo 159

        you have to lift a ring on the bottom of the shifter to get into reverse and then 1st on top left, 2nd below, 3rd top middle all the way to 6th bottom right

        • @Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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          19 months ago

          Aah yeah it was the R place that threw me off, thanks!

          Remember my friend lending me his ford(? a loong time ago) with that ring and I spent 15 sweating minutes to figure out how to go backwards :-D

      • @qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
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        49 months ago

        I think it’s common for 4sp transmissions. 5sp less so since it makes more sense to put 5 and R on the same side of the H (unless it’s a dogleg 5sp).

        • @Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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          29 months ago

          Hard to do as usually the R isn’t synced, so you get some scratching but that’s all. Not good ofc, but you won’t blow your engine/gearbox.

          • @Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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            09 months ago

            What I am saying is that it is very common. All manual cars I have had with the exception of one have the R on the left

  • @iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s a town near me that pretty much exists as a speed trap. The road goes from 65 to 35 with no warning, and then back up to 50 in intervals.

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      I’ve got a road that goes from 45 to 25 to 35 to 25-school-zone almost quickly enough to see the next sign from the previous sign.

        • @papalonian@lemmy.world
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          109 months ago

          The implied joke is obvious and has been around for a while. Why are you intentionally complicating it to act like it doesn’t make sense? It doesn’t make you seem smarter than the joke teller or anything.

    • @Quill0OPA
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      79 months ago

      The joke is many American rural area counties have a metric shit ton of speed traps to booster local funds