Two a**holes standing next to me are bragging about running red lights and not paying tickets because are not DC residents and park in garages downtown. One says he has over $10k in tickets, Maybe we need to start having cops pulling over MD plates with excess unpaid tickets and seizing their cars
it's wild to me how often people just straight up blaze through red lights in my neighborhood, not even the "Massachusetts Yellow" first-two-seconds of red but, like, halfway through a 30-second crosswalk countdown.
I was coming up to a flat green light the other day, and a series of four motorcycles just weaved through the cars and rode on through the red light coming the other way. I just thought … those people have more confidence in my good sense and caution than I have in anyone’s.
Chances are those guys were doing it to post on YouTube too.
There's a whole subculture of Proud-Asshole motorcyclists on YouTube, and they're despised by most others.
They wear gopros, hide/bend their plates, and always act like the victim when caught.
You know, I’ve actually been wondering in the last few weeks/months whether this was a thing (I thought maybe TikTok), because of the incredibly close calls I’ve seen between cars and motorcycles that weave at high speeds between lanes.
Yup. There's a whole lot of them, with one channel in particular collecting them to show off what rebels they are.
If they end up road pizza it doesn't much matter since they volunteer for it, but the risk to others and the people that have to deal with their bodies when they crash is selfish.
Literally yesterday saw a Maryland tag car drive the wrong way up Florida Avenue at the intersection with New York, against a red light, as pedestrians were already in the crosswalk.
Yes! And as somebody whose lifestyle is, to be frank, heavily invested in “walking around my neighborhood a little bit high and listening to podcasts” as an activity, it’s not great!
The number of times I've seen people turn left from the right hand lane, turn right from the left hand lane, pull a u turn at a goddamn red light, or other unbelievably dumb shit makes me bet, very glad I don't have a firearm in the car.
Maybe they are doing that, but they can’t be everywhere at once.
Generally the people who brag about getting away with something get caught sooner or later.
Yeah, a police check point right before the entrance would be fine. Heck, just have a patrolman sit outside recording plates, run the database, get a warrant. Easy peasy.
Easy peasy until someone complains cops are sitting around spying on law abiding citizens instead of fighting real crime.
When it comes to police, no matter what they do or don’t do, someone will have a problem with it.
Maybe a portable plate reader across from the entrance? Move it around daily.
I moved to Maryland from Texas in 2022 and in those two years I've seen dozens of drivers flagrantly running reds, more than I ever saw in my whole life back home. Men and women, young and old. I knew there had to be an explanation.
Send the tickets to a collection agency, with initial due date of the first ticket as the date from which to set the debts age. Then, they can put a lein on their assets.
Yep. In the area of the city I live in the MPD has essentially abdicated traffic enforcement and rely on cameras. With drivers from a certain state being essentially immune from consequences the local roads are a shambles. The more so as the DC drivers must be very careful b/c of the cameras.
I live in Virginia and work in DC. I take the metro in because traffic here is impossible. And…. i paid so much money in speeding tickets in the 3rd street tunnel and 295, I realized I’m an idiot and the train is much cheaper.
