I just heard a story that I don't know if I believe or not.

I just heard that if you are caught driving over 90 mphyou aretreated the same as if you were drunk driving, meaning, your car is impounded for a minumum of 1 week and it could easily cost you well over 2 thousand dollars to get yourself out of the jam.

Is that true? Apparently it was a new law that started on October 1st.

 

Is that $2K American or Canadian?

 

well, I heard the story from an American so I assume it's American $$$$

 

not true at all..
in fact u need to go over 50% speed limit for that
100% is 10'000$ and 1 year jail time and seizure of car=truck ur driving even if its not yours

but o nly in Ontario for the moment

 

Our communist friends to the north. See that's why we Americans fight so hard to keep our guns. Let someone try to confiscate my $42K truck! [sm=badidea.gif]

 

Not if Democrats get into office, wanting to take away gun rights. No way you taking my gun outa my living hands.

 

here is an article that will give you come insight, this is just in ontario, they don't want us to have any guns there either, **** em'.

Drivers stunned by new speeding law
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Drivers stunned by new speeding law
http://www.wheels.ca/article/32623

'When did this happen?' asks driver of Ontario legislation that kicked in
more than a month ago

Michael Oliveira
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Nov 08, 2007

When Jason Stainthorpe was caught speeding on his way to church last Sunday,
he figured the worst he was facing was a hefty ticket and some heat from his
fiancée for being late.

Instead, he wound up stranded by the side of the highway, desperately trying
to figure out how to tell her he'd just lost his licence and her SUV for a
week, faced a fine that could run into the thousands and might no longer be
able to afford his auto insurance.

He didn't realize it at the time, but doing 50 over the speed limit – 150
km/h on a highway with a posted limit of 100 km/h – meant Stainthorpe had
run afoul of a stringent new speeding law in Ontario, billed as a tough
measure to combat street racing.

Stainthorpe joined the more than 1,300 drivers who have been nailed since
the new law took effect on Sept. 30, all of whom were off the road for a
week and faced the possibility of a staggering fine that ranges between
$2,000 and $10,000.

The ranks of those caught under the new law are hardly the street-racing
type: They run the gamut from teenaged girls to elderly men and just about
every demographic in between.

The most common age of offenders has been 21, the average age is 30, and
half the charges have been laid against drivers 26 and under. About 13 of
the drivers were 65 or older, and 41 were 17 or younger. Almost 84 per cent
were male and 16 per cent were female.

When police lobbied for the new law, they expected the province's most
aggressive drivers would get caught and hopefully learn a lesson. They
didn't anticipate the number of charges would be so high and represent every
segment of the driving public.

Stainthorpe, a 33-year-old registered nurse, admitted he was speeding, but
was furious that police wouldn't let him off with a warning since he had
never heard of the new law.

"I certainly would not have been doing 50 over if I knew this was going to
happen to me," he fumed as he waited for police to finish his paperwork on
the side of Highway 403 in Mississauga.

"I have three kids, I have to go to work for a week and they just do not
give a crap. They have no sympathy for people and it's unfair and they treat
people like crap."

About an hour after a shell-shocked Stainthorpe tried to come to grips with
his dilemma, police stopped another vehicle going 155 km/h on the same
highway – this time a 34-year-old woman with three pre-teen kids in the car.

"Look, I was speeding," said the inconsolable woman, who declined to give
her name, as she waited for a taxi.

"I expected a ticket, and then I was like, `Oh, crap.' I did not expect to
have my car towed and have them leave my nephews and I no way to get home."

She told the officers on the scene she was driving a brand new car, and
didn't feel her speed climbing until she heard the sirens behind her.

Ontario police Sgt. Dennis Mahoney-Bruer has heard that excuse too many
times, and after hearing the same thing over and over – he's even watched
grown men bawl their eyes out in front of him – his sympathy is wearing
thin.

"A little indication (is) if you're going down the highway and you're
passing everybody – hello, chances are you're speeding," Mahoney-Bruer said,
before adding that some excuses do tug on his heart strings and make him
pause before calling a tow truck.

"We're all human, we all have a certain amount of feelings . . . but we have
that rule now and we're really sticking to it. We really want to get the
message to the people out there that you're not going to talk your way out
of this."

The relentless blitz on speeders – dubbed a "shock-and-awe" campaign by
provincial police Commissioner Julian Fantino – is likely catching drivers
by surprise because people often don't acknowledge that they act dangerously
on the road, said Spencer McDonald, the founder of Thinking Driver, a
road-safety program designed for people who drive for a living.

"Culturally we all have a higher opinion of our own driving than it actually
is, thinking we're better than we really are," McDonald said.

"If you go speeding down the road you can say, `Well, I'm not a bad person,
or I'm not an idiot, I'm just simply late for a meeting,' but when the guy
speeds past you down the road, he's an idiot."

A forthcoming report from Transport Canada also finds that most drivers
don't recognize their own bad habits, and the unfortunate power they have to
kill with their car, said Paul Boase of the Canadian Association of Road
Safety Professionals.

"For a very long time, speeding – while illegal – was not really treated as
a problem," Boase said.

"When people thought about speed and risk, they thought about the risk of
getting caught, but the real risk is hitting someone."

And because the new law is classified as a street-racing offence, Boase said
many drivers don't believe they're being targeted by police and think they
can continue to speed at will.

"There's definitely this perception that street racing is a real serious
problem and we ought to hit those people hard, but drivers say, `That's not
me, even if I'm doing 50 over that's not me because I'm not racing, I'm just
trying to get home."'

There's no doubt some of the offenders are habitual speeders, but it's also
likely that some of them were simply unlucky, and were caught using bad
judgment that may not reflect their normal driving style, McDonald said.

"Most people are sane, responsible, law-abiding drivers, but they will –
when placed under stressful or difficult circumstances – make inappropriate
decisions and expose themselves to excessive risk."

While an average of 35 drivers continue to get nabbed every day – and that
average has dipped only slightly since the law took effect – many have wised
up and are now remaining just below the 150 km/h threshold, Mahoney-Bruer
said.

"The last two night shifts when I went out exclusively looking for 50 km/h
and above I had none," he said. "The highest speed I had was 48 over, so
definitely the knowledge is getting out there."

Brian Lawrie, president of Pointts, which bills itself as Canada's original
and most successful traffic court agency, said the new law may bring him
more business, but he considers it a bad idea that could cost someone their
job because of human error or an equipment malfunction.

"It sounds good to everybody that doing 50 over should be punished right on
the spot, but where does the presumption of innocence go when you do that?"
Lawrie said.

"When we finally find out that . . . the person is found not guilty, then
who gives them their job back?"

Ontario's new transportation minister, Jim Bradley, said he has no qualms
about the law and rejects the idea that most people don't know about it.

"I see signs on the highway about it, it's been in the newspaper, it's been
on the radio, it's been on television," he said.

"I think people know. It's an excuse that people try to use, and it's never
an excuse not to know what the law is."


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in new brunswick if you are caught going50 over the speed limit, $600.00 CAD fineand 8 points off yourD.L

 

for guns were safe as long as harper stay there as PM..
Anyway only half my fun are registered,they wont take away my guns to let me unharmed if something turn bad.
I will still get my remington 870 express 7shot whit pistol grip!!!!
and my 303 semi auto 6shot

they can get away whit my others toys i dont care much about:
1 shot 12ga
3 shot magazine bolt action 12ga
1 bolt action 22rifle and 15 shot semi auto 22ga

 

22. pistol Heritage
270 Remington
22-250 weatherby
22 ruger
22 mag savage
30-30 winchester
12ga pump Mossberg
12ga pump new england
12ga single shot Remington
12ga auto Remington
20gasingle shot new england
50 cal. muzzle loader knight
380 pistol high point
38 special Taurus
4-10 snake charmer

I have a thing for guns, and if you want to know how the receiving end feels try to take one from me.