Comments on: Serious Attitude On Speeding In Canada https://boiseguardian.com/2011/08/22/serious-attitude-on-speeding-in-canada/ A different slant on the news. Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: bikeboy https://boiseguardian.com/2011/08/22/serious-attitude-on-speeding-in-canada/#comment-24584 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:58:31 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6901#comment-24584 Is that fine in REAL dollars, or in American dollars?

EDITOR NOTE–The Canadian and US dollars are just about par at present. Any way you cut it, $10,000 is, well $10,000!

]]> By: pollypinks https://boiseguardian.com/2011/08/22/serious-attitude-on-speeding-in-canada/#comment-24562 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:06:58 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6901#comment-24562 In Australia, if you get a DUI, they take your car to the dumpster and smash it to smithereens! One way to think about drinking and driving.

]]> By: Zippo https://boiseguardian.com/2011/08/22/serious-attitude-on-speeding-in-canada/#comment-24556 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:24:19 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6901#comment-24556 A leftover problem from the good ol’ days on the King’s hiway when the speed limit was basically how much your tires could take… now with more traffic and cops it looks like they may even have radar?

]]> By: Eye on Numbers https://boiseguardian.com/2011/08/22/serious-attitude-on-speeding-in-canada/#comment-24553 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:25:24 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=6901#comment-24553 What a great way to get clunkers off the highway. I would think most cops would have a more than a little moral dilemma citing anyone for this. It is just over the top.

Things are bad enough here in the States. A $75 speeding ticket amounts to more than a days pay after taxes for most working people in Idaho.

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