A Not Clover for Once
Here's a video that's proof - if it were needed - that it's not the car (or the truck) that matters. It's who's behind the wheel of the thing.
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The Most Expensive Traffic Ticket Ever?
Imagine a ticket for “failure to display a front license plate” - not even a moving violation - costing you almost six figures. Nathan Cox of Mechanicsville, VA doesn’t have to,...
Chancing It
It is increasingly tempting to just go for it.
Scratch that. It is increasingly reasonable to just go for it.
Traffic stops are not what they once were. The fines have become disproportionate,...
Big Ones!
Balls, that is. Lookee:
64 MPH. Speed camera certified. On a skateboard. Wearing shorts.
Know Your Swine
It used to be pretty easy to pick out the pork. If you noticed a refrigerator white Ford Crown Vic up ahead - without AARP stickers on the bumper and with...
Double Clover!
Here, for your delectation, are two fine specimens of southwest Virginia Clover:
This Clover was gimping along at 10-15 MPH below the posted speed limit - and passed by two turn-outs, where...
Rearden Steel … in Real Life
Engines are getting smaller again - but not because gas is getting expensive again. At about $2 per gallon for regular unleaded, the pressure to downsize engines isn’t economic... it’s regulatory.
The federal...
A Preview of Things to Come
It will be 2024 soon and that means we're only one calendar year away from the 2026 model year. That is the decreed-upon year when all new cars sold in this...
You May Not Know…
Everything's so much the same now that many don't know it was once different. And in some ways, the same - again. They also think they know about some things -...
Tactical Manual: When – and How – To Run
I wrote a couple week back (see here) about how increasingly Draconian punishments for relatively minor - and purely statutory (i.e., involving no harm to others) traffic offenses - for example,...