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re: School buses are fricking scary
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:04 am to GeauxTigerNation
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:04 am to GeauxTigerNation
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My cousin apparently drove past one at the wrong time as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing
well, don't do that.
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Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:12 am to GeauxTigerNation
Aren't the cameras on the sides only activated when the stop signs are out? You're cousin just KNEW that there were no more kids?
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:15 am to Ed Osteen
Where does one need to be so badly that they can't wait a few seconds to make sure kids can get on/off a bus safely?
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:21 am to GeauxTigerNation
Running over a kid is scarier
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:36 am to EarlyCuyler3
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That's such an overreach. No one is better at theft than the government
The former Mayer pro-tem in Dallas, just got sentenced to 6yrs in prison for taking $450k from the bus camera company Dallas's uses/used.
Iirc the camera guy was out of N.O. too.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:43 am to GeauxTigerNation
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My cousin apparently drove past one at the wrong time as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing and boom.
It takes a picture of his car, plates, and 7 days later hes got a $700 ticket in the mail.
He tried to fight it due to the fact that the kids were long gone and the driver just sat there scribbling on a notepad but he lost.
Watch out baws.
Don't be a bitch Op...we know you're the one who got the ticket
"Cousin"
Posted on 4/24/19 at 9:20 am to GeauxTigerNation
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My cousin apparently drove past one at the wrong time as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing and boom.
He is lucky he didnt lose his license.
Or you know, hit a kid.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 9:33 am to GeauxTigerNation
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My cousin apparently drove past one at the wrong time as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing and boom.
Am I the only one that read this line and thought the dude hit a pile of kids crossing?
What an opening sentence.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 9:46 am to GeauxTigerNation
quote:he lost what? he has the right in this country to face his accuser. the Accuser has to be present at the time of the occurrence, and not just ratified by a cop via video camera.
My cousin apparently drove past one at the wrong time as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing and boom.
It takes a picture of his car, plates, and 7 days later hes got a $700 ticket in the mail.
He tried to fight it due to the fact that the kids were long gone and the driver just sat there scribbling on a notepad but he lost.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 9:52 am to GeauxTigerNation
Why are people always in a hurry? Tell cuz to leave a little earlier next time to avoid such a temptation.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 9:55 am to GeauxTigerNation
Just start moving when the bus starts moving. Solves the problem.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 9:58 am to GeauxTigerNation
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My cousin apparently drove past one at the wrong time as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing and boom.
It takes a picture of his car, plates, and 7 days later hes got a $700 ticket in the mail.
Good.
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He tried to fight it due to the fact that the kids were long gone and the driver just sat there scribbling on a notepad but he lost.
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as it had just finished letting kids off as the stop sign was closing and boom
These two things are contradictory. Was he sitting there scribbling on a notepad after the kids were long gone or had he just finished letting the kids off and was closing the door hence causing the stop sign to be closing?
Quit excusing bad, in this case dangerous, behavior.
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My cousin
Is that the new way of saying asking for a friend.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:05 am to GeauxTigerNation
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This post was edited on 5/11/19 at 11:49 am
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:06 am to WallsAllAroundMe
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My cousin has seen pretty cool porn videos, on Pornhub, that were apparently made on school buses.
I have a cousin
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:08 am to GeauxTigerNation
Triceratops was even scarier than school buses.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 12:41 pm to GeauxTigerNation
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it had just finished letting kids off
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the kids were long gone
This doesn't add up. Sounds like the first is what actually happened and the 2nd is what he told the court. Or did the kids get off the bus and teleport?
Posted on 4/24/19 at 12:43 pm to GeauxTigerNation
It's supposed to.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 12:49 pm to RJL2
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Today, the United States government, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), does not require seat belts on school buses weighing over 10,000 pounds. Federal law does require seat belts on lighter buses, but the seat belt decision for larger buses is left to the states. To date, only six states (California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, and Texas) require seat belts on schoolbuses, and some of those states only require them on newer buses.
Why wouldn't the federal governmentrequire school buses to have seatbelts? The simple answer is that they don't need them. In a cost/benefit analysis, the cost of adding seat belts to school buses outweighs any potential benefits, according to NHTSA studies.
Modern school buses are large and heavy, and their passengers sit high off the ground. This means they are remarkably safe. Each year, over 400,000 public school buses carry almost 25 million children more than 4 billion miles. Yet, fewer than 10 children die each year in school bus accidents, and studies show that seat belts would not have prevented most of those deaths.
By way of comparison, about 800 children die each year while walking, biking, or riding in a passenger car to or from school. The National SafetyCouncil concluded that school buses are 40 times safer than the average family car, making them the safest of all forms of ground transportation.
School buses are designed to be safe. School bus seats have high backs and lots of cushioning. In addition, they're packed together tightly to achieve compartmentalization. In the event of a crash, the seats absorb most of the impact, protecting the children who sit in them.
Not only would adding seat belts to school buses be costly, experts cannot agree on what type of seat belts should even be used. Because children tend to move around a lot, there's no guarantee they would use seat belts, if installed, or use them properly. Bus drivers certainly cannot be tasked with enforcing proper seat belt use, because their attention must remain focused on the task of driving.
Given that experts believe that adding seat belts to school buses would have very little, if any, impact on safety, most states have concluded that there's simply not enough benefit to justify the cost of adding seat belts to school buses. And the cost to do so is not insignificant. Experts estimate adding seat belts to all school buses could easily cost each state over $100 million.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 12:57 pm to RJL2
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The could give a frick about safety of the kids it's another government tax collection tactic.
This isn't true. Seatbelts aren't required at the federal level because buses are safe. They're heavy and the seats are designed to protect the kids in most crashes. An average of 10 kids die per year in bus accidents in the US and according to the NHTSA, seat belts wouldn't have prevented most of them. According to the NHTSA the added expense far outweighs any benefit.
However, LA is one of 6 states with seat belt laws for buses on the books, but the state has never appropriated the funds necessary to equip them. Bus Seat Belt Law
Way more children are killed getting off/on buses than on the buses themselves. Hence the reason they have the stop signs and give massive tickets for not obeying the law; it's a much better protection than seat belts.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 1:38 pm to dyslexic
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He drives a Civic?
Ah, that clears it up....driving a Civic ... he's Asian and can't drive.
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