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   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:07:24 -0800, Liam O'Connor wrote:   
      
   > hat about those big red STOP signs on culdesacs with   
   > only a few houses on them?   
   >   
   > BTW, I should prove this with pictures, but I donm't have them   
   > at the moment - but we should open a separate thread on that   
      
   I just realized these idiotic stop signs can be seen on   
   Google Maps in satellite/street view.   
      
   Here's one:   
   1. Open up maps.google.com & enter in the GPS location:   
      37.291379,-121.958411   
      
   2. See the 3-way stop sign at Llewellyn Av & Queens St?   
      
   3. Notice that Queens street is only a few hundred feet long,   
      ending in a culdesac.   
      
   There is absolutely no way the traffic on EITHER street   
   warrants those stop signs. No way whatsoever. There is no   
   school nearby. No day care. No nothing. The sign is illegally   
   placed by the authorities.   
      
   The ONLY reason for those stops signs is to inconvenience   
   traffic which is skirting the expressway (IMHO).   
      
   These idiotic stop signs violate the NHTSA rules for stop signs.   
      
   Yet, I'm sure people get ticketed all the time for violating them,   
   even though there's not even the remotest possibility   
   that these stop signs meet NHTSA requirements for stop signs.   
      
   Me? I look *only* for police at them, otherwise I don't   
   even come close to stopping. Eventually I'll get ticketed,   
   and, then, I'll bring the NHTSA code with me because these   
   are illegally placed stop signs.   
      
   I may win, or I may lose, but I'm not stopping at those   
   idiotic stop signs. They showed disrespect for the law when   
   they placed them; and I will show the same disrespect for the   
   law by not abiding by them.   
      
   California is filled with these idiotically placed stop signs.   
      
   The people who put them up don't respect the law,   
   so, why should we?   
      
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