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Right down the road from me some folks placed a sign that said "Children at Play, Speed limit 25 MPH"
This was on a road the speed limit is 55 MPH. Also it was at the base of a very steep incline in the road. Most do closer to 65MPH in this area to build up speed for the hill.
Idiots would even jump out in the road if they saw you going faster in there area. Most times they did it to me I was on my Bike.
In the days of their actually being a community, people talked to each other and you would probably know the offenders. Most gravel road traffic is local, at least in our area. I still say try talking to the parents, they might be more respectful if they know you know who they are, and their parents might come down on them
A clan of family members, that numbered about 5 different households, that lived off a county road East of Groveton, Tx. dealt with it in this way.
Had a sign on a limb of a big oak tree that hung out over the road...
It read "Rogersville, pop. 23, speed limit 20, shotgun enforced."
The old boy had a car hood out across the road from his house that had boat loads of buckshot and other rounds through it, right by the mailbox.
I don't have a solution for you but I have a similar problem. We don't have a posted speed limit on my road and in Virginia if there is no limit posted, the limit is 55 MPH. There isn't a place on this road that's safe over 45 MPH, but if they would keep it to 55 MPH that would be an improvement. To make it more interesting, we have a few little old ladies who take their half of the road out of the middle. They will run you off the road and wave at you.
I get one through the yard from time to time and we have the occasional head on collision. One young lad spent a night and a day upside down in the woods because it was that long before anybody noticed he was down there.
I just decided to let them get rid of each other one at a time.
As I have learned your county commissioners tell the sheriffs office when and how to wipe its *. Go to your next meeting. Installing speed bumps I have thought about to until I found out if you kill someone from hitting those bumps than you are liable. Good Luck.
How about addressing the problem directly? Maybe put out a sign that reads, "Speed limit 25 next 1/2 mile - Thanks!".
If you hear them coming, go to the end of your driveway and smile and try waving them to a stop. Tell them you sure would appreciate it if they would take it a little further down the road before they goose the juice.
Don't do anything to the road unless you want legal trouble. I believe rocks, timbers and other barriers are considered "unlawful obstructions" if they are in the right of way.
quote:Originally posted by Todesengel
quote:Originally posted by Txs
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket?All state's traffic codes - including your's - establish the speed limit for all roads where no speed limit signs are actually posted, with different limits established depending upon the type of roadway (urban, rural, residential, etc.). Otherwise people would be able to run wide open in lots of areas.
This was undoubtedly stated in your new driver's handbook - even way back then. [:D]
Now you live in a fantasy land too txs. maybe we can form a support group [V]I'm the one who's living in reality here. It's a pretty simple concept that limits are established for all areas 'unless otherwise posted'. That's Driver's Ed 101 stuff.
If you're going to drive it's a good idea to learn what your traffic laws are - especially one this basic. [;)]
quote:Originally posted by Txs
quote:Originally posted by Todesengel
quote:Originally posted by Txs
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket?All state's traffic codes - including your's - establish the speed limit for all roads where no speed limit signs are actually posted, with different limits established depending upon the type of roadway (urban, rural, residential, etc.). Otherwise people would be able to run wide open in lots of areas.
This was undoubtedly stated in your new driver's handbook - even way back then. [:D]
Now you live in a fantasy land too txs. maybe we can form a support group [V]I'm the one who's living in reality here. It's a pretty simple concept that limits are established for all areas 'unless otherwise posted'. That's Driver's Ed 101 stuff.
If you're going to drive it's a good idea to learn what your traffic laws are - especially one this basic. [;)]
you just reiterated what I had said earlier. My post was tongue in cheek my friend. I agree with ya
Speaking about rocks..had a friend of mine with a front-end loader drop (and position) several 5ft high (and wide) boulders along my property line where the county road is. Reflectors on each rock.
The trick is..is to make sure you are not violating the county easement. Where I live, it's ten feet beyond the limit of blacktop.
Won't solve the speeding, won't help the deer, but the cars won't be careening into your yard where the children play. Best, Joe
quote:Originally posted by givette
Speaking about rocks..had a friend of mine with a front-end loader drop (and position) several 5ft high (and wide) boulders along my property line where the county road is. Reflectors on each rock.
The trick is..is to make sure you are not violating the county easement. Where I live, it's ten feet beyond the limit of blacktop.
Won't solve the speeding, won't help the deer, but the cars won't be careening into your yard where the children play. Best, Joe
In Missouri all the mailboxes have to be "breakaway type. Stupid imho, what right someone has to drive through your yard is foolish
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket? Call your county and see if they will put up slow childrens signs along with speed limit signs. Send them a certified letter return receipt.
They came out last year and put the "children at play" signs up. It helped for maybe a week or so then they were ignored.
quote:Originally posted by firechief
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket? Call your county and see if they will put up slow childrens signs along with speed limit signs. Send them a certified letter return receipt.
They came out last year and put the "children at play" signs up. It helped for maybe a week or so then they were ignored.
maybe a couple plywood cutouts of kids next to the road would work for a minute lol
quote:Originally posted by Todesengel
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket? Call your county and see if they will put up slow childrens signs along with speed limit signs. Send them a certified letter return receipt.
each county has a law of how fast you can drive on a non-posted road. Remember ignorance of the law is no excuse [xx(].
How about you just write down some license plate numbers and go pay a visit to their parents? Might work a lot better than jeopardizing someones safety with improvised speed bumps or i.e.d.'s lol
I have tried to get plate numbers, but they are going to fast. I have thought about getting my camera out with a telephoto lens and see if I can get a pic of the plate number, but we do know some of the kids and they aren't even old enough to drive yet. The parents don't care so if I go to them they will just blow it off. A couple of years ago my wife's nephew was t-boned by a 14 yr old driver pulling a boat back from the strip mines. The parents paid the hospital bills, gave him a $10,000 check and all was forgotten. The kid didn't even get a ticket. The nephew should have gotten a lawyer, but he saw the check and figured on some fast cash. He still has medical issues to this day.
I discovered that 6' 2x4's make great speed bumps. They flop up and down underneath the vehicles when they are hit. I don't have a clue who put them in the road in front of my house years ago, but people don't go nearly as fast down that road anymore.
I like the idea of putting large rocks at the edge of the property. I'll have to have the county highway come out and let me know where the easement is for the road, then I'll get some of the huge rocks down at the pit. It won't stop the speeders, but at least I'll feel safer when I sit outside watching my daughter and dogs play. I will say that in my county that all gravel roads are 30 MPH and blacktop roads are 45 MPH. The sheriff has seen the speeders on this road 1st hand and even made a comment that "they really fly down this road". The county could make a lot of money by setting up to catch the speeders but he won't send anybody out.
We had a sweet little old lady that was the uniformed school crossing guard- was complaining drivers were running WAY over the school zone limit. Sgt from the PD went out to check one morning, cars were crawling thru the zone dead slow. Little old lady, in uniform, was tracking them thru the zone, pointing her hair dryer at them. They were all certain it was a radar gun.
As previous posters said don't put anything in the roadway as you could be held lible in the courts. Think about it. If you put something in the roadway and one of these speeders panicks to avoid something that was not there yesterday and they crash and kill or injure themself is that worth court costs of a trial and jail/ prison time? I know the problem you are dealing with as I have the same thing happen here. Only difference is my front door is about 230 ft. from the farm road/ roadway.
Simple solution. Sling shot. Pop their car with a rock (and be sure to use a rock). If they stop or say anything, just claim it came off the road because of their speed. Eventually they will find another route that does not pass your house.
They can and will never be able to prove you shot their car with a sling shot. Oh, and get some video of their speeding too. Just in case they have a cop in the family, you can ton down their concerns with proof their family drives like a loon!
quote:Originally posted by drjew
Every traffic ticket that a Deputy writes a local costs a Sheriff about 4 votes. I wonder why he won't run RADAR there.[8D]
There are federal standards that must be met to use radar (or laser). Your state may adhere to them or not. But the standards require a stop sign within a given distance, speed limit signs, and a speed survey of the particular stretch of road.
In some states fines from the Sheriff's citations go into the general fund, and the return to the department is less than 10%.
?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I had the same problem at my old house. My grandparents lived across the street and in their 80's. The farm was on both sides and after the houses it was a clear stretch. We had one kid coming by often flying, well one day he was in my wifes lane in front of our house and she was 7 months pregant. She came in the house cursing and carrying on so I went looking for the kid. I found the house and knocked. His dad answered the door and I asked who's car that was and he said his sons. I told him he was speeding by my house and it was going to stop today. The father said have at him and got him for me. Kid was scared as I told him stop speeding cuz this was as nice as I was going to be. I told him he could go as fast as he could go after he passed the barn but he never came down the road again.
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This was on a road the speed limit is 55 MPH. Also it was at the base of a very steep incline in the road. Most do closer to 65MPH in this area to build up speed for the hill.
Idiots would even jump out in the road if they saw you going faster in there area. Most times they did it to me I was on my Bike.
Some reason they did not last long there.
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Had a sign on a limb of a big oak tree that hung out over the road...
It read "Rogersville, pop. 23, speed limit 20, shotgun enforced."
The old boy had a car hood out across the road from his house that had boat loads of buckshot and other rounds through it, right by the mailbox.
Seek whatever legal recourse you can, or modify your own property. If that fails, just live with it.
quote:Originally posted by MosinNagantDisciple
Please ignore the idiots advising rocks/speedbumps/solvent. Don't mess with the road.
Seek whatever legal recourse you can, or modify your own property. If that fails, just live with it.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I get one through the yard from time to time and we have the occasional head on collision. One young lad spent a night and a day upside down in the woods because it was that long before anybody noticed he was down there.
I just decided to let them get rid of each other one at a time.
If you hear them coming, go to the end of your driveway and smile and try waving them to a stop. Tell them you sure would appreciate it if they would take it a little further down the road before they goose the juice.
Don't do anything to the road unless you want legal trouble. I believe rocks, timbers and other barriers are considered "unlawful obstructions" if they are in the right of way.
quote:Originally posted by Txs
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket?All state's traffic codes - including your's - establish the speed limit for all roads where no speed limit signs are actually posted, with different limits established depending upon the type of roadway (urban, rural, residential, etc.). Otherwise people would be able to run wide open in lots of areas.
This was undoubtedly stated in your new driver's handbook - even way back then. [:D]
Now you live in a fantasy land too txs. maybe we can form a support group [V]I'm the one who's living in reality here. It's a pretty simple concept that limits are established for all areas 'unless otherwise posted'. That's Driver's Ed 101 stuff.
If you're going to drive it's a good idea to learn what your traffic laws are - especially one this basic. [;)]
quote:Originally posted by Todesengel
quote:Originally posted by Txs
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket?All state's traffic codes - including your's - establish the speed limit for all roads where no speed limit signs are actually posted, with different limits established depending upon the type of roadway (urban, rural, residential, etc.). Otherwise people would be able to run wide open in lots of areas.
This was undoubtedly stated in your new driver's handbook - even way back then. [:D]
Now you live in a fantasy land too txs. maybe we can form a support group [V]I'm the one who's living in reality here. It's a pretty simple concept that limits are established for all areas 'unless otherwise posted'. That's Driver's Ed 101 stuff.
If you're going to drive it's a good idea to learn what your traffic laws are - especially one this basic. [;)]
you just reiterated what I had said earlier. My post was tongue in cheek my friend. I agree with ya
The trick is..is to make sure you are not violating the county easement. Where I live, it's ten feet beyond the limit of blacktop.
Won't solve the speeding, won't help the deer, but the cars won't be careening into your yard where the children play. Best, Joe
Speaking about rocks..had a friend of mine with a front-end loader drop (and position) several 5ft high (and wide) boulders along my property line where the county road is. Reflectors on each rock.
The trick is..is to make sure you are not violating the county easement. Where I live, it's ten feet beyond the limit of blacktop.
Won't solve the speeding, won't help the deer, but the cars won't be careening into your yard where the children play. Best, Joe
In Missouri all the mailboxes have to be "breakaway type. Stupid imho, what right someone has to drive through your yard is foolish
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket? Call your county and see if they will put up slow childrens signs along with speed limit signs. Send them a certified letter return receipt.
They came out last year and put the "children at play" signs up. It helped for maybe a week or so then they were ignored.
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket? Call your county and see if they will put up slow childrens signs along with speed limit signs. Send them a certified letter return receipt.
They came out last year and put the "children at play" signs up. It helped for maybe a week or so then they were ignored.
maybe a couple plywood cutouts of kids next to the road would work for a minute lol
quote:Originally posted by select-fire
If it isn't posted how does a driver know how fast to go. How would a police officer ticket? Call your county and see if they will put up slow childrens signs along with speed limit signs. Send them a certified letter return receipt.
each county has a law of how fast you can drive on a non-posted road. Remember ignorance of the law is no excuse [xx(].
How about you just write down some license plate numbers and go pay a visit to their parents? Might work a lot better than jeopardizing someones safety with improvised speed bumps or i.e.d.'s lol
I have tried to get plate numbers, but they are going to fast. I have thought about getting my camera out with a telephoto lens and see if I can get a pic of the plate number, but we do know some of the kids and they aren't even old enough to drive yet. The parents don't care so if I go to them they will just blow it off. A couple of years ago my wife's nephew was t-boned by a 14 yr old driver pulling a boat back from the strip mines. The parents paid the hospital bills, gave him a $10,000 check and all was forgotten. The kid didn't even get a ticket. The nephew should have gotten a lawyer, but he saw the check and figured on some fast cash. He still has medical issues to this day.
They can and will never be able to prove you shot their car with a sling shot. Oh, and get some video of their speeding too. Just in case they have a cop in the family, you can ton down their concerns with proof their family drives like a loon!
It's mean, but it works and noone gets hurt.
Every traffic ticket that a Deputy writes a local costs a Sheriff about 4 votes. I wonder why he won't run RADAR there.[8D]
There are federal standards that must be met to use radar (or laser). Your state may adhere to them or not. But the standards require a stop sign within a given distance, speed limit signs, and a speed survey of the particular stretch of road.
In some states fines from the Sheriff's citations go into the general fund, and the return to the department is less than 10%.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
maybe a couple plywood cutouts of kids next to the road would work for a minute lol
best idea yet.
Show the idiot what the are endangering, 100 ft later have a big cutout of a shotgun.