Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 01, 2012

Does Rat’s car have a Confederate flag on the roof and “01” on the side?

Rat qualifies to be a Chicago cab driver…

I just let those guys fly by….bear bait….I always hope to see them pulled over down the road always, but it never seems to happen…

Dang, I gotta try that…

Does that mean that there are other cities other than Seattle that has those worthless things. If traffic is going at speed, they aren’t needed, and when the number goes up traffic is going ten to twenty MPH slower.

It’s the Bear in the Air that one must watch for when on the interstates. The roadside electronics just serve as a reminder….

The problem isn’t the speed, it’s braking at high speeds. AND the hubris of humans who think they can"drive" while eating, texting & doing their f**king make-up. Because it only takes 1, to ruin a lot of people’s day. . ..

Sometimes I set my dashboard to “metric.” It’s fun to watch the speedometer hit 120 without risking a speeding ticket.

I do what Rat does HAHAHAHAHAHA

Rat is supposed to be an adult. This is something I asked my folks about back in my teens before I was old enough to drive.

Speed limits are nothing more than an “I control you” exercise second only to a revenue enhancer for the state.

The main reason for all this nanny-state stuff is simple: the kiddies keep screwing up. Very few accidents are not the result of some dumb-f&#k driver doing something stupid and taking a few people to the afterworld with him.

I’m embarrassed to say that on the PA turnpike I would usually speed-up when I saw those and try to get it as high as possible. I noticed that it usually went blank at 84 even though I was going faster. Never once (in 10 years) saw a trooper on the other side of one.

I thought the numbers on those signs were telling the temperature. 

Sure would be awesome to go to Wisconsin to the Cartoonist Festival and meet Mr. Pastis. This is one of my favs.

It is not the speed that kills – it is the sudden stop. Accidents are caused by driver error or equipment error, not speed. Monitoring speed, like parking, is about revenue, not safety.

LOL LOL!

Poor Goat.

xxx

No, Rat, please don’t become Pig…

I’ll speed up for those things too when I’m on my bike.

The only thing that keeps me from considering O’Bama a worse president than Nixon is the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Law.

Rat is a Californian. California has the “basic speed limit law” which means one can drive as fast as is safe. I think the numbers should be sent to Guiness World Records.

[And for any CHP dudes out there, yes, I know that the law means “safe speed up to but not past the speed limit”, but hey, you guys are always parked behind bushes anyway.]

Cops put one of those speed meters in our neighborhood. We have a lots of Rats living nearby…

The small city I live in bought a mobile radar with a camera get-up. They set it up on one of the main streets – a four lane highway with a 25 mph speed limit. Now tell me this is about safety for the community and drivers – of course not! All it is is revenue, basically a hidden tax,

After a single car multi fatality speeding accident on a really bad curve, they put up one of these. They put it up for the north bound lane, the accident was because of the south bound lane. Brilliant!

A semi almost drove over me last night on I-95 — a double-tandem road wrecker, to be precise — and I was locked onto the posted speed limit, 65. I trust you were never that kind of driver, masterskrain.

I don’t get it

What the heck kind of car can adjust the seat and pedals for a rat? Oh, a Smart car, of course.

Extra points for hitting pedestrians!

There used to be one of those on my street when I was around eleven… So me and all the lads got together. We congregated on the lawn of one guy whose lawn was only about twenty yards from the speed sign, and we raced the speed sign. That was pretty fun, actually. I managed a high score of thirteen, and the highest score was fifteen. A simpler time, that was.