Originally Posted by
trekker pete
Someone in that article said they were pulled over after rolling the stop sign at 1 mph.
If this is so, it is quite obvious what was going on. It's called revenue collection and it is utter bu!!$h!t.
Even in a cage, rolling through a stop sign at less than 5 mph, accomplishes the intent of the sign, which is to see to it that cars/bikes/skateboarders/etc.... don't barrel through from different directions at the same time.
No one should be ticketed for very slowly rolling a stop sign, especially a clipped in biker. And anyone who tries to drag out the tired old argument that there has to be strict enforcement is a moron. 2 mph is not 20 mph or even 10 mph.
As long as the sign says "Stop" it means stop, not yield, so if anything other than a complete stop was done, it's a violation.
Not revenue producing if you're the officer who has to clean up the mess caused by someone not following the laws. Unless youre the one on the scene who has to see the accident, then to the morgue for the autopsy, the ER to tell the parents/family/friends, etc about the injury/fatality, or to court to testify about the incident you can't complain about the officer doing their job!