Me and neighborhood safety
 

The picture below is my house with a dot and a curve. The road is 30 mph and the curve is clearly not a 30 mph curve.

I have a radar gun and often sit on the curve and gun cars. Most are good. Some are not.

A guy stopped today and told me not to radar him. Was an ass about it. Said he was gong to take the curve at 30 because it was the speed limit. Had a discussion. I was as nice as I could and asked him to just be slower when he was driving through. He was still an ass. Had another resident claim it was harassment

Am I wrong to do this? We have 20 kids in the lots visible and more will be on the way. All lots have houses now.

To add humor-I could be this woman
http://jalopnik.com/this-lady-who-us...hon-1795891135

I am going to the city to talk about options.

I would be annoyed if any douchey neighbors were out trying radaring me as I drove by, and certainly would be doing them no favors.

You are in your legal right to do that, by all means. It's not like you're shinning a laser at them or doing something dangerous.

If it was me driving by and I saw you doing it consistently, you'd get a loud honk and I'd flip you the bird each and every time.

I'd scare the shit out if you and unload my train horn air tank.

Lew-I would expect nothing less from you and would enjoy it every time.

Love your concern and looking out for the kids.

But this does come off as kinda douchey

We had a similar guy in my neighborhood a few years ago. Dude stood on a corner and wrote down license plates for everyone who didn't stop at a stop sign or sped. Ultimately it accomplished nothing except pissed off neighbors

It's within your right but not really helping anything. If you feel that curve is a safety issue at 30mph maybe contact the city...

It's noble of you, but you're on the inside of the curve. That was a good move. Never buy a house on the outside of a sharp curve. Your neighbors should be the ones who are doing this.

Contact the city. That's kind of weird dude.

It would annoy the **** out of me.

What are you accomplishing? Maybe you should buy one of those radar signs that show the driver their speed. At least then the driver would have feedback. As it is you are sitting there radaring people doing absolutely nothing.

I live on a major though fare and coming down a hill into my residence it is 35 mph, turning into 30 at my house most people seem to think it's 50. F em. Speed zones are for a reason. For me, backing out of the driveway safely.

Next time somebody stops and bitches pull the. 357 out of your holster and ask if they want to talk any more.

Do the neighborhood kids hang out around the curve?

Looking at the pic I'd bet I could take it at 45 or 50. Can you radar me an let me know ?:D

If I knew where to get a radar gun I would totally do this. I live on the main street in and out of my neighborhood, and right across the street is a school playground. Northbound traffic goes down a long hill, and people are going waayyy too fast by the time they get to the playground, and with kids crossing all the time...I'm surprised there's never been one hit...yet.

I've got this image in my mind of Dane putting a radar gun on one of those idiot celebrities that blast past his house at 100 mph in their Italian sports cars. That would be fun. :D

Don't be that guy. Talk the the city about the limit if nothing else.

I'd do a sick burn out at 2am on my bike.

Cause I'm a dick.

The same way I had five friends do a burnout in front of my house at midnight because **** across the street bitch about "Harley noise" to the cops and blame it on me. Cops came and woke my ass up, and showed them my bone cold bike.

So yeah.....if my friends do rolling burn outs down he street....so be it. Lol.

Need to cover it with leaves.

You are absolutely 100% right. I'd get the neighborhood/city involved. Strength in numbers. Don't feel bad you are looking out for everyone dude is in the wrong.

Shit. He does it with a hard slide into his driveway

Loud pipes saves lives. But wouldn't advocate that.

He's not in the wrong legally at all. He's a nozzle, but a legal nozzle.

If one of my neighbors were radaring me as I drove through the hood I'd flip them off every time. If you have an issue with people's speed, then petition the local government to change the speed limit for that particular curve. Until then, people are perfectly allowed to travel as they like within the set speed limitations. Don't be a douche.

Ok, George Zimmerman

I would make a sign as large as you can get away with that says:

"Drive Like Your Kids Live Here"

Getting others involved is a good move if you feel it needs to be changed, but how is he in the right for sitting around radaring people? It does **** all. Dude has no authority to do anything if someone is going over the limit so what is the point besides pissing people off and causing them to drive more aggressive in that area to spite the radar douche.

Holy shit I can't imagine someone doing that. ROFL. I just imagine someone Dwight schrute looking dude in a full rent a cop outfit yelling at cars that go 2mph over the speed limit ROFL
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This is a great point. My parents live in a house on the inside of a sharp curve that's on a somewhat steep hill. The outside neighbors end up rebuilding their retaining walls on a yearly basis due to crashes, (the road gets icy in the winter and the speed limit signs don't make a difference).
The best thing to do would be to teach the kids to respect the roads and stay away from the dangerous areas.

you seem like a real douch bag, no offense

i'd knowingly drive well past teh posted speed. stop and ask how fast was that? sure i could go faster next time.....

just playin'. you're a good soul!! (get off my lawn)

I'd take a fat nasty in your lawn after dark. I'd also wear a ski mask because you're obviously the kind of dude with laser-motion-activated cameras on your premises.

and have Todd Heap on it.

Yep. Being DB. Sry

i have a cricket bat, that on the front says 'slow down ****ers', and when they trap themselves speeding down a dead end street, when they come back i brandish it :D

Your lawn sucks. Looks like ****ing dirt.

ROFL i hate yards that have no trees. especially the ones where they cut down twenty trees to clear a lot, and plant new ones :(

Forgot to ask what your end goal is. What do you think the city will/can do when you contact them about further options?
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That certainly doesn't sound like something a dipshit would do at all.

I would ask when your radar was last calibrated, and if you are a certified radar operator in the state of Missouri.

Nothing illegal about you radar "gunning" them. Also nothing illegal with them taking the curve at 30.

I'm more worried that many in this thread say you're the ass for operating a radar gun and not the guy who stopped and asked you not to use the radar gun. Who cares either way?

Gather some data, share it on social media or with the city; if it makes you feel like you're doing good.

If you see a neighbor using a radar gun, slow down or speed up; but don't stop and confront a guy doing nothing wrong.

Also, if you're using a radar gun, don't try to stop drivers on your own either!

This seems like an incredible waste of time. What are you trying to accomplish? Petition the city to have the speed limit changed and then shut the **** up about it and stop acting like you need to police your neighbors.

I have a douchebag neighbor like this. I had a week long business trip last summer in Washington DC. I decided to fly my wife out to meet me after and we spent another 4 days seeing the sights. When I got home one of my neighbors had taped a note to my front door letting me know that my grass was over the height limit. I flagged this douchebag down the next time I saw him driving by our house and told him that I had been out of town and that I would appreciate it if he would mind his own ****ing business.

Had to make some responses. CP never fails.

Havent got that far yet. Hope not to.

There is one in the city. We will get it for a week next year when construction is finished.
Kids everywhere!!!
It is a blind corner.

https://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-1019...nell+radar+gun

Those are on the way. Many for our neighbors.

Is this a recognized language?

Stupid grass in Minnesota. That is from early April. It did not want to green up until I fertilized. It was not even a year old at that point.

End point. Ask the city to put in another stop sign at the corner to the top of the map and then make the curve 20 mph and post a sign. It does not hurt to ask.

I'm taking it you flunked the police exam?

No, I am a teacher and need something to do during the summer. Back at work Tuesday.

Talk to your councilman/councilwoman about this issue
Then, talk to the traffic safety engineer

IF a driver is within the posted speed limit then they are fine. IF you are on your own property then you do have the right to do this, BUT he also as the right to tell where to stick you're radar gun. DO NOT stand on someone else's property or in the public right-of-way and do this.

Personally I'd be annoyed if my neighbor was doing this.

By the way, throwing a blowup doll into the street as someone rounds the curve is not a good idea, although I have thought of that in front of the speedway in front of my house

How is that in any way a blind corner? Your house sits back from the corner, there are zero trees to block anyone's view, and the speed limit is still only 30 MPH. There isn't a driver in the world, with the exception of Stevie Wonder, who can't see around that corner.

Stop being an insufferable douchebag and mind your own ****ing business.

So you are doing this because you have nothing else to do?

Get a written statement from the engineer that the corner is unsafe and then take that to your city rep or city council meeting and show them that you have proof that it's a liability to the city if someone gets hurt and all of your neighbors know about it.

Forget the City Council. They will just laugh at you.

What are they supposed to do? Put up a sign around every residential corner? Every DB that lives on a corner will want a advisory speed sign around their house because of you.

Make better use of your summer time and leave your neighbors the hell alone.

This.

Besides, what does tracking their speed even do? You can't do anything about it. I guess you could complain to the police and ask them to send out a traffic monitor to maybe write some tickets or something...

Give me the GPS coordinates.
I wanna try that curve on my Motorcycle at 90.
Hopefully you can verify by radar I reached my goal.

That kind of crap gets you labeled as the neighborhood douche. You're not accomplishing anything except making people hate you. Some are probably taking that corner faster now, just to piss you off. You're probably making things worse...

it goes up to 200mph.

My neighbors like it. It is the drive throughs and apartment people that don't

Yes you dongtaco. He said "YES, YOU ARE BEING A DOUCHEBAG. SORRY."

Let me know where your house is so I can come and do some burnouts :evil:

Have there been accidents because of the speed of that residential street. That aerial pic doesn't represent topography which is a big factor in visibility through a curve. But I have to admit it doesnt look blind except the construction trucks in front of houses. It will be hard to get more restrictions if there inst a history of accidents.

Where the hell does one get a radar gun? I have a radar but its for shooting arrows through.

This is the proper way to slow them down.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...7edbbfa23b.jpg

Made me think of this episode of Family Guy...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z3SRjRECoTk/hqdefault.jpg

I have no issue with someone doing this. Neighborhood roads are not the place for speeding. This is a reminder that I'm sure is a deterrent for many. And it's way, WAY less annoying than speed bumps would be.

Get some signs man.
When I was a teenager pointing a radar gun at me like you're doing would have got you some donuts cut in your yard in the middle of the night.:D

its a nice mix of being an ass AND accomplishing nothing
good work

Those dammed neighborhood and homes associations never remember to put a clause in restricting residents from being anal douches. You bought the house with speed limit signs up, you should live with them. If you have a problem with people driving in an unsafe manner you should contact the city, if not tell the neighbors not to allow their kids to play in the street.

And for the radar gun, they should have those restricted from use, by non law enforcement, in the sub division by the next board meeting. Now go close your garage door and turn your required sprinklers on, your grass looks brown.

They set up one of those on my way to work a few years ago. I'd see how fast I could go and then posted a "High Scores" sign on it with the top 3 speeds.

If city won't do anything...

http://www.safetysign.com/products/8...qnjzdpm3qzbss2

https://www.grainger.com/product/39F...pular_Products

Total cost under $100 for two stop signs.

Pretty sure that's illegal.

Yep, if you don't get your way in solving a problem that only exists in your mind, escalate the situation and commit a crime. :rolleyes:

if you get caught...

I love it. I will have to ask my Atty. what the legal ramifications would be for restricting traffic on a public roadway might incur as far as charges go.

I'd bet he would be out in 60 days with a whole new attitude.

i would be pissed if some house resident was pointing a radar gun at me. its bad enough the road pirates are pulling that shit all the time. If I saw a resident pointing a radar at me I would probably make it a point to drift that curve every time i went around it. Maybe lay some posi tracks in front of your house a few times a month.

We have some really curvy roads here in Independence, like Blue Ridge Blvd. Many of the homeowners have put big blocks of limestone across the front of their yard, or concrete poles in a picket across their property so a car won't come flying into their house. You may need to do the same thing to protect yourself.

He's in a Homeowners association, he can't paint his house unless it is voted on by committee. Actually I'd bet he can't pass gas without some sort of restriction on his deed.

Wait.

Is it socially acceptable to be a dick to and yell at my neighbors when they do annoying shit in their yard? Is this true? If so how has no one told me this? This could be a life changing discovery for me.

Can someone verify? TIA.

Exactly!! ROFL

ROFLthis was my exact thoughts

I have and my neighbors still seem to like me...