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It’s like jaywalking on an empty street or speeding 5 miles over the limit, they don’t enforce it unless they want to use the law to harass someone.

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Jaywalking is another thing I first heard of like a month or so ago that sounds both ridiculous as a law and as a word.

Don’t the US have a range that your speed can be in? Like here you can be a bit over that’s within the margin of error of your speedometer (Can’t remember how much exactly since I haven’t driven a car in like 2 decades)

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No, or at least not in the state I’m from. They have penalties in the statutes for 1-5 miles per hour over. Usually the cop or traffic court judge will use discretion to ignore tickets and penalties in such minor cases, but when you don’t codify that it can lead to more nefarious reasons for enforcing it.

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