ASK a Traffic COP replay for December 2, 2025

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It's that time of year. I, I got, I got decorations,
we're in the, we got the spirit,you know, we're ready to give
gifts and have fun. I could do without the snow,
quite frankly, it's not my thing.
But you know, to each their own.It is a white Christmas, or at
least unless it gets suddenly incredibly warm and melts and
then, you know, whatever. My name is Sean Shapiro.

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I'm a former police officer who talks about Traffic Safety,
traffic law and police stuff. And I want to help you.
I want to answer your trafficking police questions.
So if you are watching, please bring your traffic and police
questions. It, it's, it's this thing that
really does make it interesting.There's so much to talk about
today. And at 10:35 we'll be joined by
Jerry Agar on News Talk 1010. We'll be on the air with them.

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They'll be on the air with us. It'll be a magical thing.
We got lots to talk about. I, I've got something to talk to
you about regarding E bikes that's going to come later.
A, a friend sent me some information.
Pretty interesting stuff. Oh, there's, there's lots to
talk about. I have some Christmas lights
stuff and things and of course, I've got some interesting

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findings. You see, I put a video out
asking what people thought, whatdid they think or what did they
feel or what did they know in terms of what pisses them off
when they're driving. So I, I had the GPT analyze that
and we'll see what it comes backwith and, and says, but it's all
about you. That's right.
We're just talking about you. I forgot to plug in my iPad.

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Actually, no, I forgot to unplugmy iPad.
I like to have my iPad here so Ican see really what everything
looks like on the Tiktok and without it, I don't know.
So if you're watching on Tiktok,please hit that button on the
screen, anywhere on the screen, tap it so your fingers go numb.
It helps the story go. It helps the algorithm say we're
worthy of watching, which reallyjust means it helps me make sure

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that we have stuff to talk aboutoutside of the other stuff we
talked about. Now Tik Tok's been having some
weird algorithmic stuff and things, and that's fine.
We don't rely on them. But my, my Apple live stream
settings, so nobody can call me because everyone wants to call
me the moment I go live. It's the weirdest thing.
All my friends and family know 10:00 on Tuesday morning,

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Eastern Time, Yeah, I'm not available, so my phone rings.
It's just what it is. Actually.
It's not their fault I switched.I used to go 10 AM on
Wednesdays. Now I go 10 AM on Tuesdays
because we go 9:00 PM on Wednesdays.
It's a thing. Josh, how you doing?
Good to see you, Big Red. One O Big Red O1 O1 says why not
get a real job? Well, what is my job, Big Red?

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And who the hell are you? Oh, he he says, how many times a
week do you get spit on? I think Big Red doesn't read.
I have been spit on before and then the people who spat on me
got arrested because you can't spit on a police officer.
But I'm no longer a police officer.
Big Red, use your freaking reading glasses and read the
thing that says former police officer.
That's right. I used to be a police officer.

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I was an auxiliary officer when I volunteered and then had so
much fun doing that. I became a special constable
because there was a hiring freeze for police officers.
And I did that for a long time. And then I traded in two
uniforms into one and I became apolice officer.
And that was the highlight of mycareer.
Being able to serve as a police officer was very rewarding.
Now, sadly, I was injured on duty in a motorcycle crash, and

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it changed the way I did my job.Thus, I became a media relations
officer and eventually retired way, way, way, way, way early
because I have other things I need to do.
And sitting behind a desk wasn'tmy goal as a police officer.
I wanted to be out there on the road.
And when I couldn't do that anymore, well, things changed.
That's that. Greetings and salutations from

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Akayla Draconis. Let me put you up on the screen.
Akayla, always good to see you. And Akayla sent me a video of
dad jokes, I think a quote. I haven't watched it.
I'm going to experience it live with you later.
It's all queued up and ready to go for the end of the show.
Somebody wanted to tell me followers.
No, we're good. Thank you very much.
And Julie Massey says good morning, Sean.
That was cool. That was my intro from from Jib

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jab. I've been paying the 12 bucks a
year Jib Jab fee forever and I occasionally I actually use it.
But really I, I really appreciate their app.
It's so much fun. If you've never checked it out,
you get to put your faces on some little cartoon characters
and do lots of stuff and things.It's just good fun.
And Once Upon a time I shared a video on it and it got flagged
for music. I hope that's not the case with

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the Christmas stuff, but you know, we'll see what happens.
What are you doing for Christmas?
Are you having any special plans?
Let us know in the comments because I'm always interested.
Interested to know how y'all do your thing, M Ping?
I guess we have haters in the chat room today.
M Ping says he doesn't need to get a new job.

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He's living off your tax dollars.
No, I'm not. I have nothing to do.
There's no tax dollars being used to support what I do.
I'm entirely self-sufficient. Oh yes, Oh yes, I'm I'm not
actually self-sufficient. Now here's how it works.
The magical people at Diamond and Diamond lawyers, they are
one of my sponsors along with the folks at Barrett legal.
But you know what? There's a new thing to talk to

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you about and I'll put it up on screen now because why not?
I'll get it out of the way. You can protect your family by
getting yourself a will. And if you use code AATC at 50%
off the cost of that will and it's just a good thing to do so
you should do it. I finally will.com how many
people put it off? Like 50% of Canadians don't have
wills. And if you don't know what

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happens, if you don't have a will and you happen to croak,
well, your family gets screwed, or at least could and not in a
good way. All right, if you got questions
about that, if you want to know about traffic laws, stuffing
things, policing, you're in the right place because we talked
about all that and we go now. OK, let's say here Big red, if

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anyone's bullying, he says it. Were you bullied in high school?
No. Yeah, dumb ass.
But thanks for coming out and being a troll.
We do love the trolls. We appreciate them in the
channel because they always givesomeone give us someone to laugh
at. Bold marker says I wouldn't mind
a cop living off my talks. What?
I wouldn't mind a cop. Well, technically, bold marker,
all cops, I guess, live off yourtax dollars because tax dollars

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do support the infrastructure torun a city and the city does pay
the salaries of police officers.Thus, I suppose all police
officers and fire persons and paramedics and garbage delivery
removal people and the mayor, like everyone, lives off tax
dollars in some way, shape or form.

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At least those that work in the city.
But I'm glad that Bold Marker doesn't have a problem with
that. Melody says we're not all haters
in the comments. Some of us are nice.
And Melody is of the nicest. Melody the mechanic is just that
a mechanic who comes and joins us in the comments and
occasionally on the show to talkabout stuff and things related
to her speciality, which is mechanics.

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She's a mechanic and and now an aficionado.
I, I think we can say you're a, you're a Starbucks, an efficient
maybe not, maybe not, not yet. Jack says if I drank in Quebec
at 18, can I cross the border into Ontario with alcohol in my
system in well, so you're not, it's not illegal to consume

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alcohol under the age of 19. It's illegal to purchase alcohol
under the age of 19 in Ontario. So if you were to go to a party
at 15 and your parents purchasedthat alcohol that were then
delivered to where you were going, you'd be legally
permitted to consume it. You know, if you have a

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Christmas dinner and wine is served and you come and you, you
have a thing where your parents give you alcohol as a sip of it,
you're legally permitted to havethat sip of alcohol or even a
glass of it because your parents, who are legally
permitted to purchase it and canactually allow you to have it,
let you have it. So yeah, if you were 18 and you

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had consumed it in Quebec, afterpurchasing it in Quebec, legally
you could cross over the border without going directly to jail.
So never, no one's ever has that.
You can't drive with over the legal alcohol limit in your
system, but having consumed it isn't an issue.
Let's move on to other stuff andthings.
I think we already said hello toJulie who said good morning and

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that was that's how we talked about jib jab Nicholas Rizzi's
in the house wants to know if I would Nicholas says.
But what if you get spit on whenyou talk?
Or is that why they tell you to have the right to remain silent?
You prevent accidental assaults on a cop.
You wouldn't believe how many people just have spittle flying

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from their their orifices when they speak because they're drunk
and can't control the spittle. But yet no people, people have
have spat. We have a lot of people that we
deal with as police that, that, that do spit and they spit quite
intentionally. We've had people who throw poo
quite literally. It's it's, it's, it's The Dirty
part of the job that no one wants to talk about or shouldn't

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talk about. I always wonder someone says
they're they're such baloney. Lana Bell on Kik says, hi, how
are you? My headphones are not working.
Can you reply to me and chat? No, I don't.
I don't. I don't even know why.
But anyway, let's go back to here.

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We're on a bunch of platforms, in case you didn't know.
And if you're watching on any one of those, please say, hey,
we are on X LinkedIn, Instagram,TikTok, we're on Kik, Twitch and
we're on, what else are we on? Rumble, although I don't think
we have an audience there, we are broadcasting there, but I
don't think anyone wants to listen to traffic advice.
I think primarily it's an American audience.

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But you know what, occasionally,occasionally, and if you ever
want to go on Rumble and follow us, you can.
We're on Facebook on The Voice Over Cop channel.
And if you would be so kind, if you're watching on YouTube or or
going to be in the YouTube neighborhood, please go and
follow me on Voice Over Cop. The reason being is we're trying
to hit 1000 and we're getting really close.
Really, really, really close. Just set the cons forever.

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What's going on, brother? He says throw poo.
What did I just walk into? You walked into a conversation
about spitting that quickly turned to people who throw poo.
Crystal, hello, long time no seethe real Walker, Texas Ranger.
Good day. Good day.
We have rogue Jaguar. How are you doing?
We've got lots of folks who'd bejumping into the Instagram and

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let's see, we've got back to theTikTok.
I'm trying to manage all of the places we have some stuff to
talk about. One of those things is that we
will be speaking with Jerry Eager on News Talk 1010 at 10:35
or thereabouts. And if you want to call in and
be part of the show, you can do that by calling or texting

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416-872-1010. You can also dial toll free if
you're outside of the calling area where it would cost you
money. Long distance is I think we
don't even talk about anymore, but if you need it, we got it
1-877-518-5151 but that's not for a while.
So in the meantime we'll just stick to this logo and keep on
going. Tim says throw poo shot happens.

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I think he meant shit, but whatever he's trying.
Maybe he's trying to be polite or not get flagged.
It's amazing what the AI screening stuff does to avoid us
seeing what there is. OK, let's see here what we have
here. Let me scroll back.
Oh, Melody has not been to Starbucks since we went to
Starbucks together. That was yeah.

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We, we, we met up when she was passing through Toronto.
OK not sure what gold marker wastalking about.
It says in my province. I think it depends on your
license level. Not sure what you mean.
Do you mean alcohol in your system?
Because if you are a learner then you can't have any alcohol
in your system. You're quite right.
G1G2 or youth youthful people with great skin drivers.

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If you're under the age of 21 you can't have any alcohol in
your system. You're or if you're a commercial
driver as well. Don says it is disheartening to
see so many bad cops acting out in videos recorded by the
public. That's from Don Amit.
I think we've spoken before. I I'm not happy with any video
that that has cops doing dumb stuff and there are cops who do

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dumb stuff and then there's copswho are dealing with dumb
people. And I mean that with love that
I, I I really should say criminal behavior.
People who are not compliant people who are breaking the law
and cops have to always go within the law.
So they get very frustrated and occasionally they say many
things that are maybe hurtful interms of the feelings and and we

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need to be less sensitive and just do what you're freaking
told. And then yeah, no, I don't mean
that you should just people are going to twist everything I say
anyway, so whatever. Moving on.
Matthew Runaway says when a recruit has to run the 1.5 mile
test, is it still done outside in the winter?
If it's a 1 1/2 miles, it's an outside thing.

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It was when I was there and I went in December.
So yeah, it's, it's still outside into cold.
Oh, Joe King makes a very good. By the way, Joe King, I, I if
either your name is Joe King or joking Either way, what a great
username, whether it's your given name or not.
Joe says driving lights or daytime running lights, I should

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say, should include tail lights.And I couldn't agree more.
I, I actually think that all your lighting system should be
on a magical because I just on all the time unless we put an
override switch in for mechanicsso that we don't blind melody
while she's working on the vehicle.
And the reason we should do thatis because people have forgotten
how to use the simple switches. Listen, they can't turn the

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lights on. They can't stop at stop signs.
There's all sorts of things drivers seem to not be able to
do. It's quite annoying.
Now the the deal with the deal, the deal with turning all the
lights on if if it was automaticand it never had them off, then
it would give it would be 1 lessclue for police because I used
to love pulling people over who had no headlights or no tail
lights on because their headlight they were just driving

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with their daytime runners. And it gave me this wonderful
hint that that might be an impaired driver and very often
it was. So I kind of like that.
TikTok watcher says hello, Copper, former copper, actually.
Poopy pants. These usernames just keep
getting better. I imagine this is being asked,
but what do you do? Oh, what do you?

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Here we go. OK, I imagine this is being
asked, but what do you think of Doug Ford's ban on speed
cameras? I'm not impressed.
And statistics and jurisdictionsthat have kept the cameras
running since the cancellation of the speed camera program
because the cameras are still there and many of them are still
running, just not issuing tickets.
Well, speeding is doubled. Doubled.
Thanks Dougie. You double the speed you put

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risk in their school zones. Oh wait, you're putting big ass
signs. I forgot and I saw ACP 24 video
where a member of either a mayoror something lay down on the
side. They're enormous signs.
But just like we have wonderful laws, signs and laws don't slow
people down. Consequences do.

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And signs just reminded you thatthe law is there.
Well, they don't care about the law, they care about the ticket,
sadly. What is this?
We got user lots of numbers who says why was my M license
dropped? No medical issues.
I don't know why your M license was dropped.
What happened? Like you went to the ministry,
you renewed it and they took away your license.

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That shouldn't happen. You have to tell me more.
I I what? I'm assuming you're in the
province of Ontario. You you had a license.
How long have you had it? You had a full M or an M1M2?
Tell me more. I want to know Tim.
Tim wants to know what led up tothe point where someone threw
poo. And sometimes that's just the
greeting. Sadly, people, some people with

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issues, yeah, they throw poo. Zero panic says ride checks
should be outlawed. I'm not on my What is this?
I'm on my way to become a lawyer.
And that's my first thing in I'mchallenging in court.
Why? Well, first of all, how are you
going to challenge it when the Supreme Court of Canada has
ruled that ride checks are absolutely lawful?

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It's a breach of your your rights, but it's an allowable
one because it's for the greatergood.
So good luck challenging that. In fact, they've gone so far as
forget ride programs. Any driver can be compelled, can
be, can have a demand and they are, is obligated to perform a
roadside screening test or a, well, it's a roadside screening

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test for mandatory alcohol screening because you can't
drive with alcohol. And it's kind of important for
you not to be drugged or doped up or drunk while driving
because, you know, life and all that jazz.
So zero panic. I don't think it's wrong.
They should, we should have moreof it.
I think maybe every single car should have an automatic system

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where you can't run it and every15 minutes you got to blow into
it to make sure it stays runningbecause you shouldn't be
operating a motor with drugs or alcohol.
The problem is you also need to screen for for drugs and that
doesn't happen with the mandatory screening.
You need to have suspicion to dothat stuff.
It's different. Hannah Gucci says what if I
don't have oh sorry, what if, but if I don't have your car

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registration and insurance on you, I guess you mean yours as
opposed to mine because I hope you don't have my registration
and insurance on Anyway, if you are driving, you don't have your
stuff with you, you are eligiblefor a fine.
That means you can get charged for failure to surrender your
license. That's $110 failure to surrender
your registration, which could be an original or a photocopy

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either or $110 fine if you don'tsurrender that and a $65 fine or
not surrendering proof of insurance.
Now that is just the piece of paper or doc saying you have it,
but you can still be charged fora much larger and more serious
offense if you actually don't have insurance on the vehicle.
Driving an uninsured motor vehicle on the road comes with a
magical 5 to $25,000 in fines and up to six months in jail.

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So there you go. Juju 911 says you actually drive
100 kilometers per hour on the four O 1.
If I can actually get up to thatspeed, sure I do.
Occasionally I might be used. One O 1 I might go over.
In rare occasion I've had to go over to evade a situation.

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But I do not cruise above the speed limit.
I cruise at the speed limit or below it because rarely do you
have to actually go to the speedlimit.
It's the maximum, not the minimum.
And people seem to have that confused.
They're all in a rush. But generally speaking, I'm in
gridlock, so it don't matter much.
But whenever I'm on the highway,I'm in the right lane and
everybody is passing me because they're all breaking the law,

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which makes me better than them.There, I said it.
I'm better than I'm better than.I'm better than them.
I'm just trying to make you upset.
Is it working OK? I'm in a prickish mood.
What can I say? I don't get to write tickets
anymore. So if I want to to upset

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someone, I have to just say meanthings.
Let's see here you oh, we got that one already.
My own family has many. My uncle is a 27 year.
Oh, so that's northern rain, butI don't know the context of what
you're saying. So the first comment from
northern rain that I see is my family has many.
My uncle is 27 seven, I think it's oh, 27th degree Shriner

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right on the lodge above the lodge.
So does he have the fez? Does he do the, does he do the
parade and all that jazz? Shriners, if no one knows that
Shriners are, are philanthropists of sorts.
They're members of the Masonic Lodge and then they have gone
through the Scottish Rite to allthe way up to become a Shriner.

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Actually, it's a yeah, you have to be AI think you have to go
through the Masonic, the you have to be a, a master Mason.
Then you get to go into the Scottish Rite and then you can
go into the Shriners. I think that's how it works.
Either way, I'm not a Shriner. I know many Shriners, but I am
not one. But there are some people who
raise a lot of money and help kids, which is awesome.
They have children's hospitals that don't charge the patients.

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They're awesome. OK, what do we got here?
This is the Is this the guy thatwas pushing speed cameras?
Yes, I am the guy that was pushing speed cameras because
speed cameras are good and speeding is bad.
Yes, absolutely amazed at how many people are anti speed

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camera. And that means that if you're
anti speed camera, you must be one of the law Breakers who was
speeding in school zones. But I think that speed camera
should be on every single road. And actually, I've been talking
about technology that will be far more intrusive, but but but
better than speed bumps. So speed bumps are what I guess
Dougie's putting all over the place and I hate them.

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They are misery personified. I hate them.
I don't speed. Why should I have to go over a
bump? Why should I be punished like a
speeder? I have not chosen to break the
law. I have not done something to put
others at risk. And now my suspension needs to
get a workout and I need to, youknow, spill my coffee
potentially. Not really, you know what I'm
saying. I just hate speed bumps.

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So aside from all the issues with the snow removal and
emergency vehicles, you can go speed hump, speed cushion and
maybe the the bigger vehicle straddle.
But let let's get real. It's it's just a pain in the
ass. I've been talking about the
technology. I think it's Swiss technology
from the from the Swiss anyway, they they have a speed bump that

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only activates if you're speeding, which is great because
I want speeders to be very uncomfortable.
I think they should be everywhere.
And these are a mechanical system that the when the radar
system identifies you as over the speed limit, it actually
creates a divot in the road. Or if the Mexican alternative
version, it actually has a speedbump that lowers if you're doing
the speed limit and raises if you're not.
Both are effective and both would piss everybody off who

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speeds. And I think that's a good thing,
but I don't want to punish people who are lawful and safe.
Scrolling back Decepticons forever says your your beard
looks shorter. Yes, the Grizzly Adams look was
getting boring. I I, I needed to change it up a
bit. I had if you're new to the
channel, I had a beard that was like out to here and I, I, I

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trimmed it because because I didwhat do we got here?
The real Walker Texas Ranger says Mustang being used for
treatment on a oh, mustard beingused for a treatment on a hot
dog. I have lost something here one
second scrolling back. Oh, I oh, OK.
He had a dad joke for me. I totally screwed this up.
What do we got here? We got OK, he says.

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I heard such a good dad joke, wanted to save this, and now
it's gone. I should have wrote it down.
Oh, that's great. Tease us with the good dad joke
that you can't remember. I love it.
Your your veterinarian won't tell you this, but if your if
your dog is running a fever, go to the store and buy some

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mustard. It's the best thing for a hot
dog. But I'm bum.
OK, same joke worded differently.
Very good. You guys are are meeting.
It's weird on the Internet. How are you today?
That's from alum. Good.
How you doing? Who would you?

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Who do you think would fight? Sorry, who do you think would
win in a fight? Chuck Norris versus the
Decepticons. That's that's a tough one, but
Chuck Norris would have would have won the war in his mind
before even stepping out. I don't know if you ever
listened to the Chuck Norris. I should, I should pull these up
and read them later. They're the the the whole Chuck

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Norris thing is, is amazing. OK, have you ever seen something
illegal on your socials and reported them to the local
police? Absolutely I have.
And I'll tell you something local police, they have been
keeping files on people on social media who dumb do dumb
stuff and then they actually create see so many people do
dumb stuff like speed or stunt Dr. and their their plates are

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visible and then the police justcatch them then use all the
evidence from their social mediaagainst them.
I love it. I love it.
Decepticon says fruit Shriners fruitcake at Christmas is the
worst present ever. I I must say I've never had
fruitcake. I've used it as a doorstop.
I've never actually consumed it.Logan's Savory says I try to

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follow school zone speed limits,but then people get mad at me.
If people get mad at me, it's a them problem.
I I actually enjoy that. Let them honk.
Let them be mad. It's their fault.
Oh, the septic ONS forever is going for the Grizzly Adams look
that I just abandoned. If you actually look at some of
the videos on Instagram, my beard was quite out of control

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and I needed to make a change. Ah, OK, let's get back into oh,
we got we got admission of something.
Here we go. Hang on a killer Jaconas.
What is this? Oh, the question from the Rizzi.

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Apparently I have to press it twice.
It's done. Cops tapping the back brake
lighter trunk with their hand. Is that a thing or a myth?
Why do cops do this? It's all about evidence and
fingerprints and marking the vehicle.
So let's say I walk up to do a traffic stop, I put my hand on
the back of your vehicle and then you run away.
When I catch you later, if I hadlost contact with you in

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between, my Prince can verify that that was in fact the
vehicle that I had contact with as opposed to someone using the
defense of I wasn't me, Somebodyelse with a orange Honda Civic
with, you know, the stencil of amachine gun on the side of it
that that that somebody else hadthe same very similar vehicle.
But that's not me. The fingerprint says otherwise.

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Akayla just admitting here publicly that he speeds 10.
He does. Oh, no, he doesn't speed.
There's 110 on the four O 1, butnear him.
That's the actual speed limit. OK, I take it back.
He's not a law breaker. Mary Lynn says hello, Sean.
Hello, Mary. How are you?
OK, we'll come back to this question for Mizzy because he's

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had his turn and we'll come backto the TikTok.
But Badu oh, questions about pedal bikes and DU is that's an
interesting one. What do we do somebody I can't
what do I want to talk about first?
So much to talk about. Would you get a ticket on a

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commercial motor vehicle for being for doing an improper
right turn? Well, commercial, if you have an
articulating vehicle, a giant truck, you might take extra
space, but you're you're you gotto end up in the right place.
So if you end if you're turning into the wrong lane because
you're choosing to be lazy is different than taking a wide
turn to go to the appropriate lane.
That's how I would interpret that.

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OK. Oh, Brad Maher 6 has a question
about laptops. Let's go here.
Oh, JB Nando says, have you seenthe vanishing plate video here?
What are your thoughts about it?It's illegal.
It's it's, it's you have no plate when it's, when it's
invisible or you're interfering with the plate.
You have a plate cover. There's a, there's a bunch of

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options that you could go with, but it would, it would not stay
on the vehicle. I I, I would, I would, yeah.
You get a big ticket board at least I wouldn't, I'd, I'd lay
anything I could find to support.
So if I could write 2 tickets for it, I would.
That's that's bogus. Now I don't think it qualifies
for modifying the plate, which Iwould actually be arrestable.
So sadly, it don't work. Next punk.

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I can't read that name. It says hi.
Copper. It's X copper.
Former copper used to be copper,not copper anymore.
OK, who do do do what? Makes no sense.
It doesn't that info show up on the cruiser laptop though?
Oh, this is Brad Mark wanting toknow about when you're pulled
over. And why would you get a ticket
for not surrendering your license, ownership and

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insurance? Because the cruiser can just
look it up. Well, first of all, the
requirements under law that you surrender it, not that the
police investigate and do the work for you.
So you're wasting police resources, you're taking time,
and very often people are lying.Just because you can say that
you live in a certain place and that you are who you say you are
doesn't mean that you are that person using the same story.
I pulled over a guy for no headlights because he made me

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drinking. But I, but that was the initial
part of the investigation was license ownership and insurance.
And it was oh, no, officer, I forgot it.
So we look into it. And he, the information he
provided came back to a suspended driver.
So I said, oh, no, you're suspended.
And he says my brother got suspended.
Yeah, he, the dude I was talkingto had never received a license.
He was just pretending for yearswhen brother or or similarly

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aged brother. Anyway, he he, it was a bad day
at the office for him. Zanny Zombie says 117 every
time. So they're trying to stay into
that envelope OF20K over, assuming that that would avoid
them. Avoid the ticket, which you know
what, under 20 over, you probably are going to avoid a

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ticket more often than not in 100 zone. 20 over on a regular
St. I'd still pull you over and
charge you like I would always pull you over for 65 or 75 and a
6015 over because in that particular situation, 75 and a
60 you're you're you're going too fast.
Did you push speed cameras on citizens answer That's from

(29:57):
numbers. You're not paying attention.
I already talked about it. But yes, I freaking love speed
cameras and they should be here and it's wrong to remove them
because they actually were functional and slowed people
down and now they're not there and speeding people up.
Their lack of being there just reverts to on filtered stupidity
driving over the speed limit. OK, I don't know how to

(30:23):
pronounce this MLMOMI don't know.
I want to get into MTO. What do you think?
A friend of mine who became a police officer and was my motor
squad partner started off in theMTO and he liked it, but then he
went to the police afterwards soI guess he didn't like it
enough. OK, if you're watching and you
don't know what's going on here,my name is Shawn Shapiro.
I'm a former police officer thattalks about Traffic Safety,

(30:43):
traffic law and police stuff. And you want to know stuff and
things about, you know, Traffic Safety, traffic law and police
stuff, you're in the right place.
Ask me questions, I usually havethe answer.
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Hang on a second. We have the magical folks at
News Talk 1010. Hello.
Can you Hello. What's happening?
How are you? I can't complain, we're just
about to plug the show. Oh, amazing.
We're we're coming up very soon.We have.
Everyone's questions. I love it.
OK, so if we can have no music while we wait, and we will, we

(31:28):
will look forward to hearing from Jerry shortly.
In the meantime, if you want to be part of the show, dial
416-872-1010. You can talk to control, tell
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(31:50):
Once we're done with Jerry, we will jump back in, talk about
some other stuff and things. I've got some really
information, interesting stuff to talk about in relation to
lithium ion battery use in the city of Toronto.
I don't want to say it that way.And then of course, we're going
to continue with your questions.But yeah, in just a few moments,
we'll be on with Jerry. Let's see, did I put the,

(32:10):
where's my, where's my response?Let's have a look here.
I wanted to see Jerry. Agar continues.
And joining us, as he does from time to time, the TikTok, former
traffic cop Sean Shapiro. Good morning.
Morning, Jerry. How are you?
I'm doing well. We got a holiday related
question sent in here. It is Mike in London wants to

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know is it legal for him to attach thousands of Christmas
lights to his vehicle, light them up and drive around?
So it's funny, I have videos queued for my channel on this
and you can, you can jump in andwatch it later, I'll send them
to you. But there's some very creative
people out there who want to be in the Christmas spirit.
But technically, no, it's not legal to to send light out in
all directions in all colors. So there are things that that

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you'd be violating. For instance, you can only
project white and amber to the front, you can only project
amber and red to the rear, and so on.
You can't have flashing red, youcan't have flashing blue.
So by by putting Christmas lights there, you are absolutely
breaking the law. Now, will most officers give you
a break in being in the Christmas spirit?
Yes. But are you eligible for fines?
Yes. And if you get them, you're
guilty. All right.
Does that also apply to the carsyou see with lit up hubcaps and

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lights underneath the car, that sort of thing?
Well, under glows under the samesituation and and here's where I
get into the the minutiae. Are you projecting light in a
direction or are you illuminating the ground beneath
you? If it's reflected light off the
ground and the bulb is not visible, I would argue that it
is not projected light and legal.
However, if you are sending light in a in a particular

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direction directly from the bulb, you're you're you're
projecting it, and that would put you in the game.
If you have a question, you can call or text 416-872-1010,
416-872-1010, or you can call 877-518-5151.
Another text here. Sean, why are license plates
that are completely unreadable allowed?

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And if they're not allowed, why do I see so many of them?
Well that is a fantastic question.
They are not allowed. You can't put tinted or even
clear license plate coverage. You can't put the ones that
change color specifically to avoid detection and you
certainly are are even restricted from putting a
license plate frame that obscures any portion of the
plate. Why don't you see them or why do
you still see them? It's because it's not the number

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one priority of police. They are focused on the stuff
that is putting others at risk, the speeders, the aggressive
drivers, the distracted drivers,the impaired drivers.
And that becomes lower down the the priority list.
It's still important, it's stillillegal.
And if I was pulling you over for speeding and I saw your
license plate, it was an issue. I would give you a ticket for it
too. And if I couldn't read your

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plate and I was trying to run it, well, obviously we'd have a
conversation and you get a ticket.
The ticket is $110 under the Highway Traffic Act.
All right, Christina has a question.
So my question is, if you're in the left lane on a highway and
you notice that traffic is piling up behind you and there's
nobody in front of you, are you obligated to move over because

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you are impeding traffic at thispoint?
Slower traffic must stay to the right.
Now the speed limit is the limit, it's not the minimum.
So if you were doing 100 in 100 zone in the left lane,
technically you're not breaking the law by being in a left lane
at that speed because you're notallowed to even go over the
speed limit to pass someone. The limit is the maximum.
Now we we know that people are speeding all the time and the

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safest thing to do and what you can still get a ticket for is
being the slowest moving vehicleand in the left lane.
So move to the right. Let the people who are choosing
the speed, speed, that's their problem.
Stay out of their way. All right, I want to be really
clear about this. I'm driving along.
The speed limit is 100. I am going 100.
I'm in the left lane. I know traffic's piling up

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behind me, but we're going to speed limit and blah, blah,
blah. But you could pull me over and
charge me with what? The well, slower moving traffic
is required. You could get charged for, for
not being in the right lane. We're not moving to the right.
Slower moving traffic must be tothe right.
So there's a, there's a wording that's escaping you right now,
but it's not impeding traffic that that charge doesn't really
fit, although most people would go to and say impeding traffic.

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And the the problem is you can't, you can't lay that charge
because you're doing the lawful limit and you and you're not
impeding something that's not lawfully permitted to go faster.
All right, here is Sharon. What's your question?
Good. Morning my husband put on a
bicycle rack and it blocked our plate.
I want to know why they sell those because we got stopped by

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the police and they said we had to remove it.
They wouldn't ticket us that time but if we got caught again
we would get ticketed. We took it off, but we keep
seeing the same bicycle racks oneveryone else's cars there.
The problem is that we don't do what Europe does, which is make
very easily. Make it very easy to find the
plate relocation kit that you'd be required to run with your

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bicycle rack, which is taking the license plate off and
mounting it to the rack so it's still visible.
You're never allowed to obstructor obscure the license plate.
Same as having a tint advisor on.
It has to be legible at a distance.
So they sell the racks because they'll sell anything that
people buy. The the problem is they don't
sell you the extra kit. And I bought a couple of them
just so I could mess around withthem.
They plug into your lighting system because you have to

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illuminate a rear license plate when it's dark.
Yeah, you're eligible for the ticket.
Absolutely. And people are out there all the
time using them and they do get pulled over and very often
ticketed. OK, but can Sharon go online and
find a kit to do that? You can get them on Amazon.
The ones that I have picked up are made by the Patuli THULEI
believe there's there's actuallya couple of home brands that I

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found online solutions that people have tagged me on on
Instagram. So they're around.
They're just they. They should be stocked at any
place that sells bicycle racks. All right, Sharon, thank you.
Here's a text question. Are traffic Rd. rules
enforceable on private parking lots?
Things like stop signs, one way signs, those kinds of things.

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No, not specifically, but there are workarounds.
In other words, there are some changes to the Highway Traffic
act of of late, which includes stunt driving.
So stunt driving charges can be laid on private property and
stop signs don't count for stuntdriving necessarily.
But careless driving is a new addition and careless driving,
at least it's a new addition to private property.

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And driving through stop signs is a pattern of behavior would
qualify for careless driving, which is a quite a serious
charge, $495.60 merit points. So, you know, you, you could
drive recklessly on the road, onthe private road or parking lot.
And yeah, you won't get a ticketfor running the stop sign, but
you might get a careless drivingcharge.
All right, what's the most common question you ever get

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asked? Lately it's tint tinted windows
is still one of the number one questions asked on the channel
and it it all comes down to whatcan I put on there and what's
legal and why? Why is it such a problem?
It's not really big deal. Many, many people don't like the
fact that they are not supposed to pick their nose in public, or
at least if they're bashful. OK, Christina and I were having

(38:58):
a conversation earlier this morning.
Traffic is moving along, and this happens all the time,
especially on the four hundreds.All of a sudden, for whatever
reason, I don't know, a goose runs out onto the road or
something, somebody slams on their brakes, and several cars
pile into one another. Is the person at the front who
initiated the whole thing at allto blame?

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Or if you hit somebody from behind, it's your fault.
That's all there is to it. You've got to give yourself
space when you're following another vehicle and you've got
to give enough space that you could respond to an emergency
stop by that vehicle. You don't know what they see.
What if it's a kid, a ball, a goose, or whatever it is that
they're braking for? As long as it's a legitimate
thing, they're not doing it to brake check you, just to mess

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with you. Then you're responsible for
falling too close or failing to avoid that collision by way of
turning out to avoid it. So that is a serious a serious
situation. You have to drive your drive.
You're responsible for everything you do.
And then it gets into this weirdsituation where you hit the
person and someone hits you and how many times down that chain
of multi car collision, who's responsible for what?

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And that comes into the discussion of one bump or two.
And you know from every cartoon,would you like 1 lumps or two?
Well, was it just a collision where you hit them or did you
get hit by the the back and thensent into the car in front?
And it could change the dynamicsof who's at fault for what
portion. But at the end of the day, you
have to be able to avoid the person in front of you.
This is an interesting question we've never been asked before.

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Are you allowed to be on your phone when you're in the lineup
at Tim Horton's? So that particular charge for
distracted driving deals with handheld communication device,
handheld entertainment device ora screen visible to driver and
it does not apply on private property.
So Tim horton's drive through would be open season.
You could use it. You still have to be
responsible. You'd still be responsible for

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any collision if you hit somebody because you were too
busy surfing, but you wouldn't be charged for simply being on
your phone to order while you'reon that private property.
There was a story a couple yearsago where a chap claimed he was
alleged that he got a ticket for, I think he was in
Saskatchewan, that he got a ticket for being on his
McDonald's app in private property.
But the reality was he was usinghis phone on the road and he was

(41:02):
followed into a parking lot by alocal police officer who then
charged him. We are encouraged this text
message reads to call 911 on what may be impaired drinking
and driving. Same thing for texting and
driving. Can you call 911?
Here's the deal, 911 is is is anemergency.
And if you believe that what youwere seeing is an emergency,

(41:24):
whether it's impairment or distraction or you don't know,
could be a medical emergency, but someone is putting lives at
risk, that's an emergency. If you think it is.
Thus, I would encourage you to call and get on the get all that
pertinent information to emergency services so they can
do what they do best. If it turns out it was not what
you thought it was, it's better than someone getting hurt.

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How do we find Sean Shapiro on aregular basis?
Ask a traffic cop.ca is our website but you can get me on
The Voice over cop channels across the Internet.
I'm on like 9 different platforms now.
Sean Shapiro, the TikTok former traffic cop, thanks very much.
All the best, take care. All right, now coming up, Dave
Traffic. And that was Jerry Eager on News

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Talk 1010. That's a segment we do on a
regular basis. It's always fun to connect with
my buddy and, you know, shoot the poop about the Traffic
Safety stuff. We, we, you know, it's also
really cool to have callers and I can actually take guests on
the show. We didn't set it up for today
because I've been busy with stuff and things.
And even though I've given people the opportunity to come
on the show, the big voices in the chat room aren't often or

(42:26):
are often not well loud enough to to get on the phone.
But you know what? We'll, we'll, we'll put on a
chat. Maybe tomorrow I'll see if I can
get the that all set up so we can do it again.
I mean, technically there's a button I can press.
I can do it. So if you want to come on the
show today, tomorrow, OK, today's probably not happening.
15 minutes left. I got lots to talk about.
You want to come on the show tomorrow night, 9:00 PM Eastern

(42:49):
Time? You can take a guess, talk
stuff. You can challenge me on stuff
and things. I'm happy to debate some stuff.
I like it. And you can what about e-mail?
You can e-mail askatrafficcop@gmail.com.
OK, Alan wants to know what, sorry, which app is good to

(43:09):
learn law? Oh, the traffic law, traffic Rd.
law. So first of all, it depends on
what province you're in. There are there, there's
learning the law and there's learning the application of it.
So what do you want to know? Like the Highway Traffic Act is
available for free online, but it's legalese and it's and I've
read it and I, and I very often read it again for clarification,

(43:31):
because someone will bring up anallegation that I interpret
something incorrectly and, and law is written where illegalese.
So you, you read it and you go, you know, OK, And then someone
says, but how about this? And you go, I wasn't reading it
with that in mind. So you read it again and you go,
OK, I can see how that might be.But at the end of the day,
police will interpret it the waythey read it.
The public will interpret the way they read it.

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And then the police will make anallegation based on your
activity that you may not agree with.
And then you go to court and in court, the independent Trier of
fact, the judge or justice to peace will interpret the law,
taking into consideration what you say and what the police
officer says. And together they will determine
after mushing it all into one big word salad, who's right and
who's wrong. And that's how it works.

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I mean, that's really over the over the oversimplified.
But if you were looking for a great app and I really say I'm
going to reach out and they should sponsor the shows of how
often I suggest them Shield basic if you want Shield basic
for quick look up stuff. It's a subscription based
system, but you can get it on the iOS and Android and it's
awesome. It really does make looking
stuff up easy. I think every copper when they

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go to the police college is, is told you should get this app.
And I I think that's the right piece of advice.
What happens if AG1 driver is driving by themselves?
Well, they're breaking the law. They're G1 driver unaccompanied
by qualified G class driver supervisor and then they'd be
getting a ticket for 110 bucks. They would not be covered by

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insurance because they're not licensed to drive on their own.
It's a conditional license that requires that extra person.
The person, by the way, must have four years experience.
They could be two years of G2 and two years of G, but they
have to have a full G. They have to have under the
legal limit, which is under .05 BAC blood alcohol content.
And that's just to, to pay attention to what you're doing.
That's to supervise you and nobody else can be in the the

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center of the front row with you.
But that's the deal. Now when you're convicted on
that, Yeah, you're convicted. You get a well, you get a 30 day
suspension the first time, 90 day suspension the second time.
And if you're caught doing it a third time, you lose your G1
status and you have to start allover again.
Yeah, in fact, there's a bunch of tickets.
If you get a speeding ticket or a careless ticket, that's a four

(45:42):
point ticket or you're going to be more than four points in a
you're going to get a suspensiontoo, which if you get this
multiple suspensions, it's escalating measures and it's
bad. He said no good fish out of H2O,
fish out of water. Awesome.
Can you get a DUI for riding a pedal bike home drunk as F?
The answer is you can get a ticket for public intoxication

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but not impaired operation. Now, if that was an E bike
instead of a pedal bike, then you could be charged with
impaired operation because underthe Criminal Code of Canada, an
E bike is a motor vehicle but does not have the magical
exemptions afforded to them. By by, by, by, by by The Highway
Traffic Act of Ontario. Yeah.

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Wants to know if there is an Arabic version of that app.
I doubt it. I don't think that's available
there, but you could go on to the highway.
I don't think legalese would would translate well with any of
the automated apps. So I unfortunately I don't have
a good solution for you, my friend.
OK, Keaton Keaton Keaton Alt says I'm taking police

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foundations. Does this open a lot of doors
for me and will this help me or Academy.
Well, first of all, are you in the province of Ontario 1/2 it
might you get to meet some instructors who might be former
police officers. You get to meet some people who
who could help prepare you is coming from no no exposure to
policing. Yeah, it's, it'll be better than

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than than nothing. If you need it.
Is it a requirement? You get a special bonus point
for having police foundations? I would argue no.
I, I don't think that you get a lot extra.
It's not bad. And having something is better
than nothing. Like if you can't deal with
accounting, don't take accounting.
And you know, some people don't have an affinity for other
things. I say take accounting because

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then you can get into financial crimes.
You make yourself a unique candidate for policing.
You make the police better for having bringing, having brought
your special skills and and whatnot.
If you have police foundations, though, you have exactly what
everybody else has. And then you're not unique.
That's that's the big thing. Generic says his grandfather was
a master Mason. Master Mason from the Blue

(47:58):
Lodge. Right on.
What do we have here? What do we have here?
Oh, scrolling back, apparently I'm way behind.
Happy dude says well done. I don't know what he's I have to
scroll back further. Hey, if you if you don't have a
will, I'm going to suggest you have not protected yourself and

(48:20):
your family. Yes.
Do you have a will? Serious question, like do you
have a will? Do you know what a will is what
it does? Go check out.
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And even if you just have some stuff, like any stuff, how about
this? You have no stuff, but you have
some specific wishes as to how you want your situation to be
dealt with. Maybe, maybe you want your best

(49:03):
friend to burn your your hard drive because you don't want
your parents to go through it and find your porn collection.
I'm not kidding. That could be a reason that you
go for ask a traffic cops discount at getting a will and I
finally will. It could be anything, any
instruction you want to make sure is followed.
You want to give your stuff youryour, your YouTube channel.
You want to give it to your kids, your cousin, your nephew,

(49:26):
whoever. If you don't write it down, it
ain't going to happen and it's not a lot expensive.
Just saying. OK, moving on.
I'm just excited that I have a acoupon code.
I've been talking about giving coupon coupon codes to my
audience for ages and I finally have one to give you.
OK scrolling back because there is so much here to talk about.

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What is Reema doing? Reema wants to know how to get a
warning instead of a thing. OK, here we go.
Generics is trying to catch an 84 Corvette with a radar gun.
A plastic car, right? There's a fiberglass or plastic.
Maybe it's fiberglass Plastic cars were the the Saturns right?

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Too funny. Gabe wants to know what I
personally think of lowered cars.
I I can appreciate a car that was designed to be low.
I don't know, I don't like cars that were lowered because
they're very often done on a cheap.
They cut the springs and then the suspension doesn't work the
way it was designed to. You take a vehicle that was
manufactured with $1,000,000 millions of dollars of R&D and
then it's just dropped. And that that scrapes when

(50:39):
you're trying to go through, youknow, over a speed bump at the
Tim horton's. It's it's it's, it's kind of
silly. And when everyone has it, it's
no longer special. It's not a performance thing
when it's just for looks. OK, rank the comments.
OK, I want to know which one. So earlier I was talking about
what is the most frustrating thing that that that has has

(51:02):
happened when you're driving themost, the most.
We're going to we have a list. What does the list look like?
Rank them. Oh, OK.
I think we have a ranking. We're going to come to it in a
second ranking. I asked people what the what,
what pisses them off when they're driving, what ruins

(51:23):
their commute? We're going to talk about that
in just a second. OK, talked about lowered cars.
We're all punished now. Yes poopy pants.
I agree with you by the way, if you're watching on the magic of
TikTok, please tap the screen soyour fingers go down.
It really helps the channel brings more people to the party.
Now we've been doing this for almost an hour and I'll keep

(51:45):
going for a little while longer so you can still, you know,
share and whatnot. Also, if you don't already
follow me on the other channels.I announce the shows before they
go live if there's any any changes.
If I'm not gonna go live, it goes on X.
So please follow me there at voice over cop.
You can also follow me at voice over cop on YouTube and I'm on
I'm on all the other ones LinkedIn.

(52:05):
In fact, if you go to ask a traffic cop.com or.ca, they both
work. Go to the same place, same
websites.ca. You can get links to all of my
social media and you would be more than welcome to follow me
everywhere. OK, what happens if I see AG1
licensed driver driving by himself?
Question. You can report them anonymously.

(52:27):
You can call the police on them not so anonymously.
At the end of the day, they're, they're driving, they're
untrained and they're putting lives at risk so they don't surf
down the road. Yes, Joy, Josie, thank you so
much. I, I do need to finish that.
And it's we, we're going live. I, I'm involved with an, with a
online education platform that is going Live Today.

(52:47):
This is what's been holding me back from spending more time
reading the driver's handbook. So thank you so much Joy for for
asking for that. I was talking about the on the
YouTube channel. I started reading the Highway
Traffic Act or the MTO Driver's Handbook and I think it's an
invaluable resource, the book and some people have a
difficulty sitting and reading boring crap.

(53:09):
So I'm reading the boring crap for you.
So you don't have to, you can just listen to it.
But I started and then I stoppedbecause we got really busy
towards this software launch. And now with it launching today,
in the next week or so, I shouldbe free to continue reading that
book. Maybe he'll bring it with me on
vacation, read it when I'm undera palm tree on microphone and

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camera, because reading that under a palm tree would be
better than being in studio, I think anyway, Nicholas says.
And I, now I know that Nicholas Rizzi's not only a comedian, but
he's a, he's an accountant because I've been doing
accounting for seven years and Istill have no idea what I'm
doing. That's, that's not, that's not
good. Don't, don't maybe don't stick

(53:51):
with the comedy then you know atleast you can make it an
accounting company. Is there a is there a genre of
accounting comedy or comedy for accountants?
Actually, Rizzy, I got to send you an invite to check out
because the the the platform foreducation that I'm working on is
actually related to accounting. True stories.

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Is it possible to get a driver'slicense even if you don't own a
car to service Ontario supply a car for the test?
Hell no, they do not supply diddly squat for for tests.
What they do do, I said do do what they do do is is nothing
but provide a tester for testing.
What you do is you hire, you hire a driving instructor, you
pay for a lesson prior to the test, they'll drive you to the

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test and let you do it. If if I'm suppose I'm assuming
if they feel comfortable enough letting you drive if you really,
if you really screw it up while you're with them is an allude.
OK, we got that. We got that.
What's the fine for riding a motorcycle in between traffic on
the highway during rush hour? Johnny Boy wants to know.
So at the lowest, the lowest endof it, it's careless driving,

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$495 and six Damera points. Next would be stunt driving.
Stunt driving would be a 14 day vehicle impound a 30 day license
suspension, A2 to $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
If it was such a we're not, we're going up in in in speed
and risk. So basic it's careless.
The next one would be stunt if you're being a little more

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aggressive, weaving in between traffic, if it's putting lives
at risk, immediate risk, it's criminal dangerous driving and
that's a criminal offense and much more serious.
And it could be combined with the others.
Panic says can I can the police tell when you don't have
insurance simply by by running your plates?
Yes and no Mostly no. So you need to provide your

(55:40):
insurance information, includingyour policy number and your
provider and a police officer can see if that in the fourth in
the last 14 days, the information you provided the
ministry checks out is is valid.The terminology they use is a
word I can't remember right now,but it's just, it's just yes,
no. And it's 15 days old, which

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means no, you need to have the information.
And if I can't get the information to call and verify
the status of your claim that you have insurance.
You don't have insurance, right?Like it, it doesn't qualify.
And I could start the investigation with you failed to
surrender it and then continue the investigation to find out
where you're actually insured. And I, if you, if you just, if I

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can't find anything, then I'm going to default to you don't
have insurance and I would charge you that's 5 to $25,000
in the first offense. FB6 Carian Kiran, why do cops
automatically assume every modified car is involved and
takeovers is street racing, you know, profiling.
We're assuming that if you are part of the culture, you're part

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of the culture, which I think isfair, a fair estimate, because
someone who's not part of that lifestyle doesn't modify their
cars usually. Now, you don't have to be
someone who races. You probably know someone who
does. Just saying, yeah, it's just the
assumption, and it's a fair assumption.
Why are you modifying a car to do dumb stuff if you're not

(57:05):
going to do dumb stuff with the vehicle?
Because it looks better, doesn'tactually look better.
I'm I'm speaking for my own bias.
I'm not assuming that every cop automatically assumes that.
But when I see a vehicle that has a fart can muffler lower its
suspension, which by the way on its own is unsafe.
If you've got the camera going it, whether you are involved in
takeovers or not, you're runninga vehicle that's illegal.

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Now. I would never pull you over and
charge you with something because you might do something
stupid later. No, I pull you over and charge
you because you're doing something stupid right now,
which is having any legally modified vehicle on the road.
So take that out as you will. It's the offense.
The events that I dealt with arewhat I see.
I can't charge you from what youmight do.
Charge you for what I see you doing.
Yeah. OK.

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Sean says it pops up if the laptop if you were insured and
registered, but not really. It just has a confirmation.
That's 15 days old. OK, what is this happy dude
says? Why don't cops have to prove
radar? Why don't cops have to prove
radar reading? What if it pinged the car
nearby? Well, first of all, most cops
don't use radar, they use laser.And it's the device that's used

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to confirm their observations. It's not a de facto The machine
said you were speeding, thus youwere speeding.
Now we're looking, we're verifying with our eyes that we
believe in estimating the speed,and we're confirming that
information with the, excuse me,with the device.
But that's not required to provide you proof of it because
I could have were making three separate readings.

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I could have got you at 110, then 105, then 98, then 92.
But I'm still charging you for the 105.
I saw it. I'm the I'm the person who's
making that that statement in court, not the machine.
Zero panic says how come my friend doesn't get pulled over
by cops when they're behind him or on the roadside?
He's been driving without insurance for a year.

(58:57):
Like I said, because police don't look for insurance in that
situation while they're driving behind you.
First of all, it requires an MTOlook up, which is separate than
what comes up on the system automatically.
So as I said earlier, driving without insurance and now if
your friend's driving without insurance, he said, well, I was
going to say something really rude and he's that your friend
is that driving without insurance is inexcusable.

(59:20):
I would rat my own friend out for that because he shouldn't be
on the road because when he kills someone or hurts someone,
he's not covered, not about his car getting fixed.
It's about the person that he will hurt in that there will be
no money for them. Mind you, they can sue him
directly and then it's up to $2,000,000.
So maybe he just doesn't want tohave any money for the rest of

(59:40):
his life. Yeah, but Sean, Sean spelled
Shawn says no reason for lookingup.
As played out as you, Sean. Sean, by another spelling.
What jurisdiction are you in? I'm curious because I wonder if
your jurisdiction does have different ties in with
insurance. I'm assuming you're a police

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officer. If you're not a police officer
then you're making it an estimate as to how things are
done. You're estimating, you're
guessing. But if you are a police officer
then I'd be curious to know whatjurisdiction and how you get
returns because a a regular return wouldn't include
insurance unless things had beenupdated.
It would require an MTO update or a separate run, which I would

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do on every driver I pulled over.
But yes, you're right, you have to pull them over first.
Roscoe Ross says how come not a cop anymore?
I leftover a year ago. I, I retired from policing to do
other stuff and things includingsocial media, software
development and other stuff because of all sorts of media,
media, content creation, marketing, Yeah, lots of stuff.

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Victoria says what if we just have them on the car and not lit
up and we just light them up on private property?
That would be legal. We're talking about Christmas
lights. Absolutely.
OK, Michael T Burgess says. Is there a LUT limit for lights?
You're talking about a power limit in general for headlights.
There's a minimum of 300 candelas when they become
headlights. But but the maximum rating, No,

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I don't believe there is. There's a color rating and the
melody's talked about that before.
You can't have anything but white light and amber light, but
the headlights, that'd be white light.
Go pens Go says. Do they sometimes ask for
license when doing a ride program?
Yeah, if they're going to, well,if they're going to employ

(01:01:32):
mandatory alcohol screening, they would ask you for license.
Rarely would they ask for your license if they're just asking
if you've consumed alcohol. But if they're going to employ
mandatory screening, then yeah, ID you because you're going to
write a report. Every time they do mandatory
alcohol screening, they have to put it in the system.
If the school bus on the opposite side with a median
between, do both directions stopif there's a median?

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No, but we're talking about a median that that is the division
of the road, not like an island that holds the traffic signals
and then it's open in between afterwards.
So if it's truly a divided highway and has divided highway
status in Ontario, then you don't stop in both directions.
You just can't pass the bus. But if it's an undivided highway
and only has a painted line undivided, then you do have to

(01:02:14):
stop in both directions. Do not.
But Matt says what if they want to fish and they pull you over
and search your vehicle and all that?
I don't know the context, Matt. What are you asking me?
OK. Kurt Nielsen says stunt driving

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and careless driving on private property is insane.
Yeah, you shouldn't be doing it.It's totally insane.
I know you're saying that. It's an it's it's an overreach
to be able to enforce those on private property.
The problem is people are putting lives at risk.
So now even if it's their own life doing dumb stuff, it makes

(01:02:56):
sense and police officers aren'tstaking out Walmart looking for
Dum Dums. It's because something's
happening and they've been notified usually.
OK we've got KSTG Monkey 8715 says losing a license to points
on AG2. What?

(01:03:17):
Losing a license to points on G2?
Can it be fixed by getting full G?
No, your points are your points.You don't.
You don't wipe out your balance because you're upgrading to a
higher limit. You still owe what you owe.
They do come off after two yearsthough.
So they said losing a license do2 points on AG2.
Can it be fixed? No.
Yeah again. So they reworded it to be more
to clarify. So yeah, if you're going to lose

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your license because you got toomany points, but then you get a
full G, would you not lose your?The only thing that would change
maybe is that you're the number of points available to you are
more so you don't lose your license at 7 points like you
would on AI. Think it's 7 points.
For AG2 you would have 15 pointsbefore you lost your license.

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So it's possible in that scenario that getting your G
could give you a higher limit before you got into trouble
Possibly. But what might happen?
Have you been convicted already?I now I'm really intrigued that

(01:04:20):
I'm going down a rabbit hole. That's really interesting.
You don't lose the points. You don't start at 0, which is
where I was originally going in my answer, but you do have a
higher limit. They got a credit card.
So let's consider it like a credit card.
If you have a $10,000 balance and you have $10,000 on the
card, you are at capacity. You can't.
You can't. They're cutting you off.

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No more credit cards invalid. But if you get a credit limit
increase to to 15,000, you can keep doing dumb stuff until you
get to 15 before they take your license.
So it's possible that that couldwork.
The question is, have they already lost?
Have you already lost a license?It might be too late, but it's
worth going down that role. I would contact a a lawyer or

(01:05:04):
paralegal to make that argument for you.
It might be expensive, but you can look into it.
OK, Nicholas Rizzi wants to know.
He says sometimes there are two wires rolled out along the road
and it's attached to what looks like a cable box.
What's its purpose Studies? It determines the speed in which

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vehicles are travelling. It determines the the number of
vehicles. They take an average of four
axles. So it it skews with large
vehicles, maybe it can identify based on the free the, the, the,
the speed in which they read theaxles, like if it does, if it's
bump, bump, bump. Maybe it knows it's a long truck
with a single with, with, with, you know, 2 axles in the back

(01:05:49):
and a, a single in the front. Maybe.
But they're, they're for studiesfor traffic to determine speeds
and, and frequency of use on those roads.
And all that hose is like a pressurized hose.
And every time it goes over, it shoots a little, whether it be
an electrical connection or, or air that, that that hits a

(01:06:10):
switch. Either way, it is what it is.
It does stuff. Oh, so Curt Nielsen, who asked
about stunt driving on private property.
Well, we talked about it. And then Ritz goes negative.
Police would have to be invited on private property to do so.
No, he wouldn't. Thanks to Tracy, who jumped down
his throat and said you can absolutely be charged with stunt

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driving on private property. I don't know why I got a
Southern twang or Western thing to it, but I I, yeah, I think
it's appropriate. Are people allowed to go into
empty lots to skid around? I was thinking about it to
practice control No, because that's done driving now here is
I was talking about this in the comments earlier today like the
comments on videos if or was it Adm anyway, if you go onto

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private property, you're going to Best Buy and you're going to
drive around Best Buy and you want to practice your winter
driving. OK, you're going to go on a
straight line and you're going to press the brakes and activate
your your ABS OK, that's that's perfectly in control.
That's fine. If you're going to do it at 90
kilometers an hour, you are probably going to be charged
with careless driving. If you're seeing if you're but a

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reasonable speed, you're going to go to 60405060 and you're
going to hit the brakes and you know, no issues there.
OK, now you're going to go in and and drive and make a turn in
the parking lot. You're going to do at 40 and
you're going to see what happens.
You're going to do a 50 and see what happens.
You do it at 60. That's reasonable.
If you lose control and you regain control, you were just
doing something as part of driving.

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If you initiate a donut, a burnout, a spin a, you know,
James Bond thing where you go backwards like I used to do when
I was a kid, I backwards shiftedto drive, spin it around.
I did stupid shit like that whenI was a kid.
That would not be stunt driving.Yes.
Rids says negative. Police cannot enter private
property without a reasonable I,I, I guess Ras is what he's

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suggesting. Reasonable articulable suspicion
or invited by the property owner?
No. And if I see you, you are doing
the stupid shit that I think youare doing.
You're doing it. Come on, No, you don't need a
warrant tent to probably, probably.
Oh, come on. Next he's going to say he's
travelling. No, OK, but I like how all the

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armchair quarterbacks here know the law.
Random shit says. Are people allowed to get into
it? No, we talked about that
already. Talked about it again.
Oh, Rid says roll your eyes all you want, I understand the law.
No, you don't. If you're making that statement,
Let me ask you this, Ritz. If you're drinking and driving

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on private property, is it arrestable?
If you beat your wife on privateproperty, is it arrestable?
If you're shooting guns on private property, is it
arrestable? Can the police enter to deal
with it? How is this any different
waiting? Jarv says debate my sexy car.

(01:09:10):
Would you pull me over? I don't want to date your sexy
car. What are you talking about?
Dee Dee says why don't they makeit mandatory to have winter
tires in Ontario? It would lower collisions.
I agree, but they don't want to do it.
Just like they don't have speed cameras to hold people
accountable. They don't want to make people
spend money on on on tires that would make roads safer either.
Which is pretty pathetic if you do.

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If I do say so myself, I see a dad joke from thin white line
Interceptors. I don't know why I didn't ask
your name. Right.
Yeah. Hang on.
And Tracy totally agrees about making mandatory tires.
Yes. And Melody says I'm up for a
fight. Debate, debate, debate.

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Greg Marshall. Good to see you, my friend.
And he responded to DD about, oh, insurance companies might
require winter tires. I think that they do is they
incentivize you by giving you a discount.
So if you have winter tires and you haven't disclosed it to your
insurance company, you should. But if you do that and then you
don't put your winter tires on, just know that they could say,

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well, hey, you got a discount based on having winter tires and
you got into a collision and they ain't no winter tires on
the car. We might not give you that
discount anymore or we may choose to invalidate your policy
because you lied. Yeah, it's a bad question
because it's not traffic related, but is it illegal to
vape at school? That's could be a prohibited

(01:10:36):
activity based on trespass to property.
So they could say you're engagedin a prohibited activity, they
could expel you for it, they could trespass you for it.
Is it illegal? Could you get a ticket for
vaping if there's a bylaw you'reviolating?
Maybe there's a no vape bylaw, Idon't know.
Not my area of expertise. So, yeah, I see Greg Marshall, I

(01:10:58):
believe, former OPP. That's the same thing that I
just said. And then somebody wants to know
if it's a criminal charge. Yeah.
What happens if we pass a doubleyellow line in front of a cop?
If you don't, Well, if you don'tcause a collision and they don't
suspect you of being impaired, probably nothing.
It's not against the law in the province of Ontario to pass a
double line, to cross the line. The line itself isn't

(01:11:20):
enforceable. If there's a sign saying you
can't do it, the sign would be enforceable.
No, I saw. I saw Necro.
What did Necro say? Hang on.
Oh, do fines go away? Some good information coming

(01:11:42):
out. Questions coming on standby.
Scrolling back. I didn't get into half the stuff
I wanted to talk about. Maybe we'll leave it for
tomorrow, Lulu says. I graduated from Police
foundations last April. Congratulations.
Scrolling back. OK, the mirror wants to know if
he's going to dispute a parking ticket.
That's one more ago, month ago. You look at the instructions of

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the back of the ticket to find out what you can do.
OK, Necro says if someone brake checks you and you are
rear-ended, then are both parties at fault?
Well, the person who brake checked you would be eligible
for stunt driving charges and the and you'd potentially,
potentially still be at fault for hitting them.

(01:12:29):
Unless it was something like theaggressively passed you, cut you
off and hit the brakes, you you wouldn't be able to respond fast
enough. But if you were just in front of
them and they intentionally broke or broke, braked, braked
and then you hit them. It depends.
This is why you have to have a dash camera.
You should, everyone should havea dash camera.
But if it was truly an intentional act to screw it with

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you, then they would probably beeating it all.
But the insurance company may still hold you responsible even
though charges wouldn't be late because there's things like that
for the fault listings. Is it illegal to operate a
bicycle? Wander the influence?
Yes, but not because of impaireddriving.
It's because public intox and risk themselves and others and

(01:13:11):
stupid stuff like that. You just shouldn't do it.
Like it's not that you're going to get charged for impaired
operation, but if you're fall down drunk and you're riding
drunk, you're going to fall down.
OK. My plan is to join the OBP to my
two years in Manitouage, Ontario, then transfer to
Thunder Bay. Police Right on, go for it.

(01:13:33):
Radar will reflect off the radar.
I don't know what Greg was talking about or who he was
talking to. What would happen if I break the
law during a ride along? You're probably going to have
the ride along cut short and you'd be escorted back to the
station and having somebody put some paperwork in to make sure
you never do another one. What law are you going to break?
Don't. Don't break the law and don't,

(01:13:54):
don't, don't do it on camera anddon't do it with a police
officer witness. It will not end well for you.
It's go. Oh, it's Goku losing license due
to points on AG2. We just talked about that over
there. Yeah, different, different
screens. What is with everyone saying
their headphones don't work on Kik?

(01:14:15):
It must be an epidemic or you'rea bot.
I think you're a bot anyway. Would you support increasing
commercial truck speed limiter to 110?
I don't think that anyone needs to be doing 110.
A hundred is just fine. But they've seen fit to increase
speeds to 110. The sad truth is that you're the

(01:14:37):
slowest trucks, the slowest vehicles on the road.
You just weigh a gizzling pounds.
But there's no reason you need to go faster in my opinion.
And everyone who's going faster than you should be charged
because no one should be doing over 110 because the road
maximum speed in Ontario is 110.Jordan is based says I have a

(01:14:58):
driving test today and he tips on forward and reverse parking.
Don't rely on the cameras. Get your butt out of the seat
and look all the way around. You are allowed to take your
seat belt off to reverse properly.
Yeah, pee before your test. Make sure you don't get
distracted by having to do the pee pee dance.
Eat something so you're not hungry.
Take a nap if you're tired. Like go there calm and do what

(01:15:22):
you do I I don't have any reversing tips for you, though
that would be useful. OK, Tracy says take your time
and be sure to signal. OK, It's oh, so it's Goku wants
to know. It says they only have a day to
decide. If you have a day to decide you

(01:15:43):
left it late, try for your G2 ifyou can pass it and get it and
if you can get it and it helps you, great.
If it doesn't help you, you've not lost anything, Wicked says.
I recently ran into a few peoplethat that does sound wicked,
Wicked says. I recently pulled over a few

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modified vehicles with racing steering wheels without airbags
or horns. Although horns are obviously a
good ticket, removing an airbag is against the law unless you're
a red seal mechanic from my understanding, and Melody could
chime in on that. But if you take the airbag out
that was required for safety to be passed then I believe your
vehicle is no longer safe for the road and charging that

(01:16:25):
person for unsafe motor vehicle would be pretty good.
Now if you have a vehicle that doesn't have airbags, taking the
steering wheel off there's no problem and replacing it with
another steering wheel. But they they very often put a
horn switch, which I don't like,but it is legal as long as they
can activate a horn. What is this?
You won't be able to do test with the suspension.

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Oh, if you're already suspended.Greg makes a good point.
It's currently not suspended. That was my understanding, too.
It's so funny. Greg and I just went through the
same trickle of information. Yeah.
So the question is whether or not they they, they get their
credit limit increased. Loco Tortilla says Hey Ben, Ben.

(01:17:09):
I'm not Ben. I'm Sean.
Why police departments don't come and raise hell about crappy
laws and politicians? They do, or at least their
representation does. If you go look at the Toronto
Police Association, they are very involved in politics and
trying to change laws to benefitthe people they serve and not
the Dum Dums who do stupid dance.

(01:17:31):
They are very much trying to make the world a safer place and
they're they're they're fightingfor us.
So they they do they, they police officers can't get
political, but the police associations that are elected to
represent the police officers are very political.
So that that's the answer there.I hope I made it clear as one

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Mir says, can't get insurance. They won't accept me because I'm
because some cancellation. Amir, don't drive without
insurance. Dude, 5 to $25,000 on your first
conviction and jail up to six months in jail.
If you can't get insured, sell your car, don't drive, don't

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drive without insurance. That is the stupidest thing you
could ever do. Like it's it's absolutely
stupid. I would use stronger language if
people get offended and then youknow it's a thing.
But but don't do that. I don't do it to the people
you're going to hit. Don't do it to ruin your life
and your children's future life.Like even if you're not even
married doesn't matter if like like don't drive without

(01:18:36):
insurance, take the bus, take a plane, take a train, don't
drive. OK CIF 87 at stoplight when went
to charge my phone and got a fine $100 using phone so
ridiculous $100. What jurisdiction are you when

(01:18:57):
you've got $100 here? It would be $618 plus the mayor
points and a suspension for plugging your phone in.
Don't touch your phone when you're driving $100 You got off
light. OK If OK do fines ever go away?
Fines are paid or not paid. They don't disappear on their

(01:19:18):
own. If you don't pay them, you get
suspended, things escalate and then they start charging
interest. But if you have points to marry
points on your license, they do expire after two years, two
years after the date of the offense.
So going back to its Goku, if your conviction is registered
and you know you will eventuallyget your your points will go

(01:19:41):
down. You should.
A lot of people play the game. I'm just trying to wait for it
for a new conviction to be registered.
They they try and stall things so their old conviction expires.
Just saying. Phoenix says what am I legally
allowed to drive with my basic vehicle license?
What? What?
First of all, what jurisdiction are you on?

(01:20:02):
What license are we talking about?
I need to know more. Excuse me, Wurzman.
Wurzman, 64, says what sort of information is the officer
reviewing when signing off on a camera speed ticket?
Well, first of all, they're no longer speed cameras in at least
not issuing tickets in the province of Ontario.
My understanding is they are seeing a time stamped series of

(01:20:26):
photos. I'd say that you.
Across the intersection, you know, across the white stop bar
entering the intersection after it turned red.
That's all they're verifying. And that you are that, that the
the thingamabobber is correct. The license plate.
What is this? Oh, I left it on the screen for

(01:20:46):
a long, long time. OK.
Whenever a new Fast and Furious movie comes out or a new Grand
Theft Auto movie comes out, do you notice a hike in traffic
laws being broken? 100 percent, 100% if whether
there's a study to support it ornot 100% what you meant game.
Are cars with train horns legal?You can't make unnecessary

(01:21:07):
noise. But I think that the train
horns. I had air horns in my
motorcycle. I I still do have air horns in
my motorcycle. It just hasn't been licensed for
the road in many years. Yeah, Pekka.
Hey, brother, Pekka says lookinggood.
Pyro. Keep up the great work.
Mutual friend of ours called me Pyro and it's too too long since
I've heard Pyro. Yeah, good to hear from you

(01:21:34):
Becca. Hope you're doing well.
OK. Boom boom boom in BC.
Recommend the person to fight the ticket so they have their
full license before conviction. Interesting.
OK, thank you again. Tracy, I'm yours.

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Like he's only answering questions from X now.
I'm answering questions from everywhere.
I asked it earlier. I'll ask it again.
But first I'll tell you who I am.
My name is Sean Chabrill. I'm a former police officer,
talks about Traffic Safety, traffic law and police stuff.
And if you want to know stuff and things, join me here.
Tuesdays at 10 AM, Wednesdays at9 PMI talk about all sorts of
stuff and things. And it's just some good fun and
it's here to help you. It's that resource.

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It's not always easy to ask a cop stuff.
Well, I'm not a cop anymore, so I should be easy to ask.
I was easy to ask when I was a cop too.
If you, if you don't have a will, you know that document
that you file to say what happens to your stuff and things
when you stop walking on this little blue marble?
Well, I just want to let you know that I got you a deal.
If you are looking to get a will, go to ifinallywill.com.

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It's all typity, clickety, clackety.
It's from the people who broughtyou lawyers and lattes.
And yeah, you go use AATC, you get a 50% off your bill and half
price is a good deal, isn't it? I think it's a good deal, yeah.
It's that little thing that you don't know you needed, so you
needed it, and suddenly when youneeded it, you're already dead.

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Because it's a will, right? But they also deal stuff with
power of attorneys. You know what happens if you're
in the hospital and you can't represent yourself?
Who gets to make the decisions for what happens to you?
We don't think about these things because it's
uncomfortable, but it's important stuff.
OK, what is this? Is there any law, Ontario, about

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passing on a double solid yellowline?
I've had to argue with so many people.
No one believes me that it's it's not illegal, but you're
responsible for whatever happens.
So it's First of all, Ontario isthe only province in Canada that
doesn't have a law about passingsolid lines.
Secondly, you could be charged for careless driving or any
other number of things what you done, but the line itself isn't
a charge. They bring up Chad's law but

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it's being proposed, not passed.Good to know.
I don't know who they are but they keep on bringing those
things up. OK Necro says who doesn't have
winter tires? They wouldn't get very far.
Very true, but most people have.All seasons are all weather, not
a true dedicated winter. KJ says hey man, I'm in a big

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mess. Would you care to answer this?
What would my lawyers be able todo?
KJI don't know what your question is.
I only saw that Joe Suna, this is prerecorded.
He's not addressing any of my current comments.
Joe Suna, this is not recorded. That's the first comment that I
saw from you thus far. So either your stuff is all

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offensive and it's being clippedby the AI or you're just
trolling. Either way, I'm absolutely here.
Green plate cars can drive the HIV with one occupant.
Yes, that's from it's and Daidang.
It's in Daidang. I don't want to figure out how
that's a a word plate of some kind.
Yeah, green plates are specifically electric and

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hydrogen powered vehicles. They would qualify for green
plates and hybrids that are plugin anyway.
Those vehicles can drive with one occupant in the vehicle
along with motorcycles. KJ wants to know what his lawyer
can do but I don't know what your question is.
I only saw the oh here we here we go.
KJ says I have no insurance charge, no registration charge,

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no plate display charge, failureto remain charge.
What could my lawyers do according to my previous prior
to negotiate for a lower fine orconsequence.
Because if you did all those things, you're guilty as hell.
How do you explain that away? Why would you drive with no
insurance, no registration, no plate and fail to remain after a

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collision? There's no good luck.
I don't even know how to help you, you, you.
It's one thing to make a mistakewhat you described as someone
who willfully doesn't give a shit about the law.
And I I can't help you there. OK, let's go here.

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What we got what we got. Oh, there's a ton of stuff here
we should have cameras and ambulances and fire trucks to
find cars that don't yield rightof way 100% that's just a dad
trying. And IA 100% agree with you.
Josh. Josh 24 wants to know about how
you enforce HOV lens. It requires police officers to
go and drive around. OK, what do we got here?

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Matt says. So here's a question.
Is there such a thing as gettingpulled over for a male driving a
female's car? So yes.
And it sort of happened to me when I was a kid.
I had a Mustang. My Mustang was registered to my
mother because I didn't have my own insurance policy.
It was a fleet insurance. It was in my mother's name.
And I was a secondary vehicle driver.

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And I got pulled over and they said we're investigating because
you don't look like this woman. I said it was the beard that
gave it away. You know, it's a high.
They're just investigating and they can pull you over for
anything. Pull you over just to make sure
you have a license. Pull you over just to make sure
you're insured. Pull you over just to make sure

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you're not drunk. Pull you over to make sure the
vehicle's safe for the road. Absolutely.
You don't have to do anything wrong to get pulled over, but
boom. Mary Dicam says as a broker,
it's not required, but companieswill give you a 2 to 5%
discount. I'm assuming that's in relation
to tires, winter tires. Tim bit.

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Hi, Sean. Can my wife fight ticket for
careless driving? She fell asleep behind the
wheel. How do you fight that?
It was careless. If she was tired, she's lucky.
I'm hoping she didn't hurt anybody.
But how do you fight it? That's the see, fighting isn't.
If you can fight anything, will you win?
Were you not being careless whenyou fell asleep behind the
wheel? And if so, how were you not

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being careless? Did you pull over and park it in
a parking lot because you were feeling tired?
No. You tried to push on.
I wish I can give you better news.
I don't think there's a defense for falling asleep behind the
wheel, but you know, you could. You could go there and say, I'm
really sorry. I'm not, I'm not saying I was

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innocent. I'm not saying I was right.
I just, I'm having financial difficulty and maybe you could,
you know, help me out because, you know, you could ask that,
yeah, I want time to pay. Can I have a year to pay it over
monthly installments? But to say innocence is a big
stretch. Maybe you can plead guilty to a
lesser and included offence and have less impact.
That's possible. They have the power to do that.

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What is this? We talked about that.
Mr. D73 wants to know when you go through an intersection at a
yellow light and it turns red, will you get a ticket?
You could. A yellow light means stop unless
it's unsafe to do so. But most people are hammering
down the gas to try and catch the yellow or it turns red.

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Now if you are already in the intersection on a green and it
turns yellow and red, is it illegal?
No. If it turns the whole concept.
You need to think about this. If you're traveling at a lawful
speed, you should, if you are not yet beyond the point of no
return, able to clear the intersection before it turns red

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on a yellow. If you are to the point where
it's turning red while you're inthe intersection, probably means
you gunned it to try and catch before it turns red.
And then yes, it's against the lot across.
Or enter an intersection on a ona yellow because yellow means
stop. Greg says D73 maybe.
Yeah, obviously has to see it and has to be, you know,
interested. But yeah, Melody says got to

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have all the airbags that the vehicle was built with to be
safe. So yeah, if you take the
vehicles airbags out, you are anunsafe motor vehicle.
Cars have GPS. One day we'll get a fine in the
mail. If it detects speeding, tick
tock ticks. Actually, I, I think that's it's
not going to happen because you're, it's making the
responsible item your vehicle for issuing the tickets.

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I mean that that might work, butI know you're saying that's a
bad thing, but actually it's probably not a bad thing.
Craig Marshall says 1984 right now.
I mean, you look at the UK, you get a just like going on the
four O 7. They take a picture when you
enter and you get a picture whenyou're when you leave.
Well, the the the four O 7 couldcalculate a fine and send it to

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you in the mail based on the true and accurate time you were
on the road, because they could calculate your average, which is
actually a very fairway of doingit.
I got I got to say so I got to say so it is it's a good way of
doing it. Talked about that already.
Oh, storm gaming vlog says good morning, Sean, good morning to

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you. Glad to see you.
What do you got here? OK.
So Tomo says how come I managed to get a stunt driving ticket
because of sliding while turningon a non plowed Rd.
Well, did you intentionally makethe vehicle spin while turning?

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Did you ride the spinning turn all the way through like a a
drift? Because that's not driving.
See if you were to lose tractiontemporarily and regain traction
and go about your business. You regain traction and we're
driving in a controlled manner. If you did a sweeping drift
around the corner, that is stuntdriving.

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And Greg Marshall quite literally said the cop thought
you did it on purpose. And you may have and you may not
have. Caretaker says you're bored on
the what your board on the rightshould read Ask a retired
traffic cop because you're not one anymore.
Well caretaker, the show is the name of the show and the goal of

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the show is to have police officers active, current or
retired, whatever. Speak now.
I have not acquired a new personto come in and be me where I can
be the host and talk. But the show is called Ask a
traffic cop. It says former police officer
underneath and if I get a copperwho's active as my guest, he's a
traffic cop and I'm still I'm still someone who has the same

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knowledge as I did last week andlast year.
So yeah, I've I've thought aboutthat, but it's it's not not
necessary, but I appreciate yourinput.
Worse than 64 says what sort of information.
We talked about this several times, so I'll keep going.
Smoke Kadosh or Dakush says I have a big question.

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When someone's turning and they turn into the outermost lane.
Outermost lane, is that legal? No, it's an improper term.
Caretakers an idiot, not a cop. Still a tyrant.
Yeah. Your putts.
OK, moving on. What's the fine for commercial
vehicle in Ontario that hasn't bought a license plate sticker

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for years? I, I, if you're I don't know, is
it not just a regular license plate sticker ticket?
OK, which if it's the same as non commercial, let me look it
up because we have the technology.
Oh, my buddy from it's nice to know you're on there.

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Jack Tire Butler. Oh, he was on the radio.
I was listening to it. Tire Butler sells license plate
relocation system. That's funny.
We were going to look at that and I just I'm about to listen
to you on the radio. That's awesome.
OK, what are I looking for? I'm looking for.
Here we go. Do, do, do.

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Oh yeah. So plates, commercial vehicle,
Well, no permit would be a $490.00 ticket.
Drive me a drive motor vehicle, no permit if you don't validate.
Yeah, $490.00 for commercial vehicle.
It's a whole lot more than the other ones.

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I forgot I had that button. I forgot that I could do this.
It's so much fun. It's very festive.
All right. OK.
Wendell or Wendy says my GPS will let me know if there's a

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cop in the area. Yep, mine does too, doesn't it?
Well, it does. Based on other people's report.
It's not actually doing anythingother than sharing what other
people have said. Ways will if you.
Yeah, that's why I use ways. What's the law for yelling
racial slurs at people in public?
That's just being an ass. But is it a hate incident?

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Otherwise, it's not really a thing.
Maybe a hate incident, hate speech, possibly.
I Greg Marshall says hate speech, but it's I think it's
very specific triggers for hate speech.
Can truck drivers be on the phone or CB radio?
Not on the phone dispatch radios.
I believe there's exemptions forthem.

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MTO needs more blitzes. Absolutely OK H Monk.
Certain people are photoshoppingtheir annual safeties.
Really. And Island Raven says the cops
use Waze while working, too. I used to feel so famous when I
was being notified by Waze that I was there and and and and

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sharing my location. I used to take screenshots and
send it to my wife. I made it to the big time.
All right, a ranked list. I put a video up.
Oh, it's that it's that Instagram only.
Hang on. I want the list.
I want the total between both. This is definitely a

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conversation for tomorrow night.That is, we're going to listen
to a killer Draconis's video in a moment with dad jokes and a
couple other dad jokes that are oh, Nicholas Rizzi's says he
will pretend to be a police officer so he can host the the
segment. That's that's good of you.

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And as a that would definitely be a comedic element.
All right, let me see here. I got dad jokes pinned.
While I get that running, let's let's listen to some dad jokes
from Kayla. Greetings and salutations.
It's Tequila Draconis with today's jokes.
Knock Knock, Who's there? Ave.

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Ave. Who?
Haven't you heard this joke before?
Not his best work. We'll keep going my.
Wife says she's leaving me because of my unhealthy
obsession with poker. I think she's bluffing.

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What do you call a belt made of lobsters, scallops and oysters?
A waste of good seafood, as in waste.
And a quote for today from Seneca.
Difficulties strengthen the mindas labor does the body.

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Miss Akayla Jaconas signing off for today.
Stay safe and remember, don't have a good day.
Have a great day. Thanks Akayla.
That's so awesome. Akayla is a long time friend of
the show and you know, he was sending me all the dad jokes and
I said why don't we actually getyou to record them?
Yeah, makes sense. Yeah.

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Joke. How can you tell if an Ant is a
boy or a girl? Put them in the water.
If it sinks, it's a girl Ant. If it floats, it's buoyant.
I like the thinking elements of it because I was like, hey,

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what? It's good.
I liked it a lot, actually. I have to use that other than
just reading it now. OK dad joke.
How do you how do you follow Will Smith in the mud?
Follow The Fresh Prince I think.I think someone shared this with
with me at one point. Yuli wants to know what kind of

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body Cam do you wear normally? Is it The Axon is what's used by
the Toronto police and most police agencies across North
America. I'm not aware.
I've never been trained or used them.
I was off the road before they were implemented.
But I think they're the best thing since sliced bread because
they are good for police. OK, is he wearing an X wing

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suit? Yes, he is a killer.
Draconis is his his stage name for his flight suit pilot
persona. He's the Star Wars guy.
OK I was going to leave for tomorrow but I can't.
I I need to say it now. I need to.
I put up a video asking what pissed you off what what?
I put up a video saying what ruins your commute and I got

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some answers. The tap 10 list totally ruin
this for tomorrow. The top ten list, 10 being
cyclists and road sharing problems.
That's the top. The number 10/9 distracted
driving and phone use 8 speed issues.

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Too fast or too slow? Either one. 7 tailgating and
following too closely. Well I guess they worded it
differently but it's the same thing.
Then the number six complaint that ruins people's commute
lighting problems. People who have high beams, LED
glare, no lights at night or daytime, running lights without

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tail lights. The five spot goes to not
following stop signs, red lights, or yield rules.
The number 4 was merging in lanechange issues.
That's people who don't understand zipper merges
blocking people so they can't merge properly or or jumping out

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to jump back in. Just being a potty head.
Yeah OK. Left lane misuse, slow in the
passing lane. That's the number 3 #2 is not
using turn signals or communication failures.

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What's a communication failure? I don't know what they mean but
I'm assuming that not signaling is what they meant and it was
interpreted as communication failure.
The number one thing cited by you, the TikTok and Instagram
audience, aggressive and reckless driving includes brake

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checking, blocking passes, squeezing into gaps, cutting
into lanes, unsafe behavior meant to intimidate.
These are all valid complaints. They are lot of folks doing dumb
stuff behind the wheel. I'm going to turn that into a
better post. I'm going to make a video
dedicated to it because I think it's an interesting, an
interesting discussion. Listen, I'm going to say goodbye

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and I'm going to let you say goodbye or let you see a video
as I say goodbye. As I was talking about it, I was
talking about it. We were talking about it on the
Jerry Agar show earlier. Christmas lights.
What? Do you think you're the coolest
guy in the parking lot and then this guy shows up?
I forgot to turn off the audio. Oh, no, We're going to get in

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trouble. Yeah.
What do you think? It's kind of cool and totally
illegal, but it's kind of cool. Yeah.
Would you drive that drive safe,drive sober, Merry Christmas.

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I'm in Christmas mode, so it's Merry Christmas all the way
through Happy Hanukkah to anyonewho celebrates.
We're it's early, but I'm starting now.
I'm I'm I'm full holiday mode until the holidays.
We'll see you tomorrow, 9:00 PM Eastern Time for ask a traffic
cop after dark. Be safe out there.

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It's fun, it's good hour and 46 minutes.
Oh my God. Oh oh.
Why do cops carry pencils in case they have to draw their
weapon? I like that Skippy says no more

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jokes please. Pee Pee Poopy says he's going to
speed. I hope you get caught, Greg
Marshall says. Have a great day to you too,
brother. Take care.

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