"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
02/26/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: None
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
02/26/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: None | 1
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If you took the time to google what Circuito Gandhi was when I
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, you would’ve realized it crosses with one of the main roads of the F A N C Y part of town; Reforma, and thus this crossing exists:
It’s a protected left turn from Reforma into Circuito Gandhi, from the ground it looks like this, and I need you to focus on one small detail: the U turn is not permitted:
This picture is actually old, now there are
two
signs saying that one cannot do a U turn at this crossing because there’s incoming traffic. Normally Circuito Gandhi gets filled with cars as it is one of the main entryways into a very business focused part of the city: Polanco, so people have quite enough time to read the fucking signs, more over, they can also see something else...
Now, normally any time I need to use it, about 1 in 5 cars does the U turn regardless of what the sign says. However, cops have wizened up around here. Because it’s the fancy part of town and most cars that do that illegal turn are fancy cars or taxi drivers with cash in hand, well, they set up camp there, literally blocking a bus lane 15m in front of an intersection and 20m behind a bus stop:
Once you do the illegal U-turn, you will be faced with two patrol cars and five transit police officers who will stop you. Do you want to know what these infractors also get to see?
Well, as you line up to make the protected left turn,
you can see the transit police pulling cars over for doing u turns
. and they still do it. How fucking reckless do you have to be?
That stopped Tiguan is being interrogated by a police officer, average bribe in Mexico is 14 dollars.
Do you think they give out tickets to these people?
Oh silly me, let me remind you that police officers take around half of Mexico’s bribes, numbering about 3 billion dollars annually. I hope that clears things up.
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WilliamsSW
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/26/2018 at 13:06 |
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La mordida...
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Spanfeller is a twat
> WilliamsSW
02/26/2018 at 13:16 |
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As long as they don’t bite the feeding hand
Urambo Tauro
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/26/2018 at 13:19 |
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But why even prohibit U-turns here at all? I bet that the protected left turn here is supposed to simultaneously be a protected right turn for drivers exiting Circuito Gandhi. Otherwise, you have U-turning drivers cutting off that traffic.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Urambo Tauro
02/26/2018 at 13:23 |
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You prohibit the U turn on the left turn to protect the right turning traffic, but they don’t care, I’ve been cut off countless times doing the protected right...
Ash78, voting early and often
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/26/2018 at 13:44 |
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How much is a typical bribe for a minor infraction around there?
As we like to say, “I’m asking for a friend”
RPM esq.
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/26/2018 at 13:45 |
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This is near the anthropology museum in the Bosque Chapultepec, right? I am 100% sure I have been in a taxi that made an illegal U-turn at that exact spot.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> RPM esq.
02/26/2018 at 13:54 |
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It is very close
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/26/2018 at 15:15 |
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according to a study the Mexican average is 14 dollar’s worth but in those places 500 to 600 pesos wouldn’t surprise me. Really just follow the law, if you break an obscure law just tell the officer to ticket you. Most times they’ll let you go because processing a ticket is harder than stabilizing nuclear fission in these parts.
If the cop threatens to impound the car, ask them to point out which law gives them authority to impound your car (all cops have the Mexico City code of law in a book), it’s very hard to get impounded, only for serious offenses, but they always threaten you so that you bribe them.
If the cop keeps harassing you, videotape them as you you shame them for being bad.
If a situation turns more upsetting than that, you’re in really trouble and it’s probably wiser to run away or roll up your window and call the police (not that it would come to that in Mexico City)