Wasn’t that a plot point in an episode of The Simpsons?
Look kid! Big Ben… Parliament!
How much gas you got boy
In Spain the answer is 3. It was a question in the driving test. Idk if it’s a europe-wide rule though.
I had an uncle who nearly tested this theory.
I hope he gets his license pulled soon.
In a town in Ohio I used to live in, the answer was 50. There is a law on the books that says its a misdemeanor to lap over 50 times in a day.
Some of those laws are no longer on the books, so I wonder about that one. Like, what does “around the town square” actually mean? There’s not a straightforward “town square” in Oxford. And while the article asks “What exactly happened to make Oxford so protective of its town square?”, you and I both know the answer is “drunk college students”. Also funny that they don’t actually show the public sidewalk, but instead the little square between Elliot and Stoddard for the sidewalk law.
Edit: a quick search through the municipal traffic codes doesn’t reveal anything, so I’m guessing this is one of Miami’s many rumors that happened to get picked up by a less-than-thourough website. Or potentially it used to exist but no longer does. Or maybe I missed it, but I’m willing to bet that’s not the case.
I think the law was from the late 60s-mid 70s when driving muscle cars around was a popular past time for young men. My guess is it’s a problem that kinda just went away when other types of entertainment became more popular.
So what you’re saying is you can do 49 donuts around it and it’s perfectly legal. Cops love donuts so I’m sure I’m 100% correct
So, start a few minutes before midnight, get in 50 laps, then 50 the next day.
I would love to get a source on this. I tried but couldn’t find anything. That’s hilarious if true.
Added source to original post
In a day? These laps don’t have to be consecutive for it to be illegal?
50 nonconsecutive laps in a day isn’t even that much, tbh.
As a cabbie, I could drive 25 fares a day, and if I go back to my station after the fare, then I’d drive one lap while driving the customer home and another while going back myself.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, anyone who drives for their job could easily be crossing the same traffic circle dozens of times a day. That would be against the law?
Spirit vs intention of law, they wouldn’t be ticketing people who do it for work, it would be for people like OP who have nothing better than be a “menace”.
I’ve thought about getting a few dozen people and just going in a loop around a couple of blocks screwing over the traffic circle. So yeah the laws probably because someone actually decided to do it.
I think you mean spirit vs letter of the law, but yeah, any time you count on cops or courts honoring the ‘spirit of the law’ you’re probably gonna get burned.
Of course with this law nobody is gonna get burned unless they are actually doing laps. Cops don’t have time to be counting how many times you went through a traffic circle in a day, they’ve got people and dogs to kill.
And this perspective is entirely what’s wrong with civilization……
Entirely, huh? Nothing else that needs adjusting? lol
If you do a “straight” (1/2 way around) does it count as 1/2?
In Australia I was picked up for going around four times. They were watching from the start and threatened me with a reckless driving charge.
Pretty sure that the law in Aus is 7 times, but let’s be real if it’s more than 3 times you’re either lost as shit, don’t know how roundabouts work at all or just fucking around.
Realistically, however long it took for someone else to notice you were doing it and call them.
Source: had the cops called on my friends and I multiple times for having foam sword fights in parking lots at college. Apparently people from a distance thought actual fighting was going on. Not sure if that’s a testament to our acting or their poor eye sight.
Tbh how often do you see someone sword dueling lol
Every. Fucking. Day. Honestly, being the Highlander is fucking exhausting.
Bullshit cruising or loitering ordinances that should have never been passed would probably be the excuse cops use in many areas
What is cruising in this context?
It’s your own private NASCAR track
Come to Hemel Hempstead!
Long as youre not stopping traffic
So… If a bunch of friends and I just fill up a roundabout with our cars, just going round and round…
Straight to jail.
Well if you’re drifting like that you’d get dinged for reckless driving first anyway.
24 hours of Le rond-point
In about 1968, my dad drove round the roundabout in front of Buckingham Palace so us kids could get a better gander at the palace.
We got pulled over by a Bobby on the third circuit, and I kid you not, his first question was ‘What’s going on here, then?’ We were told if we wanted a better look, we would have to park the car and walk - like everyone else. The answer to the question is 3.
Wow, y’all have had roundabouts since the 60’s? I didn’t see any in the US until like 2010.
And here I thought they were modern inventions
Funnily enough, the concept of a circular traffic junction - in a form similar to a roundabout today - was first introduced in Washington DC in the 1790s, including the Dupont Circle.
So literally speaking, you septics invented the
roundabouttraffic circle.
Well the answer now is 0. That round about isn’t a roundabout anymore.
