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The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-this-house-we-obey-the-laws-of-thermodynamics dept.

New submitter HeLLFiRe1151 sends this quote from Physics Central: "Here's a practical application for your physics education: using math to successfully beat a traffic ticket in court. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist based at the University of California San Diego, did just that to avoid paying a fee for (purportedly) running a stop sign. Krioukov not only proved his innocence, but he also posted a paper detailing his argument online (PDF) on the arXiv server."

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  1. honestly Officer, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Relative to my car, I was travelling at virtually 0 mph!

  2. Re:Partially Blocked View by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I swear Judge some where in the multiverse I stopped.

  3. Gravity and breasts by romit_icarus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing new, I say. I've often seen traffic laws being trumped by nothing less than a generous show of cleavage, which always seemed to defy at least one of the physics laws, namely gravity.

  4. Re:I was going to try something similar... by bhcompy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I successfully tried something similar(explaining my way out of a ticket, not math). Cop pulled me over for a busted taillight, then cited me for driving without a seatbelt because I had undone my seatbelt to get my wallet prior to the officer arriving at my window. Thing is, my car(72 Chevelle) had the most annoying seatbelt warning buzzer in the world and it does not go off automatically after a short duration(like modern cars). I explained what I did to the officer, who didn't believe me, so I asked the officer to put the car in gear and tell me if they can drive with the buzzer from hell buzzing at them in its constant high-pitched whine. Cop relented, gave me my fixit ticket, and let me on my way.