California laws to change after accident
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, jokingly known as “the Governator” has approached the California State Review Board with a bill supporting more lax driving laws, including those related to motorcycles, at the CSRB council meeting last Thursday.
The bill included amendments to the current law including a three-strikes system for driving infractions instead of the only one chance policy the state currently enforces. It also includes a detailed plan to loosen up on drivers who are operating a motorcycle without a proper class M motorcycle license.
Although bills like this one are not uncommon in the US, many Californians believe the sudden interest in the driving laws was sparked by the Governators recent run-in with the law regarding his own motorcycle license, or lack thereof.
“Its pretty fishy that Arnold is bringing this bill amendment to the table less than a week after his little accident,” said CSRB chairman Sen. Les Scott.
Scott was referring to small accident the Governator was in on the weekend that involved his motorcycle. According to the police report, Schwarzenegger collided with a vehicle on the Santa Monica freeway when the vehicle in front of him failed to signal that he was turning. The Governator, who had his son in the motorcycle's sidecar, narrowly missed a head-on collission by skidding out on the pavement.
No one was seriously injured in the accident, although Schwarzenegger was brought by ambulance to the hospital where he received a dozen stitches in his lip.
An investigation into the accident revealed that the Governator never received his class M motorcycle license, and has been driving his numerous bikes illegally since he enteredthe country in 1968.
“I am truly embarassed that I was caught breaking the law,” Schwarzenegger said at a news conference following the accident, “but I also feel that what I was doing isn't so bad.
“We need to focus our police on more serious matters, like catching rogue militia personnel and nearly-indestructable robots sent from the future. You know, like the ones I play in the movies.”
In nearly any other case in any other state, this amendment proposal would have been thrown out, but the people in California have come to expect this kind of behaviour from the movie star-turned-politician.
“We all know that he doesn't quite get what goes on in American government, in spite of his wife's political background,” said long-time Californian Jared Blackwell. “He gets a little confused between the characters he played in the movies and his real-life role as Governor of California.”
The bill goes to a vote next month when the SCRB meets for their first 2006 vote session. The driving amendment is on the table with a number of other new and revised bylaw suggestions made by the Governator, including one to allow pregnancy testing on males. testing on mercury as a material to create invincible soldiers, and a number of bans on movies starring or produced by Sylvester Stallone, including the upcoming Rocky VII and Rambo 4.
Disclaimer: Stories printed in the Fanshawe Distorter are in fact fictious. Any resemblance to persons real or dead is unintentional and entirely hilarious. Proudly distorting the truth since 2005.
The bill included amendments to the current law including a three-strikes system for driving infractions instead of the only one chance policy the state currently enforces. It also includes a detailed plan to loosen up on drivers who are operating a motorcycle without a proper class M motorcycle license.
Although bills like this one are not uncommon in the US, many Californians believe the sudden interest in the driving laws was sparked by the Governators recent run-in with the law regarding his own motorcycle license, or lack thereof.
“Its pretty fishy that Arnold is bringing this bill amendment to the table less than a week after his little accident,” said CSRB chairman Sen. Les Scott.
Scott was referring to small accident the Governator was in on the weekend that involved his motorcycle. According to the police report, Schwarzenegger collided with a vehicle on the Santa Monica freeway when the vehicle in front of him failed to signal that he was turning. The Governator, who had his son in the motorcycle's sidecar, narrowly missed a head-on collission by skidding out on the pavement.
No one was seriously injured in the accident, although Schwarzenegger was brought by ambulance to the hospital where he received a dozen stitches in his lip.
An investigation into the accident revealed that the Governator never received his class M motorcycle license, and has been driving his numerous bikes illegally since he enteredthe country in 1968.
“I am truly embarassed that I was caught breaking the law,” Schwarzenegger said at a news conference following the accident, “but I also feel that what I was doing isn't so bad.
“We need to focus our police on more serious matters, like catching rogue militia personnel and nearly-indestructable robots sent from the future. You know, like the ones I play in the movies.”
In nearly any other case in any other state, this amendment proposal would have been thrown out, but the people in California have come to expect this kind of behaviour from the movie star-turned-politician.
“We all know that he doesn't quite get what goes on in American government, in spite of his wife's political background,” said long-time Californian Jared Blackwell. “He gets a little confused between the characters he played in the movies and his real-life role as Governor of California.”
The bill goes to a vote next month when the SCRB meets for their first 2006 vote session. The driving amendment is on the table with a number of other new and revised bylaw suggestions made by the Governator, including one to allow pregnancy testing on males. testing on mercury as a material to create invincible soldiers, and a number of bans on movies starring or produced by Sylvester Stallone, including the upcoming Rocky VII and Rambo 4.
Disclaimer: Stories printed in the Fanshawe Distorter are in fact fictious. Any resemblance to persons real or dead is unintentional and entirely hilarious. Proudly distorting the truth since 2005.
