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What car gets ticketed by police the most? The Hummer H2/H3 comes out on top, followed by the Scion tC, Scion XB and Mercedes Benz CLK63 AMG.

A few of the least ticketed vehicles are the Jaguar XJ sedan, Chevrolet Suburban, and the Chevrolet Tahoe.

My Little Dream
 

Drivers of Hummer SUVs were 4.63 times more likely to get a traffic ticket than the average driver, concludes a yearlong study by a company that helps insurers identify risks.
ISO Quality Planning, the San Francisco company that studied the records of 1.7 million drivers, compiled a list of ticket magnets that confirmed some long-held notions: Owners of the 507-horsepower Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG and similarly muscular CLK63 AMG received outsized numbers of tickets, as did the generally young owners of the relatively inexpensive Scion tC, xB and xA, and the Audi A4 sports sedan.
But also on that most-ticketed list were the Subaru Outback and the Toyota Camry Solara and Matrix, three cars not known for great speed or expressing the rebellious nature of their owners. Meanwhile, the Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, virtually identical mechanically to their General Motors sibling Hummer, appeared on the least-ticketed list.

[From MSN.com]

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Ice Cream and the Law

November 11, 2008

“By Law, anything calling itself ”ice cream”, has to contain atleast 10% milk fat. That’s the bare minumum. High end ice cream will contain more. The second thing is air. By Law, ice cream manufacturers can use 100% overrun, which means that there is as much air (by volume) as there is ice cream.”
-Alton Brown, Good Eats episode “Churn Baby Churn”

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The Emperor of Siam and Elephants

“The Emperor of Siam would give people a white elephant as a means of Punishment- it was illegal to ride, work, kill, or send it away; you had to feed it and care for it, without any use out of the elephant.”

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The Largest Voluntary Professional Organization

“The American Bar Association, chaired by Karen Mathis of Denver, Colorado, with over 400,000 members is the largest voluntary professional organization.” [http://www.abanet.org]

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Jury Nullification

“Law Through “jury nullification”, a jury can disregard the law and reach a verdict based on their own experiences and prejudices.” [source]

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Newton’s First Law of Motion

“An object at rest tends to stay in rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion in a straight line at constant speed unless acted upon by an outside force.” [source]

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