[QUOTE=cjd;2097147]Never heard that one before? I swear its true, we watched a cop do that the other day. I hate driving in my neighborhood because of this. Been almost rear ended many times. My favorite was the times car was already in the intersection... And the SUV driver could a seen it ifnot for...
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Nope a total urban legend that a fair number of people seem to believe! There is even a facebook page telling people what you think.
All new stop signs are made with a white border. It is there as a method to make the sign more visible at night not as a semi qualifier on if you have to stop or not. Stop signs (with or without a border) mean come to a full stop in every jurisdiction in the world.
Just think about it logically. Why would they make two different stop signs that mean different things but already have a sign (yield) that does one of them? How can stopping be optional the word is self explanatory.
I know that you probably don't believe me but those are the facts!
Watching a cop break a traffic law in the worst indication ever as they break them all!
"Today’s stop sign stands approximately 7 feet off the ground and measures 75 cm (around 29.5 inches) across from one flat side of the red octagon to the other. The white border of the stop sign is 2 cm wide and the word STOP is written in capital letters that are 25 cm (approximately 10 inches) tall. Stop signs are also retroreflective, which means that if your headlights shine on them, light will be reflected back toward you. On roads that have more than one lane, stop signs are slightly larger, measuring about 95 cm (around 37 inches) wide.
The familiar red octagonal shape of stop signs is now the standard in most of the world. Countries like China, Columbia, Iran, Ireland, Korea and Taiwan all use different languages,
but that red octagon with a white border means the same thing in all of them — stop."
http://blog.allstate.com/stop-signs-...-for-97-years/