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The Canada Safety Council motorcycle course (MSF equivalent) taught standing on the pegs many years ago when I took it.
It is hypocritical to teach the procedure in a safety course on one hand and to criminalize it as "stunting" on the other. Police officers do have discretion and believe it or not, the vast majority of time are quite reasonable and can differentiate between safe and dangerous behaviour.
If some cop tried to ticket me for standing on the pegs going across one of the absolutely gawd-awful railway level crossings around here, they would get a major piece of my mind, and so would the desk sergeant and so would the chief and so would the chairman of the police board. I still have the course manual that advocates standing. Let them argue with that. This is the kind of legislated stupidity that makes my blood boil.
It is hypocritical to teach the procedure in a safety course on one hand and to criminalize it as "stunting" on the other. Police officers do have discretion and believe it or not, the vast majority of time are quite reasonable and can differentiate between safe and dangerous behaviour.
If some cop tried to ticket me for standing on the pegs going across one of the absolutely gawd-awful railway level crossings around here, they would get a major piece of my mind, and so would the desk sergeant and so would the chief and so would the chairman of the police board. I still have the course manual that advocates standing. Let them argue with that. This is the kind of legislated stupidity that makes my blood boil.