I live in a nice, pleasant, growing neighborhood called 'Grove Hill'. It's got it's fare amount of people, and therefore cars. There is a stop sign at the first turn after you enter the neighborhood from the front. On the opposite side of the road is the neighborhood pool. Recently, there's been police cars stationed there, and if you don't come to a complete stop at the top sign, as in, your wheels bounce back, then BAM, you got yourself a ticket. This happened to a member of my family two days in a row. Now, people slow down significantly when they reach this stop sign, but only a few people actually come to a full stop. Everybody who lives here knows this, as does the local police department. So, whenever the city is low on money, they go and send police cars out to neighborhood stop signs, and make a bundle on stopping people for not stopping completely. So, I decided to get some actual data on how many people actually stop at the sign, instead of just slowing down significantly. So, yesterday, Saturday afternoon I position myself, along with my brother, with a perfect view of the road and a clip board. We monitored the road for exactly an hour, and here's what we came up with.

We did not count cars that were turning, only cars that were going straight through.

Date: September 1, 2007 

Total number of cars marked down: 205

Number of cars that slowed down but didn't come to a complete stop: 174

Number of cars that did come to a complete stop: 31

Start time: 14:29

End Time: 15:29 

 Obviously, the police watching this intersection didn't work, seeing as only 1 out of 5 people actually completely stopped. Another thing worth noting, is that when there was a car turning onto the street all cars stopped, to let him in, and only four cars drove straight through without significantly slowing down. 

 Onto a another topic, it's been an exciting past two days in the world of anime. A 3 hours Death Note special aired on the 31st, retelling the first half of the series from Ryuk's point of view, and giving some info on what happened to the characters that were still alive after the series. And, on the 1st, the first movie in the 'Rebuild of Evangelion' series was released, titled "You are (not) alone". I haven't seen it yet, seeing as it's not been subbed yet, but it must be amazing to see this hit anime from 12 years ago come back to life with the newest technology. In honor of this amazing event, I'm rewatching the Evangelion anime series now, in an attempt to understand better what actually happened at the end.