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Re: Police The issue

To: Jarrod Pilone <moparman@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Police The issue
From: Mike Bultemeier <hottvr@birch.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:02:58 -0500
Look kids its the "John Rocker" of the Autox world. Well the Cubans are probably

pissed at you now. You should insulted the Canadians too while you were at it!!!

Mike(Even I wouldn't have said that??)B. 99cm

Jarrod Pilone wrote

>
> only problem is.. the FHP mianly patrols the interstate and the turnpike, no
> regular streets. except down in Miami-Cuba-Dade county:)
> but who cares about dade county, let's just use a concrete cutter and cut
> off dade county at the line and send it floating back to cuba:)
>
> Jarrod
>
> http://www.mopar-man.com  moparman@mediaone.net
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>
> I'm all for proactive enforcement of really dangerous driving
> > practices, including the following: putting on makeup while
> > driving, reading while driving, changing lanes without
> > signalling, turning without signalling, stopping at the bottom of
> > an onramp at the beginning of the acceleration lane, driving
> > slowly in the left lane while traffic passes you on the right,
> > carrying people (or animals, for that matter) in the bed of a
> > pickup truck, etc. In 32 years of driving, I have never seen any
> > of the above result in the offending driver being stopped,
> > whereas I have seen LOTS of drivers pulled over and ticketed for
> > 8-10 mph over the speed limit on roads that were designed to
> > accommodate much higher speeds. You can't identify all the
> > dangerous drivers on the road with a nothing but radar (or laser)
> > gun. But you CAN write a hell of a lot more tickets that way.
> >
> > I know that police officers have a very dangerous job, and they
> > are often not well-compensated or properly appreciated for doing
> > that job. But trying to claim that there are no speed traps or
> > that traffic tickets are _always_ issued for safety reasons just
> > has no credibility to anyone who has much experience on the road.
> > It ain't so.
> >
> > Jay
> >


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