Right-On Robert!
Those of us Olde enough to have grandchildren remember when Nevada was R&P.
On old US40 across Nevada you could burn up the 2-lane at 120 and not get
stopped (might of had something to do w/ the fact there were VERY few cops
out there). Of course, towns established their City Limits about 10 miles
from the first signs of civilization so all of a sudden out there all by
your ownsome was a speed limit sign for 40 mph with no change in the
character of the road.... except for that billboard advertising some
business establishment down the road. Can you guess where the cops could be
found?
Mike Allendorfer
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Glover <rob@f-body.org>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: radar detector recommendations - possible evidence for
dismissal
> From: <SEEEDOOO@aol.com>
>
>
> > Try not speeding, take some responsibility for your actions.
> > Wayne Presley
>
> Wayne:
>
> I have another idea. Why don't you become educated on the fact that speed
> enforcement has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with traffic safety, and
EVERYTHING
> to do with revenue generation...
>
> Anybody who believes for one second that the cops who perform traffic
> enforcement are out to protect the public are terribly misinformed. They
> are NOT our friends. They exist to advance their careers by harrassing
> others and writing lots of tickets. This generates lots of revenue for
> their jurisdiction, and despite their claims to the contrary, are used to
> measure job performance. So yes, there IS a quota system in place. It's
> just handled differently than when it was blatantly obvious.
>
> Speed limits exist because of society's inability (or perhaps lack of
> desire) to take responsibility for their own actions. If people would do
> that, we wouldn't NEED arbitrary, numerical speed limits. We'd be like
> Montana WAS... reasonable and prudent. But even Montana had to do away
with
> it. Why? Mainly because the cops couldn't deal with it. Different
> officers had different OPINIONS on what Reasonable and Prudent meant, and
> people complained. Driving 95 mph on an open highway might not attract
> attention from one cop, but would get you ticketed by another. And
> re-training the police to a new system like that just wasn't feasible I
> guess, even though there are only something like 27 total members of
> Montana's state patrol.
>
> Tell me something... while you're out there NOT speeding, can I assume
that
> you're staying to the RIGHT, out of everybody else's way? Or are you one
of
> the one who runs 65 mph in the left lane and says to hell with everybody
> else?
>
> Rob
>
>
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