I agree with you there. Where are the cops when some asswipe comes to almost
a halt while trying to get onto the interstate getting mad because some car
didn't slow down to let him in while he was supposed to accelerate to merge
into traffic. or when the old fart in the fast lane is going 55 in a 70 mph
zone. or when that one moron pulls infront of you and goes 30 while your
doing 55. or that bunghole that runs the red light when just begin to go
with a green light.
there were apparently enough of these incidents down her ein FL because many
MANY cop cars are totally unmarked. like varied color dodge stratus's, black
f-150's, jeep grand cherokees, even a few camaro z-28's I've seen. All
driven by the florida highway patrol.
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
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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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