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In my town, traffic cops are different from police. In general, traffic cops are locals. Their job is to pull over speeders. If they catch speeders; is it to make money or to enforce the law that helps prevent more deaths than any other? 50,000 people die, every year, on the roadways. That's more than cancer, and heart disease. If you don't complain about the ER doctors saving lives instead of doing something else, don't complain about the cops saving lives instead of doing something else. In high school, one of my friends lost his license for two years. He was going 70 in a school zone. Should there not have been a cop there? Should that cop have been "out catching rapists and murderers" instead? Well, if he sees one, hell stop it/catch it. But in the meantime, he's pulling over felons and people who failed to register as a sex offender and people with warrants, all.... dang... day.
Don't speed and you will never have problems with traffic cops. It's that simple. I wore the cruise control button shiny, less than 2 months after getting my car. It saves me
every dang day. 35MPH? Cruise set. When I first got this car, I got pulled over, about once every two weeks. The day my vanity plates were in the mailbox, was the last time I got pulled over for nothing. After that, I have been pulled over twice for being bad and
not gotten a ticket. 19 years of cruise control use has paid off. Both times I could have gotten a serious fine but was out of there, in
minutes, with a kindly warning to not accelerate so hard.
Speeding is so easy to prevent. 70 is the limit? Read that sentence. It's the
LIMIT. Not a
starting point. I have a fast car.
If I don't speed, alone, in my sports car, maybe people shouldn't in their child-filled minivans.
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Stepping off my soapbox annnnd...... back on topic.
I'm hoping they catch the guy. Is there any pattern to his strikes, like timing, so there is some starting point to when/where he strikes?
My point is that certain areas, such as I described, should automatically revert to 50 mph, off hours and off season. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason for me to crawl for 3/4 of a mile, at 35 mph, just for fear of a ticket, when the majority of the world is laid up in bed, from a hangover, or sitting around drinking coffee and typing on BYC.
It's like the 30mph sign, posted 3/4 of a mile, before the stop sign, at the end of my road...Honestly, a "stop ahead" warning sign is more than sufficient, to do the job. It was put there, intentionally, beause you have to drive over a rise, before the stop sign, and it's an excellent place for a cop to sit, undetected.
I am a big boy, and do not need the nanny state telling me to get my foot off the throttle and on the brake...It's not like the road is thoroughfare, with drivers, unfamiliar with the situation.
