Posted on 02/20/2011 7:21:05 AM PST by Silentgypsy
None in the North East?
I can see you have driven in Atlanta.
Visitors, please keep to the right if you can’t keep up.
iS THERE ANYONE IN NORTH DAKOTA?
Where do the forearmed buy their shirts?
Sorry
My friend goes to Thailand often and he told me an amazing story that when the cops want money they just pull over drivers and threaten to write them a speeding ticket unless they give them money, essentially they demand a small bribe.
I’ve heard similar stories in other 3rd world countries. You give them like $20 and you are on your way.
The sad part is that if you really think about it, those Thailand cops are actually more honest than the cops here.
Does anyone really believe a cop is pulling you over for going above the speed limit because he/she really cares about safety or other such nonsense? Hell no!! They themselves when they are off duty don’t even obey the speed limit. They like the Thailand cops just want your money. Even worse they are collecting money for the DA, the Judge, the Town, the Insurance company etc etc etc.
If it wasn’t about money than what’s with the plea-bargaining (Double the fine - Zero Points anyone).
So yes, the Thailand cops are much more honest, because at least they are telling you up front that all they want is your money instead of playing all these games the cops here do.
Just a small point, Colorado Springs is much smaller than 1,2 and 3. So per square mile or by population Colorado Springs would be number 1 by a mile.
I live 1000 miles away but may I nominate Campbellton, Fla. as well? Same LEO twice in two years — and remembered me. Didn’t let me off the second time, either.
My last speeding ticket? 1978, Houston Tx. I now live in the SF bay area where the speed limits are for the pedestrians.
The problem is when the police are more interested in generating income in the days of tight budgets than investigating felonies. Some cash strapped cities are putting detectives on traffic duty with ticket quotas to meet (I know that Da Gump does this). It is hard to solve big crimes when the department is out hunting otherwise law abiding citizens who just happen to be driving too fast when the speed limit suddenly changes.
Sounds like Houston voters needed to vote out speed cams when they voted out red light cams.
I think there are a lot of inner city venues where even the police are afraid to operate. Can’t say that I blame them.
Pulling over cute soccer moms in SUVs is a far better way to spend the evening.
A lot of countries have police that do that. There is a Russian joke where a guy asks a police officer if he has change for a hundred and the cop says “No, I just came on duty”.
Does anyone really believe a cop is pulling you over for going above the speed limit because he/she really cares about safety or other such nonsense? Hell no!!
I believe this is called EXTORTION, and anyone who does not realize that is what the current government run, lawyer-ridden police state of America is about is clueless.
Wayward Businesses and Capitalism my include deceit, exaggeration, and fraud, but they DO NOT include police authoritarianism.
Extortion = Protection Racket = Police State = the LEFT = a demoralized, failed Society.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that Colorado Springs is under RAT control.
I see Seattle’s not on the list: The enivor-wackos and anti-auto libs make it so hard to drive cars in the city that few who don’t have to even bother. And if they do venture in, the traffic’s so bad they simply can’t go very fast. Nor can they find affordable parking. Nor avoid the self-righteous, in-your-face bike riding armies, or the road-clogging homeless brigades.
driving in the center lane on a residential boulevard, a car passed me on my right. just as he got in front of me, he noticed a policeman giving a ticket to a car on the other side of the street. so the speeding car to my right put on the brakes. to the police on the other side of the road, it appeared as if i was passing this now slowing car....and passing it quickly.
the policeman stopped writing the ticket and did a u-turn and pulled me over. i was cited for doing 35 in a 45 zone...but oops...there was a school, 25 when children are present. This was Sunday morning at 7:00 am.
i said to the judge, there were no children present. the judge asked the police. the police said that there were some cars in the parking lot of the school so that we should presume children were there.
$300
case closed.
In Palmer Lake, CO, (north of COS) there’s even a Speed Trap Cafe.
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