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he fired a handgun at a bicyclist
On Jul 27, 7:17*pm, Still Just Me -
wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:31:18 -0400, Nate Nagel wrote: When there is an accident involving a cyclist it's usually almost always the cyclist fault. If my department ever gets funding for overtime cyclist enforcement, I'm signing up and writing my 2 citation books worth.' Typical cop attitude toward cyclists, IMHE. I'm a *cyclist* and that's my attitude. *most* cyclists (not pointing fingers at anyone here, mind you) are more reckless, careless, and just plain scofflaws than any other road users, and that's saying a lot, as **** poor as the average driver is. I'm guessing the drivers are much better where you are than where I am. Here it's open season on cyclists. But, more to the point, cops are supposed to be unbiased observers enforcing the laws without prejudice, not haters with a mission to harass and abuse. Well... IME *some* traffic cops are decent people and *some* are just out to write violations. It's never safe to assume that you have a non-adversarial relationship with a traffic cop. Hopefully that's just my area, but I doubt it. But that's also a rant more appropriate for a different newsgroup. nate |
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he fired a handgun at a bicyclist
On Jul 28, 8:53*am, N8N wrote:
On Jul 27, 7:17*pm, Still Just Me *- wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:31:18 -0400, Nate Nagel wrote: When there is an accident involving a cyclist it's usually almost always the cyclist fault. If my department ever gets funding for overtime cyclist enforcement, I'm signing up and writing my 2 citation books worth.' Typical cop attitude toward cyclists, IMHE. I'm a *cyclist* and that's my attitude. *most* cyclists (not pointing fingers at anyone here, mind you) are more reckless, careless, and just plain scofflaws than any other road users, and that's saying a lot, as **** poor as the average driver is. I'm guessing the drivers are much better where you are than where I am. Here it's open season on cyclists. But, more to the point, cops are supposed to be unbiased observers enforcing the laws without prejudice, not haters with a mission to harass and abuse. Well... IME *some* traffic cops are decent people and *some* are just out to write violations. *It's never safe to assume that you have a non-adversarial relationship with a traffic cop. *Hopefully that's just my area, but I doubt it. *But that's also a rant more appropriate for a different newsgroup. nate- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yeah, some are decent, but somehow they are put out there to make quick money, and the way to do it is get together a bunch of them with speed guns and write speeding tickets galore. |
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he fired a handgun at a bicyclist
On Jul 28, 8:53*am, N8N wrote:
On Jul 27, 7:17*pm, Still Just Me *- wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:31:18 -0400, Nate Nagel wrote: When there is an accident involving a cyclist it's usually almost always the cyclist fault. If my department ever gets funding for overtime cyclist enforcement, I'm signing up and writing my 2 citation books worth.' Typical cop attitude toward cyclists, IMHE. I'm a *cyclist* and that's my attitude. *most* cyclists (not pointing fingers at anyone here, mind you) are more reckless, careless, and just plain scofflaws than any other road users, and that's saying a lot, as **** poor as the average driver is. I'm guessing the drivers are much better where you are than where I am. Here it's open season on cyclists. But, more to the point, cops are supposed to be unbiased observers enforcing the laws without prejudice, not haters with a mission to harass and abuse. Well... IME *some* traffic cops are decent people and *some* are just out to write violations. *It's never safe to assume that you have a non-adversarial relationship with a traffic cop. *Hopefully that's just my area, but I doubt it. *But that's also a rant more appropriate for a different newsgroup. nate- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Originally Posted by xenologer "Because they're above everyone else, after all they're The Law." I see some of them around here sitting in their cars all day long. You may argue they are WASTING TAX PAYER'S MONEY, but basically they don't bother anyone. At most they go at the end of the day to the roads and issue some speeding tickets. It could be worse... |
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