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On Mon, 06 Jul 1998 20:06:16 -0400, Scott M. Kozel <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
>Joel Garry <joelga@pebble.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Scott M. Kozel <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
>> >Joel Garry <joelga@pebble.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >I've watched "Cops" and "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol" enough to
>> >know that you don't mess with the cops.  You certainly don't spew them
>> >with gravel right after they write you a ticket.  Were you friendly with
>> >the cop when he wrote you the first ticket?  Did you thank him for the
>> >ticket?  Or were you angry and hostile while he wrote the ticket, and
>> >then you "accidentally" spewed him with gravel?
>> 
>> Of course I was hostile.  He had pulled me over out of a group of cars,
>> letting other faster cars go.  He was an asshole, too.
>
>Ok.  The picture is getting clear.  You were rather hostile, and it was
>obvious to him.
>
>The few times I've been stopped by the police in the last 30 years, I've
>been polite, and normally they let me go with a warning.

And how many of them have been hostile towards you, first?

> 
>> >> So you're saying if I'm being chased by some nutcase with a rifle, and I go
>> >> over the speed limit, I won't get a ticket?  I don't think the law agrees
>> >> with you, especially when the nutcase turns out to be a cop performing
>> >> normal duties.
>> 
>> Well, one time I was driving a top-down roadster on the freeway, glanced up
>> as I was about to go under a bridge and saw some nutcase policeman pointing
>> a scope rifle at me.  It was only later I even heard about radar speed
>> surveys.  What would you do?  And if it is such a worst case scenario, how
>> come it happened to me?
>
>Then you weren't being chased by a cop with a rifle.  He was standing on
>a bridge, pointing a radar tool at the highway.  Ok.
>
>I can't imagine being frightened by that scenario.  But that's just
>me....

You missed something important.  That is, IT LOOKS LIKE A RIFLE.

So, you are just cool, calm and collected when people point rifles at you
when you are driving.  Right.

>
>> >What if you're being chased by a tornado?  Is it ok to speed then?
>> >
>> >What if you're at the beach, and you see a 500-foot high tidal wave
>> >coming in?  Is it ok to speed then?
>> >
>> >What if a hydrogen bomb goes off 5 miles away, and you see the shock
>> >wave coming toward you?  Is it ok to speed then?
>> >
>> >You see, I can come up with some pretty good worst-case scenarios too!
>> 
>> And I suppose they've all happened to you?  On your honeymoon with Jennifer
>> Aniston, eh?
>
>Now where did I say that any of that happened to me, smart guy?

Well, if you still don't understand that perception is important to intent,
I guess it just doesn't matter.  You never make a mistake, and you never lie
or exagerate.  You are perfect. You are a fluke of the universe.

>
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