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Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 04 Jul 1998 00:18:11 GMT, Scott Weiser <weiser@dimensional.com> wrote:
>On 3 Jul 1998 20:33:55 GMT, russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T.
>Russotto) wrote:
>
>>In article <359D0881.313B@richmond.infi.net>,
>>Scott M. Kozel <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
>>}Scott Weiser <weiser@dimensional.com> wrote:
>>}> 
>>}> On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 05:39:33 GMT, eta@my-dejanews.com (Eric Anderson)
>>}> wrote:
>>}> 
>>}> >On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 04:50:00 GMT, weiser@dimensional.com (Scott Weiser) wrote:
>>}> >
>>}> >>When it comes to scofflaw speeders, I go to great pains to impose it
>>}> >>on them, and always will.
>>}> >
>>}> >Ah, well we of the fast-drivers association will happily take you to task with
>>}> >a pro-speed Jihad of our own.  The more the authorities squeeze, the faster
>>}> >we'll go, and the cleverer we'll get about doing it.
>>}> 
>>}> Which is why the penalties for doing so should include permanent
>>}> revocation of your license, seizure of your auto and jail time.
>>}
>>}And if they also kill someone, all of the above, plus public hanging.
>>
>>If the penalty is death, why stop for the flashing lights?
>
>Good point...perhaps pursuit vehicles with guided missile launchers
>would help.....
>
>It's my opinion that anyone who tries to elude the police in a
>high-speed pursuit ought to have deadly force used against them at the
>earliest possible moment consistent with public safety.   Such people
>have clearly no regard for the safety of others and place them in
>grave danger of death and/or serious bodily injury, and that is all
>that's required to authorize the use of deadly force.
>
>I think "road mines" instead of "road fangs" would be
>appropriate....or a cop by the side of the road with a LAW rocket.

Don't you remember the "harpoon?"  Launched from the front of a pursuit
vehicle, penetrates the back end of the fleeing vehicle, then the police
just reel 'em in.

And find the now-dead kidnap victim in the trunk.

>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Weiser
>
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From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving
Date: 1998/07/06
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