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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.
 
> >> 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....

> >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?

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