🚀 go-pugleaf

Dave wrote:

> >       This policy is being tested in Frederick County, Maryland.
> >Unfortunately, the only description I have is a biased editorial from
> >the Washington Post, which opposes this policy--which one would expect
> >from a liberal DC paper.  Still, this conveys the general gist of this
> >innovative solution to aggressive driving.
>
> I would definitely agree that the officers showed excessive force and
> a lack of understanding.  Thier behavior was undoubtedly excessive and
> totally inappropriate.  But I agree with the basic idea: ticketing
> slow drivers.  People who drive excessively slow are just as much or
> more of a menace than fast drivers.  IMHO anyone who drives that slow
> is doubtlessly going to panic in any kind of emergency situation.  I
> think as people get older they should be given driving tests every
> couple of years.  My town has a lot of older people and I have been
> cut off, held up excessively, etc by older people who either aren't
> paying attention or just aren't capable of driving a car anymore.

Wait, you're from RIT?!  Okay, question here.  Does Monroe County Sheriff use
red police cars equipped with red sirens?  One messed around with me and
apologised after I told him I moved because I thought I was impeding his way to
an emergency (thinking it was a fire car).

I've NEVER seen a police car in California without blue in their sirens.

This woman, Ms. Pena, failed to pull over and kept on moving.  I can see why
that would compel an officer to believe that this person is hiding something
(drugs, maybe even, God forbid, a Colt .45).  She was not roughed up due to the
speed, it was her driving behaviour.

Richard