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- From: clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
- Message-ID: <lk66rrINNmq7@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:10:35 GMT
- References: <JPT.92Dec30152510@telecaster.think.com> <1ht41pINNb6i@transfer.stratus.com> <1ht5hdINNedc@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
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- In article <1ht5hdINNedc@bigboote.WPI.EDU>,
- satan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer) writes:
-
- >The rule of thumb is go with the flow of traffic. If you and everybody
- >around you is doing 65, no one is going to get pulled over by a state
- >cop who pulls up from behind you.
-
- Well, that's usually true, but it isn't universal and it won't
- help you in court. If you're going over the limit (and admit it,
- with whatever excuses tacked on) they can ticket you and you lose.
-
- I have exactly one speeding ticket on my record in the last 15
- years or so, and it happened when I was in the right-hand lane of
- Rt 2, going 57 in a 45 zone, going SLOWER than the traffic in the
- left lane. Lord knows why the cop decided to ticket me. Maybe I
- was just easier to catch than the rest of the traffic which was
- going faster. :-) Arguing as above did me no good.
-
- >* satan@wpi *
-
- Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com
-