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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.190223.25224@osf.org>
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- Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:02:23 GMT
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- whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen) writes:
- >I don't know about in MA, but in CT the cops are told to drive at a speed
- >that
- >does not impede the normal flow of traffic. If you use the idea that no one
- >in their right mind would pass a cop that is traveling near the speed limit,
- >then you quickly determine that police vehicles must travel above the speed
- >limit in order to minimize the chance of needlessly slowing traffic.
-
- When I drove in England, where the limit is 70, I usually found cops
- driving between 60 and 65. I never did verify this, but I got the idea
- that this was so that everyone could overtake them at 69, and then get back
- to the canonical 82.
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