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- Path: sparky!uunet!know!spdcc!merk!miracle!jess
- From: jess@miracle.com (Jessica Thornburg)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
- Message-ID: <31Dec92133707@miracle.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:37:07 GMT
- Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants
- Lines: 35
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- clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements) writes:
- >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
-
- Yes, the state police have set some very nasty speed traps out there. I was
- driving on that road one day, I was in the right hand lane, and passed by one
- of these traps. The cops were pulling -everyone- over who was in the left hand
- lane!! I was doing about the speedlimit, so these people were definitely
- speeding.
-
- Jessica Thornburg
-
-
-
- The BORG are DEAD!!!!
- Long live the Federation!!!
-