NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/or/general/817

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From: [e-mail] (Suzii Abe)
Newsgroups: or.general
Subject: Re: Interesting ticket....
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:38:07 PST
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[e-mail] (Brian D Diehm) writes:
>
> A year or so ago, the State Police asked for a fundamental change in Oregon
> traffic law. They asked that the 25 MPH speeds in neighborhoods be absolute
> speed limits - doesn't matter if you can prove you were safe, you're breaking
> the law.
>

Oh, good.  Now, how can we get the State Police to start enforcing it?
Well, if it would inconvenience you, it's fine with me if they only
enforce it in a few places, as long as one of them is my block.  We lose
a *bunch* of thousands of dollars on the value of our home because of
the idiots who think that, on a nice straight street with low traffic,
it's perfectly safe to go 30, 40, or 50 mph.  We don't have more than a
dozen or so vehicles going past in an hour even at peak times, and we're
a single-family residential area, and the appraisal says we're on a "Busy"
street.

When you say you can prove *you* were safe, you forget about the little
children who can't be allowed to get the mail out of the mailbox, or who
panic when the cat doesn't come on the first call.

I had a friend once who got a ticket for running a red light in a deserted
neighborhood at three a.m.  He was quite sure he could convince the judge
that there was no need for him to wait, since there was "nobody around".
(And who, I asked, and/or what, saw you to issue the ticket?)

And don't forget, Cliff Robinson figures he can do 110 safely on an urban
stretch of interstate.

And you wonder why young men have to pay such high insurance premiums.

--Suzii.
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