jmcquown said:Dave Smith said:Steve Wertz wrote:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:07:28 -0700, BOBOBOnoBO® wrote:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:>> What kind of a cop would even think to run the plates on the
>> Wienermobile?
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I'm sure he just did it out of curiosity and for kicks (at
first). Nowdays most beat/traffic cops, with their computers on
the dashbord, run about 75% of the plates they're behind unless
their on the way to donuts or talking on their cell phones. It
takes all of 5 seconds.
Quoted message said:You would be surprised how many cars and trucks are running around out
there with expired or switched plates, but I did a lot of them out of
curiosity. People would be amazed at the information that pops up on
those computers.
Damn, Dave! Where were you last week when people were running stop signs
and making fast (but illegal) turns in front of me at stop lights when I had
the right of way?!
One woman I saw had her neck craned around, looking at her back seat. She
wasn't on a cell phone AFAIK but maybe she was; those ear bud things (should
be illegal) make it difficult to tell. I do know she was talking to a child
(or two) in the back seat. She paused briefly at the stop sign but then
just came on through without even looking. Good thing I was noting her
behavior otherwise she'd have plowed right into my car.
That sort of thing was the inspiration for DAMM, Drunks Against Mad
Mothers. Some mother is driving down the road, and turns around to
scold her brats in the back seat, then runs off the road and hits an
innocent drunk who is walking down the sidewalk with his 40oz. in his
paper bag.
If she was also engaged on her cell phone, then all the worse.
PEOPLE WHO TALK ON THEIR CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING ARE AS BAD AS DRUNK
DRIVERS, at least drunk drivers who are not very far over the absurdly
low legal limits in most states (0.08%).
Quoted message said:
Jill
--Bryan