Law-enforcement are really active this morning!
- Thread starter Kyle
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Grumpy
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Saw 4 stops last night on ride home from work..
frequentflier
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I wish they would start throwing the book at these fidiots that are texting and not handling their driving task very well. It's like texting is priority and driving secondary.
It doesn't matter to me if they want to kill themselves but when they put everyone around them at risk, it makes me very angry.
It doesn't matter to me if they want to kill themselves but when they put everyone around them at risk, it makes me very angry.
One of those inattentive drivers texting on their cell-phone nearly ran me off the road yesterday morning on the way to work.
I had to swerve to avoid the collision, dropped my electric razor into my coffee, which splashed all over my lap and stained the newspaper I had been reading and cost me a chance at a new level of candy crush.
The woman in the lane I swerved to was so scared she stabbed herself in the eye with her mascara apparatus and knocked the portable television she was watching off the dash onto the car floor and broke it.
Those damn texters are DANGEROUS!
I had to swerve to avoid the collision, dropped my electric razor into my coffee, which splashed all over my lap and stained the newspaper I had been reading and cost me a chance at a new level of candy crush.
The woman in the lane I swerved to was so scared she stabbed herself in the eye with her mascara apparatus and knocked the portable television she was watching off the dash onto the car floor and broke it.
Those damn texters are DANGEROUS!
MiddleGround
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Would have been nice if they were around last night for the idiot that was driving southbound in the 235 NB lane in Hollywood!!! 
Did you get back on the correct side of the road?Would have been nice if they were around last night for the idiot that was driving southbound in the 235 NB lane in Hollywood!!!
MiddleGround
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luvmygdaughters
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LightRoasted
If I may ...
If I may ...
Well they have to show themselves, make themselves visible on the roads, every now and then, to justify budgets. And to prove that they are "enforcing". Otherwise, you'd never see them, much, really. Unless it's like, say, as an example, at a Patuxent High School football game where one will often see six or more patrol cars parked near, and at, the ticket booth. Displaying their awesome show of force and prowess wearing their ready-for-combat police state uniforms and anti-armour vests.
Toxick
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Goldenhawk
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But if they gave up on traffic enforcement, you WOULD see a huge change in traffic safety, and it wouldn‘t be pretty.
GWguy
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Not unlike California no longer processing theft under, what was it... $950? or pooping in the street.
PeoplesElbow
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Already is, some douch turd backed out of IHOP parking lot onto 235 the other night for some reason.
MiddleGround
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When you say "traffic enforcement" you obviously mean the Sunday morning speed traps right?
Never lived anywhere with such a low population yet, so many traffic accidents every single day! On top of that.. it's people running into trees, power poles, and houses!
Not skilled enough to hit a moving target.
MiddleGround
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I don't think it would. Traffic enforcement is typically speed and the occasional red light. Mostly speed.
Speed alone isn't the cause of most collisions (have to remind myself these are not accidents, they are collisions, accident is getting struck by lightening), it just amplifies the results. If someone is driving normal, except for their speed, it's not an issue. If someone is making risky lane changes, tailgating at high speed, etc., that's dangerous. But I would say most of the collisions are simply inattentive drivers. It's more than texting, as Kyle so humorously pointed out. People are out driving and they are oblivious to what's going outside their vehicle. Either that or they don't care.
But that's not what gets the ticket. It's just plain old speed, when there is an open road. It's like that lone ship that strayed from the convoy, the wolfpack picks off.
MiddleGround
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Exactly! Everyone (LEO included) knows what the problem is. No one chooses to go out and fix it!
Goldenhawk
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So, you don't think more people would willingly run red lights if they didn't think they might get a ticket? Add to that people speeding even worse down roads like 235 or 301, AND running the red lights more often? I think there would be a huge spike in t-bones at intersections, among other things.