You don’t? TOO BAD!
This morning 07 Jan 2008 at about 0730, there were no State Police on I295 south mile marker 47.
Why do I mention that?
A tractor trailer truck doing 80 was pushing people all over the road with his aggressive driving tactics.
Now if all your staties weren’t busy doing revenue collection, then they might have been available to protect and serve the folks getting intimidated.
(He put me on the sholder squeezing into my following distance. Tailgated the fellow in front of me. And, then proceeded to change lanes with another fellow in his midships. That push him into the third lane and the third lane guy to the sholder. To the blaring of horns. And, probably some emphatic Irish prayers being said for his benefit.)
The plate number was 1268095. I know that because I was almost wearing it.
I call the statie number and reported it, but I’m sure that ranked right below the donut run.
When I lived in Maryland, the State Police had unmarked car and trucks that didn’t do anything but drive normally down the road. There were two cops in the car and they filmed the traffic and called in all sorts of bad driving. It was amusing to to see some idiot, who was cutting in and out, suddenly reform as we would pass a state police car on the side of the road. Only to have that cop throw on the bubble gum lights and take him for a “time out”. The Washington Post ran several stories about it. And, it did have a calming effect on the regular folks.
But, that is NOT the purpose of the state police. Revenue raising is. So we will have meaningless radar traps as opposed to doing something to protect and serve the folks.
Arghhhhhhh!
P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.
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