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From: hess@fortune.UUCP (Marty Hess)
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Subject: Re: Fast driving
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 18:33:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 16 18:33:28 1984
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	(mild flame:)
	Hey come on now!  All this about who is a 'good' (or whatever)
driver is obviously a relative issue!  So let's quit complaining about
how someone drives, why, or whose 'laws' are 'better'.
	(personal view:)
	What should come out of this whole issue is a lot of discussion about
how inappropriately these 'laws' are enforced.  All I ever seem to hear are
excuses in place of reasons for why enforcement of the SPEED 'laws' is such a
high priority.  I feel that other, equally serious violations occur WITH
GREATER FREQUENCY, AND GREATER CHANCE OF INJURY.  I could list a lot of reasons
why the SPEED 'law' is enforced more than:  failing brake lights;  failure to
signal a LANE CHANGE or turn;  failure to allow an adequate stopping distance;
failure to YIELD;  OBSTRUCTION OF THE NORMAL FLOW OF TRAFFIC;  and basically
reckless driving, but none of those reasons are good ones.  (Heading the list:
these laws are AMBIGUOUS and therefore difficult to enforce, whereas we now have
the technological wonder known as RADAR...)
	If MY POLICE spent as much time and MONEY enforcing ALL the 'laws', I'd
feel a lot safer on MY ROADS.  (I didn't say MY 'LAWS' either.  By now you may
have noticed that I say "'laws'".  I didn't vote for them, and a LAW to me is
an indesputable FACT.  Our 'laws' are really RULES.)
	I'm pretty sick of the whole "'law'-enforcement" attitude and I'm doing
something about it.  I'm writing letters to the 'law' makers, and I'm taking a
city to court about their failure to enforce THE 'LAW' properly in a given area.
	Who said you can't fight city hall!  (Wish me luck, tho!)

P.S.  I'm also armed with a list of infractions of many of the above 'laws' by
'LAW'-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS (, and I don't mean the thought police!).
--
	Marty "not normally a doer, but often a complainer" Hess

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