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From: john@gcc-bill.ARPA (John Allred)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors
Message-ID: <292@gcc-bill.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 10:05:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: gcc-bill.292
Posted: Thu Aug 29 10:05:54 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 07:58:07 EDT
References: <215@mhuxn.UUCP> <453@enmasse.UUCP> <211@pyuxii.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@gcc-bill.UUCP (John Allred)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (Home of the HyperDrive)
Lines: 30
Keywords: radar = money
Summary: True, but ... 

In article <211@pyuxii.UUCP> tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) writes:
>Oh, FOO!  "The towns are out to get your money and that's why
>they use radar."  Horse Puckey!!!  My town does not have a radar
>unit, but they borrow one now and again.  I wish we had one so
>we could put the clamps on the idiots who constantly use my
>street for a test track for their BMWs.  The speed limit is
>35, but there are enough twanks using it over 50 mph to
>populate every race track from here to Georgia.  There are
>something over 57 kids who live within 100 yards of this
>street in a 1/4 mile stretch.  Odds are, one of them is
>going to get hit by one of these feather brains.  Our town
>does not need the money.  We need our kids.  And, I suspect
>that that is a valid reason for most towns to aquire a radar
>detector.  The out to make money theory is just a bunch of
>hogwash dredged up by all of you twits who think owning a
>car is license to speed wherever and whenever you want.
>Wait till you have the patter of little feet running around
>the house and see how soon you start noticing the speed of
>cars past your front lawn.
>T. C. Wheeler

Sure, if you have a residential street with kids, enforce that speed limit.

What I object to is any small town's police force spending >50% of their 
time setting up speed traps on the interstate.  That is done, clearly, to 
generate dollars, and not "to protect and serve."
-- 
John Allred
General Computer Company 
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