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"But when I’m caught I accept the consequences rather than trying to get the person who caught me into a huge amount of trouble. “

I always consider a speeding ticket to be the fee I pay to be able to drive faster than everyone else.

So, is the position this cop is taking that security cameras are illegal? Or is it that security cameras are not allowed to film police or their vehicles? Or is it just him that they are not supposed to film?

Last summer we had some jackoffs riding around smashing mailboxes. When I put up a new one I borrowed a digital game camera and set it so that each vehicle passing would trip it, in hopes of catching them. Does this cop believe that this is illegal?

How about stoplight cameras? He think they are illegal, too?

Just curious what actual reasoning this officer is using.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Cops (speaking in generalities, of course) cover for one another.  My ex-sister-in-law worked for the sheriff’s department; she’d get out of speeding tickets all of the time.

A follow-up story says that the cop has dropped the charges.

Good call.

"Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards in emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.”
- Dave James

My mom lives on a dead end dirt road and she has a farm directly on the road. People speed by all the time, especially Budweiser-saturated hunters during hunting season. She got an old, large tractor tire and stuck it behind the house. When she was outside and she saw a speeder coming up the road, she rolled the 5 ft tall tire slowly into the road, causing the speeder to run right into it and smash up his hood and windsheild. He hopped out and started getting beligerant, so she called the cops. “I don’t know, the tire just got away from me. He was obviously going way too fast.” Didn’t get him a speeding ticket, but it got him a DUI. He still hunts at the end of the road, but he drives 10mph under now, at least past her house.

The “stalking” charge would not fly in court unless that cop can prove that the Sipples intent was focused soley on him.

I say “ call his bluff “.

bookm’Dan-o

He still hunts at the end of the road, but he drives 10mph under now, at least past her house.

Stupid move on your mom’s part… causing someone thousands of dollars worth of damage and possible physical harm to prove the point is not the way to get your point across… and the man was drunk with a gun in his car… stupid

I think Rob hates me… I mean, just look at the pic he took of me!

Sphagnum
Nope. The tractor tire was behind the house because she inquired with the road commissioner about what to do. It was his suggestion. Its rural enough there is practically no enforcement out there and that’s why these hunters were abusing it like they were. if you are on a dirt road with a farm that directly abuts it on both sides, you don’t speed through it. that is stupid. furthermore, every time the offender speeds through he also, through negligence is potentially

causing someone thousands of dollars worth of damage and possible physical harm

SA, there is quite a difference between driving fast down a road and rolling a large object in front of a moving vehicle. One has the POTENTIAL for causing damage, the other has no other purpose other than to inflict harm and damage.

If your mother, as you said previously, rolled a tire out in front of a vehicle for that purpose, she’s an idiot.

I think Rob hates me… I mean, just look at the pic he took of me!