Checkpoints!
#41
02-20-2011, 08:19 AM
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What's next!
What's next?
Seatbelts on Motorcycles?
The trouble with giving the government an inch is that they tend to take 100 miles!
Seatbelts on Motorcycles?
The trouble with giving the government an inch is that they tend to take 100 miles!
#42
02-20-2011, 08:26 AM
Well heck, we can do better than that! Outlawing alcohol altogether can be the exact thing that might prevent your doughter, son, wife, grandson/doughter, grandfather/mother, friends, neighbors, aunts/uncles niece/nephew, cats and dogs from being killed.
I always enjoy the funeral.
I always enjoy the funeral.
#43
02-20-2011, 08:51 AM
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Around here, where I live, and most places I'd venture to say, check points are only done at night. Why is that I wonder?
I'm guessin' that the police are really only lookin' for DUI's..
One DUI brings in the city and county over $500, and keeps the system rolling and justifies LEOs which is what I believe is really the whole point of it.
___________$ is always the bottom line..isn't it?
I'm guessin' that the police are really only lookin' for DUI's..
One DUI brings in the city and county over $500, and keeps the system rolling and justifies LEOs which is what I believe is really the whole point of it.
___________$ is always the bottom line..isn't it?
#44
02-20-2011, 08:55 AM
These are not sobriety or drivers license checkpoints, they are motorcycle only and only to write tickets and generate revenue. It’s about being profiled and singled out and ticketed on my way to or from a motorcycle event. Read the article and get the facts and if you’re alright with it I hope you really don’t ride and are just posing… so I take it you have no p[problem being singled out cause you fit a profile and cops or feds grabbing you off the street just to check your papers?
how many of you have been singled out because you're on a motorcycle?
how many have gotten tickets at one of these motorcycle only checkpoints?
since it's easy to hide behind your keyboard and whine - please post the tickets.... not saying we don't believe you, BUT we don't believe you.
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02-20-2011, 09:00 AM
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so, what municipalities does motorcycle only checks?
how many of you have been singled out because you're on a motorcycle?
how many have gotten tickets at one of these motorcycle only checkpoints?
since it's easy to hide behind your keyboard and whine - please post the tickets.... not saying we don't believe you, BUT we don't believe you.
how many of you have been singled out because you're on a motorcycle?
how many have gotten tickets at one of these motorcycle only checkpoints?
since it's easy to hide behind your keyboard and whine - please post the tickets.... not saying we don't believe you, BUT we don't believe you.
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02-20-2011, 09:09 AM
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Nope, I don't confuse the two at all. I happen to disagree with the view that the checkpoints are legal, even if the Supreme Court says they are. It isn't like the High Court hasn't ever been wrong, after all.
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02-20-2011, 09:28 AM
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so, what municipalities does motorcycle only checks?
how many of you have been singled out because you're on a motorcycle?
how many have gotten tickets at one of these motorcycle only checkpoints?
since it's easy to hide behind your keyboard and whine - please post the tickets.... not saying we don't believe you, BUT we don't believe you.
how many of you have been singled out because you're on a motorcycle?
how many have gotten tickets at one of these motorcycle only checkpoints?
since it's easy to hide behind your keyboard and whine - please post the tickets.... not saying we don't believe you, BUT we don't believe you.
2009 Americade, New York. Rte 9 (sorry I forget the actual town) Motorcycle only checkpoint. I was not ticketed, I was legal.
2009 North Carolina Rte 40 after OBX Bike Week. Motorcycle only DOT helmet check. I was legal.
2008-2009 Myrtle Beach, South Caorlina. Multiple motorcycle only check points, multiple violations written. I chose to reroute rather than go through the checkpoint.
#50
02-20-2011, 09:35 AM
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No, it's really not. Profiling is and always has been about RACE and ETHNICITY. In this case, the police are looking for specific violations that relate only to motorcyclists (MC endorsement, DOT helmet, etc...). Makes sense to stop motorcyclists, not cage drivers.
Last edited by stro1965; 02-20-2011 at 07:47 PM.