In California What is the sign for butt load of cops and speed trap?
#51
05-31-2012, 11:24 AM
Drunk driving is one thing but the cops out here get guys by sitting at the bottom of a hill where it goes from 50 to 40. There's doing your job and then there's entrapment which I think the op was referring to.
#53
06-02-2012, 04:15 PM
Road Warrior
I always thought it was pat your helmet and rub your tummy at the same time? This usually causes some accidents, but damn sure stops people from speeding.
#55
06-04-2012, 04:43 PM
A little story I wrote for this subject. Think about it.
Ride safe
Rick was a great guy. Everyone who knew him liked and respected him.
He was a wonderful husband and father of two wonderful children. Rick
married his high school sweetheart Linda. He promised Linda's dad that
he would always love, respect and protect her, which he did. You could
tell how Linda felt about Rick just by the way she looked at him and by
the way they were when together. Rick and Linda's children loved sports.
Tyler was 12 and the star short stop on his baseball team. Rick started
playing ball with Tyler when he was big enough to hold up a ball glove.
Charlette was 10. Everyone called her Charlie. She liked it. She was not
a tomboy but she could stay her own with the boys on the soccer field.
Soccer was her game and she never missed a practice or a game. Rick
and Linda Jones were very proud of their two children.
Saturday. Game day. Tyler had a tournament up in Colton. Rick and Tyler
were going up together early. Linda and Charlie were going up right
behind them after running some errands. Rick and Tyler topped Lewiston
grade, turned onto I95 towards Colton and as they passed the crossover
to 95 Rick noticed a Washington State Police car on the right side of the
road facing North. Obviously, the officer was using radar on the South bound
traffic. As Rick topped the first knoll he seen a South bound car driving a little
fast so Rick, being the nice guy, flashed his lights at the South bound car to
warn him of the State Police just over the knoll. As the
car passed him Rick noticed that the car was driving really fast but
the driver put on his brakes and swerved a little as Rick could see in his
rear view mirror. "OK" Rick thought. "You owe me one".
Warm-ups are done and the teams are heading onto the field.
Bottom of the 1st inning has just started.
Rick is looking over around the parking lot for Linda and Charlie. He sees a
Wa. State Police car parking but doesn't see Linda and Charlie.
A couple minutes later Rick is thinking that Linda and Charlie will
be walking in any minute and he glances over to the parking area.
As he looks over he notices the police officer talking with the
grounds guy and they both turn and look at him. "Uh oh" Rick thinks.
"That officer seen me flash my lights". The officer walks up to Rick
and says "Mr. Jones?". Rick replies "Yes sir. What can I do for you
officer?". "I'm sorry Mr. Jones. Your wife and daughter were in an
accident. A South bound drunk driver lost control and hit your wife's car".
"TO SERVE AND PROTECT". Isn't that what our law enforcement
people are trying to do? We can help them or hinder them. I see people
all the time flashing their lights to warn me of an officer just down the road.
Sometimes it does not pay to be a nice guy. That person you warn might be
a freak with a car full of weapons heading for a school, or a car full of drugs
or full of explosives heading down town or to a dam.
Or he might be a drunk heading towards your family.
"TO SERVE AND PROTECT". Let them do their job.
Ride safe
Rick was a great guy. Everyone who knew him liked and respected him.
He was a wonderful husband and father of two wonderful children. Rick
married his high school sweetheart Linda. He promised Linda's dad that
he would always love, respect and protect her, which he did. You could
tell how Linda felt about Rick just by the way she looked at him and by
the way they were when together. Rick and Linda's children loved sports.
Tyler was 12 and the star short stop on his baseball team. Rick started
playing ball with Tyler when he was big enough to hold up a ball glove.
Charlette was 10. Everyone called her Charlie. She liked it. She was not
a tomboy but she could stay her own with the boys on the soccer field.
Soccer was her game and she never missed a practice or a game. Rick
and Linda Jones were very proud of their two children.
Saturday. Game day. Tyler had a tournament up in Colton. Rick and Tyler
were going up together early. Linda and Charlie were going up right
behind them after running some errands. Rick and Tyler topped Lewiston
grade, turned onto I95 towards Colton and as they passed the crossover
to 95 Rick noticed a Washington State Police car on the right side of the
road facing North. Obviously, the officer was using radar on the South bound
traffic. As Rick topped the first knoll he seen a South bound car driving a little
fast so Rick, being the nice guy, flashed his lights at the South bound car to
warn him of the State Police just over the knoll. As the
car passed him Rick noticed that the car was driving really fast but
the driver put on his brakes and swerved a little as Rick could see in his
rear view mirror. "OK" Rick thought. "You owe me one".
Warm-ups are done and the teams are heading onto the field.
Bottom of the 1st inning has just started.
Rick is looking over around the parking lot for Linda and Charlie. He sees a
Wa. State Police car parking but doesn't see Linda and Charlie.
A couple minutes later Rick is thinking that Linda and Charlie will
be walking in any minute and he glances over to the parking area.
As he looks over he notices the police officer talking with the
grounds guy and they both turn and look at him. "Uh oh" Rick thinks.
"That officer seen me flash my lights". The officer walks up to Rick
and says "Mr. Jones?". Rick replies "Yes sir. What can I do for you
officer?". "I'm sorry Mr. Jones. Your wife and daughter were in an
accident. A South bound drunk driver lost control and hit your wife's car".
"TO SERVE AND PROTECT". Isn't that what our law enforcement
people are trying to do? We can help them or hinder them. I see people
all the time flashing their lights to warn me of an officer just down the road.
Sometimes it does not pay to be a nice guy. That person you warn might be
a freak with a car full of weapons heading for a school, or a car full of drugs
or full of explosives heading down town or to a dam.
Or he might be a drunk heading towards your family.
"TO SERVE AND PROTECT". Let them do their job.
I wasn't talking about DUI checkpoints. I was talking about them setting up to catch speeders on an already over crowded road that I am guessing has very few major speeders in rush hour bumper to bumper traffic.
But they are nice and visible and good at collecting revenue for a strapped city.
Here is a story I just made up...
In our neighborhood an upstanding a nice neighborhood where criminals like to prey on the houses of those of us at work all day.
5 houses were broken in to within a "as the crow flies 3 mile radius" in the last month. It was all well and good until one time someone was home and they beat her *** before relieving them of their belongings.
If those cops had been out driving around instead of futzing around pulling speed traps around the middle and the end of every month (which is apparently when folks here speed) Maybe they'd catch these guys...
Oh wait... My story is true
I am supportive of law enforcement but pulling speed traps on El Camino during rush hour is nothing more than revenue collection and visibility.
#56
06-05-2012, 02:21 PM
RR,
If I'm on my bike and just passed a trooper with a radar gun and I see you coming on your bike I would tap the top of my helmet to signal you of
a trooper down the road so I guess that makes me a bit of a hypocrite but I don't signal oncoming cars/trucks from my bike or from my car or truck.
I'm sure you're correct in stating some places use the speed traps to generate revenue.
And if you were talking about El Camino Real (hwy 82) that's one area that's full of crazy drivers. It needs lots of police visibility. Lived there.
One other thing. I think speed traps get a lot of bad folks off the road.
Anyway.... enjoy and ride safe
If I'm on my bike and just passed a trooper with a radar gun and I see you coming on your bike I would tap the top of my helmet to signal you of
a trooper down the road so I guess that makes me a bit of a hypocrite but I don't signal oncoming cars/trucks from my bike or from my car or truck.
I'm sure you're correct in stating some places use the speed traps to generate revenue.
And if you were talking about El Camino Real (hwy 82) that's one area that's full of crazy drivers. It needs lots of police visibility. Lived there.
One other thing. I think speed traps get a lot of bad folks off the road.
Anyway.... enjoy and ride safe
I wasn't talking about DUI checkpoints. I was talking about them setting up to catch speeders on an already over crowded road that I am guessing has very few major speeders in rush hour bumper to bumper traffic.
But they are nice and visible and good at collecting revenue for a strapped city.
Here is a story I just made up...
In our neighborhood an upstanding a nice neighborhood where criminals like to prey on the houses of those of us at work all day.
5 houses were broken in to within a "as the crow flies 3 mile radius" in the last month. It was all well and good until one time someone was home and they beat her *** before relieving them of their belongings.
If those cops had been out driving around instead of futzing around pulling speed traps around the middle and the end of every month (which is apparently when folks here speed) Maybe they'd catch these guys...
Oh wait... My story is true
I am supportive of law enforcement but pulling speed traps on El Camino during rush hour is nothing more than revenue collection and visibility.
But they are nice and visible and good at collecting revenue for a strapped city.
Here is a story I just made up...
In our neighborhood an upstanding a nice neighborhood where criminals like to prey on the houses of those of us at work all day.
5 houses were broken in to within a "as the crow flies 3 mile radius" in the last month. It was all well and good until one time someone was home and they beat her *** before relieving them of their belongings.
If those cops had been out driving around instead of futzing around pulling speed traps around the middle and the end of every month (which is apparently when folks here speed) Maybe they'd catch these guys...
Oh wait... My story is true
I am supportive of law enforcement but pulling speed traps on El Camino during rush hour is nothing more than revenue collection and visibility.
#57
06-05-2012, 07:26 PM
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In Michigan we flash lights and my group we do a circle motion over our head if there is one coming up.
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