Re: RE: Saw something I can't figure out

From: Gordon R. Stevens (IndyRamAL@home.com)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 21:30:39 EDT


Guys,

I thought that something was just passed in law stating that volunteer
firemen and medics can NOT have strobes on their private cars and trucks.
Can anyone confirm this. I guess I should state that differently... They
aren't to operate them on the roadways..

Gordon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Eng" <keng@novadigm.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 8:48 AM
Subject: DML: RE: Saw something I can't figure out

> Only blue and white strobes on it? In NJ, blue strobes are usually used
by
> volunteer firemen and EMT's to allow them to go through red lights. This
is
> after they had come to a stop first for them. The police, fire, and
> ambulance vehicles all have red strobes to travel through a red light
> without having to come to a complete stop for them. Shouldn't this Gran
> Prix have red strobes to be official? Do the emergency vehicles in your
> town have red strobes?
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEMIHEMI01@aol.com [mailto:SEMIHEMI01@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 7:09 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Saw something I can't figure out
>
>
> On my way to WalMart late yesterday (almost dark) I saw a stock
Pontiac
> Gran Prix (stock silver paint job) with a regular lic. tag Blue Strobe,
and
> white strobe on all corners pull 3 pick-ups over at the same time. I have
no
>
> idea what for except maybe motor-x'ing on industral property that was
> private. I have never seen this vehicle before but I'm going to the
troopers
>
> office and check with my contact there.
> I know this much, I'm not sure I'd stop for this car after dark. I
would
>
> go to a public parking lot before I stopped. We have had women stopped in
> just such a situation and car-jacked in this city. What is your opinion on
> this? Bill
>
> SEMIHEMI01@AOL.COM (Bill C.) 2001 QC, 4.7L, KENNE BELL SC'ed, 5spd.
> 3.55 LSD, Bored & polished TB, 10w-30 MOBIL 1, GIBSON 3" Single <A
> HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/semihemi01/">"THE DAK"</A>
>



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