Michael Maskalans wrote:
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>
> On Aug 18, 2004, at 12:14, Josh Battles wrote:
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>> I'm usually not a big fan of police officers (and they're not a big
>> fan of
>> me either) but I'd really like to see more of them on the road.
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>
>
> I couldn't disagree more. no way, no how. we do not need more
> officers, we do not need more laws. what we need is more effective
> *enforcement*. Stop sitting in the bushes shooting people in the back
> with your radar gun, and get out and take care of the twits that are the
> actual danger. Cops shouldn't be out there to make money off speeding
> and seatbelt tickets, but that's what they do. They should be out there
> keeping an eye out for bad drivers, drunks, falling apart vehicles and
> other *actual* dangers. Excessive speeding, weaving, failure to stop,
> failure to signal, etc etc etc.
>
> traffic enforcement is a cash cow instead of the safety campaign it
> should be, and I'm bloddy well *sick* of it.
>
> --
> Mike Maskalans
This is all in the phrasing. This is how I should have worded it but in
my work induced coma didn't. I meant it literally, i would like to
*see* more officers on the road, not actually add more officers to the
police force. Thanks for rewriting my words into something that makes
sense.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html www.omg-stfu.com
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