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- From: nunn@sura.net (Deborah Nunn)
- Subject: Lying Police Incident
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.192118.28504@sura.net>
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- References: <1992Jul23.174231.160@lrc.edu> <1992Jul24.170947.13741@progress.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:21:18 GMT
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- You know, this is *really* funny! Since the attributes are getting
- *way* too long, I have decided not to include any of them!! :-)
-
- All the discussion which has arisen about entrapment and possible
- defenses and so on, and on and on and on . . . . All I was trying to
- say in my original post is that the officer was speeding and shouldn't
- have been so hypocritical as to turn around and hand me a ticket.
-
- All I was saying is that police officers should respect and obey the
- laws they are sworn to uphold.
-
- Yeah, I was dumb to allow myself to inadvertently speed up, lulled by
- the fact that the officer couldn't be going very much in excess of the
- speed limit. You can bet I'll never do it again!
-
- I was simply using the incident as an example of how police officers are
- free to ignore the law. [Note to Schott (sorry, I don't have your full
- name or address) -- you will **NEVER** convince me that police officers
- are given citations for speeding and have points taken off their
- licenses until you provide me with proof! I understand that you work
- with police officers -- that makes you biased to my way of thinking. In
- my response to your message I asked for *documented proof* of a police
- officer receiving a speeding ticket. Give it to me and I'll believe
- you.]
-
- Note to the person who said I was disobeying the law by not keeping to
- the right -- I was passing the cars to my right so I couldn't have
- stayed in the right lane.
-
- Yes, I realized I was speeding since I was passing the other cars in the
- right lane. What I did not realize was that I was going in excess of 10
- m.p.h. over the legal speed limit. I figured that the other cars had
- seen the police car and (as is too often the case) had slowed down to
- under 55 m.p.h. No flames, please. I have seen this happen far too
- often. People are completely paranoid around police officers (with
- cause, as I have come to understand! :-).
-
- Well, I think we can end the hypothetical debate. The point I was
- making when I went to contest the ticket was not really that I was not
- speeding, but that the officer was, and that he shouldn't be allowed to
- violate the law any more than I should.
-
- Peace. Peace. I think it's time to bury the dead. :-)
-
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