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Re: Speeders, FYI



cjfred@clark.net (Chris Frederick) wrote:

>In article <3lmkb7$425@access4.digex.net>,
>Ed Tuthill <bishop@access4.digex.net> wrote:

>> I'd just love to get together with three friends and do my own "rolling
>> road block" on the Beltway to show how silly the 55mph speed limit is.

Not in front of me, unless of course you like to have someone ride between
you and your freinds?

>Just make sure you and your friends are driving armored cars. :)  That would
>be an interesting situation.  What happens when the police, who typically
>drive 65-75 MPH on the Baltimore beltway when not in a hurry (i.e., no lights
>and sirens), get stuck behind such a roadblock?  I'd love to see them try
>to ticket people for obstructing traffic or something; it would be a fun
>day in traffic court.  "Well, your honor, they _were_ going 55, but they
>were holding everybody up, so I gave them tickets!"

Actually I beleive tehy could charge them with reckless endangerment, the
charge normally used against those who impair the smooth flow of traffic.

>> Anyone remember the police in MD doing this several years ago?

>I wonder whether this was done as a reminder that the speed limit is 55 MPH,
>or in the hopes of getting people to complain about the too-low speed limit.
>Most cops probably aren't any happier about 55 MPH than the rest of us are.

The only time I ever saw a police car doing the speed limit on an
interstae, teh guy had to have been bored.  He pulled out went to 55, and
then slowly decreased his speed until he got to about thirty miles an hour.
nobody would pass him - even though there was no reason for it.
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