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Re: BURN THAT COP? (was Re: Cops: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live ,



copland timothy j <copland@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:

> no...just me.  I don't care what they are called, I call all Canadian 
> police "Mounties".  I don't know what a RCMP is and I don't care..I don't 
> drive in Canada except maybe twice a year.  By the way, I call all 
> Canadians ....Canadians..should I be calling them Quebeckians or 
> Torontonians...(we call people New Yorkers and such here?)  

RCMP = Royal Canadian Mounted Police, fromerly the Northwest Mounted Police 
(in the Klondike days).

Should I call all American cops "feds" or "narcs"?

> I speed proportionatly to the length of the trip.  The longer the trip, 
> the more I speed.

That's the way that gets results.  Unfortunately, at least in southern 
Ontario, speeding regularly on long trips when there isn't much traffic is 
asking for a ticket (photo radar or otherwise).

> Yeah, I agree..I take it easy unless I'm going more than 250 miles.  
> Then, I try to maintain 75mph..ave... more than 400 mi and I can usually 
> get about 80 mph ave.  I've never had the balls to do better  (I don't 
> count the midnight runs to chicago at 110mph... My uncle likes to race me 
> and we've done it twice...180 miles... in about 1hr, 40min...fun fun fun!) 

Hmm, I've held ~150 MPH on relatively short trips (~60 miles... but, at that 
speed, what isn't a short trip?) in the wee hours of the morning but, as I 
said, doing that a few times is a sure way to get a cop's attention!  No 
longer, and I don't miss it all that much. 

Geoffrey Welsh geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
       We can only hope that people will outgrow the need for government
      before the government finishes outgrowing the need for the people.


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