Widget -- I would hesitate to drive a nice car around here. My VW has crappy bumpers, so I'd probably mash up the fiberglass fenders, too. It seems like the body shops are really making a killing.
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Austin yammered:
Ever stoped (sic) at a red and had the guy behind you all PO'd?
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I've had that happen, too -- stopping after watching 3 cars run a red, and the guy behind you honks angrily. If we're going to change the convention, somebody needs to promulgate a new instruction. I mean, I'm ok with change, just as long as we're all on the same page. The rules that we pretend to enforce say "stop on red," but society seems to have rejected that.
I guess the other issue that I'm hinting at is the mismatch between what the populace wants and what the police force so often gives us. I mean, you get pulled over doing 66 in a 55 (which, BTW, is about 10mph below the Speed of Traffic here -- scary), and you're angry, but not at the cop, because "he was just doing his job." Well, wait a minute, who's his boss? Oh right, that's us -- the taxpayers! Why do we pay our police force to hassle guys about tail-lights being different colors (yes, had it happen to me)? Why do we pay our police force to hassle us about out-of-state insurance paperwork (yes, had it happen)? Why do we pay our police to enforce artificially low speed limits on straight-flat 6-lane roads, rather than enforcing on the 2-lane windy road where the kids are known to race and die (yes, had a police officer explain that the revenue is better at the first spot)?
What are we doing? Where are we going, and why are we in this hand-basket?