[Porsche-O-Phile]

On the way back from the airport yesterday I "tailed" a cop who was doing at least 20 mph over the speed limit and weaving in and out of lanes without signalling. No joke. This was in an L.A. Sheriff's patrol car, I was on my motorcycle.

This kind of crap is routine. Unfortunately out here, especially on the freeways, the rule is "do whatever you can when you can". There's simply no alternative. If you try to play by the rules, you'll either be killed, run over, or stuck in traffic for HOURS, if not days. The system has totally broken down and failed here and honestly I'll be the first one to admit routinely breaking the traffic laws on the freeways just so I can get home (1) in one piece and (2) before hell freezes over.

Point is, circumstances mean everything. However, if the story is so "cut-and-dry" where it was simply a case of a guy speeding without reason through a residential neighborhood that bad, I say nail his ass.

The people bringing the suit are playing with fire though - it's a suicidal move. They'll have every cop in the town driving 6" off their ass every time they pull out of the driveway from now on and if they so much as go 1mph over - EVER - they're nailed. If they let their grass grow too tall or so much as cut the tags off their matresses, they're gonna' get arrested.

Nice to see the citizens standing up against the tax collectors for a change - but this is gonna' end badly for 'em.