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Originally Posted by legion
But it's so much quicker to make money for the PD by issuing speeding tickets.
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I was waiting for that very irony as I took a drive in the hills to get the dry paint to flake off the tires! "But officer, with the rear weight bias I really need to push hard to work the front tires!" The good news is that latex paint comes off with a little elbow grease, although with a lowered car on 7's and 8's it's hard to get inside the wheel wells and at the undercarraige without a lift.
Of more concern (and what prompted this post) is when things like ladders and lumber spear through windshields, Igloo coolers knock down motorcycles, and even when fasteners cause sudden loss of tire pressure to a speeding car. This kind of accident is preventable; it's not an earthquake or a hurricane. What it takes is enforcement and citizens willing to report problems.
There is NO WAY that somebody didn't see this and couldn't make the driver aware of it -- it was at one of the busiest intersections in town right after some of the churches let out. My wife said that there were a few cars that got nailed a lot worse than mine, but the fire captain who came out to make sure that the mess wasn't toxic said that I was the only person who called police dispatch. It's the same cranial-rectal insertion that allowed Bear-Stearns and Fannie and Freddie to make reckless business decisions, skim the commissions, and leave the "insurance company" (the U.S. taxpayer) with the bill...