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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
What makes you think that people who feel that they should be able to do whatever they want will suddenly have respect for others because you post a sign telling them they can't speed?
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I
don't. That's why I pay the cops. To
ensure that those that have no respect for others, have at least
some motivation to show some.
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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
Those people are going to speed whether you have laws against it or not. You're just inconveniencing the rest of us on our way to the store and costing everybody more money.
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Can you tell me
why you find it necessary to speed to the grocerry store. How is that inconveniencing you?
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Originally Posted by Master_Shake
Now, I agree that when these people start killing and hurting others, we should put a stop to it, then the costs of not doing something begin to outweigh the costs of doing something.
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Have you ever scraped what was left of a 7 year old up from off of the pavement? Picking up pieces that you don't even know what the hell are anymore? Have you ever found a little girls shoe three houses down from where it was literaly blown off of her foot...never mind the foot? Have you watched on as the Fire Dept. hoses down the street to obliterate the red streak that stretches for over 75 feet? Have you listened to a mother wail in anguish, as she rock herself back and forth, kneeling over a pile of twisted scrap metal that used to be a little girls bicycle?
I have. In fact, that's why I'm not a cop anymore. That one did me in. 20 year old kid screaming how it was all her fault. How he couldn't see her pedal out of her driveway and onto the street. How he couldn't possibly have stopped. Well...I agree with him there. He was doing at least 50 in a residential 25 zone.
So...yeah...I agree. A stop
does have to be put to it.
Before some other poor dumb sonofabitch has to clean another Meredith off the asphalt. That was her name, by the way. 12 years later...I still know her name.