[Cagey]

Canada has long been compulsed with seatbelt compliance. I think it's their number one priority.

[Slyfox]

Thanks for posting this article. I'm going up that way in a few weeks.

[mc5cents]

Why the subtrafuge? What is wrong with doing it the good old-fashioned way like we do it here in the good ole U.S. of A, Nazi style roadblocks? (YOUR PAPERS PLEASE!)

[End Times Sentinel]

In a four-hour period this week, officers issued 90 tickets.

Look, I’ve long been on the Pro-Police side of almost every issue, traffic enforcement too. However, this is a ridiculously stupid law and the attempt to ambush drivers serves no purpose other than to raise revenue.

ONLY the driver is endangering themselves by not wearing a seat belt. This isn’t speeding or red light running we’re talking about here.

Owl_Eagle taking the anti-police side of an argument? That’s surely a sign of the apocolypse…”

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[E Rocc]

Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Vancouver suburb have been posing as the car window washers at major intersections in a bid to catch people who are breaking the law by not wearing seat belts when they drive.

Sounds like a prototype for the TIPS campaign.

-Eric

[Just another Joe]

It is actually illegal to offer street window washing in Burnaby, but Reid said police are allowed to break some laws as part of the undercover operation.

Ah yes, even in Canada it's, "One law for thee and one law for me."

[Razz Barry]

In a four-hour period this week, officers issued 90 tickets. "It's been very successful," Constable Phil Reid said on Thursday.

Wonder how many rapes, burglaries, murders... happend in those 4 hours?

[Cyber Liberty]

Now I have a good excuse to tell the squeegee bums to eff off....

[mhking]

It is actually illegal to offer street window washing in Burnaby, but Reid said police are allowed to break some laws as part of the undercover operation.

???!!!???

[Flyer]

posing as the car window washers at major intersections

In Houston they don't go undercover. They just walk between the lanes at busy intersections, catch you in the freeway overpass u-turn and they have even shut down an entire freeway and checked each car. I haven't been through one of these checks yet, but when I do I am going to give the officers my best Gomer imitation with "Shame, shame, shame!"

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[Travis McGee]

Police undercover operations to nab seatbelt resistors!

Glad to hear that Canada has stopped all murders, rapes and burlaries, and now has excess police manpower to spare on such vital issues.

[APBaer]

What about the ASPCA?

While Sgt. Preston of the RCMP is doing this,
who is taking care of his lead dog King?

[mv1]

I hope our neighbors to the north have a TIPS program installed.

[subterfuge]

What I'd like to know, if anyone can answer is: what influence have insurance companies had on laws like this, particularly in the U.S.?

IOW, do the insurance giants lobby for these and other laws?

[kaboom]

Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Vancouver suburb ...

Who is the current King or Queen of Canada?

[Rainmist]

Revenue, revenue, revenue ! Occasionally our local police will do an ambush at schools. My son's school is small, and there's only one way to pull in. The cops will be up in the road a bit, positioned where you can't go anywhere but forward. They have gotten people for expired tags, no license, no insurance, no seatbelt, etc. God knows how much money they make harrassing harried parents trying to drop their kids off. Their fave time of year is the first day of school, popping people who park on the side of the road since there's hardly any parking. It really p***es me off. I have a hard time not feeling like I'm at a commie checkpoint !!!

[ContentiousObjector]

I am sorry, I just can't picture a mountie dressed up like a squeegee kid,

From the time I spent in Toronto and Vancouver I can testify that the squeegee kids are a pretty filthy bunch, we are talking San Fransisco class lowlifes here.