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Posted on 12/06/2005 12:30:15 PM PST by paulat
We're not allowed to choose unsafe anymore. You see, we're all "connected" by insurance and health care costs.
Running people off the road and handing them a bill for not wearing a seatbelt IS the actual crime. Armed robbery, to be sure.
$6,000.00 per day, 8 hrs - 60 citations
$30,000.00 per 5 day week
$120,000.00 per 4-week month
$1,440,000 per year!
Show Me The Money!
Aww, poor local government needs money.
I agree as long as no one pays for any injuries sustained in an auto accident because you were being thrown about or out of the vehicle. If you dont wear your seatbelt, a law in most all states, then you have no claim for damages sustained while breaking the law.
Works for me...
She sure is a sneaky one, that Jennifer!
LOL!!! My bad...sorry, Jennifer...forgot the line break!
WORTHLESS DRUNK AND DRUG ADDICT
TOO SORRY TO WORK, HAD RATHER BEG
PLEASE FEEL SORRY FOR ME GIVE ME YOUR MONEY.
I NEED A HIT ON THE PIPE REALLY BAD
(insert appropriate religious aphorism here)
I wonder how long it would take for the cops to run me off?
This is the reason I no longer respect cops. They have gone from being LEO's (LAW ENFOREMENT OFFICERS) to being REO's (REVENUE ENHANCEMENT OFFICERS).
Recent studies in Manitoba showed that the benefits of wearing seat-belts, especially for the front-seat passenger, are balanced by the increase in injuries to back-seat passengers and driver hip injuries.
Counter-intuitive, I know.
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That and the fact that they extracted $3000 for the relatively small effort put forth by four or five cops.
az, help me out here. Who was it again that suggested (practically required) the states to pass seat belt laws? What administration was that under? Didn't that person give us some other great laws? What's that person doing now? LOL!!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002667004_panhandle06m.html#poll_1058251
Funny...even though there are 300 more votes...the percentages haven't changed....
Troopers don't "fight crime" as you imagine the local PD does. Their mandate is to make the highways safer and reduce collision deaths.
They believe a large benefit exists to enforcing the seatbelt laws. It is their belief that doing "stings" or "emphasis" patrols like this will increase seatbelt usage and lower highway deaths.
WA has or nearly has the highest seatbelt usage rate in the nation so these emphasis patrols, it could be argued, do not accomplish the above goals.
IT's all about the benjamins
I think I'm the only one here who thinks this is ingenious and somewhat funny.
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