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   Yeah but works the other way too

   

   dorpus, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 9:59am

   
   

   What better way to prove police themselves are bad drivers? How often do police cars just ram their way down the highway without turning signals or anything? In Asia, there have been many recent incidents of drunken cop drivers killing pedestrians.
   

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   Re: Yeah but works the other way too

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 10:20am

   
   

   dorpus....where do you live (what country-or state if in the US)? Just curious

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   Re: Yeah but works the other way too

   

   dorpus, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 10:28am

   
   

   Well Mike, I've lived many places and seen the same pattern. Which state or country I will live in next year is anyone's guess -- wherever opportunity takes me.
   
   

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   Re: Yeah but works the other way too

   

   R Pollack, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 11:46am

   
   

   But not in the real world. I doubt if the police are monitoring online conversations to catch traffic offenders. They dont have the brains, technical knowledge or interest. It is more likely that someone read the comment and tipped them off.
   

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   Re: Yeah but works the other way too

   

   supord, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 12:30pm

   
   

   Yeah, that hobo life really takes you places, don't it.

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   ethics and the nature of the crime

   

   Todd, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 12:37pm

   
   

   to mike's comment regarding "the severity of the crime:" penalties for traffic infractions work on the accrual basis. if you speed once in a while and get a ticket, tough luck - but that's as bad as it gets. if you are a habitual speeder, the system is designed to load on enough pain to encourage you not to, or if necessary get you off the road. whether the system works is another debate, but the fact that the speeder in question was looking at (additional) points merely shows that the system is working as intended.

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   Posting about illegal activities...

   

   blankmeyer, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 1:56pm

   
   

   Anyone dumb enough to post about participating in illegal activities in a public forum is just asking to be arrested.

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   Perjury

   

   marek, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 4:31pm

   
   

   The crime is not shooting a red light - that's not a crime at all in the important sense of creating a criminal record. The crime is telling a lie in judicial proceedings - in other words, perjury. That's a serious crime for which a serious punishment is entirely appropriate.
   The curious idea that it is somehow unsporting to catch drivers guilty of driving offences by more efficient means than paying expensive policeman to stand around on street corners can be left for another occasion.

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   Re: Posting about illegal activities...

   

   Ivan Sick, Jul 11th, 2005 @ 5:58pm

   
   

   err, right. Do you think that if I were to post to a website about MARIJUANA or UNREGISTERED, CONCEALED HANDGUNS, or RAPE, or BOMBS, or CRACK COCAINE IN CRAYOLA BOXES that I'd actually be arrested? American citizens have fewer rights every month, but free speech isn't completely killed yet.

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