Re: fairfax is doing a checkpoint down by Wilson bridge.
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Date: July 26, 2015 12:54AM
Old Guard Wrote:
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> jurisdictor Wrote:
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> > But the bridge is in Alexandria. WTF was
> fairfax
> > doing there? What's next, CHiPs patrols? The
> > Mounties? Get these interlopers out of
> > Alexandria.
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> The bridge is in Maryland. Virginia, being cheap,
> ceded its colonial charter rights to the river
> (normally, boundaries divided rivers in half) so
> as to avoid the cost of building and maintaining
> bridges. The state line is actually the low water
> mark on the Virginia shoreline. And just to make
> things more interesting, only a small strip of the
> bridge on the Virginia side is in Virginia -- the
> part running parallel to St. Mary's Cemetery.
> Once the bridge crosses overtop of S. Royal, it's
> in Jones Point, which is Federal park land, though
> the U.S. Park Police grants jurisdiction to
> Maryland State Police.
>
> So, the bridge is an amalgam of jurisdictions:
> Maryland polices it, DC provides the bridge
> masters (guys who raise and lower the bridge),
> because the navigable channel in the river's
> center is DC jurisdiction, and Virginia supplies
> the power to run it.
>
> Now, as to how this relates to Faifax County
> Public Schools running checks there, clearly the
> OP is suffering from the accumulative effects of
> eating PCB laced fish pulled from the river,
> Schlitz Malt Liquor, and solvent based inhalants.
You could have saved your self some typing and just said I495 goes across the bridge. Police do not do DWI checkpoints on I495.
Now maybe the schools do check grades on the interstate.