Driving up from Richmond yesterday, i counted fourteen (14)! state police cars sitting on various portions of I-95 bewteen Ladysmith and Stafford. 5 of them were runnign radar, 6 had citizens pulled over, and there were three having a chat in a turnabout. The radar runners were sitting at the rest areas or in the turnaround places. 1 was an unmarked crown vic and one was an unmarked dodge of some kind that fooled me at first. Good thing i was doing only about 70. The rest were marked. At one point south of Fredricksburg, there was a cop at 3 consecutive turnarounds. Note that none of it was in the highway safety corridor.

At the same time, the state of VA has run out of money. Coincidence?

Funny you should mention that, I have noticed the same thing last night except in the city. I was going to the gym last night around midnight and I saw at least 4 cops that had someone pulled over at the moment and maybe another 5 or 6 that passed me or were scoping out. Not to mention I only live 7 miles away from my gym.

I dont mean 5 cops needed to pull someone over, i mean a cop running radar every 5 miles.

Oh I forgot to mention. Everybody knows that the best place to speed is right after where someone had been pulled over? Not so. 1 guy was pulled over and then i go around a curve an lok a cop runnign radar.

Ah revenue raising due to numerous failed legislations and shrinking budgets.

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> Driving up from Richmond yesterday
>
> Coincidence?

The only off coincidence I see is that Meade lives in Richmond. Funny... that would seem like a better story than something about cops pulling over "citizens."

The state focuses on certain areas all the time. Nothing to see here... move along.

Hopefully we will be seeing less of some of you dbags as a result of this...

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1362954

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia State Police say their latest crackdown on Interstates 81 and 95 was their best ever, with more than 8,800 summonses and arrests.

Holy Damn!

now if only they could arrest the people committing murders once every six days in richmond. (seriously, that is the average!)


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Do you really think the state is trying to raise revenue with $140 speeding tickets? Have you forgotten that over 40,000 people a year die in car crashes? You should be sending a thank you card to the State Police for making our highways safer.

Glad to see this. I drive to and from Richmond occasionally and it would
be nice if people would slow down and watch where they're going. If you
dont want to get pulled over, its easily avoided.

Gravis Wrote:
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> now if only they could arrest the people
> committing murders once every six days in
> richmond. (seriously, that is the average!)

Why would troopers investigate murders? They handle the interstate. Local police handles criminal investigations, unless it is a rural area with no local law enforcement.

Released a week ago…..
Virginia State Police News (redacted)

“In the first 10 weeks of this year 139 individuals have already lost their lives in traffic crashes on Virginia’s roads,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent.
139 lives forever ended because of a driver’s careless and reckless actions.”

With spring break beginning this weekend for numerous colleges and universities in Virginia and surrounding states, more traffic is anticipated on Virginia’s north-south interstate corridors. Troopers, supervisors, motorcycle units, motor carrier troopers and aviation units will be patrolling the entire lengths of I-95 and I-81 as part of the March 9-10, 2008, safety enforcement effort.
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The premise of Operation Air, Land, & Speed is to keep motorists safe and promote responsible driver behaviors. To prevent and reduce traffic crash fatalities, Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) have issued a Highway Safety Challenge (www.safeVAhighways.org

Schrute Wrote:
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> Have you forgotten that over 40,000 people a year
> die in car crashes?

no i havent but ticketing doesnt mean they are going to reduce that number by anything but a fraction. there are a lot more important things that need to be addressed

• 72000 people commit suicide
  
• 89,00 rapes
  
• 17000 people die as a result of AIDS (actually, fuck them it's their ODF)
  
• 12,000 people are murdered
  
• 21% of people are victims of crime
  

so seriously, people dying in car accidents regardless of being ticketed or not (a third of which are by drunk drivers) is not as important as many other problems in society. i would rather nobody be murdered or raped than 100000 die in car accidents. so fuck them and fuck you too.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

>
> “In the first 10 weeks of this year 139
> individuals have already lost their lives in
> traffic crashes on Virginia’s roads

1 every 6 days in richmond, 2 a day on the highway. Sounds like a couple of homicide investigators should pick up a ticket books.

better drive slow tonight/tomorrow... to/from richmond...

Yo Gravis, those are excellentl stats. Whered you find them>

Yeah, just what I-95 needs, to be slowed down even more. WTF? I hope they're also targeting the assholes doing 20mph under the speed limit too. And the idiots that don't understand acceleration lanes. That's why people on the highway get killed, not the speeders.

I have to think this is retribution for the dopey excessive fines being repealed. Are they trying to get everyone to move away from Va.? There needs to be a congressional investigation into Va's handling of our tax money. There is no fucking way we should EVER have a deficit here.

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> Yo Gravis, those are excellentl stats. Whered you
> find them>

http://www.nationmaster.com

it's a really cool site that compares different nations. btw, china executes 1,000 each year which is just under the TOTAL amount of people we have ever executed.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Gravis Wrote:
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> Schrute Wrote:
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> -----
> > Have you forgotten that over 40,000 people a
> year
> > die in car crashes?
>
> no i havent but ticketing doesnt mean they are
> going to reduce that number by anything but a
> fraction. there are a lot more important things
> that need to be addressed72000 people commit
> suicide
> 89,00 rapes
> 17000 people die as a result of AIDS (actually,
> fuck them it's their ODF)
> 12,000 people are murdered
> 21% of people are victims of crime
> so seriously, people dying in car accidents
> regardless of being ticketed or not (a third of
> which are by drunk drivers) is not as important as
> many other problems in society. i would rather
> nobody be murdered or raped than 100000 die in car
> accidents. so fuck them and fuck you too.

Just when I was starting to agree with most of your posts you go off your meds again... What do you do when you see cop(s) writing tickets? You slow down. If a cop sits at the same red light every day to write tickets, do you run the light? (insert witty response here). Traffic enforcement's main mission is to serve as a deterrent and gain voluntary compliance of traffic laws. Unfortunately it is a little harder to prevent rape, aids, murder, and other violent crimes. These are crimes of opportunity that people don't usually commit in the view of everyone (like traffic violators). Do us all a favor and become one of your stats up there...

pwned.

Schrute Wrote:
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> Just when I was starting to agree with most of
> your posts you go off your meds again... What do
> you do when you see cop(s) writing tickets? You
> slow down. If a cop sits at the same red light
> every day to write tickets, do you run the light?
> (insert witty response here). Traffic
> enforcement's main mission is to serve as a
> deterrent and gain voluntary compliance of traffic
> laws. Unfortunately it is a little harder to
> prevent rape, aids, murder, and other violent
> crimes. These are crimes of opportunity that
> people don't usually commit in the view of
> everyone (like traffic violators). Do us all a
> favor and become one of your stats up there...


aww... now we cant be friends. michael jackson, look what you did.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

TAHAHAH