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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Anb618 said:
Someone’s gonna get a few days off work without pay. Sitting in the dark on the wrong side of the road, facing the wrong way. Driver shouldn’t have been on the shoulder, but that’s one dangerous place to sit. Catching a speeder is not worth that kind of danger...
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Arc Light said:
Pretty fucked up what some jurisdictions will do for money under the guise of "safety". Putting their lives and the public’s at risk, at night, to stop someone committing the unforgivable sin of driving 5 mph over some arbitrary speed limit. Which 9 out of 10 times is set artificially low to begin with. Sorry for the rant, but this nonsense is all too common. If the city, county, state needs more money, then have the balls to raise taxes.
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There are two small towns near where I live south of Dallas that are known as the speed trap capitol of Texas. Ferris and Palmer... Both are tiny one horse towns whose residents are mostly poor and I bet more than half of their revenue comes from them running speed traps on I45(speed limit is between 70 and 75, but people do 85-90 through there all the time). The cops have caused NUMEROUS accidents pulling out onto the highways at night with no lights on up to and including at least one fatality if not more. I believe their speed trap practices have been shut down or severely curtailed. The police chief and city manager of one of the towns "resigned" this summer under suspicious circumstances as well, but that supposedly had to do with the city manager embezzling money that was supposed to go to keeping the water tower filled(the city ran out of water like 6 times this past summer). Ill just say their speed trap practice hasnt been as prevalent the past few months.
 
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rjacobs said:
There are two small towns near where I live south of Dallas that are known as the speed trap capitol of Texas. Ferris and Palmer... Both are tiny one horse towns whose residents are mostly poor and I bet more than half of their revenue comes from them running speed traps on I45(speed limit is between 70 and 75, but people do 85-90 through there all the time). The cops have caused NUMEROUS accidents pulling out onto the highways at night with no lights on up to and including at least one fatality if not more. I believe their speed trap practices have been shut down or severely curtailed. The police chief and city manager of one of the towns "resigned" this summer under suspicious circumstances as well, but that supposedly had to do with the city manager embezzling money that was supposed to go to keeping the water tower filled(the city ran out of water like 6 times this past summer). Ill just say their speed trap practice hasnt been as prevalent the past few months.
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Don't know if it's still the case, but there was a similar town here in FL. Their jurisdiction included about 1/4 mile of interstate. The state posted speed trap signs.
 
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EddieNFL said:
Don't know if it's still the case, but there was a similar town here in FL. Their jurisdiction included about 1/4 mile of interstate. The state posted speed trap signs.
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I remember reading about that town and how the court was open 24hrs a day so many people got pinched over speeding that the state took away the towns charter. I read it in a Road and Track magazine years ago.

Until the fall of 2014 Florida had two of the worst speed traps in America—Waldo and Lawtey. Now drivers can mark one of them off their list. Late in 2014, Waldo disbanded its small police. Waldo's seven officers wrote nearly 12,000 speeding tickets in 2013, collecting some $400,000.00 in fines.
 
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I have broken over twenty bones and have scars from surgeries and accidents. Lost count of how many stitches. Still have wire in my jaw from a motorcycle crash nearly fifty years ago. My left index finger is so badly mangle I cannot pick my nose with it. I don't find blood and gore motivating. Sorry about boring you with my body injuries,
 
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rjacobs said:
There are two small towns near where I live south of Dallas that are known as the speed trap capitol of Texas. Ferris and Palmer... Both are tiny one horse towns whose residents are mostly poor and I bet more than half of their revenue comes from them running speed traps on I45(speed limit is between 70 and 75, but people do 85-90 through there all the time). The cops have caused NUMEROUS accidents pulling out onto the highways at night with no lights on up to and including at least one fatality if not more. I believe their speed trap practices have been shut down or severely curtailed. The police chief and city manager of one of the towns "resigned" this summer under suspicious circumstances as well, but that supposedly had to do with the city manager embezzling money that was supposed to go to keeping the water tower filled(the city ran out of water like 6 times this past summer). Ill just say their speed trap practice hasnt been as prevalent the past few months.
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This explains most small towns ,even some not so small, towns in Texas
 
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clcustom1911 said:
I'm not sure if I'm clear about your opinion, can you explain it a different way?
J/k ??
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Even with further explanation I'm still not really "motivated" that it took Federal Agents EIGHT YEARS to catch some jackass for fraud after a 2004 conviction. Great, he was caught. Then they let him out, and he walks around for 8 years? I remain unmotivated by local/state and federal authorities' lack of motivation to catch and keep known bad guys.

I'm also not enthusiastic about displays of force by an increasingly oppressive government, who does not appear to represent me and my interests while using my tax dollars to further their wayward agenda.

Back to titties, please.
 
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mcfred said:
Even with further explanation I'm still not really "motivated" that it took Federal Agents EIGHT YEARS to catch some jackass for fraud after a 2004 conviction. Great, he was caught. Then they let him out, and he walks around for 8 years? I remain unmotivated by local/state and federal authorities' lack of motivation to catch and keep known bad guys.

I'm also not enthusiastic about displays of force by an increasingly oppressive government, who does not appear to represent me and my interests while using my tax dollars to further their wayward agenda.

Back to titties, please.
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The cops caught him, but someone else released him.

I'm guessing lots of speeding tickets?
 
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hermosabeach said:
another attempt to send messages over telegraph wires without morse code

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I worked in Washington DC back in the early 80's. They still used these to communicate to other departments. It was actually a very fast way to get important info to everyone. Sadly, about 1985, the parts dried up and I was tasked to basically invent something that would do this electronically. I got it done and they are still using my design today.
 
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BullGear said:
I worked in Washington DC back in the early 80's. They still used these to communicate to other departments. It was actually a very fast way to get important info to everyone. Sadly, about 1985, the parts dried up and I was tasked to basically invent something that would do this electronically. I got it done and they are still using my design today.
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I remember when command post used those to notify units of security changes, weather, etc.
 
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