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RobertR237 wrote in message Sounds like he was just questioning your
judgement as well. In your case though, poor judgement has often lead to serious accidents. I admit I am not used to having my judgement questioned, and I'm sure the same is true for the officer. However, IN MY CASE, I've never had a serious accident. In fact the only accident I've had in well over a decade was when I was sitting in stalled traffic on the interstate and was rear-ended. Are you going to say that was bad judgement on my part? D. |
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RobertR237 wrote in message Sounds like he was just questioning your judgement as well. In your case though, poor judgement has often lead to serious accidents. I admit I am not used to having my judgement questioned, and I'm sure the same is true for the officer. However, IN MY CASE, I've never had a serious accident. In fact the only accident I've had in well over a decade was when I was sitting in stalled traffic on the interstate and was rear-ended. Are you going to say that was bad judgement on my part? D. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It's bad judgment on your part to air this case in RAH.... even if you enjoy masochism, wasting time and energy. Barnyard BOb -- Pot, kettle, black. g |
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RobertR237 wrote in message Sounds like he was just questioning your judgement as well. In your case though, poor judgement has often lead to serious accidents. I admit I am not used to having my judgement questioned, and I'm sure the same is true for the officer. However, IN MY CASE, I've never had a serious accident. In fact the only accident I've had in well over a decade was when I was sitting in stalled traffic on the interstate and was rear-ended. Are you going to say that was bad judgement on my part? D. Rather or not you have ever HAD a serious accident might only mean that thus far you have been very lucky. Hell, you have never died yet (like some people) but you will someday. No, setting stalled in traffic on the interstate and being rear-ended is not bad judgement on your part. So, does that mean anything? No, bad judgement on the part of one driver might not cause them to be involved in an accident but might cause one as a result. I will give you an example that happened to my daughter. She was traveling down the service road along the side of the freeway with another car beside her. The other car suddenly swerved into her lane and my daughter tried to avoid her and her tire hit the curb and pulled her into the end of a rather large guardrail. The cars never touched but my daughters car was destroyed as a result of the collision. The cops gave my daughter a ticket for failure to maintain control and then told her she should take it to court. She did, and fortunately for her, the woman who was driving the other car did stop and did show up in court to admit that she caused the accident. It was a very rare case of someone actually knowing and caring that THEY had caused an accident, even though they were not involved in it. In my thirty years of driving the Houston raceways, I have seen many accidents result from stupid moves by drivers who were not themselves involved in the resulting accident. The two most frequent causes are unsignaled and thoughtless lane changes and people who don't understand that entrance and exit ramps are for getting upto speed and slowing down, not the main freeway lanes. That officer, whos judgement you are questioning, has probably seen more roadway carnage in a couple of years than I have seen in 30 years of driving the Houston freeways. It doesn't take much of that to realize that poor judgement is the root cause of most accidents on the roadways as it is in the air. That officer might just have been more concerned about your safety than you were. Bob Reed www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site) KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress.... "Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!" (M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman) |
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Barnyard BOb wrote in message It's bad judgment on your part to air this
case in RAH.... Oh yeah, wouldn't want to post off-topic.... even if you enjoy masochism, wasting time and energy. More entertaining than watching television with the wife.... D. (getting old....but still grinning :-)) |
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RobertR237 wrote in message That officer, whos judgement you are
questioning, has probably seen more roadway carnage in a couple of years than I have seen in 30 years of driving the Houston freeways. It doesn't take much of that to realize that poor judgement is the root cause of most accidents on the roadways as it is in the air. That officer might just have been more concerned about your safety than you were. Ahh- finally the discourse of a civilized gentleman. I agree with what you write, mostly. Poor judgement is not the solely confined to the civilian population. Police officers are not immune from exercising poor judgement. Just this week, 2 local officers were fired for entering contestants in a dog-fighting contest and then abandoning the nearly dead dogs along the side of a road afterwards. Just this month, a local officer was 'not' cleared by a grand jury for shooting an unarmed suspect. The grand jury stated that his testimony was significantly different from that of his colleagues. Just this week, a local officer was fired and charged with crimes for demanding a $500 dollar bribe from an illegal immigrant during a traffic stop. I can go on, but you get the idea. Most officers exercise good judgement. I fully support them. I have cooperated and collaborated with many of them. Some of them are my personal friends and flying buddies. The bad officers make the job harder and less safe for the good officers. As a concerned citizen, I am vigilant about helping to identify the officers with judgement problems. Then, to get back to bitching, let's talk about the cops who write tickets for speeding and blasting through yellow lights and failing to use turn signals. They clock out and then do the same things themselves. Their defense is that they have had high speed driving training. Shiite! They're hypocrits! D. |
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Then, to get back to bitching, let's talk about the cops who write tickets for speeding and blasting through yellow lights and failing to use turn signals. They clock out and then do the same things themselves. Their defense is that they have had high speed driving training. Shiite! They're hypocrits! D. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Close, but this ain't hoarse shüz, dood. They be... hypocrites. g Barnyard BOb -- whining/whinning |
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Barnyard BOb -- wrote: Then, to get back to bitching, let's talk about the cops who write tickets for speeding and blasting through yellow lights and failing to use turn signals. They clock out and then do the same things themselves. Their defense is that they have had high speed driving training. Shiite! They're hypocrits! D. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Close, but this ain't hoarse shüz, dood. They be... hypocrites. g Barnyard BOb -- whining/whinning They remind me of dear old Dad. "Do as I say, not as I do? Warren |
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Then, to get back to bitching, let's talk about the cops who write tickets for speeding and blasting through yellow lights and failing to use turn signals. They clock out and then do the same things themselves. Their defense is that they have had high speed driving training. Shiite! They're hypocrits! D. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Close, but this ain't hoarse shüz, dood. They be... hypocrites. g Barnyard BOb -- whining/whinning They remind me of dear old Dad. "Do as I say, not as I do? Warren +++++++++++++++++++++ Cops could drive worse? When's the last time you saw a cop getting a ticket? Howz 'bout the oft times abused.... "professional courtesy" thingy. Samples... http://www.domelights.com/discussion...3/000001f1.htm http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...643930,00.html Barnyard BOb -- 50 years of fright |
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"Capt. Doug" writes: Then, to get back to bitching, let's talk about the cops who write tickets for speeding and blasting through yellow lights and failing to use turn signals. They clock out and then do the same things themselves. Their defense is that they have had high speed driving training. Shiite! They're hypocrits! D. Yellow lights??? Around here nobody even notices yellow lights and blast through red lights with a passion. I set at one intersecton and counted the red-light runners on one instance...there were 12 including a school bus full of kids which was the last to go through. I saw a 14 wheel fully loaded dump truck speed-up and run a red light once hitting a small car with three people inside. They never even knew what hit them. But yes, the officers do have some judgement problems as well and I have been witness to many instances myself. No amount of high speed driver training can make up for the fact that you are on the highway with a lot of drivers who have NOT had such training. Bob Reed www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site) KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress.... "Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!" (M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman) |
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"Barnyard BOb --" wrote in message
... When's the last time you saw a cop getting a ticket? Howz 'bout the oft times abused.... "professional courtesy" thingy. Then, to take this full circle and back to the subject, do FAA inspectors ramp check off-duty FAA inspectors? Rich "Badgers? I don' need no steenkin' badgers!" S |
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