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03Lightningrocks wrote:...Abraham....
If you are playing teacher on the road and someone yanks you out of your car and beats you with that concealed handgun that makes you so brave, you deserve it.

Chris wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:

Chris wrote:Slower traffic failed to keep right used to be one of my favorite tickets. That's where road rage starts. I'd sit in the center median and laser cars. Speeding or not going fast enough, didn't matter to me, a ticket is still a ticket.

You have a quota to meet or is motorist safety your concern?

Ticket quotas are illegal. My last department I was strictly traffic, and I had a stop quota, but no department can tell me I'm required to write even one ticket. Here is the thing though, people know what they are and are not supposed to do. Why bust my hump trying to chase someone down only to sternly tell them not to do what they already knew was wrong in the first place? If you're in the left lane blocking up traffic making people mad, how is that any less of a violation than speeding? I wrote a 97 year old lady her very first traffic ticket for blowing right through a stop sign. I caught flak for it, but what's the difference between her doing it, or a teenager in his Mustang? The danger is the same.

Chris wrote:Slower traffic failed to keep right used to be one of my favorite tickets. That's where road rage starts. I'd sit in the center median and laser cars. Speeding or not going fast enough, didn't matter to me, a ticket is still a ticket.

Fear not though. Eventually those people will run into me or one of my colleagues, and we'll make sure they they are taken care of.

03Lightningrocks wrote:

VMI77 wrote:Just about every time I drive through Houston, doing the speed limit seems downright dangerous with all the other cars whizzing by.

Now that is funny to read. I experience the same thing every time I visit my son in Houston. I have no problem driving ten over. I do it all the time. In most cases it is usually just about the right speed to keep with the flow of traffic. In Houston they drive by me so fast I question if I am actually moving.