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From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: More Texas Photo Issues
I think the whole thing is pretty much blown way out of proportion. The
occurrence happens to how many people? 1 in 1000, 1 in 1,000,000?
Keep watching, and see how many more occurances there are.
On the other hand there was the nice policeman last Friday morning that
clocked me doing 62mph in a 35mph zone. He asked me if I had a good
reason for being in such a hurry. I explained that I was rushing to make
a 5:30 AM boarding of the plane (it was 5:00 when he pulled me over), and
that I knew that wasn't a good excuse for breaking the law. He came back
from his cruiser and asked me to please slow down in the future because
there are a lot of fatalities at that intersection. He also said the
ticket, had he written it, would have been $270. Whew!
Where I live, I would probably have gotten off with a warning as well.
OTOH, if I was a native Indian in a beaten up old truck, I expect I would be
sitting in a cell somewhere.
The local boys here have profiling down to a fine science.
William Robb
