[DeTomaso] Mid America Pantera Roadtrip to Phoenix

michael@michaelshortt.com michaelsavga at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 21:28:08 EST 2011


I SECOND THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

MICHAEL
On Dec 7, 2011 9:25 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 12/7/11 18 13 33, lotus0005 at hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> >
> > I wonder, have the NM folks raised any ruckus about this - apparently
> not.
> >
>
> I think there's a simple solution to this problem.
>
> Although there's a lot of puff about reducing accidents etc., the reality
> is that this is probably a thinly disguised revenue enhancement program.
> It's quite true that accident statistics and so forth will go down any
> place
> that sees heavy law enforcement; imagine how safe we would all be if
> everybody was forced to drive at 25 mph on the interstates?   So by that
> measure,
> the program is a success.
>
> But if 'success' is defined as, 'slowing traffic to a crawl and making
> everyone want to put bullets in their own brains', then something is wrong.
> People like us understand that there are tradeoffs in life; moving at a
> proper
> pace on a freeway necessarily involves higher risk, and sometimes people
> pay the price.   But do we want to live life like the boy in the plastic
> bubble, in the all-encompassing pursuit of 'safety'?
>
> So, here's the solution.   Go out and buy a junker car.   Drive through a
> safety corridor, and when you see some poor slob pulled over by the cops,
> immediately crash into the cop car.
>
> If we can all commit to this, pretty soon New Mexico will be out of
> functional cop cars.   Also, the statistics will prove that law
> enforcement in
> so-called 'safety corridors' results in a dramatically increased accident
> rate,
> and the only obvious solution would be to suspend such enforcement
> immediately.
>
> Once the enforcement is suspended, stop crashing into cop cars (or anything
> for that matter).   The accident rates plummet, and this is 'success' from
> the safety-weenie standpoint.   And then we can all go back to driving
> across new Mexico at 90 mph as nature and God intended....
>
> Mike
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