Letum

Why not wear a seatbelt? It's not like they're uncomfortable, unless you're fat I guess.

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3devious

I am all for these people not wearing their seatbelts. If you die in a wreck because your dumb ass went through the windshield that is just a little more chlorine in the gene pool.

I wish being caught flicking cigarettes out the window would result in a Singapore-style caning.

Saihung23

Hrmm...

For my part...I think a cop is paid to protect and serve...him giving some schmoe a ticket for "littering" by tossing a half inch filter out the window does not fit my definition of protect and serve.

Go try to solve one of the many murders that are happening everyday...usually at least twice.

And I am not advocating people to ignore seatbelt laws...simply saying, if thats all you have in regards to probable cause to pull me over...then you have NO reason to pull me over.

Teenagers flying through windshields sounds fun and all...but thats not what I am talking about...teenagers should be pulled over anytime anywhere...little hoodlums. If anyone should have their rights taken away or restricted...it should start with those pregnant, pot smoking, beer drinking, uneducated slobs called teenagers (I was never pregnant as a teen...its a boy thing).


I am just saying...dont waste manpower and money on stupid shit like this. I actually saw a police checkpoint right at the opening of our business...checking for seatbelts...

Now keep in mind...I could have gone out of my gate, got a $75 ticket for not wearing a seatbelt and then gone another 30ft and picked up a hooker.

Hrmm...something is amiss with that scenario...and I know it has something to do with the $20 crack whore that the police ignore on a daily basis to go write some chits.

Prioritize is all I am really saying...

Saihung23

Is this website a front for an ELF group? You hippies get violent quick.

Letum

Who the fuck did you just call a hippie?

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brentiger

So Saihung, cigarette smokers should get away with littering but the rest of us nonsmokers can't? I don't see how in your book it is ok to throw a cigarette out of a car for any reason. I do think the seatbelt law is stupid though (and yes I do wear one every time I get in a car). And what does being a hippie have to do with anything?

To me what is worse then the seatbelt law is the new cameras they just put on the back of traffic lights here in the New Orleans area. If you take a red light they send you a ticket in the mail. Hey I do think people taking red lights should get tickets but come on, you could possibly have to slow down because some idiot decides to jump out in front of you.

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Faabio

I once got a ticket for wearing no seat-belt. I stopped to left two people riding their bike crossing the street and I suppose it gave the cop ample time to look into my car to notice I wasn't wearing it~

40 dollars later and I haven't taken it off since!

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Saihung23

ROFL

Johnathon

Damit, this means i live near Saihung23... /cry

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Ninibi

It does to me. Not to sound Lisa Simpson here, but it adds up, subtle though it may be.

I hate the "who gives a shit" mentality smokers get about their own litter - people who would never throw a coke can or soda bottle out a car window, toss their cigarettes out without a thought & it adds up, not to mention the risk of fire. Hell, you can use an empty cigarette box for an ashtray in a pinch, just toss the butt in there, close it off so it gets no oxygen and poof, it goes out.

Riding a motorcycle behind these people gives you great perspective of why pulling them over is a GREAT thing. Usually butts hit the ground and bounce, but the odd one...


Here's a cigarette butt fire just getting going:



That was some stupid kid at a park.


For me, personally, other than the fun of being evacuated out of your home, I can't think of how many times I've gone hiking out here, found a gorgeous overlook and spent the next hour cleaning up all the cigarette butts & beer bottle tops around it because a collection of assholes decided to toss their shit on the ground whilst enjoying Mother Nature. Big fat WTF.

LOL yeah but...your average traffic cop isn't a detective, forensic scientist, and FBI agent all rolled into one.

It's an inconvenience and sometimes downright stupid, I get it - but it could also be viewed as doing *exactly* what you're saying they should do - how many times is there a random traffic stop and the driver turns out to be drunk or high, etc?

My husband got pulled over at a speed trap a couple years ago doing 5-10 mph over the limit and arrested over someone's typo in the DMV database. They had him mixed up with a felon. Oops! BUT, as much as that sucked... it was a routine traffic stop that they "caught" someone THEY thought was a felon. Not their fault the DMV boned up.

So I understand the sentiment. Things are sometimes just plain fucked up and lame. At the same time, I understand that there may *sometimes* be more to it.

Literally? Is it possible that the seatbelt check was not um...just a seatbelt check?

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