Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:02:12 -0500
Reply-To: Karin Baker & Raymond Paquette <raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Karin Baker & Raymond Paquette <raymondpaquette@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: "Blue light" incidents..NVC..
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Wasn't me, but a friend got a ticket on her rollerblades. Beachside
boardwalk in San Diego, 15mph speed limit.
Big Brother IS watching you.
Raymond
On 11/13/07, chris Moyles <chris@fauquierhousing.org> wrote:
>
> I am the proud recipient of a bicycle speeding ticket from Boulder,
> Colorado- 44 mph in a 25.
>
>
> c
> Don Hanson wrote:
> > Some years ago, we took the split window VW panel south from Jackson
> Hole,
> > Wyoming, for our normal springtime Baja trip. On the way south, we
> swung
> > by So California to visit my brother's family, still living in my
> childhood
> > home in Belmont Shores..now an up-scale marina area and quite
> congested. We
> > had our race bicycles along, so, having grown up on a bike in the area
> and
> > having an adventure-some and fit female cyclist as a companion, we
> decided
> > to go out on our bikes for some fun in the traffic..
> > After doing the 'bike-messenger' thing up and down the main street,
> > dodging cars, ducking through alleys, jumping curbs and generally being
> 'not
> > grown-up' we were headed home across the bridge that spans the Long
> Beach
> > Marine Stadium. The only hill we'd seen all day, so predictably, we had
> to
> > see how fast we could go...A 6- lane bridge full of traffic (that we
> passed
> > easily) with a signal at the bottom. When we were kids, we always just
> > turned right, then quick left onto the 'feeder' street that
> paralleled the
> > main street and kept right on going...
> > So, we did that and at the next signal we encounter a policeman with
> his
> > car stopped and light flashing...Huh? He points right at us and motions
> us
> > to the curb...and tells us we'd been clocked at 52mph in a 25
> zone! Illegal
> > turn without a stop--no signals--passing on the right--blah blah blah!..
> > Wanted our drivers licenses...Huh? To ride a bike? Drivers
> license?..Speed
> > limit?---we played it dumb---Then Marie, my now S.O., plays the Wyoming
> Hick
> > Card. (she happened to have her Wyoming license with her..it has that
> cool
> > outline of a cowboy on a bucking bronc as a background).."Well shucks,
> > officer, we're sorry, we come from Wyomin', and up there, if there ain't
> no
> > cows to harm, you kin do 'bout anythin' you want"...
> > He let us go after shaking his head in disbelief..
> > The old '57 36hp van worked great, btw, as usual..Slower than the
> bikes,
> > but ...
> > Don Hanson
> >
> >
> >
>
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