Re: Ticket-cops suck

["Lee Folkman" <general_lee_f@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>i can definitely see your point, quite a story...i know, that what i did 
wasn't the smart thing, but to redeem myself, i was driving very carefully 
and i had a good line of vision, there were no blind corners or 
anything...as i said before, if i would have seen anyone i would have slowed 
down...but really, i guess it's those who you dont see that cause the 
problems. anyways, he could have at least given me a warning:), my first 
offense you know, i would have listened (its lesson enough just getting 
pulled over in the first place).
oh well, what's done is done.

Lee Folkman
'84 Wolfsburg Scirocco 8v
'82 Jetta Diesel(225,000+ and can still get 50mpg)


>From: ferret100@juno.com
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Ticket-cops suck
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:03:53 -0500
>
>Well said, Shawn!
>
>I know we have had this discussion before, but you really can't blame the
>cops for giving you a ticket when you were blatantley doing something
>illegal!  I realize I may sound a bit preachy, and perhaps I am.  Here's
>why (and again, this isn't directed at anyone.  It's just a true story.):
>
>April 9th, 1991 should have been my last day.  It was a few days before
>my 17th birthday and my dad was letting me drive his old '74 Porsche 911.
>  School had just let out and a friend (Dave) and I decided to go for a
>drive.  We went to this twisty two lane road that I used to tear down.
>(Looking back at that I was such a moron.  35 mph with houses and kids.)
>This time I was cruising the whole road at about 40 - 45, as it was a
>nice day and we weren't in any rush.  While going around a right hand
>turn, a Pontiac Fiero came hauling ass towards us, hanging in my lane.
>Instinctly, I hit the brakes and pulled the wheel hard to the right
>(which, for those of you who don't know much about 911's, is how most
>people get killed in them.  Chaulk that one up to inexperience.).  The
>car swung 90 degrees to the left, perpendicular to the road and across
>both lanes.  I correctively steered and braced for the impact that was
>going to happen on my door.  Fortunately, the car then kicked back to the
>right about 140 degrees before the right side of the car slammed into a
>dirt embankment (with Dave's arm hanging outside the car!).  I fell into
>a ditch, slid through some trees, popped out of the ditch, went through a
>mailbox which smashed through the windshield and came to a stop in
>someone's yard.
>
>Through a huge stroke of luck, fate, miracle or whatever you want to call
>it, no one was hurt.  The Fiero and I never hit, and the impact on the
>right side of the car was about 8 inches behind Dave's arm.  The Fiero
>never stopped.
>
>What's the point of yet another one of my long winded stories?  IT'S NOT
>A FUCKING GAME!!  There are no reset buttons!  I found this out the hard
>way, and fortunately survived.  Don't get me wrong, I love to drive fast.
>  But that's what the track is for.  Every time you drive recklessly,
>drive drunk or stoned or whatever you put not only yourself, but others
>at risk.  (one of my college buddies learned this the hard way when he
>was driving drunk and killed his best friend's girlfriend.  They were
>considering charging him with Second Degree Murder.)  Even if the
>accident you are about to get in will be caused by the other guy, your
>driving fast will only make things worse.
>
>I'm done now, so I'll get off my soap box.
>
>B.
>
>'82 Scirocco (aka "Fritz")
>'85 Jetta
>
>
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