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"Troopers Look to Slow Down Lead-Foot Drivers Operation Slow Down Posted: Today at 5:53 a.m. Updated: Today at 6:43 a.m. Raleigh — The Highway Patrol is launching another crackdown on speeding drivers. Troopers will target interstates and major-four lane highways across the state as part of Operation Slow Down, which kicks off Tuesday. Troopers said there will also be increased patrols on secondary roads. The crackdown comes just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, when thousands of people were expected to hit the road. Motorcycles, patrol cars, unmarked cars and helicopters will be used in the effort to get drivers to ease up on their speed. The Highway Patrol said speed is the leading cause of crashes and traffic deaths in the state. "

http://wral.com

11/13/2007 9:37:26 AM

NC DOT is behind on annual revenues

11/13/2007 9:38:20 AM

Well i guess it is a good thing that i only have to drive about 15 miles in NC

11/13/2007 9:39:24 AM

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"The Highway Patrol said speed is the leading cause of crashes and traffic deaths in the state. "

How many times is this statement going to be used? It is a scare tactic statement, that has little relation to the arguement.

11/13/2007 9:48:51 AM

Thanks for the physics lesson NCHP!

11/13/2007 9:50:14 AM

~

11/13/2007 9:51:19 AM

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"NC DOT is behind on annual revenues "

can they accomplish anything without scaring people? OMG IF YOU SPEED YOU'RE GONNA DIE!!11! IF YOU DO DRUGS YOU'RE GONNA DIE, IF WE DON'T KILL THE IRAQIS WE'RE GONNA DIE, blah blah blah

11/13/2007 9:53:08 AM

I'm not particularly scared I'm gonna die, but I am scared of how much my insurance would go up if I got another ticket. I need to get a damn radar detector.

11/13/2007 9:58:32 AM

in 4 years in and around raleigh I saw maybe 1/4th the NCHP cars that are down here around Lillington/Buies Creek on a daily basis....ridiculous

11/13/2007 10:01:00 AM

saw 4 or 5 law enforcement vehicles last night on the way home (9pm)

40/440

11/13/2007 10:01:08 AM

ftw

11/13/2007 10:01:51 AM

I need to get another window mount for mine, somehow lost it

11/13/2007 10:03:25 AM

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"Operation Slow Down"

What will the marketing department there think of next??

11/13/2007 10:04:06 AM

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"NC DOT is behind on annual revenues"

ignoring for a moment that ticket revenue goes to the school systems, i doubt that your $15 ticket is going to have a sizeable impact

11/13/2007 10:05:48 AM

A radar detector is worthless unless you have a little common sense. If you expect just the radar detector to save your ass constantly, then you're going to get caught sooner than later. And I think people who travel well under the speed limit on I40 are more of a hazard than those doing 80-90.

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 10:31 AM. Reason : ]

11/13/2007 10:30:08 AM

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"ignoring for a moment that ticket revenue goes to the school systems, i doubt that your $15 ticket is going to have a sizeable impact"

After all the money from the tickets goes to the schools the NC legislature is free to reduce the school budget and reapply the funds as "needed."

And tickets are only $15 The last one I got in '96 was more than that. I would have imagined that they were much more expensive nowadays.

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 10:47 AM. Reason : -]

11/13/2007 10:46:09 AM

i think that the county rakes in on the court fees in excess of $100 dollar bucks

11/13/2007 10:46:56 AM

Awesome, I get to drive for 2 hours home and back on I-40 this weekend

11/13/2007 10:47:55 AM

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"And I think people who travel well under the speed limit on I40 are more of a hazard than those doing 80-90."

Out of every 1000 vehicles on I-40, how many are driving less than the posted speed limit? Maybe two?

11/13/2007 10:49:41 AM

You'd be surprised. I got stuck behind at least two people going sub 55 (in the left lane) on the way into work this morning. No telling how many were going sub 55 in the right lane.

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"$100 dollar bucks"

Not to be confused with buck dollars.

11/13/2007 10:52:41 AM

Eh or going speed limit in left lane and not paying attention.

On my commute today there was a large SUV in the left lane going speed limit. Coming up behind it I could see the sun visor down and vanity mirror light on. Yup. Putting on makeup in the left lane going speed limit. Niiiice.

-- Dave

11/13/2007 11:14:51 AM

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"The Highway Patrol said speed is the leading cause of crashes and traffic deaths in the state."

the NHCP must be behind on its quota for the month. Gotta make that extra revenue. Go get those speeders cops!! I hope you feel like you did your civic duty by pullying grandpa going 76 in a 65; busting a group of kids sitting around smoking green eating cheetos, harrassing college kids just trying to drink a beer relaxing on the weekend, and busting an "illegal gambling operation" of WW2 vets sitting around betting on cribbage games (some news article from last week).

If they are really interested in saving lives then they should pull the moron going 60 in the fast lane which is 10x more of a traffic hazard then someone going 80 down I40. Or they can nail idiots driving within the "tolerable" speed limit but are weeving in and out of lanes; riding peoples asses.

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 11:26 AM. Reason : a]

11/13/2007 11:24:12 AM

the fuzz was out in full force yesterday on 40, for sure

11/13/2007 11:53:36 AM

i'll be sure to keep the speed down

11/13/2007 11:56:31 AM

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"The Highway Patrol said speed is the leading cause of crashes and traffic deaths in the state"

you know i would actually bet that if speeding has anything to do with it, it's that when someone is speeding, they have to fucking change lanes 37 times because of fucking retards in the left lanes who don't understand that if you AREN'T PASSING SOMEONE YOU DON'T BELONG THERE

11/13/2007 12:00:13 PM

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""The Highway Patrol said speed is the leading cause of crashes and traffic deaths in the state. ""

Its not the speeding that get you killed its the jackass weaving in and out of traffic that causes the accidents.

11/13/2007 12:38:58 PM

^they have to fucking change lanes 37 times because of fucking retards in the left lanes who don't understand that if you AREN'T PASSING SOMEONE YOU DON'T BELONG THERE

11/13/2007 12:49:54 PM

ageed

11/13/2007 12:50:25 PM

Up north there are signs saying pass to the left, drive to the right, it's the law...and it lists fine amounts for being in the left lane and not passing. if they want to bring in some revenue, there's a fucking great idea...

11/13/2007 12:51:50 PM

^!!

11/13/2007 12:52:36 PM

^^That would be so gloriously wonderful.

11/13/2007 12:53:14 PM

haha, that doesn't imply you should be doing it at 20 mph over the speed limit--contrary to popular belief, nc really isn't fascist about speeding, try living in virginia

11/13/2007 12:54:33 PM

you're right about virginia,

but, speed limits could be higher if it was more certain that people would stay in their lanes except when passing.

my whole argument however goes back to how we even get our driver's licenses. 6 hours behind the wheel, 30 hours in class. something about that is wrong to me. truck drivers go through a decent amount of class and driving to get their licenses, why shouldn't the general public? i mean it's obvious that a large % of people are completely incompetent when it comes to driving. someone from overseas made a good point to me, about how we have so much room around here and such large distances to travel that we treat it as sort of a day dream whereas in places like nyc and europe you have to actually concentrate because the traffic is so congested.

and my final note, when i was driving in nyc, it was the greatest experience ever, not only because it was hilarious, but because of how efficient it was, you got where you need to go, quickly, with absolutely NO problems. down here is a different story as people take the time to stare out the window at the pretty grass and look for their cell phones and fumble around in the back seat with shit

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 1:02 PM. Reason : jankq]

11/13/2007 1:01:49 PM

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"6 hours behind the wheel, 30 hours in class."

Or nothing, if you wait until you're 18 to get your license. You only have to take the tests.

11/13/2007 1:07:35 PM

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"Its not the speeding that get you killed its the jackass weaving in and out of traffic that causes the accidents."

But its so much easier to sit in your cruiser cop car eating a doughnut and let a nifty electrical contraption tell you when someone is "breaking the law" going 71 in a 65 so you can bust them. To much brain power is involved in looking for people that are the real threats to life on the road. granted someone going 100 on I40 deserves to get pulled in most situations.

Look at other forms of police work. Why try to catch real criminals when you can make your self look like Top Cop having issued a lot of citations by walking down the sidewalk of brent road handing out drinking tickets to every underage college kid that walks by.

I'll agree though NC is not nearly as big of speed nazi's as VA. Also, the driving requirements should be a lot stricter.

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 1:23 PM. Reason : a]

11/13/2007 1:22:59 PM

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"The Highway Patrol said speed is the leading cause of crashes and traffic deaths in the state."

I find it hard to believe that accidents could be caused by non-moving cars. So i guess speed is the leading cause of accidents.

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"Its not the speeding that get you killed its the jackass weaving in and out of traffic that causes the accidents."

and that jackass is weaving in and out of traffic because the other jackass doesn't know that slower traffic should keep right.

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 1:25 PM. Reason : asdf]

11/13/2007 1:24:32 PM

haha, wth, what you're effectively saying with the whole omg the world would be a better place if people kept right bullshit is "everybody else should stay the fuck outta my way", which would be great, except that it's never gonna happen and laws penalizing the slower drivers won't really change anything for the same reason that speeding laws don't keep people from speeding

11/13/2007 1:45:35 PM

go drive in europe one good time and you'll see why it sucks so bad here... everybody gets the fuck out of your way there. everybody drives in the right lanes until they're about to pass someone. it really is extremely nice and more efficient... the no speedlimit thing in some places between germany and paris was kinda cool too

11/13/2007 1:51:43 PM

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=493343

http://wral.com/asset/news/state/2007/10/24/1964633/patrolcases.swf

Some of these are hilarious.

"A Trooper placed a female, who he had stopped for speeding, in his patrol car. Following this traffic stop, the Tropper obtained the female's telephone number and began calling her residence and, on one occasion, went to her residence uninvited. He also obtained personal information about the female from the apartment manager by being in unifor and stating that he was a "family friend."

3 Days suspension w/o pay."

"Admitted to exposing his penis to and kissing a female acquaintance who was seated in the passenger side of his vehicle. He also admitted that the female exposed her breasts to him. The exposures occurred while the Trooper was on duty and in uniform.

3 Days suspension w/o pay."

"Admitted to making approximately 22 threatening phone calls to his ex wife and threatening to kill her; admitted to making 22 threatening phone calls to his ex wife and, although did not recall threatening to kil her, did not deny doing so. In May of 2002; Admitted to using his blue lights in an attempt to initiate a traffic stop involving his ex wife even though there was no violation of law; and, on the same occasion stopped his ex wife without lawful reason and issued her a warning ticket and, violated patrol policy by turning his issued in-car camera off during the traffic top; all of this activity occurred in May 2002.

5 percent reduction in pay for the 2002 incidents"

11/13/2007 1:54:04 PM

saw four cops in between the wade/440 and blue ridge exits

all 4 had someone pulled over and a 5th was waiting on the blue ridge exit ramp

crazy

11/14/2007 8:01:59 PM

^^ HOW ABOUT OPERATION

PERV COP STOMP DOWN!!!!!!

AMIRITE?????

11/14/2007 8:03:42 PM

holy fuck I hate the fucks that are cops.
fuck

please kill these people more often

11/14/2007 8:44:01 PM

In America a officer is killed once every 5 minutes Give the guys some respect. Yes I'll admit there are some shitty cops out there but the ones back in my hometown were incredibly awesome.

11/14/2007 9:18:24 PM

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"In America a officer is killed once every 5 minutes"

Link required.

11/14/2007 9:21:11 PM

hey, I guess we know who one of the RPD officers on the board is...

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""$100 dollar bucks" Not to be confused with buck dollars. "

as opposed to 100 dollar dollar bucks...

11/14/2007 9:30:09 PM

people, it's 100$^3, damn

11/14/2007 9:31:35 PM

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"In America a officer is killed once every 5 minutes"

heh, a travesty of statistics if not morality

11/14/2007 9:31:41 PM

^^^^because it's not true

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"18) Largely due to the increased use of soft body armor, better training and improved equipment, police deaths have been on the decline for the past two decades. During the 1980’s we averaged 187 officer fatalities each year, and in the 1990’s we averaged 153. At the same time that deaths were declining, the number of law enforcement officers in our nation grew substantially from roughly 315,000 officers in 1970 to an estimated 740,000 serving today. "

from http://home1.gte.net/vzn05sxc/lawfacts.htm

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 9:33 PM. Reason : .]

11/14/2007 9:32:04 PM

so 105,120 cops are killed every year in America?

11/14/2007 9:37:16 PM

set em up --------------->

11/14/2007 9:37:33 PM