superspd8 "I want to have a franachise to give Video Cam tickets to people on the Beltway who change lanes without signaling."

I'd like to have a piece of that to. I bet that failure to use turn signals and not properly looking to see what's happening behind you before you change lanes is a huge contributor to accidents that are often call "speed related" I would love to see a study done on this as I personally believe that the fail your to signal your intentions and not being aware of your surroundings causes many more accidents then speeding even with excessive speeds like 15 to 25 % more than posted limits.


dcfireman, great info. Thanks.

THIS IS A RANT. READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL.

We have more cops in Fair F*** County than you can shake a stick at and because the REAL crime is low they spend all their time making money for the state with traffic stops and hassling people. When real crime is low the police focus on messing with people for all the penny anti bull that should be ignored. The cops were calling out restaurant patrons in Reston and arbitrarily giving people Breathalyzers over the holidays. Can you imaging having you mother get a drunk in public fine for having 2 martinis with the family over the Christmas holidays while out at a nice restaurant. This is pretty typical behavior for Reston cops who are more interested in asserting their authority and bullying average citizens than public safety, yet public safety is the banner they use to defend their Gestapo tactics. Too much power too small penises. I am from Houston and I have always respected the police but then again there is REAL crime to be pursued there and they don't have time to write tickets for spitting on the side walk. An attorney friend cautioned me about a year ago about an incident that happened a few months prior where Fair Fax cops told a drunk man to come out onto his front porch so they could speak to him and then used is presence out side, even though he was on his own property, to arrest him for drunk in public.
The cops have the power in Reston but they absolutely do not have my respect, in case you couldn't tell.

The oppinions expressed here in are soely those of the author and do not reflect those of I-Club and blah blah blah...

 

a sad but average story Donohue, talk about too much time and to little to do. You know their guys actualy have the ***** to call me and ASK for my money, as if they havent got to much of it already. When I see 3 to 5 cops on my way to work (about 20 min. driving) the last thing I want do do is give them funds to hire more. "do you think it is important to support your local police and firemen in these difficult times?" theye say. I told the last guy NO and was pretty rude him, but hey thats what you get for trying to telemarket me. I just wish the fire dept. would not lump itself in with the cops on this though because I would most likely help them.

 

The Fire Dept. will never. I repeat NEVER solicit for any type of "Fundraising" or "Telemarketing" to obtain funds. As far as I know, neither will the PD. The organizations who will solicit you, however, are often the "Associations" or "Brotherhoods", or whoever, etc. etc.

The local Volunteer Fire Departments are notorious for this, even though they are usually appropriately funded to adequate levels established by their municipal governments.

Here is a little inside information on how some of these "fundraising" companies work:

Lets say you are Volunteer Fire Chief A.
You are approached by Fundraising guy B. He offers to raise funds for your local Dept. by telemarketing, and door to door solicitations. Your members do not have to do anything but sit back and watch the $ roll in. You both agree to have F/ guy B try and solicit a $20 donation from each attempt. $15 of this will go to the fundraising company, and $5 to your organization all for letting the fundraising co. use your well respected/established name. all is good right?

No.

If they got to House A, and get $20, you get five, they get fifteen,
as agreed.

However, not everyone is goiung to give $20, so:

If they go to House B, and only get a $10 donation, Fire Chief A
now OWES Fundraising Guy B $5. And, he loses his $5 he might have made from the $20 donation. Remember, a deals a deal.

This is how it works.

So- the moral?

1. Buy an STI.
2. Drive nicely on the public roadways.
3. respect the Law, especially if you have been pulled over.
4. Stay away from fundraiser comapnies.
5. Visit Grandma every Sunday.

 

O.K. my mistake. I do appreciate being enlightened though so thanks.
"The local Volunteer Fire Dept. is notorious for this" notorious for what? Soliciting fund themselves or having telemarket companies to do it for them?

I could be wrong but I believe the Fire Dept. in Fair fax is considered professional. My ex girlfriend was an EMT so I got to hear quite a bit of information on the subject. But my memory is not very good and could I be mistaken.

 

There is no crime in fairfax county huh? Im guessing you hace never checked out the county website and looked at the crime statistics. Its simple to do. You dont here about crime because our Public Information Office doesnt post it to media. By the way, Fairfax county is home to more than 1 million people and we have less than 1200 officers. Only about 900 of those work the street maybe. That is way below the national average of PD to the citizens they protect. By the way, more felons and wanted people are caught on simple traffic stops than any other way. I'm guessing the complainers are from reston area and have never been to culmore or beacon hill. Why dont all you naysayers out there do a ride along with your local department to see what they deal with on a day to day basis. I thought this site was to talk about all of our common interests, the love of cars. I didnt know it was cop bashing time.

 

subypd, I nevers said there was NO crime, but what we need to fight real crime is a larger better staffed DETECTIVE force who will pursue crimes that have been committed, not a bunch of county lackey's out hassling motorist's for the purpose of gaining revenue. It's also about the way these cops go about it that makes them so bad, I cited some of the B.S. that goes on, in my earlier postings. And YES I do live in Reston. Maybe the county should do a better job placing officers in areas where they are needed if Reston is so low on crime, and we do have real crime in Reston by the way, put more cops in culmore and beacon hill if they need them and get them off my as*. Northern VA. is a police state. If you don't know this then it is because you MIGHT be part of the problem and because you are on the opposite side of the fence. I realize many felons are caught during routine traffic stops but the thing about routine traffic stops that makes them a problem is that they ARE routine. Cops pull people over for any excuse and some times no excuse, for no other reason than to check I.D.s or to get them to let them search their car's, and see if they can catch some one doing something worth arresting them for. This practice is tantamount to being stopped by the Gestapo and being told to give them your papers. Police don't and shouldn't stop people on the side walk to look at there I.D.'s and see if they are wanted so why is it O.K. to do this just because some cop doesn't like the way they look, the car they are are driving or the way they are driving (assuming they are not driving in an illegal manner, and I am not talking about 3 miles over the limit or getting a little close to the line either). People think they are willing to give up some of there rights to be safe, I think they over look the fact that giving up your rights does not make anyone safer, it only makes us less free. When and what made anyone think they were safe? We never have been and never will, so why should I not be angry at cops who just want to give me a hard time because I drive a hot rod. I don't have to be a criminal to be a little scared by the fact that I experience and overwhelming authoritative presence every time I leave my house. We all know cops can do whatever they want and WILL do what ever they want. You can't trust them any more than any one else and they are armed with weapons, power, and unquestioning oversight. The Commonwealth of this screwed up state allows all sorts of infringements of our rights by the police in the name of safety, because if it wasn’t for safety sake no one would put up with it. The sad thing is we buy into it hook line and sinker. I am from Texas and we folks down there are pretty darn conservative and we let our cops get away with murder literally. What we don’t do is accept them Fu*king with us for no reason, and in VA. we do. That is conservatism without ***** and it is a sad and pathetic statement about the people in Northern VA. My boss can drve around ten miles over the speed limmit without ever using her turn signal from dusk till dawn and never get stopped. Thats because: she look like a perfesional, she looks old, and she drives a nice big 4-door buick. If it was about enforcing the law she would get tickets. What it's about is being a jerk to people you decide to pick on. So lets dorp the safety argument crap. Cops in general (in Fair Fax at least) are thugs who target specific people in order to make themselves feel good. Of course I know their are good cops out there, There have to be, but I don't know any.

 

plunk10 Hook line and sinker. 2 large catches for the troll so far


I'm hapy to respond, if I wasn't having fun I wouldn't do this. and I think subyPD (P.D.) is serious not trolling.