| Subject: | Re: Anti-bicyclist letter in Friday's Oregonian (A& E section) |
| Date: | 08/25/2003 03:03 AM |
| From: | Michael O'Hair |
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C36B33.F7F74F30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have personally witnessed nine events where a marked patrol car was first in line waiting for the red light to change and when it changed, a vehicle blew through the light at speed. In all of these events, the vehicle could have stopped easily but didn't. And in all of these events, the patrol car did not give pursuit. The score card is five Portland police, two Multnomah County sheriff, and two Washington County sheriff. The lesson given, if not intentionally, is that police don't want to bother with cars running red lights. The only common thread through these events was that they all occurred before 9 AM in the suburban southwest and it was clear and dry. The bottom line is don't trust anyone at any time. Note: I doubt seriously that the motorists who witnessed these events with me went home that night and groused about "those damn fool Mercedes Benz drivers." ----- Original Message ----- From: DDAVID-@aol.com hello i agree with curt lots of cars do california stops, but they do not blow thru them at speed and running red lights when they just turned from yellow is a lot different than running them anytime david baker ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C36B33.F7F74F30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have personally witnessed nine events where a marked patrol car was first in line waiting for the red light to change and when it changed, a vehicle blew through the light at speed. In all of these events, the vehicle could have stopped easily but didn't. And in all of these events, the patrol car did not give pursuit. The score card is five Portland police, two Multnomah County sheriff, and two Washington County sheriff. The lesson given, if not intentionally, is that police don't want to bother with cars running red lights. The only common thread through these events was that they all occurred before 9 AM in the suburban southwest and it was clear and dry. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The bottom line is don't trust anyone at any time.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Note:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I doubt seriously that the motorists who witnessed these events with me went home that night and groused about "those damn fool Mercedes Benz drivers."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=DDA-@aol.com href="mailto:DDAVID-@aol.com">DDAVID-@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">hello<BR>i agree with curt<BR>lots of cars do california stops, but they do not blow thru them at speed<BR>and running red lights when they just turned from yellow is a lot different than running them anytime<BR>david baker</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C36B33.F7F74F30-- |
