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Politics : New FADG. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (3897)	3/9/2008 2:24:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4152

Police are interested in getting rid of problems. If they can sweep things under the carpet, they will do so. In NZ, a major part of their job is revenue gathering via traffic fines. Unfortunately the better they get at catching people, the fewer they catch, so it's rare to see speeding people now. They caught me about 3 times for "speeding" after a lifetime of driving [from age 15] until 50 having never had a speeding ticket. Now, they are lowering speed limits further in an attempt to frustrate people more and raise the collection rate. But the sheeple are obeying and congestion continues to increase. Fortunately, those making the congestion also have to put up with it. Out in the winding hills, with gravel roads, there are effectively no speed limits because the only way to drive is to stay on the road and not crash. Nobody could do the speed limit. It's fun to drive where one has to pay attention. My risk of crashing has gone up because I find my attention wanders now that it's so slow and boring to drive. When one has to pay attention all the time, it's paradoxically safer. "Inattention" is now a major factor in car crashes. They are trying to fix that by making it illegal to not pay attention, which it has always been,.. they will ban using cell-phones. Mqurice