Ind. trooper lauded as 'hero' for citing 'slowpoke' driver

pnichols wrote:
Most of these type discussions seem to always gravitate towards wrongly opinioned conclusions something like this:

"If vehicles all around you are going over the speed limit and you're not and if there is not a right-hand slow lane or appropriate slow vehicle turnouts ... then you are out of line if you don't speed up to match the rest of the law breakers."

And the bottom-line justification for the above position being in the right is usually "safety".

The above is baloney thinking.

How about more enforcement of speed limits and way stiffer fines for the caught speed law violators? Maybe more (expensive) law enforcement officers and their vehicles is not required. Maybe it's instead way cheaper and better to use license plate reading radar detectors installed all over the country to slow drivers down.

For example, a couple weeks ago we were traveling downhill on a winding mountain road with a 40 MPH speed limit and we were traveling 2-3 MPH faster and still barely safely than this in our motorhome. There were no safe pullouts and no road shoulders. An impatient pickup soon pulled up behind, tailgating us. The pickup (male) driver soon passed us crossing double yellow lines, gave use a certain finger as he passed us, and quickly pulled away obviously going way faster than 40 MPH.

The above baloney stuff goes on all the time. Something is out of whack on this county's roadways. When is it going to end? For Pete's Sack ... IMHO millions of drivers need to slow down and smell either the roses or the fuel fumes!

as the saying goes with law enforcement, "9 you're fine...10 you're mine".