Wadcutter wrote:
transamz9 wrote:
I read your post just fine the first time. I can also see the there is no way of having a friendly conversation because of all the questions and the way you asked them.
Please, don't try to cover up your real reason for asking. You made your real feelings shown. You aren't at all interested in a 'friendly conversation'. You just want to show your true side that you don't think he should have been stopped.
Proof of that? You next few sentences proved your true motive
I'm just saying that I think if you are going to enforce 1 then you should enforce all. This guy was probably just heading out on a nice vacation not bothering a sole not causing any harm taking his time trying to get from point A to point B and relax.
There you go. You've proven my point. You have your motive for asking questions and it had nothing to do with a 'friendly conversation'.
So you've expressed your opinion. You think all the other laws should be applied except those that affect you. Just like the you did when I stopped you that day. Stop the other guy, not me.
You pulling him over and all you accomplish was ruining his vacation and you getting some out of state money.
Again you're showing your true motive for this discussion. Just to show how little you know:
The state didn't get any of the fine money. All fine money in IL went to the county and city where the violation occurred.
I didn't ruin anything. It wasn't me who violated the law. It wasn't me who hooked his 4 vehicles together. He had a free choice and he chose wrong.
Also now if he wants to do this again he will have to burn twice as much fuel and put twice as much pollutants out by driving two vehicles.
You're such an environmentalist. So your real motive for getting upset about the stop was he was just saving the environment.
All because it's a law that by the way was probably made by people that have never towed anything in their life and they think it looks unsafe.
Once again you've shown just how little you know. Here's a fact that may educate you a bot. Nearly every statute on the books was either written or endorsed by attorneys and lobbyists for the Midwest Trucker's Association or the Teamsters.
On the other side of this, those people that are running 1,2,5,10 over the speed limit are doing it because they couldn't drag their bottoms out of bed early enough to get to work on time so they try to make it up on the road. With that driving over the speed limit comes people getting cut off, road rage, and all sorts of SAFE things. You as a LEO didn't see these cut offs and road rages and things because when a LEO is around it's funny how people can just fall in line and drive like they have some sense......until you're out of sight then it's back to driving crazy and now it's worse because they lost 15 seconds having to drive normal around a LEO.
What an amazing revelation. I never would have known that had you not said it. Think of this tho while you're preaching. Do you think a LEO drives around in a marked vehicle 24 hrs a day and never ventures out in their personal vehicle. You think LEOs don't see the same thing when out with their families?
If you re-read you said that you did not pull him over because he looked unsafe. You said you pulled him over because he was illegal. Driving 1 MPH is just as "Illegal" as 5 MPH or 20 MPH or 4 vehicles hooked together. Am I not right about this? The law is the law correct?
That's your best argument? Really? You can't see the difference? Seriously? What a joke. Thanks for the bit of humor.
Now if you had pulled him over and he didn't have sufficient brakes for his rig or tires or anything else that would make it unsafe then write away.
And the guy with no brakes or bad tires thinks he's perfectly fine and safe. You wouldn't believe the excuses. Or maybe you would because you've come up with some real good ones yourself.
I could never do you job for many reasons but giving some laws slack and others not is unfair and that is JMO.
I agree you couldn't. It takes a bit of common sense.
Okay ,now you can tell me how stupid and wrong I am with more of your questions.;)
I don't have to. You've done a pretty good job yourself.
Nothing more from me. A 'friendly conversation' is always welcome. That was never your intentions tho. You just want to blow of steam. Feel better?
You're right I must not have any common sense because I actually thought I might have gotten a straight answer right from the horses mouth. Sorry I asked a professional a question why something is done the way it is. I guess I will just have to continue to think the way I do because I haven't been proven wrong yet, by you or any of the LEO's I have as very good friends and family members.
I truly was just asking a question and not trying to start anything. If I had asked the question "why are some laws enforce while other are ignored" to just and everyday person that has/had nothing to do with LE do you think I could have trusted the answer? Sorry I even tried. I believe I already know the answer but politics aren't allowed to be talked about.
Again I have never and probably will never be in your town so no it wasn't me you stopped. I won't pull three trailers anyway.;)
