In article >,
Finite Guy > wrote:

> To clarify this, I was more or less rolling at about 2 mph and the
> road just simply was all ice and the car slipped to the side. The rest
> or the trafice was either stopped or rolling at 2 mph. The left turn
> was also sort of banked on a slight incline. No one can control a
> vehicle under those conditions unless you have a military tank with
> treads. The only safe speed here is 0 mph for any normal car. My
> mistake was bothering to go to work today.

Regardless of how you might want to dance around the reality, your own
testimony says that *YOUR* VEHICLE* *WAS* *OUT* *OF* *CONTROL*. Why it
was out of control, how it got that way, what speed you were doing, how
the road was shaped, or any other consideration you care to dream up is
null and void. The only part that matters is that your vehicle, by your
own admission, was out of control. If you're not capable of keeping your
vehicle under control *NO MATTER WHAT THE CONDITIONS* then you shouldn't
be on the road, period. You got lucky this time - you didn't cream a
kid, or cause someone else to wreck. But when all the chips have been
counted, luck has nothing to do with the fact that you didn't have your
vehicle under control, and were fully deserving of a nice pricey ticket.

The part that amazes me is that you're stupid enough to COMPLAIN because
instead of a ticket, all you got was a sarcastic comment. Absolutely
unreal... That someone could be that stupid, and still manage to be
literate enough to whine about it absolutely boggles the mind.

> You are correct, if you are not under control or your vehicle and you
> say hit some one, in MA you are at fault no mater what the road
> conditons are. So, I was not in control of my car. There are no
> perfect drivers in this world not even the people on this newsgorup.

Nobody claimed there was, chum. Most of us do a pretty good job of
keeping our vehicles under control while driving, though, perfect or
not. And when we fail, we don't come crying to a newsgroup 'cause a cop
who witnessed the event was kind enough to let us off with nothing more
than a sarcastic comment, rather than writing us a $200+ ticket.

> I already went and bitched at the State Police Barricks in person, so
> I suppose they could have cited while I was there but they told me
> that the trooper has no business making a remark like that and I
> should forget it.

I can just imagine the conversation after you left... Probably went
something like "What kind of IDIOT was that?!?!?"

> At least I had the nerve to approach them in person instead of using
> vulgar email or phone calls.

"At least you had the nerve..."??? Gimme a break - You piled another
stupidity on top of your first. Ah, well... At least now the cops know
that you're a snivelling fool, and might actually take a more deliberate
look at you and your obviously sub-par driving skills because of that
knowledge.

> One reply to this post was extremely vulgar even more than my
> original.

Vulgar??? <snicker> If you're referring to my first response to your
whining as vulgar, you've got one helluva lot to learn about what
constitutes vulgarity, sonny-boy!

> Very poor. Guess this newsgroup has to go.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. But do keep this
fact in mind: YOU screwed up. In a manner that could have been fatal to
the people around you. You managed to get lucky, and instead of being
cited for it, you got an "editorial comment" from the cop who watched
your screwup. Anybody with an ounce of sense would be saying "Jeeze! I
was stupid! I sure am glad that the cop didn't ticket me when he had
every right to!" and moving on with their life. Instead, you're sitting
here whining about how mistreated you are. Awwww. Poor baby. I wish I
could get "mistreated" like that when I screw the pooch that big.


> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:33:26 -0500, Mike Romain >
> wrote:
>
> >You are lucky he had a sense of humor... He could have cited you for
> >making an unsafe left turn ( or going too fast for conditions) or for
> >driving with unfit tires/vehicle if you weren't going too fast or have
> >bald summers on or even just summer tires on.
> >
> >If indeed you are driving totally out of control in the winter because
> >you have no clue or bad tires, then he 'should' have nailed you before
> >your next out of control left turn kills someone.
> >
> >Mike
> >86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> >88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> >Finite Guy wrote:
> >>
> >> Not aure whom I should bitch to about this one, but this morning (it
> >> is very snowly in Boston area today) I very slowly tried to make a
> >> left hand turn and my Grand Marquis had not trraction. My car very
> >> gently slid into a snow pile and there was no damage, no one hurt. In
> >> doing this my car blocked the main traffic for all but 15 seconds
> >> while I had to back up , straightene out and move along. A
> >> Massachsetts State Trooper was in traffic and got on his megaphone and
> >> shouted a sarcastice remark "Your Beatuiful" (I am male and not
> >> beautiful.) These cops are real assholes. They think they have no one
> >> to answer too and they have a right to abuse the public.
>

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