nyloco wrote:
3k, 5k and Half-Thon. Makes sense.
Jogger is awesome 70s wrote:
Take back the word Jogger. Jogging is awesome. I am going to refer to myself as a jogger for now on.
PRs are:
14:12
29:58
2:26:31
I think you could improve that half-thon a lot if you just did some longer tempo workouts. That 10K time is real nice! Get after it!
stayingwithinthelines wrote:
1st amendment doesn't apply if you are an accessory to a crime. By helping these speeders to not get caught, you are enabling them to not realize there are consequences for their illegal actions, and the next time they speed they may run over someone. Do your share to make the world better!!!!
hahahahaha this gave me a good laugh. Hopefully you're not considering law for a career
Warning about the speed trap actually prevents law breaking -- the drivers will slow down.
Also, speeding isn't a crime, it's an infraction.
He was motioning them to slow down with his hands. That is not the same thing at all as warning drivers that there was a speed trap.
If I were him, I would admit to the motioning to slow down and plead ignorance to knowing where the speed traps were.
But I suppose the real issue is that he was thrown in jail for jay-walking. Not right in a free country. HOw could that be legal?
as someone said before
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1014771/posts
Speed traps are designed to help people slow down, he made people slow down, so naturally we should arrest the guy.
Police like any agency are supposed to serve the people, not oppress them.
Welcome to the nanny state.
If you watch the video where the "jogger" describes what he did, he says (and demonstrates) that he was making repeated loops around a small section of road near where the speed trap was, warning multiple drivers over a period of time. He didn't just cruise through the area, waving his hands, warning two or three cars. He was running up, down and across the same section of road repeatedly, until he was arrested.
Once again, limited facts bias perception. I don't agree with speed traps, and I don't agree with the guy being arrested, but I also don't think this guy running around in traffic is a smart or even reasonable approach to the problem.
Cops are out of control worldwide. People have to take greater responsibility for making sure that cops do their job, and not harrass the average citizen. This jogger is not an accessory to a crime. He is trying to prevent a crime from happening. Cops need to go out there and arrest real criminals that are causing real harm. There is far greater crimes being committed by large corporations and powerful people. If cops have as much balls as they think, go after these bad guys.
Your right i hope every single time you ever went one mile per hour over the speed limit you were fined. In that case you would be a broke ass guy with no car and no posessions, maybe then you can see past all the shit you own and pull your head out of your ass. And if you even begin to argue that you have never went one mile per hour over the speed limit. Save yourself your excercise for the day by typeing with your fingures, and save the world a few insignificant lines written on but one in a trillion written garbage. Have a great day :)
vilago iberia wrote:
I got pulled over by an undercover cop once a few minutes after flashing my lights to warn oncoming cars of a speed trap I had passed. It didn't seem like there was a legal justification for that as I wasn't speeding or driving in a reckless way.
You were flashhing your lights at oncoming traffic.
Causing a distraction.
Yeah...I think I will and then when some kid is run over by a speeding car I'll feel like a tool
Absurd. wrote:
Funny because I was actually doing this in my neighborhood recently. There's this one street that is notoriously known for having cops randomly flogging multiple drivers with tickets, so after I ran past him, I stood on the corner and signaled to people for a little while. It was actually really fun, because I was getting great responses from people and it felt like we were all sticking it to the man together.
Do it if you ever have a chance.
bruinboy wrote:
Yeah...I think I will and then when some kid is run over by a speeding car I'll feel like a tool
Absurd. wrote:Funny because I was actually doing this in my neighborhood recently. There's this one street that is notoriously known for having cops randomly flogging multiple drivers with tickets, so after I ran past him, I stood on the corner and signaled to people for a little while. It was actually really fun, because I was getting great responses from people and it felt like we were all sticking it to the man together.
Do it if you ever have a chance.
And if you don't signal cars to slow down, then the cars will keep speeding and increase the likelihood of hitting children before the officer has a chance to stop the offending drivers.
Slowing down is safer, and it has the added benefit of keeping someone from getting a ticket.
Signal away. It should be your civic duty.
He broke no laws and is certainly not an accessory to the crime. We live in America, where people are innocent until proven guilty. The drivers are innocent of speeding until proven guilty. Ergo, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we must presume that the jogger's warning had the effect of dissuading drivers from beginning to speed.
Perhaps we should cut back on the oppressive police-state first when considering spending cuts.
Boby1 wrote: ...speeding cars are a danger to... animals.
bop wrote: lol?
Ummm, I've run into many bugs over the years. They all died. Yeah, speeding is dangerous to animals, especially tiny ones that fly themselves into your car.
Absurd. wrote:
Funny because I was actually doing this in my neighborhood recently. There's this one street that is notoriously known for having cops randomly flogging multiple drivers with tickets, so after I ran past him, I stood on the corner and signaled to people for a little while. It was actually really fun, because I was getting great responses from people and it felt like we were all sticking it to the man together.
Do it if you ever have a chance.
Don't if your anything but white.
yes its in texas wrote:
Speeding is really bad here and I have ended up on the hoods of cars many times
That's a serious sign of mental retardation.
When you speed you willfully break the law. A runner enabling people to do so is preventing people from proper law enforcement. He was enabling people to get away with illegal activity. How hard is that to understand? When you get a driver's license, which, might we all be reminded, is a privilege, not a right, you are agreeing to obey the law. This guy knew he was helping people break that contract and should be reprimanded.
Telling people to slow down does not enable them to speed. Just like reminding people to wear their seatbelt so as to not get a ticket does not enable them to break the law.
Be happy you live in America. In Israel the gestapo Israelis execute Muslims for minor infactions. No ticket, no arrest, Nazi-Zyonist religion is for savages.
Personally I drive like a grandma but recognize that speed is fairly low on the list of risk factors for driving. If you can't handle your car at well over typical posted limits without risking an accident, you probably shouldn't be driving to begin with.
I once heard a pilot talking about speed & safety. He said that if you watch cars from overhead, the driver going 10 mph over is not a hazard. The far bigger hazard is the driver going 10mph under, because people are continually coming up behind him and having to weave around.
The main reason police focus so much on speeding is that it is the easiest way to bring home the bacon. In other words, it's a fraud & con. The jogger was a hero, a community-spirted guy. The cops should be put in jail and the jogger should get a medal.
I am an Israelien Wehrmacht Soldaten
Imma gonna shoot youse in the back for 'thought crime' you effing Tear Wore Weest