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Re: The UP Police at the Davis Amtrak Station on Friday Nights
Author: hepkema
Date: 04-02-2011 - 14:21
James Schlinger Wrote:
>.... As for calling Drew and idiot, no, you are the
> idiot. Take him up on the merits of his statement
> with a rational response, post your name as well,
> and you will have far more credibility.
Gotta agree with James 110% on this. Pretty lame and REALLY "brave" to snipe from the tall grass of anonymity. (They probably don't know what anonymity means--Google it).
OK, got my issue of Internet anonymity off of my mind. As for the subject at hand--we DO live in a Nanny State. There are laws, regulations, and Governmental "solutions" for EVERYTHING. One problem with the current personal mindset is "It's MY route to go from A to B and you can't stop me". Same problem that exists on the roads is that "everybody else is in MY way on MY road". Kids are being told "Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something". I live on a non-busy corner lot. We have a couple of "Mother's little treasures" on the street. They have no problem cutting across my lawn--even with bikes--because they have been raised to believe that which their body eliminates as waste has no odor. Sadly, the parents of the precious U.C. Davis students will "hit the lottery" (and so will their lawyer) if the kids get stupid and get killed. In the 60s and 70s, we walked tracks all the time with no worries. Along came the lawyers--now, we're all screwed. Might be nice in the case of railroad tracks/property if they could compromise a jaywalking "crime" at worst instead of a Criminal Trespass. What I would actually like to see is to make it a Felony to be hit by a train--that way, you are only guilty if you place yourself in danger--and the potential accident becomes reality. Sadly, the Nanny State decrees that "There shall be NO accidents". What a waste that the railroads spend all the money on patrols. Just have an officer respond to the accident scene and issue the citation to the idiot. That would be the person who passed the sign and voluntarily entered the danger zone. (Oops--standing the chance of being flamed by a bleeding heart who is worried about people who can't read.) Sadly, lawyers won't make any money on a law like that.
RH
>.... As for calling Drew and idiot, no, you are the
> idiot. Take him up on the merits of his statement
> with a rational response, post your name as well,
> and you will have far more credibility.
Gotta agree with James 110% on this. Pretty lame and REALLY "brave" to snipe from the tall grass of anonymity. (They probably don't know what anonymity means--Google it).
OK, got my issue of Internet anonymity off of my mind. As for the subject at hand--we DO live in a Nanny State. There are laws, regulations, and Governmental "solutions" for EVERYTHING. One problem with the current personal mindset is "It's MY route to go from A to B and you can't stop me". Same problem that exists on the roads is that "everybody else is in MY way on MY road". Kids are being told "Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something". I live on a non-busy corner lot. We have a couple of "Mother's little treasures" on the street. They have no problem cutting across my lawn--even with bikes--because they have been raised to believe that which their body eliminates as waste has no odor. Sadly, the parents of the precious U.C. Davis students will "hit the lottery" (and so will their lawyer) if the kids get stupid and get killed. In the 60s and 70s, we walked tracks all the time with no worries. Along came the lawyers--now, we're all screwed. Might be nice in the case of railroad tracks/property if they could compromise a jaywalking "crime" at worst instead of a Criminal Trespass. What I would actually like to see is to make it a Felony to be hit by a train--that way, you are only guilty if you place yourself in danger--and the potential accident becomes reality. Sadly, the Nanny State decrees that "There shall be NO accidents". What a waste that the railroads spend all the money on patrols. Just have an officer respond to the accident scene and issue the citation to the idiot. That would be the person who passed the sign and voluntarily entered the danger zone. (Oops--standing the chance of being flamed by a bleeding heart who is worried about people who can't read.) Sadly, lawyers won't make any money on a law like that.
RH
