I need a spike strip like the ones police use in a road block to deflate a fugutive's tires.  There's a thoughtless driver who races his very loud car down my road late at night.  Sometimes it disturbs my and my daughter's sleep.\n\nPS This is in a quiet neighborhood, outside city limits, speed limit: 30 MPH.\n\nPPS I'm kidding, but also curious...
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get youre self a strip of ply wood and some nails put the nails through the plywood tie some rope to it and set it up on the outer side of the road when he goes by pull the rope till the board is in his lane \n\nps get a gun if you stop him he is prolly coming for you \n\ngo with the poliece it is easyier and more legal
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The tempered safety glass in windshields is designed to break up into small pieces with fewer sharp edges.  Try picking some of it up -- do you see any long shards that could manage to puncture the thick rubber of your tire treads?  Any that could cut you deeply?\n\nThat's why he wasn't too concerned about it.
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I am probably in the same camp as everyone else, but would want some clarification.\n\nMust people here seem to have taken the position the truck was being backed towards the officer, but that's not what was stated in the question.  The question says the truck "starts coming back towards the cop," which does not necessarily imply that it was being *driven* back...it might have been rolling because the drunk took his foot off the brake.  I don't know that I think it makes a difference, though...it just would be nice if we knew that the truck was indeed being intentionally used as a dangerous weapon (like maybe the engine racing, the backup lights coming on, etc).\n\nAnd I wonder if you're curious about the innocent passenger who was killed, also.  Was his death justified?  No.  But it was accidental, and I don't think what I've read here makes me think it was criminally negligent. \n\nAn interesting question.  I wonder what makes you ask?\n\nEdit 3.20.06:\n\nFor those who say the cop should have (basically) run away, or cowered and waited for backup, here's the law in California, and I'd guess in most states:\n\n835a.  Any peace officer who has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a public offense may use reasonable force to effect the arrest, to prevent escape or to overcome resistance.\n   A peace officer who makes or attempts to make an arrest need not retreat or desist from his efforts by reason of the resistance or threatened resistance of the person being arrested; nor shall such officer be deemed an aggressor or lose his right to self-defense by the use of reasonable force to effect the arrest or to prevent escape or to overcome resistance.\n\nI still have my concerns with the whole thing, but to suggest the police should have to run (or hide) from criminals is just plain ridiculous.  You don't want to live in a society that tells its cops they have to back off when they're trying to do their job.
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You are over generalizing. Some cops speed some don't, and either way it doesn't make their message any less valid. Another point I want to make is that, that same cop that you are complaining about won't hesitate to come to your house at three o'clock in the morning when you have an intruder and put his life on the line for you.
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There's the old saying in racing: "Speed costs money.  How much speed can you afford to buy?"\n\nIf you just want to have a blast annoying the neighbors and family with the noise and fumes in front of your house, an old lawn mower engine on a home-built frame will do.  If you want to do more at a track, find the nearest go-cart track to your house and ask your questions.  Betcha plenty of the folks can give you a good idea about how much horsepower is needed for different classes and how much it costs to get there.\n\nI can't afford my dream go kart... :-(
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Hahahah that reminds me of one of those camera cop shows I saw.. some man was going crazy when the cop pulled him over, yelling screaming, and carrying on. When the cop gave him his ticket and told him how much it was he started yelling and screaming and carrying on some more... then the guy ripped up the ticket and threw it out of the car window.. the cop told him if he didn't pick it up he would write him a ticket for littering.. the guy yelled and screamed and carried on again... but did end up getting out of his car to pick it up.. when he got in the cop saw where he left some and made him get back out of his car to get the rest and then the guy cussed some more and then sped off.. it was so funny- oh yeah sorry but to answer your question.. I guess depending on where you littered.. I'm sure he's not going to make you get out on the interstate and pick something up, or it is was miles back-probally just write you a ticket and let you go on your way
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Yeah, and how many times have you flashed your baby blues (or browns) and gotten off with a warning?\n\nBe happy that you didn't get a ticket for speeding. (Of course you can't. You woud rather rant about al ittle thing like this.)
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I know of one with a criminal record who started a "newspaper" in a town. Every time he was stopped (always with cause) he'd write something nasty. He'd publish outright lies and slanderous things as 'fact' then scream freedom of the press when criticized. \n\nI've had - quite some years ago - a couple tickets. And you know what - I deserved it. I wasn't paying attention to speed and was driving too fast. Few things are important enough that an extra 5 minutes is an issue. \nI've also seen both sides...for a while in another state had an older piece of crap car and ALWAYS got pulled over. I mean 2-3 times a month and seldom drove more than 5 miles. I know why, though no one would admit it. And it wasn't *me* - I'd drive the same way in another vehicle and wouldn't get stopped. The car wasn't illegal but was suspect. Was that the cops fault? no. \n\nI can say there were people in that city that had FAR worse attitudes than the police officers.
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Too many mouses here in Britain.\n\n£8 just to enter the city? Your having a fecking laugh.\n\nI suggest that everybody melts a congestion/speed camera today and send a clear message that we dont want these petty little men charging us for the right to use OUR cars on public roads.
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Beat the helicopters? In a car? LOL......... I don't think so unless it's on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah... AND you are driving something that sets land speed records..........LOL....... beat the helicopters........LMAO
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Yea, the local Sound Ordinance should cover vehicles as well as houses. If you consistently see the same person with it too loud, you can call the cops on them. If it's bothering you that much, it's probably bothering lots of other people too.
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It could actually help another vechicle, I don't know about a large truck(semi?) but here read this\n\nThis slipstream effect works in the following way. As a single car races around a track, it creates a "bubble" of high-density air in front of it and a bubble of low-density air behind. The difference in the pressure between these two air pockets creates drag, the force that impedes motion. This drag force limits the top speed the car can attain. But if a second car pulls up behind the first, the slipstreams created by the two merge so that the first car losses its aft bubble and the second car loses its front bubble. This effect reduces the drag force each car experiences and both are able to travel slightly faster. \n\nhttp://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0092.shtml
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Not THAT crazy. That's...beyond crazy. \n\nDoes sound like where I live though. I live in a duplex and there's other duplexes on our street very close together. Within just two duplexes, we've had the cops there five times in the past two weeks. \n\nThere was one fight between a crack whore and my neighbor, in which I was trying to hold my neighbor back ((shes a BIG girl)) and then I was in a fight last night with two other girls in the neighborhood because I was bitching out and starting a fight with one of the girls husbands cause he was talking shit about me to my fiance...hmm, doesnt make sense unless you know the story, but I live for nights like those. \n\nAnd then when its all over and the cops have left (and someone is carted off in most cases) we all just sit back and sing "what a wonderful night in the neighborhood..."
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In Texas, I have encountered this problem when I'm responding to an emergency. When opportunity allows I have stopped these people and asked for reasons. The number reason is because "I didn't see/notice you." I reply to this by asking them if they didn't see my emergency lights or hear my siren, then how are they able to be aware of the other traffic around them. In Texas, a driver must either pull into another lane (if available) or slow to 20 miles an hour below the posted speed limit. Before I had a radar unit in my vehicle, I used to "leap frog" the state troopers. I would pull in behind their units on traffic stops and then issue citations to anyone that failed to move over or slow down. On average, I wrote three tickets for every traffic stop that they made.
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I am certain that yes, technically,you are breaking the law (and could be ticketed!). The best thing to do in this situation is to make local municipal officials aware of the situation (go to them prepared-take a map, photographs, and all pertinant information). Your city planning department or police department may be of help. Such situations must be commonplace. It may simply be a street-planning oversite. Good Luck!
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Street racing is almost always illegal and is always dangerous. Usually the only time they have legal street races is when there is no drag strip in town and too many people street race, so they have a time to street race legally. I would recommend finding your local track to race on, but depending on your race style(drag,or normal racing) there should be a fairly close track to you. There are MANY websites to tell you about the newest equipment so check several. I have a couple of good sources listed.
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Lighten up ... man ... I love singing in my truck ... I really don't give a f*ck who's watching me ... and no the accidents occur because slow @ss drivers watching me dance aren't paying attention to the road ... lol ... and what do you care if I answer with long answers ... don't read them ... simple ... there's an answer for almost everything ... haha ... I know I'm not getting the 10 points on this one ... !