Tulsa Tough: Law Enforcement

[Ed W]

I've been told that due to the large number of complaints from area residents during the 2007 Tulsa Tough tours, there will be greater law enforcement presence on area roads this year.

In other words, if you run red lights and stop signs, expect to be ticketed.

Most of the tour riders have nothing to worry about, of course, but the sub-five hour pack riders will have to exercise caution.

[1099paralegal]

Give 'em HELL, all you spandex-clad 'mo's! Cops will be nit-pickin'.  Take EVERY single ticket to TRIAL!  And, DON'T back down.  Your FINEST hour is NEAR.  Post ALL the STOOPID tickets here.  Show us how some overzealous, over-the-top cops are wasting tax dollas pickin' on bikes.

[RecycleMichael]

I am so afraid of being pulled over by the police.

Maybe I am just homophobic, but I hate meeting men from behind.

[Ed W]

Oh, that was awful, RM.  I'm gonna have to use it.

[Wilbur]

All traffic laws apply to bicycles.  Don't like it?  Contact your city councilor.  They're the ones who made the laws, not the police.

[cks511]

Ya know this doesn't surprise me that they would take advantage of a situation like this.  Recently I've noticed more cops patrolling the 55th street bike route from Riverside to 61st and Richmond.  There's been an increase of commuters on that route.  Hmmmm, I guess they  think we're easy pickins'!

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by Wilbur

Don't like it?  Contact your city councilor.  They're the ones who made the laws, not the police.

And that powerful lobby known as the police union is really just good-old-boys who get together for bowling?  Come on.

[1099paralegal]

quote:Originally posted by Wilbur

All traffic laws apply to bicycles.  Don't like it?  Contact your city councilor.  They're the ones who made the laws, not the police.

Cops are the first-responders of alleged traffic infractions by bicycle drivers.  Cops are also NOT trained on the operational characteristics of bikes.  Tell me there is NO operational differences between two-wheel bicycles, and four-wheeled motor vehicles operating in TRAFFIC.

Tell me cops get bike ed while in high school drivers ed.  Tell me cop academy puts cops on bikes in traffic, on Memorial, on the BA, during RUSH.  And, tell me cops gonna OUT-bike Santa.  []

The spandex-clad 'mo's should challenge EVERY ticket in court.  Git after it, boyz![}:)]

[1099paralegal]

quote:Originally posted by cks511

Ya know this doesn't surprise me that they would take advantage of a situation like this.  Recently I've noticed more cops patrolling the 55th street bike route from Riverside to 61st and Richmond.  There's been an increase of commuters on that route.  Hmmmm, I guess they  think we're easy pickins'!

Instead of stalking Biker Fox with gas-guzzling un-marks, cops rolling bikes on Memorial during rush, could probably sneak up on a whole lotta blinged out brothaaaas smokin' dope on their way to the Vibe Awards.

Also, it's a great way to pick up some blonde cutie in the H2 chatting incessantly to sorority sisters on the phone.  Example pickup line:  Ma'am, you are talking way too much and not paying attention to driving.  I need to confiscate your phone number.  Good grief, if it works great for Santa, imagine what it'll do for some cute cop, in UNIFORM!

Hey, maybe some GENIUS cop might EVEN nail a super cute blonde car dealer chick, before she MURDERS another cop, APC/DUI a dually WAY too fast?  Naaaaah.  Forget it.

Hell, what do I know about cop stuff anyways?

[cks511]

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Hell, what do I know about cop stuff anyways?
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Dude pancakes?  Why don't you go take yourself a little sober-up nap.  

The good news? The trail between 11th and 21st is paved half way.  They should be done by today, so that is great news for the Tulsa Tough.

[we vs us]

quote:Originally posted by 1099paralegal

quote:Originally posted by cks511

Ya know this doesn't surprise me that they would take advantage of a situation like this.  Recently I've noticed more cops patrolling the 55th street bike route from Riverside to 61st and Richmond.  There's been an increase of commuters on that route.  Hmmmm, I guess they  think we're easy pickins'!

Instead of stalking Biker Fox with gas-guzzling un-marks, cops rolling bikes on Memorial during rush, could probably sneak up on a whole lotta blinged out brothaaaas smokin' dope on their way to the Vibe Awards.

Also, it's a great way to pick up some blonde cutie in the H2 chatting incessantly to sorority sisters on the phone.  Example pickup line:  Ma'am, you are talking way too much and not paying attention to driving.  I need to confiscate your phone number.  Good grief, if it works great for Santa, imagine what it'll do for some cute cop, in UNIFORM!

Hey, maybe some GENIUS cop might EVEN nail a super cute blonde car dealer chick, before she MURDERS another cop, APC/DUI a dually WAY too fast?  Naaaaah.  Forget it.

Hell, what do I know about cop stuff anyways?

[1099paralegal]

quote:Originally posted by we vs us

Make Tulsa WEIRD!

[TUalum0982]

quote:Originally posted by 1099paralegal

Give 'em HELL, all you spandex-clad 'mo's! Cops will be nit-pickin'.  Take EVERY single ticket to TRIAL!  And, DON'T back down.  Your FINEST hour is NEAR.  Post ALL the STOOPID tickets here.  Show us how some overzealous, over-the-top cops are wasting tax dollas pickin' on bikes.

wow aren't you quite the hypocrite.  First you say that bikes are traffic and must follow all the rules of the road.  Now once the police ENFORCE THESE RULES, which you state are IN FULL FORCE, you call the cops overzealous, over the top and are wasting tax payers money.  What about all these "stoopid" tickets that will go in front of a judge, would that not be wasting peoples tax dollars well?  Damn, and whose the village idiot??

[nathanm]

quote:Originally posted by TUalum0982

What about all these "stoopid" tickets that will go in front of a judge, would that not be wasting peoples tax dollars well?  Damn, and whose the village idiot??

Trials are never a waste of money. It's called due process. Consider it a cost of having a free country where you can't be incarcerated on a whim.

[TUalum0982]

quote:Originally posted by nathanm

quote:Originally posted by TUalum0982

What about all these "stoopid" tickets that will go in front of a judge, would that not be wasting peoples tax dollars well?  Damn, and whose the village idiot??

Trials are never a waste of money. It's called due process. Consider it a cost of having a free country where you can't be incarcerated on a whim.

Trials are never a waste of money? Are you serious?  There is quite a large difference between getting a traffic citation for which you pay a fine or go in front of a judge and being incarcerated.  My point being, there are plenty frivilous lawsuits and trials out there.  People have filed motions (which is a request for a court order) for the following:

A. Motion for skin care operation
B. Motion to Kiss my donkey
C. Motion for catered food services
D. Motion for Psychoanlysis
E. Motion for Restoration of Sanity


here are a few more examples:

According to Department of Justice figures, 30,000 inmate lawsuits were filed last year (added to heavy backlogs, more than 28,000 inmate lawsuits in New York alone) against prison officials for "civil rights" violations, the vast majority described by judges and court officials as frivolous.

Among the lawsuits were those prisoners complaining that the prison canteen supplied "creamy" peanut butter when a prisoner bought "crunchy", that guards wouldn't refrigerate his ice cream snack so that he could eat it later ($1 million lawsuit), that his toilet seat was too cold, that, as an inmate-paralegal in the prison law library, he should make the same wage that lawyers make, that prisons should offer salad bars ($129 million), that a limit on the number of Kool-Aid refills is "cruel and unusual punishment", and that the scrambled eggs were cooked too hard.

In New York, 20 percent of the entire budget of the Attorney General's office is spent on prisoner lawsuits

A man in Fort Worth filed a lawsuit against Elvis Presley Enterprises, contending that the King faked his death and ran off to live a normal life. He says he knows for certain that Elvis is alive because he has had frequent telephone calls from him.

A woman sued a man because he swore at her in traffic. He offered to meet her and apologize, but she refused and filed suit for $5,000. She won $2,500 at the trial court level, but the decision was reversed on appeal because she failed to prove her distress was more than what a reasonable person could endure.

ahhh thank you due process