29 Aug 97 20:12, Puleeeeze Brer Day Brown, Dooooon't trow emmisions in dat 
der Briar Patch!
 DB>  On 08-28-97 Jack Schwendener wrote to Day Brown...
 DB>
 JS> DB>> Further, Gov Huckabee announced that since there is no data to
 JS> DB>> show the motor vehicle inspection reduces the accident rate, he
 JS> DB>> plans to repeal it.
 JS>>
 JS>> That has been our experience in California too. No discernable
 JS>> improvement in the mileage death rate or reduction in accidents
 JS>> that were attributable to mechanical defects. That's why safety
 JS>> inspections (for cars) was abolished back in '79. Since then the
 JS>> accident rate for mechanical defects has fallen from arounf 3% to
 JS>> less than 1% ....  Your governor deserves credit for his action.
 DB>
 DB> He's been getting it. agreed.
 DB>
 DB> Another odd phenomena mentioned on Little Rock talk radio was the
 DB> fact that there are a lotta unlicensed junkers driving around. It
 DB> seems that when one is stopped and impounded, no one comes back to
 DB> pay the ticket and redeem it- and the impoundment yards are full.
 DB>
 DB> Seems like rather than buy insurance, inspection, & tags, they
 DB> just pick up a 200$ clunker that runs, and when the cops take it,
 DB> just get another one.  And now that the impoundment yards are all
 DB> full, the cops don't wanna haul it away unless they think it will
 DB> sell at auction for more than the cost of towing and storage.
 DB>
 DB> All in all, I cant blame them; minimum wage jobs don't pay well
 DB> enough to afford a reliable car anyway, the state is too rural to
 DB> have anything like a decent transit system, and the establishment
 DB> still wants these folks to get to work.
The state of California would bill you for the tow and storage.
They'd collect it too...
... Somedays your the Dog, other days your the fire hydrant!
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