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echo: askacop
to: ALAN RACKMILL
from: BARBARA MCNAY
date: 1998-04-14 06:21:00
subject: Legality of Commandeering cars

 > Glenn, we can comprehend why it might be necessary for
 > a cop to want to take our vehicle in order to chase a
 > felon.
 > But you don't seem to comprehend our problems here.
 > Barbara sounds like she has the same type of problem
 > getting out of a car that I do:  It can take an
 > inordinately long time.
 > I am severely limited im range of motion and mobility.
 > Normally it takes me approximately 30 seconds to get
 > out of my car.
 > That is on a good day, when everything is working in
 > good order.
 > There are times, though, when it can take me two
 > minutes to unbuckle and physically get out of the car.
I wonder if we should shatter his complacency more by telling him what an 
effort it is to get *into* the car?
 > It thecop who wants to comandeer my car wants me top
 > move any faster than that, he is going to have to
 > physically pull me from the car.
 > And I don't carte if he is chasing Attilla the Hun,
 > that will bring about a nice law suit, and you know as
 > well as I do that I would win.
 > Or Barbara.  Or whoever it is done to.
 > Remember, "common sense" has to work on both sides --
 > the LEO and the ALC.
:)
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