Yep Marc!

 ml> 18 Sep 16 15:58, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

 TL>> Here, the police are strict on road rules. Even 
 TL>> if one is on the way
 TL>> to the station to handle a call, all road rules 
 TL>> must be obeyed. It's
 TL>> only when we've got in one of the fire truchs or 
 TL>> support car that we
 TL>> can put lights and sirens on and judiciously break some laws "if it
 TL>> is safe and reasonable to do so". Even then, 
 TL>> both standing orders and
 TL>> road law itself still set strong limits.

 JD> Much the same here.  The only vehicles that can 
 JD> legally go thru a stop
 JD> sign, or Red light, is a funeral procession.  Then again, that is
 JD> usually accompanied by at least a police cruiser in front.

 ml> check your laws closely... there may be a ""loop
hole"" in that as long 
 ml> as you stop at a red light, does the law say that you 
 ml> *must* sit there until it turns red... most/all 
 ml> jurisdictions i've been in do not state that you 
 ml> *must* wait in the green... only that you must stop... 
 ml> i've beaten "red light tickets" with that argument 
 ml> several times in the past ;) ;) ;)

 ml> on the flashing lights... i'm fixing to get a light 
 ml> bar fitted that gives me yellow and white flashing and 
 ml> alternating... can also get green in addition or as 
 ml> one or the other... this because of being on 
 ml> construction sites with heavy equipment running 
 ml> around... we already wear white hats and neon yellow 
 ml> safety vests ;)

 ml> )\/(ark

 ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

 ml> ... American football: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
 ml> ---

Well, dating back to when I first got my Extra Class ham license in late
1972 here and moved from WN5WQN to W5WQN which I still have today, I am
very familiar with much of the CB vs. 'pig meat ham' radio all this has
been talking about, grin!  I also legally worked CB back then and my CB
cute name was "Empty Hole" here in the Texas A&M University
College Station and Bryan, Texas area where I'm still today.  The Empty
Hole cute name came from the fact that I had a small gas tank in the little
truck I was driving and it got really low gas mileage too.  Which meant a
lot of the time I was low on gasoline running all over Texas and more!

Move on to the issue about running red lights and so on.  For what I was
totally doing to carry all the world up even in the MARS top secret work I
was doing back then that I had no idea of what it really was all about,I
even had a top secret military clearance for the original monitoring of the
Angels Do Not Play On This HAARP project originally as well as lots more of
stuff around the world here.  Plus even then was fixing all the local
police, law enforcement and state highway radios as well as the airplane
stuff out at Easterwood Airport here.  Even when the DC power supplies were
just motor generators in the trunks of the cars!  So I learned a lot about
'red lights'.  I can't say this was and has moved to the current law about
this here in Texas.  However, if you actually have a medical emergency, are
serving as a volunteer in fire help, or things like that, what I have never
actually used in all these years, but I sort of think the cops will help
with today locally is this.

If you desparately have to go through a red light here, turn on your as now
standard BLINKING BOTH RED AND FRONT LITTLE LIGHTS on your steering column
and CAREFULLY go through the red light.  If a cop whops you and you tell
them the actually reason you must do this, they will actually take over
ahead of you and escort you to where you (and even they may) need to fastly
be!

No, at 76 years of age I've never pressed to see if that is still the sort
of under the table viewpoint.  But I'm still VERY close to all the local
law enforcement folks here who many of them know me still VERY well.   From
even when there was no Internet and I was part of the original creation of
FidoNet.


Mike Luther as W5WQN and N117C still from 1:117/100 here.



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