OT: Red Light Camera

[Fred Bloggs]

Roger Gt wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com
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: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:23:00 -0700, Jim Thompson
: <thegreatone@example.com> wrote:
:
: >Check this out......
:
: >http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/RedLightCamera.mpg
:
: > ...Jim Thompson
:
: Wow, offed an SUV and a PT Cruiser in one whack. Excellent bag.
:
: John


AND an innocent pedestrian!

So did anyone survive?
How many years in Jail did the guy that ran the light get?

The PT Cruiser with a 75yo old lady was running the light, the crossing
SUV had the green- so the pedestrian was crossing against the red
crossing light- but it is also clear the SUV was operated by a mentally
challenged individual exercising no caution- a confluence of
mindlessness all around- every single individual was in the wrong. A lot
of these old people are on serious prescription drugs and their minds
are zeroed- so you really need to watch for them- treat them like a
runaway vehicle with no driver- and avoid going near drug stores- the
damned bastards need to stay home, they have no business going out in
public. There was a time when old meant wisdom, but thanks to modern
medicine this is no longer the case, old now mostly means a worthless
young person who survived to old age and still worthless.

 

[Richard Henry]

"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Roger Gt wrote:
"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com
wrote in message
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: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:23:00 -0700, Jim Thompson
: <thegreatone@example.com> wrote:
:
: >Check this out......
:
: >http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/RedLightCamera.mpg
:
: > ...Jim Thompson
:
: Wow, offed an SUV and a PT Cruiser in one whack. Excellent bag.
:
: John


AND an innocent pedestrian!

So did anyone survive?
How many years in Jail did the guy that ran the light get?



The PT Cruiser with a 75yo old lady was running the light, the crossing
SUV had the green- so the pedestrian was crossing against the red
crossing light- but it is also clear the SUV was operated by a mentally
challenged individual exercising no caution-

Why is that "clear"?

a confluence of
mindlessness all around- every single individual was in the wrong. A lot
of these old people are on serious prescription drugs and their minds
are zeroed- so you really need to watch for them- treat them like a
runaway vehicle with no driver- and avoid going near drug stores- the
damned bastards need to stay home, they have no business going out in
public. There was a time when old meant wisdom, but thanks to modern
medicine this is no longer the case, old now mostly means a worthless
young person who survived to old age and still worthless.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote (in <40F693CA.2020308@nospam.com&gt about 'OT: Red Light Camera',
on Thu, 15 Jul 2004:

There was a time when old meant wisdom, but thanks to modern medicine this is no
longer the case, old now mostly means a worthless young person who survived to
old age and still worthless.

But will you still think so in 20 years?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Fields]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:19:24 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote (in <40F693CA.2020308@nospam.com&gt about 'OT: Red Light Camera',
on Thu, 15 Jul 2004:
There was a time when old meant wisdom, but thanks to modern medicine this is no
longer the case, old now mostly means a worthless young person who survived to
old age and still worthless.

But will you still think so in 20 years?

---
Prob'ly not; Pete Townsend's still alive, isn't he?

--
John Fields

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:19:24 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote (in <40F693CA.2020308@nospam.com&gt about 'OT: Red Light Camera',
on Thu, 15 Jul 2004:
There was a time when old meant wisdom, but thanks to modern medicine this is no
longer the case, old now mostly means a worthless young person who survived to
old age and still worthless.

But will you still think so in 20 years?

Surrounded by old folk (my father is almost 86, and most of his
brothers and sisters are still alive) I find mental and physical
capacity to vary highly from individual to individual.

Based on the observations of my limited sample size, it seems to me
that folk who used their minds regularly throughout their lives keep
their mental capacity into old age.

Physically my body is not treating me too nicely, particularly since I
had polio when I was seven, and arthritis is now taking advantage of
my skeletal frailties, but I'll mentally take on a 20-year-old any day
;-)

...Jim Thompson
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[ptaylor]

Tim Wescott wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:55:37 -0700, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com
wrote:


"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in
btjaf05pult465ifunegfif194rkedvtni@
4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Red Light Camera', on Wed, 14 Jul 2004:

Check this out......

http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/RedLightCamera.mpg


Nasty, very nasty indeed.


I can't tell from the video what state the lights were in. Was the
pedestrian jaywalking? Did he survive?




FrankW posted this link...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/carcrash01.asp

He was jaywalking. He was "dead at the scene", but was noticed to be
breathing as they were removing the "body". He's reported to be still
in serious condition at Miami (Ohio) Valley Hospital.

...Jim Thompson


Not that there wasn't a _very_ stupid driver involved, which would have
just as likely taken out a legal pedestrian.

A friend of my dad's was a deputy Sheriff when he saw an accident like
this developing (sans pedestrian). He couldn't do anything to prevent
it, but he _could_ stick his mic out the window and key it at the
critical moment. He unkeyed his mic, and the unflappable Clackamas
County Sheriff's dispatcher radioed "would the unit at the scene of the
injury accident please report your ID and location?"

Clackamas county,in Oregon? My G/F works there as a
dispatcher/call-taker. I hear some crazy stories...

 

[Daniel Haude]

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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:23:00 -0700,
Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> wrote
in Msg. <btjaf05pult465ifunegfif194rkedvtni@4ax.com>

Check this out......

http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/RedLightCamera.mpg

...Jim Thompson

Reminds me of this (Mercedes vs non-jaywalking pedestrian):

http://poetry.rotten.com/redlight/

--Daniel

--
"With me is nothing wrong! And with you?" (from r.a.m.p)

 

[Charles Schuler]

Having a bad day, are we?

 

Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> writes:

Check this out......

http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/RedLightCamera.mpg

Love to but your name servers are MIA this morning......

Billy Y..