Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red
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Van Hagar?You go, Sammy!I kant drive 55
(I suppose that reference is lost on the inexperienced members of the Board...)
Do cops have ticket quotas?
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Good guess - Sammy had a song entitled "I Can't Drive 55" that he wrote and recorded as a solo artist prior to his stint with Van Halen. Sammy wrote the song because he kept getting ticketed while driving his Lambrogini or some such beast...Van Hagar?You go, Sammy!I kant drive 55
(I suppose that reference is lost on the inexperienced members of the Board...)
DaveH
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The problem with that is it's still a quota, but unwritten. The difference between widgets and tickets is that if a person doesn't make 100 widgets in a day, someone else who's more or less unrelated to the widget making quota isn't stuck paying.
BIGREDIOWAN
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Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red
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AH MAN! For some reason I always thought that song was from his Van Hagar days...Good guess - Sammy had a song entitled "I Can't Drive 55" that he wrote and recorded as a solo artist prior to his stint with Van Halen. Sammy wrote the song because he kept getting ticketed while driving his Lambrogini or some such beast...Van Hagar?You go, Sammy!I kant drive 55
(I suppose that reference is lost on the inexperienced members of the Board...)
husker rob
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when i was in AZ, i did a ride along with an AZ State Patrol out on HWY 89 between Flagstaff and Page. I asked him if they had quotas on the amount of tickets that he had to write day/week/month and his answer was no.
But like BRI said he was required to make 10 contacts per night. During the shift that I rode with him wrote 4 tickets, 3 written warnings, 2 verbals, and 1 thank you to a lady that was driving safely.
FYI HWY 89 is one of the most dangerous roads in America. On a drive from Flagstaff to Page one time I counted 114 crosses on one side of the road and I would guess there was close to that amount on the other side also.
But like BRI said he was required to make 10 contacts per night. During the shift that I rode with him wrote 4 tickets, 3 written warnings, 2 verbals, and 1 thank you to a lady that was driving safely.
FYI HWY 89 is one of the most dangerous roads in America. On a drive from Flagstaff to Page one time I counted 114 crosses on one side of the road and I would guess there was close to that amount on the other side also.