I left a second comment (#57!) over on Broken Arrow's blog, the entry about Common Myths. I wanted to say a lot more but I didn't want to deal with the responses I might get from the non-SA people that wandered over here from some other websites, since they seemed to be profanity laden and cop-hating. To an extent I guess I have been heretofore sheltered from. This is not PF related at all, just kind of emotional, because, well, its been an emotional night. Thank heavens my mother took the kids away for the weekend before this happened.

Anywho, I wanted to talk some more about speed traps. So here it is.

One more thing on speed traps. We have one on the highway just behind our house. It's right as you come out of a nasty S-curve, sometimes at one end, sometimes at the other. Speed limit is 30 for it, dropping from 55.

We who live here all know it is there, just as we who live here also know that there are five different crosses and memorials set up on either side of the road along that curve. You might even see them if you take the curve at the lawful speed.

I have seen two cars wrapped around the power pole there with one being a death. I personally have called the ambulance for one of the deaths and 2 of the non-deaths, as the sound effects at such accidents are overwhelmingly loud and I know without looking what has happened. I get on the phone and walk out behind the fence and there is another hunk of twisted metal that was once a vehicle. All I have to say for location is the S-curve on --- Road Highway, they know it without a house number or a city name.

That curve has taken out ten cars and 3 power poles in the last five years. Not one car was going the speed limit or anywhere near it. Sometimes a speed trap is just a speed trap. Sometimes it is because you're driving through a death trap.

So yeah, speed if you want to, but after watching them wash the blood off the pavement for an hour more than once, after holding more than one bloody hand or applying pressure to another bleeding head, please don't make it me that you're tail-gating when I follow the law. And don't get mad at the police when they pull you over in that spot. It being a speed trap may just have saved your life.

And oh, by the way, there was an accident tonight. That was the death I got to call in. Guess there will be another memorial up soon. I wonder what color they'll paint the cross? Maybe if they paint it blood red people will slow down and see it.