02-16-2019, 09:59 PM
[#0000FF]Your sixty some posts during the past year are almost all replies to others...except for one brag post you made with pics of your fish...with no helpful info to accompany them. Your holier-than-thou attitude and stirring the pot when you got no dog in the hunt is irritating. You got no web cred dude.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]You joined BFT in April last year. Don't know how long you lurked before that. But we have had a lot of discussions on the overly aggressive traffic and parking enforcement at Mantua. Many of us have experienced first hand the abusive, hostile, even swearing treatment by the former "Barney"...who did his best work in front of young kids. And there have been more than a few folks who he followed around just waiting for them to go 1 mile over the 25 mph speed limit around the lake...and then got ticketed.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Nobody disputes that the main highway has more than its share of speeders. Once you get to the top of the hill it is common to keep the pedal down and exceed the speed limit. Most communities leave the enforcement up to Highway Patrol...but not Mantua. It has long had a well-deserved reputation as a speed trap. No telling how much money they have added to their party fund by pouncing on inattentive drivers who fail to slow down at the top of the hill. It is okay if it serves to deter speeders. But most of the ticket recipients are only slightly over the limits and are otherwise law-abiding drivers. For many it is the first and only ticket they ever get.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Unfortunate for the police chief that he got busted. But he deserved it. Whether it is alcohol or drugs, impaired driving is not safe. He should have known better. Good he got caught and became a news item. If nothing else it gives us former Barney fans a long overdue chance to gloat.
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[#0000FF]You joined BFT in April last year. Don't know how long you lurked before that. But we have had a lot of discussions on the overly aggressive traffic and parking enforcement at Mantua. Many of us have experienced first hand the abusive, hostile, even swearing treatment by the former "Barney"...who did his best work in front of young kids. And there have been more than a few folks who he followed around just waiting for them to go 1 mile over the 25 mph speed limit around the lake...and then got ticketed.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Nobody disputes that the main highway has more than its share of speeders. Once you get to the top of the hill it is common to keep the pedal down and exceed the speed limit. Most communities leave the enforcement up to Highway Patrol...but not Mantua. It has long had a well-deserved reputation as a speed trap. No telling how much money they have added to their party fund by pouncing on inattentive drivers who fail to slow down at the top of the hill. It is okay if it serves to deter speeders. But most of the ticket recipients are only slightly over the limits and are otherwise law-abiding drivers. For many it is the first and only ticket they ever get.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Unfortunate for the police chief that he got busted. But he deserved it. Whether it is alcohol or drugs, impaired driving is not safe. He should have known better. Good he got caught and became a news item. If nothing else it gives us former Barney fans a long overdue chance to gloat.
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