Originally Posted By: sciphi
Seeing the state troopers busting speeders at midnight last night on a deserted rural interstate (I-390 and I-86) resulted in feelings of ambivalence. Some of them might have been drunks. Others were likely just racing home with no other cars around.
the thing that most people don't think about is if one of these guys wrecks how much is it going to cost tax payers? you have the response of the police,fire rescue and ems? not to mention the risk to the emergency workers, the blood and other bodily fluids are a bio hazard,if extrication is involved then the fire rescue workers are being put at high risk due to the dangerous nature of cutting and tearing a vehicle that in many cases is on unstable ground, or has undeployed air bags which can be unpredictable after a wreck, as well as everything being sharp, hot or plain harmful. then the wreck needs to be cleaned up and any damaged caused to road signs, the road it's self or telephone/power lines, so it's not just them hurting themselves.