Subj : Wannbe HAM To : Mark Lewis From : Mike Luther Date : Sun Sep 18 2016 10:01 pm Yep Marc! ml> 18 Sep 16 15:58, you wrote to Tony Langdon: TL>> Here, the police are strict on road rules. Even TL>> if one is on the way TL>> to the station to handle a call, all road rules TL>> must be obeyed. It's TL>> only when we've got in one of the fire truchs or TL>> support car that we TL>> can put lights and sirens on and judiciously break some laws "if it TL>> is safe and reasonable to do so". Even then, TL>> both standing orders and TL>> road law itself still set strong limits. JD> Much the same here. The only vehicles that can JD> legally go thru a stop JD> sign, or Red light, is a funeral procession. Then again, that is JD> usually accompanied by at least a police cruiser in front. ml> check your laws closely... there may be a ""loop hole"" in that as long ml> as you stop at a red light, does the law say that you ml> *must* sit there until it turns red... most/all ml> jurisdictions i've been in do not state that you ml> *must* wait in the green... only that you must stop... ml> i've beaten "red light tickets" with that argument ml> several times in the past ;) ;) ;) ml> on the flashing lights... i'm fixing to get a light ml> bar fitted that gives me yellow and white flashing and ml> alternating... can also get green in addition or as ml> one or the other... this because of being on ml> construction sites with heavy equipment running ml> around... we already wear white hats and neon yellow ml> safety vests ;) ml> )\/(ark ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey ml> ... American football: violence punctuated by committee meetings. ml> --- ml> * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) Well, dating back to when I first got my Extra Class ham license in late 1972 here and moved from WN5WQN to W5WQN which I still have today, I am very familiar with much of the CB vs. 'pig meat ham' radio all this has been talking about, grin! I also legally worked CB back then and my CB cute name was "Empty Hole" here in the Texas A&M University College Station and Bryan, Texas area where I'm still today. The Empty Hole cute name came from the fact that I had a small gas tank in the little truck I was driving and it got really low gas mileage too. Which meant a lot of the time I was low on gasoline running all over Texas and more! Move on to the issue about running red lights and so on. For what I was totally doing to carry all the world up even in the MARS top secret work I was doing back then that I had no idea of what it really was all about,I even had a top secret military clearance for the original monitoring of the Angels Do Not Play On This HAARP project originally as well as lots more of stuff around the world here. Plus even then was fixing all the local police, law enforcement and state highway radios as well as the airplane stuff out at Easterwood Airport here. Even when the DC power supplies were just motor generators in the trunks of the cars! So I learned a lot about 'red lights'. I can't say this was and has moved to the current law about this here in Texas. However, if you actually have a medical emergency, are serving as a volunteer in fire help, or things like that, what I have never actually used in all these years, but I sort of think the cops will help with today locally is this. If you desparately have to go through a red light here, turn on your as now standard BLINKING BOTH RED AND FRONT LITTLE LIGHTS on your steering column and CAREFULLY go through the red light. If a cop whops you and you tell them the actually reason you must do this, they will actually take over ahead of you and escort you to where you (and even they may) need to fastly be! No, at 76 years of age I've never pressed to see if that is still the sort of under the table viewpoint. But I'm still VERY close to all the local law enforcement folks here who many of them know me still VERY well. From even when there was no Internet and I was part of the original creation of FidoNet. Mike Luther as W5WQN and N117C still from 1:117/100 here. --- * Origin: BV HUB CLL(979)696-3600 (1:117/100) .