Re: Sumpter Landing Police
Dear Little Old Lady from Pittsburgh,
This is the first time I have heard of profiling older people. Live and learn.
I never thought of the police by schools, during session, as a money maker for the area. I always viewed it as protecting the children.
Pittsburgh is a large city with numerous schools - I would think you would be aware of the law - slower speed limit in school zones, when school is in session. I do not think all city schools have curb cuts in Pittsburgh.
We live in a rural area and it is only the newcomers who are not aware that the police are vigilant in school safety zone areas - I should rephrase that - from newcomers to people who do not obey signs.
We had a Traffic Police man killed, (a senior citizen) directing traffic as the cars and buses were leaving the school, not to long ago. He was killed because a senior citizen did not follow his instructions - he was told to stop. Because the driver of the vehicle did not stop a younger driver swerved so that this speeder would not hit him.
In the process, the student killed the traffic cop.
Due to the driver of the vehicle who did not follow the law many lives will never be the same, the family of the police man who was killed, the young driver of the car and his passengers, and all the people who cared for the traffic cop in this rural community.
I think now you will drive more carefully. Not only in TV, but anywhere.
Please be careful when you turn, in TV, that there are no senior citizens who are driving golf carts - in the golf cart lane. If it wasn't for the excellent reflexes and brakes of the person who was driving a golf cart, a scene we observed) another person would have either been killed or seriously injured due to a driver who wasn't following the rules.
Hyacinth Bucket
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