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Police speed uncalled for

Dear Editor: SH place of business, By the time Chad reached work Twas pretty 40 vehicles off the toad,
T don't get upset very often and when 1 do it’s asiially Kept well coaking, savas 70,000 hires of
Inside and dealt with, but today Pin upset enougt to‘tell somes There was no-doubt that the constable was-headed fir the Z; tual and avoids 9 tonnes
ad body, PY office, int this was-contirmed shortly thereafter by ty phone of alt pollutants a yaar.

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‘This morning at 9418 Pwas driving down Lynn Vall Road call, What frosted me was the way dn'whieh the:call and subse.
ot on iy way ta works P came onto Lynn Valley Road at 29th and, — quent eall back were handled, 4
as usual, cheeked ny inirrors, ‘There was a policy cruiser at the 1 have great respect for the police and for the job that they
 dight, - mo do, They work pretty hard and don’t seem to get much for it,
a. This was no big deat as bam quite used tosveing police cruis- but tharis no excuse for speeding aldag my streets at 9:15 in the
ers'on the streets and have long since lost my fear of them or morning fust to pet back to the office,
., thelr contents, ee ! Lealled the office on their non-emergency line and asked for
By the time I had reached Kirkstone the cruiser was alongside —— traftic, A sergeant explained to me that the officer in question (ie
‘me, We both stopped at the light. Again‘ nothing special other | the driver) was indeed just heading back to the office and should
‘than my thinking that this guy must have been in a hurry in’ not have been speeding, however he (the driver) didn’t think he
Order to have caught up with me in such a relatively short diss was going as fast as Thad sald, - ,
/ tance, The cruiser pulled ahead off the line at Kirkstone and © ‘The nice sergeant then went on to,tell me that they had spe-
“changed into the Boulevard Crescent fane in front ofme (in my cal circumstances under which they were allowed ‘to ‘speed,
‘88 ‘Tercel) and continued to accelerate, He accelerated up to 75 - going to emergencies and the like, but shouldn’t really be speed:
km per hourl Uknow this to be accurate because T sped up to: ing back to the office, She driver would be reprimanded if this
“keep up with him, thinking that if there was a police cruiser in happened again. = .
~ frone of me it would be untikely that would get a speeding tick 'This didn’t cut i¢ with me, Were f to have been caught doing
wey ek. Ce an we 76 ina 50 zone it would have been points, cash, driving recor ;
*. Indeed I did not get‘a ticket, He turned west onto 19th, so” and whatever else could have been chucked my way, if fd had:

me did Las this is my usual route to work, ~ tried that “I don’t think Twas going that fast” line Pd have been
Sil” Down the big hill he went to the stop sign, After the stop sign told to tell ieta the judge. ae
Bowe. Our man again sped up to'76 km per hour: He turned south at Ralph Carter : — C
” © St. George’s dnd U carried on to Lonsdale and from there ro my. -North Vancouver 0

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