Watch out for SA cops under bridges!!!

[Twisted_Dawg]

SA cops have a new tactic in giving tickets. They stand next to the U-turn lane under IH-10 giving people tickets for not having their seatbelts on. As you come around the curve they can see into your car and motion you to pull over. It is a $200 ticket. I have seen them under the Wurzbach and Dezavala bridges.

Also, SA cops are now targeting interstate frontage roads and exit ramps for radar. As you exit a ramp in traffic doing 55, 60 etc, they are wating to give you a ticket for going over 45. The same if you are accelerating on the frontage road approaching the entrance ramp.

Very productive way for the city to get some extra revenue. But it would seem now that SA is the most violent city in the USA, these cops would be out chasing violent criminals instead of jacking with working stiff motorists.

[xtremesteven33]

'FUUUuuuCCKKkkkk the POOOoooLLIiiiCCEEeee"

-Pineapple Express

[ashbeeigh]

If you read the TransGuide signs you'll see TxDoT is in full force with their "Click It or Ticket" campaign. I for one never ever ever leave the driveway without a seatbelt on (and haven't since someone in my fifth grade class died because he didn't have a seatbelt on). So, that won't be an issue for me. The speeding..perhaps.

I heard they were doing this at De Zavala a few days back. Thank God I wear my seatbelt!

[Desert Plains]

Well since the city is 100 million short on the expanding the river walk project you can expect more creative ways to fuck the average San Antonio tax payer,

I know what your going to say...."lets raise the tourist and hotel tax"

You guys have fucked the tourist so much the last 10 years it would be easier if you just wait till they enter a cab hit them over the heads take their wallets and bury their bodies in the streets you can save even more money using them as speed bumps.

[fraga]

or you could just wear your seatbelt?

[Desert Plains]

If they were really just worried about your safety they would give out warning tickets.

The real reason they want you to wear seatbelts is your no good to the San Antonio economy if yur dead.

[angel_luv]

If they were really just worried about your safety they would give out warning tickets.

The real reason they want you to wear seatbelts is your no good to the San Antonio economy if yur dead.

If that were true, then everyone would already be wearing a seatbelt.

The click it or ticket commercials are sufficient warning.

[Marcus Bryant]

How about the cops spend their time preventing real crime and not playing road nanny?

[Desert Plains]

If that were true, then everyone would already be wearing a seatbelt.

The click it or ticket commercials are sufficient warning.

What 22 year old's do you know that are thinking about a tv commercial when cruising the streets of San Antonio in a 2009 Mustang?

[Desert Plains]

How about the cops spend their time preventing real crime and not playing road nanny?

Because stopping gangs from meeting in dark alleys and patrolling the neighborhoods don't bring in the 100,000 they make with 50 cops giving out 1o tickets a day.

[CosmicCowboy]

I remember reading about another city where the cops were in plainclothes at intersections holding cardboard signs. They would just walk down the row of cars and slap their badge up against the window if they wanted to stop you.

[angel_luv]

What 22 year old's do you know that are thinking about a tv commercial when cruising the streets of San Antonio in a 2009 Mustang?

I am saying that a 22 year old is more likely to wear his seatbelt if not doing so actually cost him financially.

I have yet to meet a driver - young or old- who is unaware that he ought to wear his seatbelt.

Their failure to do so is due to disregard for the law and carelessness regarding their own safety, not the result of ignorance.

Drivers without seatbelts do not need more information about it ( i.e. warnings) they deserve consequences ( tickets).

[Alex Jones]

I remember reading about another city where the cops were in plainclothes at intersections holding cardboard signs. They would just walk down the row of cars and slap their badge up against the window if they wanted to stop you.


If the economy keeps up they may need those cardboard signs permanently.

[scientology]

I am saying that a 22 year old is more likely to wear his seatbelt if not doing so actually cost him financially.

I have yet to meet a driver - young or old- who is unaware that he ought to wear his seatbelt.

Their failure to do so is due to disregard for the law and carelessness regarding their own safety, not the result of ignorance.

Drivers without seatbelts do not need more information about it ( i.e. warnings) they deserve consequences ( tickets).

:tu

your really smart how come you don't run for mayor?:toast

[Last Comic Standing]

What 22 year old's do you know that are thinking about a tv commercial when cruising the streets of San Antonio in a 2009 Mustang?


A 22 year old in San Antonio in 2009 Mustang? no wonder they don't use seat belts chances are that car is freshly stolen and they are not familiar with where everything is just yet.

[angel_luv]

:tu

your really smart how come you don't run for mayor?:toast

Aw, thank you. :)

[Clandestino]

i was wondering the fucking police were in the way causing a safety hazard... the cop was half on the curb and half in the street. you couldn't see his car until the last second. very unsafe. we have some of the worst cops in the nation. that's a fact.

[Jame Gumb]

A few times I had my pants down and was playing with myself in that lane thanks for the heads up :tu

[Jesus is my friend!]

I noticed Buddy Holly was in this topic and id not reply did he finally give up on San Antonio?

[Mugshot]

SA cops have a new tactic in giving tickets. They stand next to the U-turn lane under IH-10 giving people tickets for not having their seatbelts on. As you come around the curve they can see into your car and motion you to pull over. It is a $200 ticket. I have seen them under the Wurzbach and Dezavala bridges.

Also, SA cops are now targeting interstate frontage roads and exit ramps for radar. As you exit a ramp in traffic doing 55, 60 etc, they are wating to give you a ticket for going over 45. The same if you are accelerating on the frontage road approaching the entrance ramp.

Very productive way for the city to get some extra revenue. But it would seem now that SA is the most violent city in the USA, these cops would be out chasing violent criminals instead of jacking with working stiff motorists.

You live in San Antonio, I thought that you lived in California???

[SA210]

How about the cops spend their time preventing real crime and not playing road nanny?

[Slydragon]

I think just like beer and cigs that after a set age seatbelts should be your call. I alway wear mine but it's dumb that in the land of the free you must wear a seatbelt...we are free? We can't even have yardsales with out a permit at your own house.

If u choose not to wear one and die it's was on yourself. we allow teens to start killing themselfs at 18 when they can buy cigs.

Own a bike and you dont need a helmet which would help out a hell of alot more then a seatbelt but thats ok.

[exstatic]

I think just like beer and cigs that after a set age seatbelts should be your call. I alway wear mine but it's dumb that in the land of the free you must wear a seatbelt...we are free? We can't even have yardsales with out a permit at your own house.

If u choose not to wear one and die it's was on yourself. we allow teens to start killing themselfs at 18 when they can buy cigs.

Own a bike and you dont need a helmet which would help out a hell of alot more then a seatbelt but thats ok.

It already IS just like cigarettes. You can pretty much just smoke at home now, so take a page from that book and sit in your driveway with your seatbelt off.

I've never understood anyone intentionally doing anything stupid like not wearing their seatbelt. Maybe that's just me. Look at it this way: if you head on someone without your seatbelt on, your flying corpse coming thru the windshield directly towards them could be a danger to them, so it's not just babysitting stupid people.

[PM5K]

I don't have a problem with seatbelt tickets because I always wear my seatbelt, but you should be able to go faster than 45 on an entrance ramp because the traffic you are entering is usually going 65, so it's dangerous to enter that lane going 45.

As for exit ramps, I just think it's better for gas mileage to let off the gas and coast to the frontage road until you get to the frontage road speed, more often than not you won't come off that exit ramp going faster than the frontage road speed unless you want to, coasting won't typically get you there.

[CosmicCowboy]

Yeah, and kids have to be in car seats when they are in a car or you get a ticket but biker dudes can throw their three year old kids on the back and haul ass with nothing to worry about...ain't that the shitz?

[Biernutz]

Do SAPD cops who wreck their cruisers get tickets like the rest of us? If not why?

[chode_regulator]

If that were true, then everyone would already be wearing a seatbelt.

The click it or ticket commercials are sufficient warning.

you spelled loved wrong

[phyzik]

Do SAPD cops who wreck their cruisers get tickets like the rest of us? If not why?

Nope. You know what really pissed me off one time? I had to go to the magistrates office one time. I had a warrant listed on me for a speeding ticket which I had already taken care of in castle hills.

Anyway, while I was waiting to show my proof these 2 cops where chatting away about their personal motorcycles. One had a zx10 and was bragging how he had accelerated from 60 (on the access road) to 120 on an entrance ramp.

I also see cops all the time hitting their lights just to get through a red light. They all truelly feel like they are above the law. All of them. I don't care what someone says.

[Frenzy]

power trip phyzik....i have yet to met one cop that isn't a dooooosh!


i haven't see the cops under the turn around but as for the exit ramps oh yeah i seen tons...got a radar detector for that though... saved me at least 4 times.

[Avitus1]

I was in San Antonio last weekend staying close to Wurzbach and I kept seeing people get caught under the bridge. Now I know why. Seriously though how hard is it to wear a seat belt?

[EricB]

IIRC when the law was enacted, the statement was "We will not stop you specifically for it, it will only be enforced when stopped for a more severe traffic violation"


As always, Government never stops when it comes to taking away your freedoms and rights.

Hey but what the hell.

[FaithInOne]

Unless you are 400 lbs. wearing your seatbelt requires no brain activity you lazy asses.

[2Blonde]

Well with a 17 year old I support any and all efforts to get drivers to buckle up. My daughter had three major auto accidents the first year she had her license. Only one was her fault but it wouldn't make her any less dead if she wasn't wearing her seatbelt. A friend who attended my high school in Oklahoma lost her 15 year old daughter in an accident 10 years ago. It was the first time she had been allowed to go somewhere with a boy. The boy's father took them to get ice cream on the way back there was an accident and she was thrown from the vehicle and died because she wasn't wearing a seat belt.


Her mother is now an advocate for seat belt safety. Here is the info on the "Rachel's Rule: Buckle UP & Slow Down"

http://www.fotizo.net/buckleupslowdown/orig_site/about.htm


You guys make all the noise you want about cops finding something better to do with their time than bother you with a ticket, a lot of you in here have small children. Try to imagine what your child's life would be like if you died on your way home from work tomorrow because you didn't buckle up. You might also think about the fact your your son or daughter will be 16 before you know it and how it might feel to have them die before they could even vote. (stepping down off soapbox now)

[Trainwreck2100]

i also saw one at the light off vance jackson and I10. He wasn't even in a car he was looking around for people without seatbelts while on foot

[ashbeeigh]

Saw one today at De Zavala on my way to 1604. Just put on your effing seat belt y'all. You'll thank it come the one time you get in an accident. -Sincerely the girl who pays too much for car insurance.