Comments for Motor Cop

Comment on Book Review: Burnout by James Vachowski by MidnightSecurity

MidnightSecurity — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:44:01 +0000

I am always looking for a good book to read, so thanks for the review!

.pdf’s are notoriously bad on e-readers of all kind. They are also horrible to convert to .epub, .mobi, and the like. They are better served on pc, laptop, and iPad.

Comment on Santa Maria PD Shooting by Officer Cicero

Officer Cicero — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:17:31 +0000

It was sloppy, sloppy, sloppy work by their internal affairs folks. If you’re going to lock someone up, either do it off duty when they’re not expecting it, or on duty in a way that they aren’t armed. They could have called him to a cell block, conducted a weapon inspection, had their armorer call him in to swap out his weapon on a pretext, etc. There were many ways to go about doing it but the IA people screwed the pooch.

Comment on Santa Maria PD Shooting by Rita A

Rita A — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:54:37 +0000

MC, thanks for responding, when you said you were busy I thought that I’d get an answer before the end of the semester, didn’t expect it so soon, so thanks! I agree with you completely, this has been a really tough situation for the Santa Maria community, it is not a very large city nor is it a particularly large department. Many citizens and city councils members alike have basically asked for the police chief’s head on a platter because of recent events – first an officer involved shooting several months ago (first one in a very long time in the city) and now this. A lot of questions have been posed, including the whole age of consent thing. I just hope the answers to these questions may bring some closure to the family of Ofc. Covarrubias, the PD family and especially to Ofc. Kline who was forced to kill his best friend. My prayers are with these guys, they are a great bunch and I truly hope them all the best.

Comment on Do I Turn You On? by EliMae

EliMae — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:32:30 +0000

Two lane road, with middle turn lane: Jackass in front of me slows to a crawl, gets into the turn lane, then turns OR Bigger Jackass in Front of me slows to a stop, ignores the turn lane, turns.

Also, people turning left at the last moment, after the turn signal has gone red, and make me wait for them to clear the intersection before I can go on my green light (that’s how late they are).

Last and least, people going under the speed limit. No traffic here, just slows and old ass people.

And one time that we were on a 70 mph highway (not in town, so this was a 50+ mile stretch of highway between towns out here in BFE), and the last car in a funeral procession going 35 mph decided no one else should pass them and started straddling the lanes. We had to follow at 35 mph for about 20-30 minutes, before the ranks parted and let Mack Truck through. He got them out of the way for us.

Comment on Santa Maria PD Shooting by HonkingAntelope

HonkingAntelope — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:40:52 +0000

While the shooting itself was an obvious suicide by cop, it would not have happened but for the colossal fuckups on the department’s part. They essentially let the guy stew in his own juice and think about his upcoming trip to prison wearing the tag of a cop AND a child molester. Had he been picked up a little more discreetly, any half-way decent lawyer would have told him that unless forcible intercourse was involved, it might have been only a misdemeanor with no prison time.

Also, am I the only one who SERIOUSLY questions the timing of the “victim” coming forward just three weeks after Mr Covarrubias married his fiance? I’m thinking the young explorer’s confession was motivated by revenge rather than remorse over what appeared to be a mutually consensual relationship.

Comment on Book Review: Burnout by James Vachowski by Keynyn

Keynyn — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:24:59 +0000

Hey MC, thanks for the review. It makes me want to check this book out, which I will do ASAP. I would have liked to hear a bit more about the plot, though, and/or what other books it does or doesn’t resemble/remind you of. Just to give me a bit more of a feel for it, if you know what I mean.

Comment on Santa Maria PD Shooting by Christy Flynn

Christy Flynn — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:55:39 +0000

Great post on a very difficult topic. Prayers to the entire PD and the families involved.

Comment on Do I Turn You On? by Motorcop

Motorcop — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:17:04 +0000

Couldn’t agree more!

Comment on Do I Turn You On? by Danno

Danno — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:14:16 +0000

Biggest pet peeve is drivers with their dogs in their laps. Now that being said, I’m sure some of the pets are actually better drivers than their owners. In the Province of Ontario, the Highway Traffic Act offence of “Crowd the Driver” applies. Just a little $110 reminder that “Dogs Don’t Drive.”

People are actually offended when I point this out to them. No doubt “Benji” loves the view from behind the wheel snuggled on the lap of his faithful human companion as the world passes by at 60 km/h, but there are two serious problems with this little arrangement.

1. If there is an emergency and the driver sees an impending crash, 9 times out of 10 he/she will grab onto dear Benji to shield the little fella from harm RATHER THAN CONCENTRATING ON THE EMERGENCY AHEAD AND REACTING TO THE SITUATION.

2. If “doggy driver” happens to be in close proximity to the steering wheel when the “distracted by doggy driver” nails the back end of the stopped car ahead, the deployment of the airbag will most likely leave the little guy sitting on the lap of the driver 3 cars back (if he clears the B and C pillars).

This graphic description often leaves the driver in tears and seems more effective than the ticket.

Pet restraints are available…please use them!

Comment on Do I Turn You On? by Motorcop

Motorcop — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:14:11 +0000

I think I fixed the problem with the truncation. Please to advise if that solved the problem!