Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message


> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
> really worried about passing.

Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message


> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
> really worried about passing.

Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message


> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
> really worried about passing.

Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
>
>
>> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
>> really worried about passing.
>
> Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.

Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
coffee or chatting on the celly.

After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
and careless driving.

Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

</soapbox>

--
DougW

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
>
>
>> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
>> really worried about passing.
>
> Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.

Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
coffee or chatting on the celly.

After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
and careless driving.

Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

</soapbox>

--
DougW

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
>
>
>> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
>> really worried about passing.
>
> Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.

Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
coffee or chatting on the celly.

After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
and careless driving.

Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

</soapbox>

--
DougW

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
>
>
>> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
>> really worried about passing.
>
> Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> failure morbidity in the sticker state.

Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.

Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
coffee or chatting on the celly.

After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
and careless driving.

Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

</soapbox>

--
DougW

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:08:39 UTC "DougW"
<post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:

> SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> > Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
> >
> >
> >> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
> >> really worried about passing.
> >
> > Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> > swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> > comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> > sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> > failure morbidity in the sticker state.
>
> Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
> I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
> headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.
>
> Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
> brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
> just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
> coffee or chatting on the celly.
>
> After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
> the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
> and careless driving.
>
> Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
> maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

Doug, I was here when Colorado canned their "safety inspectiom" and
saw a rash of the same type of crap. That lasted 5-6 years and then
the crappers started to disappear from the roads. Now, it's more
common to see a cop writing a ticket for a bald tire than for wild
lane changes. Lights and tires will get you stopped here as fast as
speeding and bad tires mean a tow job. Now we have "emissions testing"
in Colorado, at least along the Front Range - I'll take the saftey
inspection any day since it's sooo much cheaper to get thru. Of
course, in the bad old days they did two things that I did like. They
tested the headlight ouput and alignment and we had to pull at least 2
brake drums to physically inspect the brakes (that will tell you how
long ago that was).

--
Will Honea

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:08:39 UTC "DougW"
<post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:

> SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> > Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
> >
> >
> >> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
> >> really worried about passing.
> >
> > Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> > swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> > comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> > sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> > failure morbidity in the sticker state.
>
> Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
> I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
> headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.
>
> Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
> brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
> just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
> coffee or chatting on the celly.
>
> After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
> the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
> and careless driving.
>
> Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
> maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

Doug, I was here when Colorado canned their "safety inspectiom" and
saw a rash of the same type of crap. That lasted 5-6 years and then
the crappers started to disappear from the roads. Now, it's more
common to see a cop writing a ticket for a bald tire than for wild
lane changes. Lights and tires will get you stopped here as fast as
speeding and bad tires mean a tow job. Now we have "emissions testing"
in Colorado, at least along the Front Range - I'll take the saftey
inspection any day since it's sooo much cheaper to get thru. Of
course, in the bad old days they did two things that I did like. They
tested the headlight ouput and alignment and we had to pull at least 2
brake drums to physically inspect the brakes (that will tell you how
long ago that was).

--
Will Honea

Re: Jeep passed state safety "inspection"!
 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:08:39 UTC "DougW"
<post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:

> SP Cook did pass the time by typing:
> > Shaggie <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
> >
> >
> >> WHOO HOO! My inspection ran out at the end of last month and I was
> >> really worried about passing.
> >
> > Inspection stickers are just another tax, often combined with a
> > swindle from a easy-grader garageman. There is no known evidence
> > comparing traffic morbidity between a "sticker state" and a "no
> > sticker state" that has found ANY decrease in equipment related
> > failure morbidity in the sticker state.
>
> Tell you this much. Since Oklahoma did away with inspection stickers
> I have seen a marked increase in vehicles with no tail lights, single
> headlamps, almost-flat tires, and bald tires with cords showing.
>
> Three times I've nearly rear-ended some yahoo with NO working
> brake lamps or just one dimly lit lamp. I pay attention but it's
> just a matter of time before someone is too busy sucking down a starpukes
> coffee or chatting on the celly.
>
> After recent heavy rains here I counted no less than ten vehicles off
> the highway in the median or up on the fences. Can we say bald tires
> and careless driving.
>
> Seems the average driver these days is flatly too ignorant to properly
> maintain a vehicle and some too ignorant to have the right to drive period.

Doug, I was here when Colorado canned their "safety inspectiom" and
saw a rash of the same type of crap. That lasted 5-6 years and then
the crappers started to disappear from the roads. Now, it's more
common to see a cop writing a ticket for a bald tire than for wild
lane changes. Lights and tires will get you stopped here as fast as
speeding and bad tires mean a tow job. Now we have "emissions testing"
in Colorado, at least along the Front Range - I'll take the saftey
inspection any day since it's sooo much cheaper to get thru. Of
course, in the bad old days they did two things that I did like. They
tested the headlight ouput and alignment and we had to pull at least 2
brake drums to physically inspect the brakes (that will tell you how
long ago that was).

--
Will Honea