I agree with your sentiment. In this case, though, sometimes they guys calling the shots might know something others don’t.
Road closures are easily enforceable. Some assign a criminal penalty for driving on closed roads. Others may assess a civil penalty for recovery of expenses for your rescue should you get stuck. Some do both.
The rub is that someone will have to be out there to intercept you. So if you went anyway and arrived safely, you will probably get away with it.
I actually wanted to stand up and give a speech on some things are worth fighting for and are meant to be fought for, blah, blah, blah… but I was just sitting there imagining getting in a shooting and having that guy testifying how I had stood up and ranted about wanting to shoot people… you get the jist… and decided to get my CCW and go home.
I actually thought about you during the Olympics when the P&G commercial came on honoring MOMs and made wish it would be followed by a commercial honoring LEOs & Military…
God Bless You and be safe out there!
Well thank you:D
Their are a lot of us who like to think and do for themselves, but Katrina proved there are a lot of idiots who need RAILROAD SPIKE to the head to get the point a level 5 Hurricane is coming at your bath tub in a lake city and you need to leave.
In Colorado, we make it pretty simple. We close these big ass gates across the road. You can’t really get by them, even in a 4x4. But if you somehow manage to, you’d best get where you’re going, cause if you don’t, you can sit there and wait until conditions improve to be rescued. And if you don’t make it, well, you can’t say you weren’t warned. MOST people take us very seriously in this state when they are told that the road is closed.
BTW, sometimes the road is closed due to massive wrecks or avalanches, so good luck trying to get your awesome 4x4 through THAT.
Those laws are in my county in NY too, and probably yours, you can thank post 9/11 frenzy for them.
Those laws are 40 years old according to one of the articles I read.
The law in my town was passed post 9/11. I was assuming yours might have been too. But considering 40 years ago, I could see how violating our civil rights was in the Gov’s interest then too.
I know better than Joe Citizen. So stay off of the damn road. Simple.
I will say this… Sometimes common sense is just lacking. Better to pigeon hole the general poulation than make it a case by case matter…
Example: I work security for a small private community. We are more hilly, wooded, and removed from the actual town. During our last very minor snow storm, several HUNDRED people abandoned their cars in the middle of the road. Yes folks, the middle of the fucking road. These people should not drive. I encountered several (mostly men) people who got stuck, got pulled out (by me) and PROMPTLY put their damn car in the same damn ditch. This is not fun, smart, safe, or practical.
Some people need to be told “don’t drive when it’s like this.” If you are not one of those people, well… Maybe you should re-think your choice.
If I, for some reason, decided to drive in the conditions the eastern states are dealing with, and I didn’t make it, and I was told that I probably wouldn’t… Well… If I killed/injured an LEO/EMS person because of my stupidity, well…
The truth is, state/government agencies tell us what to do all the time. Go ahead and fight the system, but realize that it’s an uphill battle. Sometimes they DO know better than us.
It is guys like you that make it easy to have disrespect for government and law enforcement.
Yeah, whatever…
Lately there has been a rash of threads that get stupid surrounding the general topic of law enforcement. My patience with them is at an end. Again: M4C is not the place to air grievances with law enforcement or the military.