HOw many of you got pulled over by State Troopers on your way from PVille Sat night?

[AkSledHed]

John, when the sign is practically knocked over and those same officers know that and sit near that sign and pull you over for doing 57 in a 45... that doesn't fall into your simple equation. I had a radar detector, but i didn't think i was speeding, so i didn't bother braking... The fact i was driving a Silverado SS and he was a self righteous moron who has probably never taken an ethics course probably played more of a role.

BTW - radar detectors of mostly BS - they don't work 80% of the time, and they encourage dangerous driving.

AND - A good portion of Troopers/APD are good people with good intentions... its the few like APD Officer James Conley (patrols HWY from Highland exit to Thunderbird falls) that create public distrust and encourage this so called B*tching...

Not trying to be a dick Travis but i'm pretty sure that wasn't your first trip up the Parks, that signs been there how long now??? - If you don't believe or trust the radar detectors then why have them? I'm not saying that cops are always right but if your caught speeding how is that their fault?

I just don't get the complaining by people who just flat out get caught speeding then complain they were setup or whatever. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many times i've been passed by guys/girls towing sleds on slick and icy roads and with no regard for others safety. The Parks highway is one of the least maintained roads i've ever driven on and almost always has a nice thin sheet of ice built up on it in the winter, it's amazing more people aren't hurt or killed out there.

 

[EagleRiverDee]

I still don't get how the judge sided against someone on a speeding ticket when the speed limit wasn't properly posted, meaning the sign was knocked over.

My understanding is we're supposed to follow the posted speed limits. If it's not posted, I would think the Judge ought to have tossed that one.

I'm not defending speeding...I think people should follow the posted speed limits. I just think that there ought to be some common sense in ticketing. That's kind of like getting a ticket for crossing the white line when you can't see the lines at all (covered by snow, etc). We're supposed to drive psychic now?

 

[Winter Project]

Not trying to be a dick Travis but i'm pretty sure that wasn't your first trip up the Parks, that signs been there how long now??? - If you don't believe or trust the radar detectors then why have them? I'm not saying that cops are always right but if your caught speeding how is that their fault?

I just don't get the complaining by people who just flat out get caught speeding then complain they were setup or whatever. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many times i've been passed by guys/girls towing sleds on slick and icy roads and with no regard for others safety. The Parks highway is one of the least maintained roads i've ever driven on and almost always has a nice thin sheet of ice built up on it in the winter, it's amazing more people aren't hurt or killed out there.

So even though a sign is mangled and I've driven that stretch of HWY, i should memorize the signs? And for the record, i hadn't driven that stretch of HWY in my life... i had been a passenger, but i was only 21 when i got that ticket(it had been 4 years of lower 48 living since my last pass). I didn't have the slightest clue the speed limit was 45. And ice wasn't a variable in this situation, as it was June when i was ticketed.

I no longer drive with a radar detector, even if i wanted to speed - my toyota barely does the speed limit without a sled in it. I only previously mentioned the radar detector to make the point i knew the cop was there, and didn't think i was doing anything wrong, because the sign wasn't in proper working condition. And that *some* cops are lazy bastards that don't deserve the government paycheck they get. They know right from wrong, just like you and I... and the guy with a meth lab down road, and that ticket he wrote me, knowing that sign was damaged, puts him in the same ethical category as the guy who is paying his bills using chemistry he knows is illegal. Just because someone has a badge doesn't make them intrinsically good, i think that cop in anchorage who raped all those DUI chicks makes this point pretty valid.

Yes, don't speed. Yes, don't put others at risk when driving. Yes, there are some bad cops. Yes, radar detectors are not only a waste of money, but they encourage dangerous driving. Yes, this thread has been beaten like a dead horse. Yes, we should go riding to lost lake when we get more snow.

 

[CATKILLER]

ya and everyone be careful driving south as trooper tom lewis is a pain in the butt when it come to snowmachiners, he loves giving tinted window tickets,big lift tickets and no mud flap tickets, so if hes on shift and you get pulled over by a 09 white state trooper expedation and his name tag says lewis just know your in for a real treat . i took it all to court and got it cleared up but hes just a real a$$

 

[IbBroken]

All I wont to know is are the cops checking the tags on the sleds when you get pulled over? I would think this would be a good time to try and find a stolen sled or two or are they just wanting your money. I mean thats probly the only real time they spend with sleds.

 

[CATillak]

Some of you people need to go riding

 

[HYFLYR]

some of you people need to go riding

word!

 

[Dash]

I was checked by a trooper 2x while I was towing sleds..... Once close to Glennallen, once on Parks... they checked the trailer tags and drivers license and insurance but on both occasions they did not ask to see sleds tags or VIN #.....

Yeah, I would love to go riding but I have no means to get me and the sled to the goods....

 

[icr]

Make sure you carry the registration for your trailer too, just having current registration is not enough. I think that was an $85 ticket.

 

[TalkAK]

A lot of good points here and some not so much. Please slow down.... it came real close to home on Saturday morning. The truck and open deck trailer that almost took my wife out near Goose Creek has not heard the message. Getting ahead of two other trucks with trailers at the cost of a life does not add up. Please....

 

[(907)733]

Kinda ridiculous when u dont have to start worrying about getting pulled over until you're 55 miles from Anc.
and what a job those truck troopers w/ new long track 800's have: show up in wasilla, go to meeting, drive to p-ville, harass some folks trying to hv fun, drive back. Earned their $180 for the day?

 

[ak49er]

180.00 a day ain't enough to have to deal with the possibility of gettin shot at by some "end of the roader", or having to scrape up the remains of some unfortunate soul who is spread out on the highway, as their grieving family/friends look on.

Double it, for a start.


But I will say that Houston,AK is a true "Hazard County", complete with highway mounted speed trap and a "Boss Hog" wanna' be "Mayor" Purcell. Proceed with caution through that little hamlet.

 

[akmc800]

And exactly how would they go about finding a stolen sled. If anyone has a good answer then the AST has a job for you!!

I found my own stolen sled two months later and caught him trying to sell it back to me. He got community service and probation and nothing on his record.

 

[(907)733]

coppers

Alaska State Troopers are one of the most decent and professional law enforcement companies in the US. A few troopers are actually very respectable.
Though ast suffers the same problem as all other police forces: The type of person that wants to be police (mostly) are lazy, job consists of driving around, essentially a cabbie on a power trip. Most police manipulate the law as they see fit.. That Is The Truth. The country troopers up the parks spend more time sitting on thr couches at home (on duty) than patrolling.
As for the job being worth $360 a day! Ak49er- you must not Work for a living!
Houston having city police! What a joke!! I know the "council" involved in setting that force up; the only reason they did it was for state and federal grants they'd be eligible for.
With all the "valley trash" to clean up might as well put city police in talkeetna, trappercrk, biglake, knik, meadowlakes, girdwood, tok, glennalln, etc.!(drippinwsarcasm)

 

[(907)733]

ak49er

Probably not in the pansy riding you do,
but serious mt riding is way more dangerous than being police

 

[LiveAlaska]

..........But I will say that Houston,AK is a true "Hazard County", complete with highway mounted speed trap and a "Boss Hog" wanna' be "Mayor" Purcell. Proceed with caution through that little hamlet.

Looks like said Mayor has got his Tit in a ringer

 

[ak49er]

probably not in the pansy riding you do,
but serious mt riding is way more dangerous than being police

WTH?

Did I personally attack you or anything you said in my post? My response was a general observation, not an attack against anything you posted.

I see you have been on this forum for about, maybe eight (8) days now. You might concentrate on making friends here, where you're new, instead of posting drivel like the above, that no one wants hear. Negativity is generally not met well here. This place is alot more civilized than many forums out there.

Most everyone gets along here, aside from maybe just one other poster (Teh Hitman) who has posted himself right off here. Consider that, is that the company you want to keep? Do you want to be seen as peers with him? A few more posts like that and you could possibly find yourself with nothing to do but, "bang PP" with Teh Hitman, 15.5 miles in the Back Country.

Check ball.

 

[tc_villain]

Houston mayor accused of impersonating police in borrowed vehicle

I'm sure that many of you have seen this, but those that haven't should.

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11949069

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i6tR5q7qIQ&feature=channel

I cant believe that he would be allowed to get away with actions like this. When you go and do things like this it really speaks to what kind of government you are running and shakes the confidence of the average citizen. Now it really seems like the complaints Ive heard here and elsewhere are legitimate.

 

[ak49er]

Purcell has a long list of infractions, in alot of villages he has passed through in the last few years. His last Houston Police Chief wrote a scathing expsoe' (four pages, can be found on ADN.com)on his actions since becoming Mayor of Houston.

These include falsifying documents to allow him and his wife to take a Federal Law Enforcement only program, that would have given him AND her the right to possibly carry a firearm onto a domestic passenger aircraft. This class had only a few seats, and he and his wife got a seat that the other deputy should have had.
He and his wife just enjoyed a nice cross country trip in a new Ambulance they picked up for the city form the lower 48, courtesy of Houston, AK.

He also had a nasty habit of pulling people over in his silver Mercedes ML230 with a blue light and writing tickets under a very vague law that gives him SOME law enforcement rights as mayor, while wearing a badge, just like "Boss Hog."

He also was forcefully removed from the Palmer Trooper Headquarters after showing up in full "Police" uniform with gun and night stick, the troopers were not very impressed with that.

And most recently ordering the culling of impounded dogs, via Smith & Wesson.

Look him up on the internet, there are a few sites that expose him and his long and shady career here in Alaska. His infractions follow him form village to village to "city."

There is currently a movement to have him removed. Looks like they got more ammo now. Wonder who leaked the dash cam vid?

Alaska politics: might not be very effective, but damn funny to watch!