Fed Up!

If our husbands grew up, I think it would get boring.lol On a serious note though it seems sometimes they can go a little to overboard on some things. With a little patience and some time it will pass though. I have been thinking about talking to the city council about this problem. Possibly get them to hire another police officer that can patrol this area more frequently. As it stands right now I believe the whole city of Clarkson has maybe one or two officers total. But speeding is becoming quite a problem here and something really needs to be done.

The street I live on is a narrow two-lane road. There is no reason for people to be speeding at all on it. There is no sidewalks either and a lot of times children are playing out in the street for lack of really a yard to play in. Not only that even with the ones that do have yards, children still go darting out into the road unexpectedly while playing with balls, remote control toys, and all those other things children like to be playing with outside. People who come down this street see the speed limit sign posted several times along with the warnings children at play/watch for animals and pets. The only ones to obey this is the people that live on the same street I do. There have been countless times I have nearly been hit myself while standing on the side of the road, trying to get my mail out of the mailbox, because someone was speeding and not paying attention to what they were doing. Not a very nice wake-up call, nor is it any fun to be crawling out of a muddy ditch. Sorry I'm venting here, but truly I am really fed up with this place. And wish something would be done about this problem, which shouldn't be a problem to begin with. Vehicles are not toys, and should be used with the utmost care, and obey the laws.

I'm thinking that I may have to go to the state police to get something done about this. I have talked to the local police and they practically just shooed me out of the police station. I have also talked to the city council about this problem and have yet to hear of anything being done. I keep hoping that sometime soon this problem will be taken care of, but at this point I can only sit around and wait.

That is horrible that the police department is just letting this happen! I hope that the state police can be of assistance to you. Thank you so much for the best response!

At the rate this has been going on and pretty much since I moved out here six years ago speeding has been a major problem here. I didn't need to be told, since I saw it. Been hoping that something would be done about it before now, because a lot of people have complained about it, but apparently the city officials aren't listening. It really frightens me sometimes, with every screech of tires I hear, so much so that I am afraid to look outside. My husband bought me a new 12 speed bike for my birthday a few years ago, and I have maybe ridden it three times total, cause I just don't like being out on this road with the morons that drive down this street. All I really can do at this point is hope and pray that someone will start listening and do something about this problem before someone does get hurt on this street.

I can only imagine what that was like. I am glad I haven't had to be witness to something like that, and hope I never do. But at the rate speeders are increasing here it feels that it is only a matter of time before something like that does occur.

That is so very true. Sometimes I wonder why they ever bother with the written test or the actual driving part of the test, if they are just gonna hand out licenses to anyone and everyone. It goes the same with placing speed limit signs, why bother when most don't follow them anyways. Let alone the police really do anything about it. Especially the ones out here. They would rather harass someone who was obeying the law, than actually pull someone over who was breaking the law. Now granted their were a few police officers on board that tried to make a difference, but for some reason they either quit or were fired. I know of one instance where a police officer was fired because supposedly the speeding motorist that was pulled over was being harassed by this cop. The motorist was friends with the sheriff however and fired this cop without asking his side of the story, nor looking at any of the video footage from the police cruiser. Something smells of corruption to me, but unless people with some sort of morale to them starts getting into these places of power, I see the same trend gonna happen over and over again.