Archive for the ‘Law Enforcement’ Category
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Leaving stuff inside your car (even when it's locked) is an invitation to have it stolen. You've heard this before and it's still true, as recent experience in Salt Lake City shows. Car prowls are on the rise.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
It's depressing enough that anyone would think of stealing money from ladies in their 90s, but it's extra sad to hear that it's a younger woman doing it through force and intimidation.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
GM's OnStar system has sent emergency service personnel to the precise location of over 100,000 crashes in the last 12 years, often when the vehicle's occupants were unable to call themselves or to places where there was no cell service. For the serious safety seeker, OnStar remains the creme de ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
A scary experience for a woman who thought she knew how to protect herself at all times.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
When it comes to the big traffic tickets -- reckless driving, DUI, seatbelt violations, failure to yield and speeding -- men are much worse than women. On top of that, women are more likely to be found innocent of blame in a crash.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Safety experts everywhere will tell you that what this Australian woman did was wrong, wrong, wrong and they'd be right, right, right, but it's still a "bonzer" story.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
More proof that there's more to vehicle safety than a flotilla of airbags and a five-star crash rating.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
It's almost certainly not true that you have to pay more to extend your new car warranty even if someone calls you on the phone to tell you different. But that doesn't stop different firms from trying to get money from you, or thousands of people from falling for it.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A Florida law requiring vision tests of people over 80 has reduced the highway fatality rate for that age group, but no one seems to understand why or if it will work in other jurisdictions.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
The whacko auto writer from TV's Top Gear and the Times of London is back with yet another completely ridiculous idea that's redeemed by being funny.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
The rapist reached out from underneath the car to grab the women, pulled her to the ground and raped her -- in a large, well-used parking lot in broad daylight.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
At least in part, a man's time spent playing Grand Theft Auto is held to be responsible for him attacking women on the street. The drugs may also have had something to do with it, but authorities in the UK believe the game was key.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Partly because it's the right thing to do and partly because it's a good way of increasing revenues for the local coffers, police forces across America are taking a harder line with first-time speeders and the like, with penalties (try $1,000 plus jail time) that can really hurt. And apparently ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This is one of those stories that should remind us that you're often in greater danger when you're with your family and friends than you are when you're with strangers.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Two years after killing a prince and princess of the royal family of Tonga in a car crash, a 20-year-old woman from Redwood, California, will serve two years in jail.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Only two things will bring about significant decreases in highway fatalities -- cars that don't run unless the seatbelts are engaged, and cars that talk to each other. Naturally, there's no one giving any serious thought to the easiest, cheapest and fastest answer (seatbelts), but lots of people are ready ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw: GM and its OnStar safety and security network recently debuted a service in that allows the police to slow down a stolen car so they can recover it and capture the people who took it.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Notwithstanding Kathy Bates' famous use of a car to exact a little payback in Fried Green Tomatoes, women looking for some serious revenge generally favor other weapons. This list (with accompanying YouTube highlights) lists some of the more satisfying girls-get-even movies of all time.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
One of them was pregnant, which makes it all a bunch more unpleasant, and there were stomach punches and videotaping and arrests were made. And it was all over a parking space.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Even a jail term for the driver responsible for the deaths of two men wasn't enough for a bunch of their friends, who have now been arrested themselves.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
A long, detailed and depressing overview of how political interference kept the feds from taking action on banning cell phone use in cars, from Mother Jones.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Now this is the kind of thing hockey fans want to see on YouTube. For non-hockey fans, a Zamboni is the garage-sized machine that rolls around the ice between the periods of a hockey game resurfacing the ice. So when the machine at a rink near the Detroit-Windsor border starting ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
There's a mistake in this blog that makes you think the whole story might be a total fabrication, but it still imparts a message that will speak to a lot of women.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Useful advice for parents, particularly with regard to creating a driving contract for your teens to sign.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
It's hard to imagine that anyone with a car and an iPhone couldn't use at least one of these software systems.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Sure the crash had a lot to do with the foggy and wet conditions, but the Michigan teenagers and the baby probably died in the two-car crash because lots of people weren't wearing their seatbelts.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
In pursuit of cars whose "inmates" are involved in "foul play," the field workers of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue And Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia have caused various crashes and much consternation. This is especially interesting when you see their definition of those moral violations.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The favorite transportation of many real world Gossip Girls and their ultra-rich parents may soon depart the streets of Manhattan in an effort to improve the environment with higher-mileage cars.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
While the writer of this piece is not known for his aversion to exaggeration, he is known for making hard points in an extremely entertaining fashion. Here he takes a look at the idea of people switching from cars to motorcycles in an attempt to save money on gas.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In Egypt, 98 percent of foreign female visitors are faced with sexual harassment of some kind, and for Egyptian women it's 83 percent. So the young woman who went to great lengths to get the guy who groped her on the streets of Cairo charged did a remarkable thing, and ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Some things never change, but other things do, which is why the kind of reckless person who doesn't mind putting others at risk is now being caught by ever-evolving technology.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
A truly exhaustive examination of why about 40 million Americans don't wear seatbelts and why they should. It probably won't change many minds, but you can't leave them any chance to say that no one told them.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
The situation with children getting off a school bus is fraught with possibilities for disaster, so GMAC Insurance offers some advice for avoiding them.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
It's never really been smart to brag about how you did something stupid and/or broke the law, but this British guy may have made that extra clear for the YouTube generation.
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
The full affects of reckless driving while under the influence of alcohol were on brutal display in a upstate New York courtroom recently, when a young man faced a family that didn't believe he had any remorse for killing their daughter. They also blamed his parents, who are also facing ...
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