OT - Respect for the law

you know? said:

I've been informed with great confidence a number of times that speed cameras are causing decent
law-abiding folks to become antagonistic towards the police, and that this is a new phenomenon.

Quoted message said:

Leaving aside the inevitable question of why any law-abiding motorist would have any problem with
the police, I saw reproduced in the Dreary Torygraph this weekend an advert for a product which
"will spot a policeman at half a mile even if he is disguised as a respectable man." The Dunhill's
Bobby Finders were advertised in 1904, resulting from Alfred Dunhill's being collared the year
before in a notorious speed trap.

Quoted message said:

So perhaps the heady days of speeding with impunity were merely a brief interlude between the
growth in the numbers speeding beyond the ability of the police to cope, and the arrival of a
means of addressing the shortfall.

Remember that the AA was founded in 1905 as a body to help motorists avoid speed traps. To avoid
prosecution for obstruction, the patrolmen would salute all vehicles bearing an AA badge, *unless*
there was a speed trap in the vicinity.

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