--- In CoopertownTNtalk@yahoogroups.com, "mayor_danny_crosby" <mayor_danny_crosby> wrote:

Mr. Pugh

Here again you missed my whole point. There has
never been a ticket written in Coopertown to anyone that was on the
exit ramps. Anyone making that statement is simply misrepresenting
the truth. These signs on the exit ramp are in yellow. This is a
suggested speed that can't be enforced. It is a suggested speed
limit. The 35 mph speed limit was placed there for safety.


From The Speedtrap Exchange:

Other's Comments - 8/2007 - A friend of mine got ticketed by the Coopertown police when exiting I-24 at exit 24 for speeding. That's right. Did you know the posted speed limit on the exit ramp is 45 mph? Never mind that you Are slowing down from 70 mph. When you hit that 45 mph sign and the Coopertown police are sitting at the top of the ramp, you had better slam on your brakes (risking getting hit from behind) and be doing 45 by the time you pass that sign.

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The Speedtrap Exchange wrote:

Also, since I live in Texas, in order for me to be able to take the driving school here and send to them, I must also enclose an additional $60 or they won't accept it.

That's one of those added expenses , just like the $10.00 convenience fee for using your credit card to pay your fine, that we can collect because the law says we can. So shut up and pay up!

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I have passed police cruisers sitting on the edge of the interstate (east bound) at the gravel turn around before the McMahon Hollow Rd bridge in their blacked out cars with NO lights on...not even marker lamps....Not only is this entrapment but when a Coopertown Police Officer ends up dead one night because a sleepy semi-truck driver doses off and hits them, maybe Crosby will change his mind.

I'm kinda like coopertown gal, I haven't sped, so I have no tickets. I really don't care if they ticket people going 10 miles an hour over the speed limit, I wish they would catch some on the back roads also and make me feel better about my kid outside

The can't do that while they are out on the interstate. Besides they won't get their quota of two tickets per hour as they will on the interstate. It's all about the money not the safety of your kid.

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Thats why changes need to be made and a Chief put in place who does value doing the right thing vs doing it the political civillian way .
Get involved people and make your voices heard loud and clear on what you want and what is right .
Support your local Law Enforcement Officers , seriously , they are as human as everyone else , they are just caught up being at the bottom of hill as the snowball rolls downhill . Get a Chief who knows how to pick good officers and make the changes needed .

For those asking , I am not an Officer in the Coopertown PD .

I agree Morning coffee. We who have been involved have been forced to wonder if the majority of people care enough about anything significant anymore. We all are busy in our daily lives but some things need attention or the fox starts liking his post at the hen house. Those foxes of the world like the sleepy public.

MorningCoffee, I think we just had a chief who fit that bill. Problem is the mayor has some kind of hangup with police chiefs. Maybe some time in his past a police chief arrested his mother or something along those lines.

My vote goes to you being a deputy in the Maury County Sheriff's Office.

Am I close?

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Actually , I believe it is more of a power thing , Some people in what they feel are power positions only want those beneath them who will do as they want and make the alleged power holder look good and be their puppet .

When they can see the puppet wont be a puppet or bend to their will , they get rid of them and seek another and another and another until they find the right puppet or they are taken out of power .

The people should be making the decisions , the politicians work for the people not the other way around .

Think about this ... The puppet master is sitting back laughing at the audience , he knows he is secure because this is not the first time people have complained nor will it be the last time people will complain , whether it be on web sites , phone , with friends etc , the outcome is always the same , the puppet master stays where he is because no one does anything but complain and do nothing else to get involved and he counts on people to go vote and say well i dont know this person or what they will do but i know this guy and revote him in .. thats the lazy vote he will always win with .

Okye --- No i'm not

BPugh -- you are so very right

Morning Coffee wrote

Think about this ... The puppet master is sitting back laughing at the audience , he knows he is secure because this is not the first time people have complained nor will it be the last time people will complain , whether it be on web sites , phone , with friends etc , the outcome is always the same , the puppet master stays where he is because no one does anything but complain and do nothing else to get involved and he counts on people to go vote and say well i don't know this person or what they will do but i know this guy and revote him in .. thats the lazy vote he will always win with .

Okye --- No i'm not

this was one of Jack Longs great statement's and I guess he is now calling Mayor Crosby the puppet master. It is a shame that Jack is no longer a hand puppet and out of the picture but then again once a puppet always a puppet guess sitting in a room giving testimonty, strings have been replaced and your dancing to his tunes to cover up all your wrong doings[/u]

RCSO ,

If you are referring to me as being Jack Long , I can assure you i am not him nor am i a male . My statement is based on an opinion of how some politicians handle their office .

By your very name here , I am sure you also have seen the same techniques in Law Enforcement administrators . Theres another term for it called '' yes men '' used in many professions , not inclusive to just politicians but to many occupations and corporations and any resembelence of my using the term '' puppet master '' is purely coincidental .