I don't think it's as easy to really be fair about the amount of tint that is legal. I think at night it is more difficult than during the day. Obviously the cost to equip each officer with the light standard device would be prohibitive too.
Were I in your legislature I would have included the test in the regular inspection. If you want to make money doing the regular inspection, you must invest in the new device. Then, everyone is doing the same thing. I also believe that this subject didn't come up in the legislature because they were bored and looking for something to make a new law about. No doubt the LE lobby made it a priority for thier efforts. Why? Probably because it was getting out of hand. Without being too much of a bleeding heart, I can't imagine stopping some of the jerks I see on our roadways in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, with back up even only 5 minutes away. That takes guts. Give them every chance to go home to their families after each shift. How often do you get regular inspections? In Washington state we only have emissions inspections on a regular basis, and then only in some counties. A full inspection is only done in certain instances, and that by the State Patrol only. Is your regular inspection done by any business who gets a license to? Ken In a message dated 7/7/2005 10:13:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: John Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Re: Who's bright idea was this... To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fighting crime?, like folks driving too aggresively and cutting off people > and speeding through school zones endangering kids, and other CRIME? Put > yourself in their shoes and make a traffic stop on some jackass driving like an idiot > with 4 or 5 others idiots in the car who just about ran over YOUR mother. > Then walk up next to that car without being able to see in and see the dangers Well said. I wish cops would go after the type of people you described more than just speeders. I also agree that it is reasonable to have a tint limit... > inside. Some type of reasonable compromise should be reachable. A limit on the > amount of tint is reasonable. Yes. But it should not be so poorly implemented. It is pretty easy to tell if tint is illegally dark... ticket and move on. Yearly certification is not IMO the way it should be done and what I was griping about. John
