CORNING — Officers with the Corning Police Department were led on a lengthy chase Saturday night before arresting the suspect, who was reportedly barking and bit a police dog.
Jorge Bucioperez, 39, of Corning was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, evading officers and possession of methamphetamine found in his vehicle.
Corning, where I got a fix-it-ticket in about '72 for headlight out of alignment. Asked the CHP what the standard was and he couldn't tell me, nor could the "official" Lamp Adjusting Station I had to pay to sign me off. They just hang the gizmo on your headlight and turn some screws and you're "legal" again. Oh, yeah, the reason he wrote my up was that he could "see" that the light was crooked since the chrome trim around it was dinged.
I remember those inspections, IR. They'd set up their orange signs that said 'Vehicle Inspection Ahead' and one of the CHP guys in coveralls would check things out. I was working at a Chevron station back then and they were an official 'Lamp Adjusting Station'. That little suction cup gizmo adjuster made them lots of money signing off fix-it tickets. If I remember right that inspection program only lasted a few years before they went away.
Corning 1990 -- a LawEnforcementOfficial wrote me a 'citation' for 65 in a Nixon-55 zone.
During those days, the federal speed-limit was Nixon-55mph on a flat straight freeway designed for 75-plus. I was honoring the memory of the highway designers by doing 120mph in a convertible.
The LawEnforcementOfficial said he routinely drove 140mph out of boredom.
Do you get the impression the whole thing is a scam?
From the land of the Inbred Redneck; aka Florida West.
ReplyDeleteCorning, where I got a fix-it-ticket in about '72 for headlight out of alignment. Asked the CHP what the standard was and he couldn't tell me, nor could the "official" Lamp Adjusting Station I had to pay to sign me off. They just hang the gizmo on your headlight and turn some screws and you're "legal" again.
DeleteOh, yeah, the reason he wrote my up was that he could "see" that the light was crooked since the chrome trim around it was dinged.
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I remember those inspections, IR. They'd set up their orange signs that said 'Vehicle Inspection Ahead' and one of the CHP guys in coveralls would check things out.
DeleteI was working at a Chevron station back then and they were an official 'Lamp Adjusting Station'. That little suction cup gizmo adjuster made them lots of money signing off fix-it tickets. If I remember right that inspection program only lasted a few years before they went away.
Corning 1990 -- a LawEnforcementOfficial wrote me a 'citation' for 65 in a Nixon-55 zone.
ReplyDeleteDuring those days, the federal speed-limit was Nixon-55mph on a flat straight freeway designed for 75-plus.
I was honoring the memory of the highway designers by doing 120mph in a convertible.
The LawEnforcementOfficial said he routinely drove 140mph out of boredom.
Do you get the impression the whole thing is a scam?
Just like the election in mexafornia is.
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