In honor of the Blitzmarathon tomorrow...

Rheinland-Pfalz, the German state where I live, is conducting a Blitzmarathon tomorrow. No, it's not a lightning race; it's a speed camera day where police plan to set up almost 300 cameras. It's intended to reduce speeding and increase awareness (as well as increase the coffers of the state, I'm sure!).

In honor of the marathon, I am posting this photo of a sticker I saw on a car.

The left side states "Polizeikontrollen" and the right side has a picture of a traffic camera.

Stop in the name of...oh, wait, that's not safe

Ah, Detroit. My friend's friend P was stopped at a light late one night in an "interesting" neighborhood when a police cruiser pulled him over. What was his transgression?

Apparently P created suspicion because he was actually stopped at the light. The police officer thought he was either drunk, or, upon examining P, dumb, for stopping at the light. Apparently in that particular neighborhood it's not especially safe to stop at the light, or at least that's what P was told.* The officer let him go on his merry way after that.

* For the record, I'm not suggesting blowing through stoplights in Detroit, or anywhere, for that matter.