The Strange Case of The Disappearing Stop Sign
My six, three year old, and I wish to know what happened to the stop sign on 28th Ave. between 17th and 18th St. Rds–in Greeley, a stop sign in which law enforcement set a trap for us in late 2009? At the time, it cost our family of six $205.
Now…I stop where the stop sign use to be, wandering if some car will run into the back of mine? My kids do not know why local authority seems so very wishy-washy. I see dollar signs and a greedy city, when I check my vehicle’s mirrors, the bushes, and look for the pole where the stop sign use to stand. Instead of trapping decent citizens with a decoy stop sign, this educated man wonders if law enforcement should better spend their time monitoring the city’s investments so fireworks don’t cost taxpayers $100,000?
I do not know what to tell my young kids. I always considered law enforcement to be a great example of ethical actions, consistent laws, and a guardian of public safety. Through their actions, Greeley Police are asking me to second guess the importance of a stop sign in such a thoroughfare–to begin with. Furthermore, Local Police are leading me to wonder how many people have been treated like a sucker over this traveling stop sign, as I have? In fact, I had a member of the Tribune Staff use me as an example to poke fun at people in Greeley who do not think they need to completely stop at stop signs. I do not know how to justify being asked to not stop at the site I paid $205 for not stopping completely at (at the end of last year). To add to this entire ordeal, Greeley Politics has found a way to give me the finger in not only fleecing my pocketbook, but removing the very symbol I blew 45 minutes in court trying to argue was hidden in a grove of foliage and trees. The trees and foliage must have completely eaten the stop sign. It’s the only explanation I have to this wishy-washy example of public authority.
I can only hope the foliage and trees on that curve will be stopped up for awhile, no one will be hassled in front of their children over a fleeting symbol, and those previously fined can better picture what it is like to be in Greeley’s Ticket Twilight Zone.
Douglas Seaman
Greeley
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After looking at the photo of where this stop sign was placed, it does seem to be where normal stop signs are not . In all the streets in Greeley stop signs are off the sidewalk ten to fifteen feet from the intersection. This stop sign is placed off the sidewalk around the corner, and it is from the photo somewhat blocked from all the folage.
Jason Cassons
Greeley
More to this story than you are telling. Did you get a copy of the officer’s ticket? On the back side of his copy, they usually write where they were and how they were able to see if you stopped or not. However, how long have you lived in this area? Probably long enough to know there is a stop sign there? Nope, I think you’re just ticked off because you got caught this time and you didn’t like paying the fine. You should be setting an example to the children you had in your car at the time and been obeying all the laws. Just count this ticket as the payment for all those other violations you didn’t get a ticket for. Just because you received a ticket doesn’t mean the officers of the department are bad people. What a sore loser you are.
Sorry, man. That sign has been there forever and it is at an intersection. Look a little harder next time. Helps to know where you’re going, too.
To Greg27 …I’ve probably lived in this area longer than you; therefore I understand how much of a clique the town is. No. What I got ticked off at is that the sign was removed, because authority agreed with a large number of Greeley Citizens who thought the stop sign was out of place in a main thoroughfare. This is beyond what you think and our telling in your judging letter. How is it you can call me a loser for protesting government. Do you believe in the U.S. Constitution? You must not. Setting an example for my children involves character. You are passing judgment on me based on a verifiable and logical argument. You must not be able to enter into a logical argument; because you re-vert to name calling, attacking a person’s character–you more than likely do not know, and do not understand that the police officer was back behind the sign where he had a 60% better view–because the bushes and tree were in front of it. The sign is no longer at the location. LOL
NotMYName,
You support my argument by saying the stop sign was there forever. If it was, why was it taken down? You are posting a rhetorical argument.
Greg27,
Since this fine, my wife was fined $102 for a bad bulb in a tail light. How do you argue that she was breaking the law, when she wasn’t even made aware the tail light was going bad? This use to be a warning, Do to the city budget crunch, she now (unknowingly) broke the law because some ordinace was changed to help fill a law enforcement boot. What a great example they are setting to children. This is based on logic, not personal attacks. Can you even see if your own tailight works when you step on the break; especially in broad daylight? Oh I forgot you are omnipotent.
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Greg27,
Since this fine, my wife was fined $102 for a bad bulb in a tail light. How do you argue that she was breaking the law, when she wasn’t even made aware the tail light was going bad? This use to be a warning.
Do to the city budget crunch, she now (unknowingly) broke the law because some ordinace/law was changed to help fill a law enforcement boot. What a great example decoy stop signs and bad bulbs set to children. This is based on logic, not personal attacks. You insinuate that I constantly run stop signs, and that all of them are in plain sight. Both are dangerous and defaming propositions you insinuate in my character.
Can you even see if your own tailight works when you step on the break; especially in broad daylight? Oh I forgot you think yourself omniscient.