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Old 02-10-2008, 11:54 AM   #4
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"....hopefully will be defeated based on its numerous flaws, the chief one being that it is unenforceable. Proponents claim that marine patrol could use radar guns to accurately track boat speeds. Last summer, Salmon Press actually went out on the water to test this theory, with the help of the Gilford Police Department, and found that the radar guns almost always inaccurately clocked the test boat's speed,..."

So it seems the Meredith News thinks the data collected by the MP in the speed zones last summer are invalid.

Just pointing out one of those "you can't have it both ways" things.

The other one I like is that "the speed study shows nobody is speeding". Contrasted with "enforcement will be impossible, cost a fortune, ruin the economy.
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