Link to new blog

Here is a link to my new blog about Alachua:

http://boycottalachuafl.blogspot.com/ 

Well, it has been a while, hasn't it? I am about to turn soixante-neuf (the only sexual position that can also be a birthday). And I got a ticket for allegedly running a red light in the small city of Alachua, FL 32615. This is a city of perhaps just over 10,000 population, which has THREE UNMARKED POLICE CRUISERS PLUS A MOTORCYCLE UNIT or two! These are used only for traffic enforcement. I have spent hundreds of dollars per month in this city for nearly nine years, and that is OVER! I am announcing a boycott of all merchants in the City of Alachua, Florida. The light was clearly yellow when I entered the intersection, and I see nothing in the law which states that you cannot enter an intersection on the yellow. I have been told by a couple of retired cops that when your front bumper is in the intersection before the light turns red, you have control over the intersection, and that seems to be supported by the laws I have read today, and I downloaded the full traffic law section for the state. I have also spoken with a local contractor/developer who claims to be a friend of the cop who gave me the ticket, and who says that cop interceded on his behalf with another cop who had stopped this contractor, and got the cop to give only a warning instead of a ticket. That shows that this guy is not impartially giving out tickets. I will be starting another blog specifically about this, and would like people to click through their favorite search engine to get to that site in order to raise the visibility of that site. Alachua is a city which hosts tourist events in order to draw people to the city, so that it can make money on traffic tickets. In fact, it is as bad as Waldo or Lawtey, except that, because they do not ticket for one or two mph over the speed limit, they avoid having to put signs at the edge of town that the speed limit will be strictly enforced. Please join with me, if you live locally, in boycotting the merchants of this town, and go somewhere else for July 4th fireworks and/or the Little League World Series.