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    Published February 13, 2007 11:06 PM CST

    A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders.
    Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three video cameras and a radar speed unit outside their home, which is at the bottom of a hill. They have said they did so in hopes of convincing neighbors to slow down to create a safe environment for their son.
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    IMO its not stalking. it was their neighbor hood and i applaud them for doing it.
     
    What a fuckin' punk.

    I would assume that they first called the police to complain about frequent speeders in the neighborhood and those calls were ignored. I would do just as they did. Provide proof that one of their own is a frequent violator of basic traffic law and is a threat to others.
     
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    this is just weird... there has to be more to this story than that. im guessing frequent frivilous complaints to/about said officer before this particular complaint. its very legal to hang camera's from your home. however i think ones that can record sound have to be a certain size so that they are not considered conscealed. not sure about the radar gun...
     
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    The law enforcement culture is quite different in Georgia than it is in Ohio. In Ohio, LEOs follow the traffic laws to the letter, and they expect that of the general population, too. In Georgia, LEOs do as they please and tend to stop motorists at their own discretion.

    That said, I don't see how cameras installed to catch all motorists on a particular street can be labeled stalking a particular individual. Operating motor vehicles on public roads is not a right, but a privilege that comes with strings attached.

    In what Georgia court can I claim I am being stalked by a camera that catches me running a red light?
     
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    JoJaBuckeye;752191; said:
    The law enforcement culture is quite different in Georgia than it is in Ohio. In Ohio, LEOs follow the traffic laws to the letter, and they expect that of the general population, too. In Georgia, LEOs do as they please and tend to stop motorists at their own discretion.
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    Care to generalize some more?
     
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    I agree with what they are doing and would do the same if I had the means to do so. I see no problem with someone trying to make their neighborhood safe for their children, especially by just trying to get people to follow simple traffic laws. I agree that they have probably complained in the past and nothing has been done about it. I find it hard to believe that this would be their first course of action. This is a problem in a lot of neighborhoods in America. People speeding down residential side streets where kids are playing in their yards and riding bikes in the streets. Does anyone else feel that it is a shame that people are feeling the need to go out and buy not only video/radar equipment to help make their neighborhoods safer for their children, but also those neon green plastic signs that are shaped like a child and holding an orange flag saying "slow down children at play" and putting them in their yards out by the road??
     
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    StooGrimson;752254; said:
    Where exactly does this happen in Ohio, b/c it's not in Cincy, Dayton, or Columbus.
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    I grew up in Cambridge. I have never seen a local cop or a state highway patrolman operate at more than 2 or 3 mph over the limit without their bubbles on. And when the mph on the interstates dropped from 70 to 55 way back when, I recall my dad getting a warning from a state trooper. He was stopped for driving 1 mph over the posted limit of 55.

    Down South? Never happen. I get my doors blown off by cops in Atlanta when I'm doing 70 in a 55.
     
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    JoJaBuckeye;752267; said:
    I grew up in Cambridge. I have never seen a local cop or a state highway patrolman operate at more than 2 or 3 mph over the limit without their bubbles on. And when the mph on the interstates dropped from 70 to 55 way back when, I recall my dad getting a warning from a state trooper. He was stopped for driving 1 mph over the posted limit of 55.

    Down South? Never happen. I get my doors blown off by cops in Atlanta when I'm doing 70 in a 55.
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    You must not have been up in Ohio for a long time.

    It's pretty routine, in fact, for a State or a County mountie to fly past me doing at least 75 and I'm doing about 70.....

    And the most boring stretch of road on the planet is south of Atlanta on I-75.
     
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    Big Papa;752251; said:
    I agree with what they are doing and would do the same if I had the means to do so. I see no problem with someone trying to make their neighborhood safe for their children, especially by just trying to get people to follow simple traffic laws. I agree that they have probably complained in the past and nothing has been done about it. I find it hard to believe that this would be their first course of action. This is a problem in a lot of neighborhoods in America. People speeding down residential side streets where kids are playing in their yards and riding bikes in the streets. Does anyone else feel that it is a shame that people are feeling the need to go out and buy not only video/radar equipment to help make their neighborhoods safer for their children, but also those neon green plastic signs that are shaped like a child and holding an orange flag saying "slow down children at play" and putting them in their yards out by the road??
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    those signs scare me
     
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    NewYorkBuck;752353; said:
    Dont know much, but the "stalking" charge has less teeth than my newborn niece......
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    depends on the specifics of the case. if we go by the article then you are 100% correct and the charge is literally laughable. but i doubt a member of law enforcement would make the claim without atleast something to back it up. this entire story has an odd smell to it if you ask me...
     
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