How would the police really have known it was a state car? It is not like there is some magical database that can be easily researched by a remote individual by radio that tell you who owns a car. Also the exempt on the license plate isn't always that easy to read. It does have more then a single syllable.

what_now: Murray said he was driving "within the posted 65 mph speed limit when he lost control of (the police car) due to the slippery, icy road conditions,"

SLOW THE fark DOWN IF THE ROAD IS ICY, YOU COCK!!

As one who was not a lt. governor and, therefore, received a ticket, the posted speed limit is not a defense for failure to reduce speed to compensate for adverse road conditions...although it was an isolated patch of gravel rather than ice.

ginandbacon: namatad: ginandbacon: I don't understand how this is a story? The guy hit a patch of black ice. There doesn't seem to be any indication of DUI and no one was hurt. So maybe he was speeding. So what? Can someone spell out to me the giant fuss here?

because of this:
"State police spokesman David Procopio said state police vehicles that crash while driven by agency employees are subject to an intense level of scrutiny at the scene of an accident and later investigation."

why is a politician treated differently?
you are correct otherwise. and the fact that citizens trying to get access to what really happened while the cops are trying to avoid doing that leads suspicion that something was wrong.

why hasnt the lt gov insisted that they pull the data? That's what I do to avoid any chance of making me look bad. want to bet that he was driving too fast for conditions?
so now we have to ask why he wasnt ticked for reckless driving and why isnt he required to pay for the damages?

infact, why isnt the insurance company demading that this evidence be pulled?

But he's not an agency employee? And no one was hurt? I am sooooo not getting this.

Are you really this obtuse?
If any average citizen or employee wrecked a state owned vehicle it would be thoroughly investigated.
Also - most people know better than to drive that fast in icy conditions.
But what the hell, not his car or insurance.

This isn't the first time this happened. Just a few years ago a not so well known congressman from Oregon did the same thing but put a lady in the hospital. They did a pretty good job covering it up but it still made some press.

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I didn't think this tab was going to get any greenlights today, after the shocking news that Michael Moore is still fat.

what_now: Murray said he was driving "within the posted 65 mph speed limit when he lost control of (the police car) due to the slippery, icy road conditions,"

SLOW THE fark DOWN IF THE ROAD IS ICY, YOU COCK!!

I know someone who got a ticket for getting into an accident while driving the posted speed limit in slippery conditions.

I guess some are more equal than others.

He was Driving While Democrat.

This isn't the data you're looking for....

It wasn't his car.

The owners of said car typically go to great lengths to find out how exactly their cars get destroyed.

Except they don't seem to really care this time.

But yes, let's keep asking if anything is really all that fishy here...

Lt Gov drives a Crown Vic?

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One would think that fact alone mighta raised some suspicions from the officers attending the crash cos Crown Vic basically screams "government vehicle". So what's the question here? Did the officers attending the crash really not know who they were dealing with? Are politicians traditionally given lighter scrutiny than other government employees because of their political power? Was that the case here?

Meh, my outrage meter is sorta flat-lining here.

Of course we've already firmly established IOT that MM is still fat and that conspiracy websites are still nutty so folk may as well fight about this for a change. Interested to see that nobody reading this thread, the headline or the linked article could ascertain which political party this particular pol is part of so there that at least.

What the fark is wrong with pulling down that car's computer info??? Would just take a moment to do.

Makes you wonder what the problem is.

Neither did the police thing it was warranted to interview the hooker in the passenger side of the car because surely the Lt Gov was just making sure she got home okay.

I agree. Why check? If he ain't dead it wasn't fast enough. Simple. The rest is numbers.

skinink: Neither did the police thing it was warranted to interview the hooker in the passenger side of the car because surely the Lt Gov was just making sure she got home okay.

I was going to ask if the car ended up in a creek, and if the cops checked it for bodies?

GAT_00: ginandbacon: Such an elevated tone in this thread.

Why should cops be treated with respect when they get full immunity from the very laws they enforce on us?

What cop is getting special treatment here? The only person who is getting special treatment is the (D) Lt. Governor of MA.

It's OK, he's a Democrat.

now if it was a RepubliKKKan then it would be a coverup, a serious problem, and racism.

I don't understand the outrage.

YELLOL: It's OK, he's a Democrat.

now if it was a RepubliKKKan then it would be a coverup, a serious problem, and racism.

I wouldn't understand outrage in that case either.

I was begining to wonder when, and who, would bring shitty partisan crap into the discussion. And here we are.

squidloe: What cop is getting special treatment here? The only person who is getting special treatment is the (D) Lt. Governor of MA.

Good luck on getting a reply to that :)

Where's his birth certificate?

Why won't he release his transcripts?