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Re: Motorcycle Officer Escorting Clinton Motorcade Dies
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2008, 03:12:39 PM »

awe man...  That does suck.  Prayers to his wife and four kids.   :-\
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Re: Motorcycle Officer Escorting Clinton Motorcade Dies
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2008, 03:50:41 PM »

This is not a rare thing... Motorcyle escorts for motorcades and funerals ride ride WAY faster than they should because they CAN!!!! The people in the motorcades do not under stand how fast the moto officers have to ride to get to the next intersection to block it... In funerals the family has to pay for the escort...so much per officer (off duty side job), they don't want more than they have to have... It happened in Temple not long ago..... Moto going REAL fast and one of the cars decided to leave the procession-------T-bone and dead..... Sad but true...
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Re: Motorcycle Officer Escorting Clinton Motorcade Dies
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2008, 08:38:59 AM »

This is not a rare thing... Motorcyle escorts for motorcades and funerals ride ride WAY faster than they should because they CAN!!!! The people in the motorcades do not under stand how fast the moto officers have to ride to get to the next intersection to block it... In funerals the family has to pay for the escort...so much per officer (off duty side job), they don't want more than they have to have... It happened in Temple not long ago..... Moto going REAL fast and one of the cars decided to leave the procession-------T-bone and dead..... Sad but true...

Yes, it does seem like this has happened a lot lately. Those guys do fly, that is one thing you have to pay attention to on PGR rides, if you are on the inside line. You will be putting along, thinking about the day, and all of a sudden, a bike will come flying by you on the left....  :o


One thing for Billary, she had the decency to cut her speech short, and mention his passing.  :-\
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