Are you unwittingly helping thieves at the airport? Some people are, according to the Flying with Fish blog. Steven Frischling, author of the blog, travels frequently and writes about how to deal with security issues. In the blog post linked above, he points out how professional airport thieves stake out the baggage carousels at major holiday airports (e.g.,...

Sometimes I wonder why our law enforcement folks are so incredibly stupid. They don’t seem to realize that they’re actually supposed to uphold the laws, not circumvent them for their own needs. We saw it recently on video in South Florida when some cops concocted a lie to explain why a deputy ran into the back of a woman’s car. The problem...

It seems that local police are training Bright House employees to look for “suspicious” activity and report it to the police, according to this article in the Orlando Sentinel. On the surface, it sounds good. Criminals will now run and hide every time they see a Bright House van enter a neighborhood. We have a new kind of superhero who fights...

Jul 17, 2009

I had to visit Clermont today. That’s something I’ve never said before, because most people never “have” to go to Clermont. It’s not on the way to anywhere else, really. There are normally only two reasons to visit this patch of suburban sprawl. 1: You are training for or participating in a bicycle or triathlon event. 2: You want...

The holiday weekend is over, the crackdown is complete, and the statistics are coming out for review. Here’s what we’ve learned from news reports at the Orlando Sentinel and Florida Today: Statewide, Florida Highway Patrol issued 4,548 speeding citations, 1,928 safety belt-related offenses, and 98 DUIs arrests. In the Central Florida area, FHP...