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Comments about "Students haunted by bike tickets"
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18 Comments on this article:
Yet another story about Stanford police threatening to ruin the careers and lives of Stanford students with unnecessary arrests.
This is a recurring pattern with the Stanford police. Current students and alumni alike should vow to withhold donations to the University until they clean up this persistent problem. We cannot be donating money to a university whose police force abuses its own students.
An arrest warrant? How difficult is it to track down the criminal student?
So you'd rather have the Stanford police ignore crimes committed by Stanford students? How would that "clean up this problem"?
Besides, the Stanford police officers are really Santa Clara County Sheriff reserve officers. Stanford pays their salaries, but it has limited influence over their activities.
Cry me a river. Sounds like you had a little run in with the police yourself. Students are no different than everyone else. Some commit crimes, some get citations, and some fly by without any problems. That cite, whether it was correct or not was what's called a "correctable citation." All the student had to do was bring it to the attention of a Deputy and it would've been corrected and a warrant would never have been issued.
Now for Ms. Murphy, she's doing her own due diligence and everything should work itself out in due time. Not because she sat on her butt and didn't do anything, but rather because she already brought the issue to the attention of the issuing agency(SUDPS) and the Traffic Court.
Stop whinning and take some responsibiliy.
I agree with the previous posting. Stop whining!!
You are here to get an education and learn how to be (or perhaps become) an adult. When you get a ticket, for ANYTHING, take care of it!! Don't expect your mommy, daddy, grandparents, or the city, county, or state to send you ANOTHER reminder about it. It's called courtesy because it is just that, but not required! You're supposed to be the grown up now, so act like one. Handle your business, otherwise it will come back to handle you!
Having been at Stanford for a while, from my experience I would believe that the police officers are the real criminals and not the students.
As for the mean posters above, I hope that you'll go through these same experiences with the Stanford police and will demonstrate how you take it like adults when they rape you in the butt. Unless you are perfect and never speed, never run stop signs and never park your bike/car in a middle of an alleyway.
The "crime" that I was ticketed for from the glorious Stanford police was "wearing headphones while bicycling" from two police officer staking out a corner (if you can image) to write such infractions, costing me $124.50! The Stanford Police Department forgets that their duty is to serve the community, not to pimp the students for de facto bribes.
Grow up, Andy. It's against the law to bike while wearing headphones in both ears. You broke the law. You pay the fine. Don't blame the police for enforcing the law.
I dont like the Stanford police but Stanford bikers are completely out of control. They routinely run stop signs and pull out into the middle of the road not even worrying about motorists. Your bike is smaller than my car - obey the rules of the road or pay the price. nerds.
That students think they should be allowed to break public safety and order laws (especially those concerning bikes) and that instead of the police enforcing the laws, everyone else should just deal with the student's decision to obey or not obey based on their own convenience.
I'm actually surprised a biker hasn't yet been killed by a car obeying the law because the biker decided to come up with his own interpretation. Although that wouldn't stop this either, there'd just be more complaining that the big bad cars aren't skilled enough to avoid ad-hoc biking tactics.
For all of you cry babies that got cited on your bike...bike laws are enforced because 1)It's the law 2)Pedestrians complain 3)Someone is eventually going to get seriously hurt or die.
Many years ago, there was a Bike vs Bike accident in which one of the bicyclists died. The chances of that occurring are few and far between, but it is very possible.
For every bicyclist that whines about receiving a ticket, there are many others that are glad that bike laws are being enforced. Go ahead and whine and cry. One can never please everyone.
So, Andy, you didn't mention it, but I am sure that the cops who pulled you over were probably also wearing headphones.
It's just that they're the MAN and your the student, and the $124.50 will be a good reminder for that: be the MAN, or be screwed by the MAN...
I never cease to be amazed how much being at Stanford has screwed with my entire value system. I want to care about other people, I want to trust other people (like law enforcement, or university administration, or the guy I work for), but here they make sure to teach me every day the hard way why that's not such a good thing to do. My Stanford education sure taught me how the real world works!
Be thankful Stanford isn't Washington, DC.
This there would be a federal offense: it would haunt her each and every time, she applied for jobs espeically in California!
I am totally sick of the Stanford bicyclists. Generally stupid students with a sense of entitlement who think that both the roads and the pedestrian sidewalks were constructed so that they (the stupid bicyclists) can play games.
Andy, I am proud that the Stanford Police issued you a ticket. In fact, what I am outraged about is that the Stanford Police doesn't issue more and more expensive tickets to morons like you.
This article was written to inform the public and the Stanford community. To all the people who commented on this article: Please keep your offensive comments for yourself. Today, more than ever before, our society needs to learn from failures and mistakes. Remember folks: Every time you point one finger at somebody, there are three fingers pointed at you ...Thank you!
This has nothing to do with TOLERANCE. It's a question of obeying the law, something that apparently is too much to ask for some (many) stupid students bicyclists.
Honestly, I wish the County court would just have a bicyclist who gets a ticket just spend 1 shift in the Emergency Department instead of requiring them to pay a fine. It's really sobering to see the horrific injuries that bicycle accidents can cause. The fact the Police Department is actually trying to stop people from biking dangerously demonstrates a public health initiative more than anything else.
quit complaining about bikers not obeying rules unless you respect bikers' spaces. that means not walking in the bike lane to class, staying away from the roundabouts, staying on the sidewalk near the quad, not running bikers off the road when you drive, not walking in groups five people across so that there is no safe way to get by, not having conversations in the middle of the bike path, etc. pedestrians are just as restricted as bikes!