To all who emailed their remarks to my letter. My letter was titled: "Reader Disputes Chief's Statements," The main point was the chief's stupid comments about short-order cooks, not about drunk driving. I'm not promoting D.U.I.'s!! Leaving the bar with a beer in you is not drunk nor illegal!! Not one time did I approve of drunk drivers, you all have missed the point of my letter.. All the response has been about the last paragraph, IT WAS MY EXAMPLE OF THE "SHORTAGE." Some of you failed 'Reading Comprehension' in school. You only remembered the last thing you read about and then took aim at me!! When you see a car leave a bar call the police you "Good Samaritans." Why don't you people quit your jobs and help the police by joining the force, since you wanna help so much. Or we can have Peachtree City Vigilante tryouts. I was told to "shut up or move away," maybe I will move to Riverdale. At least the police there are paid good enough and it shows, you can see the good job they do on preventing crime.. And enough with bashing the mayor, he walks into a disaster just like Bush and people want to jump on him for everything. I voted for Logsdon and Bush and they are both doing better jobs than any of you whiners could do. REMEMBER THESE FOUR SIMPLE WORDS: "VOTE OR SHUT UP!"
BRYAN VELLEGAS

P.S. HATERS, KEEP THE HATE MAIL COMING, I WARNED YOU!!!
SHALAYGAS@YAHOO.COM

OK Mike, cool it. I ain't no cop, but I know that sometimes, and I mean sometimes, I have to go around to my employee's to talk to them while they are working. If they are in a cop car, then I have to meet them in my cop car. So, some cop cars are supervisors doing their jobs. The ones outside Duncan Donuts are there, hopefully on their approved lunch break.
So cool it.
However, dissing G.E.D's is stupid and insensitive. :angry: Let us consider. I have three children all of adult age. They all entered the Fayette County School System in the 80's. I have never been to a Fayette County Graduation for any of them. The oldest dropped out to have a grandson that now ranks in the top 10 of his class in the Fayette County School. She is recognized as a top sales person at a major Atlanta news / media giant. She graduated Clayton State, cum laud, with honors. My son also a G.E.D. holder, is now owns his own artistic business with locations in Arizona, Texas, Minnesota, and Colorado as well as a web store. My youngest daughter, graduated cum laud, with two paralegal degrees, currently maintains an "A" average at Mercer University Law School. Any one that wants to diss on a G.E.D. can go consummate their own existence. G.E.D. is not, in my book, a measure of failure on the part of the individual. Heck, Truitt Cathy, the owner of Chick-Fil-A as you all know, does not even have a G.E.D. yet I would rather have him as police chief than Chief Murry.

I have been employed at one time as one of those little people, the behind the scene people, the out of the way, supporting from underneath people. The people that when they don't show up for work, all anarchy breaks out. If the clerks at Wal-Mart stop scanning, if the convenience store clerks stop charging, if the waitresses stop serving, if the buss boys stop bussing, if the city building inspectors stop inspecting, if the city cops stop enforcing, if the garbage truck driver stops driving, if the carpenter stops building, then what? We can import labor that will do the jobs that American's do want. You really want a no English-speaking cop? Builder? Waitress? The immigrant, the native, that cannot afford to live near or in Peachtree City, can not afford dependable transportation. It is a never-ending cycle of no life. We expect better labor, but we won't pay for better labor. We want labor to be there when we need them, but they can not live near-by. Not even close enough to bicycle to work. Some now argue that those in the underclass deserve their position. Deserve? Then, if the other candidate had your job, you deserve not to work there? If you are at the top of your profession, and the industry moves out of the country, then you deserve to be at the bottom of a new profession? This is stupid beyond belief. If someone wants the less stressful job of picking up garbage, then he deserves wages below a decent living? If someone likes to build homes, but does not want to be the contractor, then he does not deserve a decent return on his skills? If I take my college education out of the home construction industry and applied it to say, forklift driving, then do you deserve to have a G.E.D. built house? Problem with cop performance is cop wages. Pay college education, paralegal wages, then you will have paralegal / college level performance. A famous Atlantan, Asa Candler, founder of Coke Cola as many of you know, took his new company to the top of the soft drink industry by paying top wages. His employee retention was near 99%. Why? because once hired, you worked your butt off to keep the wage. Employers, you get what you pay for. Citizens, you get what you pay for. Patrons and customers, you get what you pay for. Nothing in this life is free. I don't give you my best service just because I like you. Pay me minimum wage, get minimum performance. Are you getting the picture?

As far as cops pulling over anyone that might, may, could, possibly, be drunk, I say please, thank you, go for it. Remember folk, driving is not a right, it is a privilege. You have no right to drive drunk on my road. You have no right to endanger my property in my car, or my grandson. Any one drunk on the road should be considered as dangerous as a drug crazed lunatic with a gun standing in the middle of a school playground at recess. Anyone drunk on the road should be taken out in the middle of that road and beaten with a stupid stick until he passes out. And, hey, I have been there, and I should have been caught, too.

Keep Clear
Spartan Caver
I knew we were in trouble the day we elected a failed business man over someone with some previous, if limited, White House experence.

Yes the cops do stake out bars here, and if you aren't doing anything wrong....you shouldn't be afraid. I never start drinking until I get home.....I don't need to tangle with these guys....you shouldn't tangle with them either...that's part of the reason Martini's went out of buisness...too risky for people to be seen there.
I wish they patrolled the neighborhoods, and kept us safe from the worthless brat kids that no one wants here,......... but they choose to target the bars instead......if you are a homeowner they don't care....accept it or move....

Everyone knows that you choose to drink here at your own risk....except for y-smokey-dive- trash-bar......for some reason they leave that place and our worthless mayor, and city-drunk(oooopppss, I mean manager) alone......god only knows why.

If you are proud of what you do, then you shouldn't care about what anyone says about it......if you aren't proud............do something about it. No one can change your life, except you!!!

I love it when PTC cops sit at the bars and wait on "prey". I wish there were five or six not just four. If you have not been drinking in excess then you have nothing to worry about.

I appreciate PTC lying in wait at the bars. My family drives on the streets of PTC and I feel safer knowing PTC police are targeting the bars around here.

Keep it up PTC!