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Subject: Blue Lights Author: Patrick [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:37:50 12/11/02 Wed Does any one besides me have a view about each state running different color lights? i.e. New York using red only for police, with volunteer fire/EMS running blue. Most countries around the world use blue, as most states do. Should we have a national standard? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Should we have a national standard? Sure. But let me get my Federal Signal stock first. (NT) (Soon-To-Be) Rich 13:12:03 12/11/02 Wed Blue Lights -- Patrick, 14:46:42 12/11/02 Wed Beg to differ KMart's Blue Light Special 14:24:37 12/11/02 Wed Not just the South! -- Patrick, 14:55:51 12/11/02 Wed puke green? -- old guy, 17:21:36 12/12/02 Thu Blue Lights Matt 14:58:33 12/11/02 Wed What difference does it make what color the light is? -- Fred Sig, 15:47:19 12/11/02 Wed It dose matter -- Patrick, 16:41:12 12/11/02 Wed You'd better double-check your information -- Fred Sig, 20:26:06 12/11/02 Wed Blue Leader to Red Squad -- Somehwere in Tejas, 12:12:41 12/12/02 Thu Let me attempt to put this to rest......... -- Red Leader, 16:31:58 12/12/02 Thu True, only one states emergency vehicles, is not in other states. It’s always goes back to NY, not giving vol fire fighters as emergency vehicles, and they run blue, to ask for a curtsy, that no one has to give to them. (NT) -- Patrick, 17:01:07 12/12/02 Thu Note; Arkansas is home, but I haved lived in TN, Ky, NC, and soon to be moved to NY. Thank god for the Army. (NT) -- Patrick, 17:03:04 12/12/02 Thu Don't have time to read all the threads -- Jim D, 12:19:12 12/16/02 Mon Don't have time to read all the threads -- Jim D, 12:20:19 12/16/02 Mon The list Patrick 16:45:09 12/11/02 Wed You are wrong on Connecticut -- Code 3 runnin, 17:00:00 12/11/02 Wed Study -- CO Trooper, 17:39:37 12/11/02 Wed Colored Foke -- Slamma, 21:38:41 12/11/02 Wed Minnesota lights -- DSM, 19:47:37 12/11/02 Wed Your list is way off. Did you even read it? If anything, most of it applies only to state agencies. Many local Arkansas squads sport red/blue, state police is blue/white. I thought you said Texas is red/blue, yet your list shows blue/blue. Red only is police in Texas, too. Like Slamma hinted at but was too polite to mention, you are discriminating against red folks! (NT) -- Sociological studies show drunk drivers prefer to crash into red lights, 21:58:36 12/11/02 Wed not AR -- Patrick, 03:19:35 12/12/02 Thu Ok smarty pants. Name the only two cities and sole county in Arkansas that have red lights. Then I'll show you that you're wrong with photos to back it up. -- You're still completely missing the point, 09:06:17 12/12/02 Thu The 3 -- Patrick, 10:09:08 12/12/02 Thu Name one state where there are no blue lights on ANY emergency vehicles whatsoever (NT) -- I think you'll be hard pressed to find one, 11:50:38 12/12/02 Thu In N.Y. a blue light is a courtesy light only for a volunteer fire fighters car, as such it is not an emergency vehicle. (NT) -- a NY'er, 13:19:27 12/12/02 Thu So what you're saying is... -- Fred Sig, 14:40:35 12/12/02 Thu Yonkers -- Patrick, 15:00:57 12/12/02 Thu It just goes to prove my point -- Fred Sig, 15:27:42 12/12/02 Thu no debate -- Patrick, 15:42:59 12/12/02 Thu Sorry, Charlie -- Fred Sig, 15:54:54 12/12/02 Thu Not a chance -- Patrick, 20:15:40 12/12/02 Thu P.S. -- Patrick, 15:21:46 12/12/02 Thu Doesn't sound half as bad as people who admit they're a volunteer firemen -- Charlie Callous, 15:33:26 12/12/02 Thu Mayberry RFD -- Bubba, 17:40:37 12/12/02 Thu Yes, as a fireman it is your job to douse matter. Case closed. (NT) Sparky the Fire Dog 19:58:40 12/11/02 Wed What the hell! bruce bailey 00:45:55 12/12/02 Thu My suggestion, if I might Paul Cannessa. 01:31:27 12/12/02 Thu ya know he's right, us southern folk been preaching that to them northerners for a long time... but do they listen? oh no (NT) -- bubba, 17:31:53 12/12/02 Thu And if the south is so bad, Why are all the Yanks moving migrating south? (NT) -- N. Forest, 20:19:56 12/12/02 Thu If it keeps going, Florida is gonna be a northern state before long (NT) -- bubba, 08:47:35 12/13/02 Fri I think everyone should run black lights. Eighties Flashback 04:06:28 12/12/02 Thu Yeah, man, far out (NT) -- Cheec Marin, 04:45:47 12/12/02 Thu Blue lights, etc. Vtpapa 11:42:50 12/12/02 Thu Oddities -- Vtpapa, 11:51:12 12/12/02 Thu Lesson in Color Temperature 101. -- Project Greenlight, 12:50:07 12/12/02 Thu and they joked about gumdrop lights before... -- matt, 18:15:28 12/12/02 Thu great a lime on top of a lemon (NT) -- Matt, 18:17:30 12/12/02 Thu Personally: I do like the idea of blue AND red lights on emergency vehicles, period. Here in Arizona with the brilliant sun; blue is hard to see whereas on our overcast days red is not as noticable as blue. And, needless to say, does to matter whether it is EMS, a firetruck, or a police vehicle running 'hot'? We are all supposed to pull over and let them pass. (NT) -- Bearhawke in Az, 21:58:12 12/12/02 Thu All of you don,t get it! Patrick 19:12:12 12/12/02 Thu and they are well taken by the few intelligent, reasonable people, here. Most of these "people" here ENJOY busting balls, so don't take it personally! Anytime some idiot races by at 900 MPH, and ten flashes a Chicgo "Star", give him your "autograph" and tell him that's for a certain neophyte patrolman there and his warped views here! Pay back is a female dog! (NT) -- I understand your points, Patrick, 20:49:31 12/12/02 Thu Wow... Intelligence? From you? What a hoot! -- The Man with the Texaco Star, 22:59:36 12/12/02 Thu unfortunately I'm not prepared for the surgury to cut two (2) feet from my body height, nor the shock treatment that would dement my thought processes! Texaco Star, I think not, .....more like a Five sided suppository! Stay in Chicago, little man! (NT) -- yes, I aspire to be just like you,, 09:29:15 12/13/02 Fri Say... are you really going to be 3'8" tall then? -- Stretch Longstocking, 22:08:37 12/14/02 Sat No silly... I'm going to Chicago... you have me mistaken for someone else! -- The Man With The Texaco Star, 00:46:49 12/14/02 Sat I dont think the color matters becasue I have a yellow light on the dash of my caprice and cars always stop. Its the funniest thing. (NT) 9c1 20:09:33 12/14/02 Sat Probably trying to quit laughing at you while driving! -- Safety Sam, 22:11:21 12/14/02 Sat Cooollllll, I'll have to get one, Galls will sell me a yellow one (NT) -- Joey Traviano, 13:33:43 12/15/02 Sun Travel Patrick 13:09:51 12/15/02 Sun I guess you are a proponent of one World government, too. So, we can all be alike. No more diversity...Why don't you apply with the UN Security Office. You could travel to even more countries! Oh, and red lights rule. (NT) -- Been to more countries than you... My dad has, too, 13:27:28 12/15/02 Sun Actually: there is a convergence in the public safety arena as it is......... -- Bearhawke in Az, 13:43:31 12/15/02 Sun You must be one of those that make the rest of us look bad. -- Patrick, 14:11:29 12/15/02 Sun I am in agreement here -- Dave Arnold, 15:06:26 12/15/02 Sun Still not there. -- Patrick, 15:30:26 12/15/02 Sun You are missing the point -- Dave Arnold, 16:47:25 12/15/02 Sun Dave: some years ago while in Tucson I was stopped while waiting for a light to change and heard an EV approaching. My stereo was OFF and the windows were up courtesy of my AC..........needless to say, I was looking around for a RED fire engine so that I could get out of its way........well, said apparatus finally appeared..........it was lime green and virtually invisible! The sunlight here is brilliant to say the least. (NT) -- Bearhawke in Az, 18:09:19 12/15/02 Sun colors , lights, other things bright..... -- Hazardman, 22:34:45 12/15/02 Sun Polizi? Where in the world? -- Still been to more countries than you, my dad, too, and my mum, too, 21:56:26 12/15/02 Sun Please don't put yourself in that group when you say someone is making "us" look bad. -- Real street cop, car collector and contributor to the site, 22:49:26 12/15/02 Sun Police travel -- ford jockey but prefer Mopar, 06:12:17 12/16/02 Mon Before Patrick goes over the edge, let me just remind you that he has said countless times, "LIGHTS colored the same". Not uniforms, cars, etc. (NT) -- Clarifier, 08:55:01 12/16/02 Mon Thank You! Glade to see some one out there reads a little. -- Patrick, 10:19:56 12/16/02 Mon Patrick do everybody a favor, invest in a Webster's dictionary and learn how to write. You really sound like a moron who didn't make it past the 8th grade. Most Mp's I know couldn't catch a cold. (NT) -- ., 10:28:34 12/16/02 Mon Why waste time re-learning things you admittedly already know? -- Lt Spellcheck, 10:32:38 12/16/02 Mon Patrick this website should help you -- ^^^+, 18:11:36 12/16/02 Mon ....don't you think? -- I agree, ......it would be kind of like "socialized" policing,......, 11:01:13 12/16/02 Mon This that corrupted, disbanded and non-existant CT Sheriff's Dept? -- Your Favorite Observer - Mr. Meek and Mild, 11:41:36 12/16/02 Mon One more thing. Why are all of you afraid to put your name on the board? (NT) Patrick 10:28:19 12/16/02 Mon Why waste the energy on you, since you only provide your name w/o an e-mail addy. (NT) -- .., 10:33:38 12/16/02 Mon Actually if you go up to the top, my e-mail is posted. (NT) -- Patrick, 10:51:49 12/16/02 Mon I don't need no stinkin lights, I have a pair of old Campbells soup cans painted blue and leave them on the rear deck panel and I have a blue coffee mug on the dash and NOBODY gets in my way ! (NT) -- o^^o, 11:52:28 12/16/02 Mon Why would you want to move this whole string to the archives? Archie the Achivist 11:57:45 12/17/02 Tue