A Usenet persona calling itself Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:

You obviously haven't been chatting/arguing with Scott long enough here if
you don't know what he does/did for a living back in the early days (since
we were all protesting that he was posting from his work email address)


He was a Kampus Kop at University of Colorado who became famous locally for
driving his Hummer in the left lane of the highway at 55mph.... One of the
Boulder newsgroups had a story about him from a local paper once...

I miss netcom... service was good for a while...

No, no, no... Once again, I was not a police officer at the University of
Colorado, I was a police dispatcher at CU. I was a police officer elsewhere,
prior to becoming a police dispatcher at CU. My retirement from being a
police officer was the result of a back injury, and I took up dispatching
because I was well qualified for the job, having been a cop, and my back
problems didn't preclude me from doing it.

As for driving in the left lane, that's true, though the speed was "the
legal speed limit," not necessarily 55 mph. I still do it, though there are
now some legal hoops to jump through to do it legally in Colorado.

And the story was an article by Wayne Laugesen in the Boulder Weekly called
"A Most Annoying Netizen." It may still be in the BW archives.
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Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser