Why is it....

[Hogan11]

Why is it that every holiday that comes down the pike is labelled by the news networks as "The biggest travel day of the year"? They say it for each and every one...anyone else ever notice this?

[broncogary]

Why is it that every holiday that comes down the pike is labelled by the news networks as "The biggest travel day of the year"? They say it for each and every one...anyone else ever notice this?

Nope, you're all alone on this one. :wiggle:

[Hogan11]

Ha! Just call this thread my offseason Mock moment I guess......

[Rock Chalk]

Why is it that every holiday that comes down the pike is labelled by the news networks as "The biggest travel day of the year"? They say it for each and every one...anyone else ever notice this?
Because on New Years, there is no other holiday of the year to compare it to. Come President's Day, there is only New Years to compare it to. And so on and so forth. Each holiday has more travel than the last. So, when they say that, they technically are speaking accurately as more people travel towards the end of the year than in the beginning of the year (as they are working off that holiday debt).

[FADERPROOF]

Why is it that every holiday that comes down the pike is labelled by the news networks as "The biggest travel day of the year"? They say it for each and every one...anyone else ever notice this?

They say that in translation of"Prepare to get raped on gas prices this weekend."

[Hogan11]

They say that in translation of"Prepare to get raped on gas prices this weekend."

I thought it was just a catchphrase to justify increased patrols & checkpoints to meet ticket quotas myself...holidays are big time revenue netters afterall.

Wait scratch that.....they don't really do that, I forgot....Uhh

[Sodak]

They're just hoping for traffic fatalities so they have something to report...

[FADERPROOF]

I thought it was just a catchphrase to justify increased patrols & checkpoints to meet ticket quotas myself...holidays are big time revenue netters afterall.

Wait scratch that.....they don't really do that, I forgot....Uhh

Yes they are, and right here where I live is the heartland for cops.

The town over from me, Fairport Harbor(place where I grew up), has an annual Mardi Gras on the 4th of July weekend, the place is wild and crazy and you probably wont drive 1 block without seeing a cop.

Double or triple cops on duty with extra security measures, I'm better off walking 45 mins to my house instead of taking the 7 minute drive if I've been drinking.

[Taco John]

All the paranoia here reminds me of the time my buddies and I went to Cour'deAlene for the 4th of July for some primo celebration of Independance. We had just arrived, and we stopped at this little bistro located practically in the public park that sold beer. It's our first beer of the day, and we step out on their "sidewalk patio" and sat down on one of the benches there. All of a sudden a bunch of jerk cops started harassing us and collecting our IDs. We were of age, so we had no worries. It was all legal. Apparently not. It turns out that the bench we were sitting on rested just outside the property boundary, so our feet were in the property, but our butts were apparently sitting in the public space. We got busted for an open container in a public park. It was a ridiculous fine! Something like $229 if I remember right. It turns out that they were soulless automatons on July 4th. Absolutely no tolerance or reason applied. Any and every infraction results in a fine, no ifs ands or buts... or butts.

[FADERPROOF]

All the paranoia here reminds me of the time my buddies and I went to Cour'deAlene for the 4th of July for some primo celebration of Independance. We had just arrived, and we stopped at this little bistro located practically in the public park that sold beer. It's our first beer of the day, and we step out on their "sidewalk patio" and sat down on one of the benches there. All of a sudden a bunch of jerk cops started harassing us and collecting our IDs. We were of age, so we had no worries. It was all legal. Apparently not. It turns out that the bench we were sitting on rested just outside the property boundary, so our feet were in the property, but our butts were apparently sitting in the public space. We got busted for an open container in a public park. It was a ridiculous fine! Something like $229 if I remember right. It turns out that they were soulless automatons on July 4th. Absolutely no tolerance or reason applied. Any and every infraction results in a fine, no ifs ands or buts... or butts.

Spunds like the cops in Fairport for Mardi Gras to a T, 360 days out of the year you can get away with just about anything in Fairport, it's a small town right on Lake Erie and cops really don't give a damn, but on this weekend we have a whole bunch of outsider cops that are just looking to bust someone.

[Mtbrncofn]

Why is it that every holiday that comes down the pike is labelled by the news networks as "The biggest travel day of the year"? They say it for each and every one...anyone else ever notice this?

You're right. I always recall hearing it on Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends. Definitely Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yep, they sure do.

[clarker]

You're right. I always recall hearing it on Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends. Definitely Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yep, they sure do.Why don't they say it about Super Bowl sunday? It seems there are lot of Super Bowl parties and alot of people go to them. If your not hosting one or they more than likely your going to one. Right?

[Mtbrncofn]

Why don't they say it about Super Bowl sunday? It seems there are lot of Super Bowl parties and alot of people go to them. If your not hosting one or they more than likely your going to one. Right?

Damn, they should. It's a national holiday in my book! There's got to be more drunks driving around then than a lot of the other holidays.

[Hogan11]

They're just hoping for traffic fatalities so they have something to report...

Nah..."self funding" programs need the cash intake to stay at a certain level, otherwise departments start losing out....afterall, compliance equals loss of revenue and we just can't have that........

[gunns]

I think with Christmas and Thanksgiving they are talking about air travel. For this weekend it's by car. But summer holidays and New Years it's true about the checkpoints and tickets and arrests, build that quota up!