THUNDER BAY – City police continue to use a humour touch when communicating via Facebook.
A new post about the ‘Quicki-ticket’ service was posted by the police service over the weekend, and is a tongue-in-cheek announcement about recent traffic blitzes.
You can read the post verbatim below, or checkout the Thunder Bay Police Service’s Facebook page here.
Thunder Bay Police Have Opened Ontario's First
QUICKI-TICKET Location !
You've seen us on the evening TV news and heard about us on the radio. You may have even been following the lead-up to our Grand Opening right here on this site.
Friday and Saturday we were very busy introducing 92 drivers to our new and easy QUICKI-TICKET system.
Fast, easy and with five franchise locations (with more to open soon !) we have been busy providing essential safe driving reminders to hundreds. Stop signs, speeding, and much much more.
Check out the five easy steps on the slide show below and be sure to be watching for our newest locations coming soon.
Following some laughs, the post took a more serious tone to the traffic complaints the force has been receiving lately. The following was a response the Thunder Bay Police Service made to its own post:
Now that we caught your attention with a wee bit of humor....
Seriously, this is a problem.
As you may have seen by the vast majority of comments on our previous posts, people are getting pretty tired of the sloppy driving that they are witnessing in their neighborhoods. And there is a very long list of locations that people have voiced their concern about.
The message that is being given is - Enough is enough!
Believe it or not, police officers take no pleasure in giving a ticket to an "every day regular person" Aggressive drivers, people who show absolutely no regard for the safety of others, well, those tickets are just a bit easier to hand out.
We put Sergeant Porter out in front of the TV camera to talk about the issue, there have been radio interviews played over and over and the local newspaper has spent plenty of ink getting the message across.
What more can we do to get people to obey the laws?
