MOTORCYCLISTS ARE
THE REAL SCORCHERS.
BUT "SPARROW COPS" LET THEM
GO WITHOUT HARM.
Don't Carry Lights and Speed When
They Wish -- A Knock on
"Sparrow Cop" Speedo-
meters.
What about the "tuf-tuf," the latest name for the motorcycle. It has been written on the books that the motorist must not scorch on pain of being hauled before the stern judge ans soaked as many simoleons as the judicial fancy dictates.
But the humble motorcycle is not annoyed, in fact, it goes unharmed. Maybe it is because the sparrow cops themselves are mounted on the bicycles that go with gasoline.
Motorists all over Kansas City are uniting in a protest against speeding motorcycles. "Tuf-tufs" are racing about the boulevards night after night, without the sign of a lamp, a menace to pedestrians, but the "sparrow cops" do not seem to see them. Maye it is a fellow feeling after all.
It might be a good thing if some of these scorchers, the worst offenders against the city's speed laws, were pulled in and fined for the sake of example. At present they rove the streets unrestrained.
By the way, more than one driver says the speed indicators the "cops" carry are all to the bad. These busy little wheels are said to register about five miles an hour more than the actual speed. An agreement has been reached between a number of dealers to plead this as a defense in case of arrest and then proceed to prove it as fact.
