Critical Thinking Gone Wrong

One of the many places I enjoy looking at for news articles is www.comcast.net. This is a very conveinient site for me to look at because it is also where I have an email account. The article I looked at for this post was an article about police officers clocking a male driver in a 1993 Honda Civic going approximately 137mph. In this article you will see that there are a few things gone wrong with the critical thinking factor; the one specific critical thinking factor that I will focus on that has been violated is asking questions; be willing to wonder. In this article it states that the 21-year old male was clocked going 137 mph on interstate 84 in Orange County, California. It also states that the driver was ticketed for reckless driving and illegal tint on his windows. In this, I would say it violates the asking questions; be willing to wonder factor on the means of, have they taken a look at the vehicle and did they ask the driver what he was doing and why he was driving the speed he was. Also I would say it violates the willing to wonder, because have you ever thought about a broken spedometer. (Although going 137mph is pretty obvious that you are speeding...)

Information found at:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20090219/ODD.Speeding.Ticket.137/