Ed Pawlowski
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
20:16:46 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:
On 10/17/2016 8:56 PM, Diesel wrote:
I'm not stupid enough to think the police are out to help me out
when they pull me over or I run into one of their checkpoints.
Like I said, I'm not that gullible. I've never had one stop
because I was on the side of the road with my hood up. I'd be
real impressed if they actually performed the 'serve' part.
I'm usually cynical, but I have had help from the police. Not all
of them are bad guys.
I didn't say they were all bad guys, but, when you put on that
uniform, you do make me suspicious as to your true intentions when
you stop me.
Heh. If you passed me, you weren't doing the speed limit, either.
I don't roll slower than the speed limit, you can be stopped for
that too.
If the limit is 30, I'm probably doing 40. If 65, I'm doing 75,
traffic permitting. . At 29 you'd not be stopped for under 30 but
you would be on the interstate.
You're mistaken. You can be stopped on local roads for not doing the
speed limit just as you can for going over it. Especially at night
time. Been there, done that. I was rolling slow on that particular
night because I wasn't sure where the damn road was that I was
supposed to be turning on. And didn't want to pass it up for the
2nd/possibly 3rd time.
I was heading to an after hours service call and I'd never been in
that part of town before. The cop assumed I was on something when he
pulled me over. I wasn't. He claimed to have observed me cruising the
road a little 'slow' and turning around a couple of times. Well, no
****, I was looking for a particular road to turn off too. Duh! And,
I explained that to him as well. I was more than cooperative with the
cop too. I even allowed him to see my drivers license, my CompTia A+
certification card (i'm a computer tech by trade), etc. And, my
invoice I was going to be giving the customer when I finished the
job. In fairness, he did tell me where the road was; and understood
how I managed to miss it, he was familiar with it being a rather odd
place.
But, he stopped me under the false idea that I was upto no good
initially. Profiling. He even admitted I appeared to be 'rather
young' behind the wheel and thought I might have had the parents
vehicle out for a joyride on a school night. ROFL. My mom had a much
nicer ride than the POS Chevy Astrovan I was driving that evening.
Sure, I've had lights turn red, but, I was still able to stop in
time. It's called maintaining control of your vehicle. Some of us
are good at it, some, like you, obviously aren't.
Some of us make other choices. You can stop, you can go. Every
once in a while the light turns red sooner than anticipated.
I don't disagree. We have redlight cameras that arm on yellow; if you
go under while it's still yellow, you get a ticket for it in the
mail. I know this because I got one. ;p So now, I'll bring the
vehicle to a stop in a very short order of time, even going so far as
to trigger the antilock system if it has one. Someone is free to hit
me in the ass; My insurance company will deal with them and I'll sue
the city for the invalid yellow light arming routine, happily.
I'll do my best not to slide under it if it goes yellow. And, if by
some chance due to road conditions I have, I'll sit right where I am,
not budging a ****ing inch forward until the light turns green. Sorry
for the inconvenience to other drivers, but, i'm the one who gets to
pay the ticket, not them. So...
Yellow doesn't mean, stop. It means use caution, prepare to stop. Big
difference.
Push me, I;ll push back hard, but Im smart enough to know when to
just be polite and give no one a reason to push.
I'm the same way. you show respect, I'll respond in kind. you decide
to be an asshole, I'll teach you an all new meaning to the word.
--
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
Benjamin Franklin