Posted on 08/03/2022 8:56:28 AM PDT by EVO X
I've had a clean driving record for close to 30 years. Every few years a cop will latch on and give me a driving test which I have passed. I thought I would report on today's test. It is clear in my mind I was clearly getting stalked. After the traffic light changed to green, the police car was slow to respond to the traffic light and didn't keep up with traffic flows. The question I have are police officers immune from distracted driving laws?
After the traffic light changed to green, the police car was slow to respond to the traffic light and didn’t keep up with traffic flows.
No, but who is going to charge them?......................
My rule of thumb, regarding traffic cops, has served me well since the mid-1970’s.
If there is a cop behind me, I pull into a parking lot or side road at my first opportunity. It forces their hand. Usually they’ve not gotten to a point where they’ve decided they are going to pull me over for a non-infraction.
Driving test???
I just went about my business.
Currently American Police are Above The Law.
Do not make the sometimes fatal mistake of acting like they're not.
Around 1975 I was coming out of Issaquah, WA on a two lane back road - after having a few beers at a party - in my Opel GT and some numbscull got right on my bumper. He did this for a few blocks so I floored it, and he instantly turned on the lights (I don’t remember if they were blue back then.
I got out of my car and made sure to stand downwind. I then told him I had no idea he was a cop and I thought he was just some tailgater, and that he was so close to my bumper it made me nervous, which caused me to step on it. He said the way I had been driving caused him to wonder if I’d been drinking and I said no, that I was changing channels on my radio and apologized for not being more attentive. There were no other cars on this road.
He let me go.
What’s your problem with the cops making their quotas? The road pirates have to rob you at gunpoint every now and again so they can keep their jobs.
Just comply and go along with it is what the jackboot lickers will tell you to do.
Myself, I like the advice to just pull into a handy parking lot when you notice one of these armed robbers following you without any reason. My recommendation is to find a place that would have plenty of surveillance cameras like a gas station or a bank.
If you really want to screw with them pull into a police station.
So that one was just an annoyance? Do you think he was “challenging” you to do something stupid? I honestly believe they do that, like when they camp out in an unmarked car in the passing lane on the freeway at the speed limit.
Did you...almost cut your hair?
My stepdad had one of those mini-Corvettes.......
It was a lot of fun. I replicated it in 2013 with a Scion FR-S, that now has 186k miles on it and has been through 9 sets of tires. Michelin SS...
I’m with you.
I have never had a police officer, county sheriff deputy, or state trooper give me a “driver test” in 58 years of driving all over the country often hitting 50k miles per year. I was crazy as a youth — never happened. I was near sighted without glasses for a while — never happened. I speed — never happened. I got pulled over for 92 MPH and got a warning ticket, but no driver test.
I believe the poster might be missing something in his driving.
This was a local event versus a highway event. My guess is cop decided to blast me with a license plate reader and had to wait for the results. Pulling off the roadway wasn't going to change the outcome..
If there is a cop behind me, I pull into a parking lot or side road at my first opportunity. It forces their hand.The
I haven't a clue what this means.
I’ve had local cops run my plate (Veteran on a Black 2015 Taurus) and stay on my driver side rear quarter and pace me, speed limit being 40 mph for a couple of miles . He must of had a boring day.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.