The cop creates a much larger hazard by pulling someone over for no real reason, what with the distrcting flashing lights, the slowing traffic and resulting congestion, than whatever minor “hazard” the person not wearing the seatbelt might have represented.
“The cop creates a much larger hazard by pulling someone over for no real reason”
This guy first saw me at an intersection....he did a u-turn...but no lights yet. He tried to get beside me; but, I had to move to the left lane, because another cop had somebody else pulled over. We have a very dangerous law that requires you to move to the left lane in this situation (which my wife has been ticketed under).
Anyway, I’m now in the left lane, with this guy behind me. I move back to the right, after passing the stopped cop car...and I’ve lost my guy. I absolutely cannot see him. Then I become aware that, in his quest to see my seatbelt status, he is deliberately hanging out in my blind spot.
Then he drops back, switches to the right lane and flashes the lights.
After we are all done, and I am free to go, his pal in the other cop car arrives on scene, as backup I suppose. So now we have me, along with two police cars, parked on a busy road, with everybody trying to get to the left lane. There are a few near misses, but eventually everyone clears out, and all three of us pull back onto the road.
Of course its not safe...and of course I want to laugh in the guy’s face when he admonishes me to ‘drive safe’.