Note to youngsters, if you’re driving down the road and someone flashes their high beams at you and you can’t figure out why, you should probably make sure you are obeying the speed limit.
I don’t really do it too much if there’s a cop hiding but if there are deer up ahead or any animal then I flash and they do slow down.....
Other day I was rolling south on Idaho 95, right around noon. I met a convertible with a couple young ladies in it, each waving waving an arm up and down (operative word: down).
I had the fleeting and totally delusional thought that despite the speed, the bright sun in the sky and the dirty windshield of my old pickup, they somehow had grasped that I STILL HAVE IT.
Fleeting, as I say. In an instant I realized that they were waving to me to slow down, which I did, and spotted the patrolman at roadside over the next hill.
Oh well. I had the moment. And didn’t get the citation.
I always flash my lights at oncoming drivers to warn them of a speed trap they are headed into. If I am ever stopped questioned about it I have simple, iron-clad defense. I’m warning drivers about a potentially dangerous situation ahead. I do the same for broken down cars, accidents, etc. For oncoming cars, speed traps are no different. Often drivers, upon seeing a speed trap, hit their brakes unexpectedly on stretches of roadway where drivers following them would not anticipate braking. This can (and does) lead to rear-end collisions. Hence my warning. So, officer/judge, try to tell me I should stop warning oncoming drivers of potentially dangerous situations in their path.