Posted on 05/16/2015 8:12:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Cellphone video captured an emotional dispute on the side of the 10 Freeway in the Mid-City area last Friday between members of a funeral procession and a California Highway Patrol Officer who pulled them over.
A uniformed traffic escort was leading a procession of about 100 cars to Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills to bury family matriarch Sandra Louise Behn-Capel when they were stopped for traveling too slow on the freeway, according to Humphrey’s daughter Rachel Behn-Humphrey.
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Not only did he make a fool out of himself, but he caused an even bigger traffic jam than the funeral procession itself.
Methinks that CHPs will be backpedaling fast come Monday morning.
The running joke was that you could go 10 mph on the 10 or 210 mph on the 210.
The Chippie was an insensitive dick.
How could a funeral home be so stupid as to use a freeway instead of a quieter side road?
Public education and liberal indoctrination shines brightly upon this trooper. The Farce is strong in this one, Yoda.
Traffic conditions and the possibility of the procession getting split up because of multiple traffic lights.
good grief!
Dead people just move too damn slow!
And a fat one too...
They were really "Traveling Too Slow" once he stopped them.
“How could a funeral home be so stupid as to use a freeway instead of a quieter side road?”
Not here in L.A., especially the side roads on the 10. I’ve been to 2 funerals heading to Forest Lawn and no way a surface street will get you there. You’ll be traveling for hours. And I will have to say the traffic escort should have had the initiative to communicate and have a plan to get the funeral going.
In Hollywood, we also hire traffic escorts from the LAPD/CHP to do traffic control for shoots. Mostly they’re the laziest, and soon-to-be-retired officers who just want to do nothing so this does not surprise me.
I support the idea, if not this particular stop. As a truck driver I can, once I get up to the bottleneck, see the one or two cars that are causing the traffic jam. Normally it is one person who left for work early to “beat traffic” and driving in the middle lane. Everyone has to slow down to get around the jerk. Once past that person traffic moves well until we come up to the traffic jam caused by the first person’s soul mate. I have seen it countless times coming through Chicago in morning rush hour.
I am willing to bet that daily traffic jams are caused by the same people again and again. If they start to get tickets for impeding traffic things will start to flow much better.
Think of the logistics. Travel the side streets with a traffic light at every corner with the chances of a 100 car procession getting split up into 5 pieces. That would need 5-7 off duty officers getting extra pay from the funeral home (and bereaved).
OR, pay 2 officers, a lead and a chase for on the freeways and when they hit traffic lights (now much less of them) leapfrogging along alternating.....you can’t keep that up for a couple dozen traffic lights and with a chase LE with lights it doesn’t make much huhu on the freeway......
How could a funeral home be so stupid as to use a freeway instead of a quieter side road?”
I hope you never drive out of Houston on 288 south on any Saturday from about 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. They literally shut this main artery out of the city down so that the city people can have their huge processions on the way to bury their people in Pearland.
Funeral processions have right of way thru all traffic lights once the lead car heads thru......
I was stuck at a light by a huge one, maybe 5 minutes long, Thursday. I think it was one of three local teenagers who were killed in an auto accident last Saturday........
The CHP officer was pulling over one bike for pulling out into the slow lane and stopping cars in that lane, endangering the rest of the users on the freeway by creating a sudden stop in one lane, and a corresponding danger of that traffic jumping into the open lanes of traffic at a much slower speed.
That the rest of the procession pulled over as well is the stupid part, that they continually ignored that the officer told them to move on is compounding that stupidity.
The CHP has fully backed the officer who handled a traffic citation quickly under strong pressure from uninvolved people. Traffic guides who accompany funeral processions fully know what they can and can’t do - stopping traffic on surface streets? No problem. Stopping a lane of traffic on the freeway? They know that is forbidden.
Stupid Poncharello!
Yes. I know....been in a lot of them. However, when there are no cops to control several intersections, drivers in the cross lights continue at some point. At that point it becomes difficult, even hazardous, for participants to “rejoin” the procession. Laws don’t mean squat when the public gets the opportunity ignore them.
“same persuasion”?
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