I give up. Sheesh.
I take HOV with a coworker sometimes and the cops that patrol it are especially prone to creating hazards. Some mornings they set up what is literally a checkpoint at the HOV exit ramps to screen each car. When they do it almost always backs up traffic for miles into the HOV lane behind it, thus completely defeating the purpose of having HOV in the first place. Not that they would care - each violator they catch is another $200 in the pocket, even though the vast majority of drivers who are affected by their patrolling tactics are following the law.
"Won't that destroy any evidence the theives may have left behind?"
"Oh that's ok, we're not going to look for any evidence. We'll just give you a report for your insurance company."
A couple of weeks later a neighbor spotted some creep breaking into cars on our block. He snuck up on him and smacked him across the back of the thigh with a baseball bat. He then made a couple of calls on his cell phone while the perp was writhing in pain.
Believe me our treatment was a far better deterrent to future criminal activity than anything the useless cops would have done.
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