Had an incident the other day at a 4 way stop in my town. I was stopped and, directly across from me, was a Sheriff's officer who was also stopped. I was planning on going straight through the intersection and, as such, I had no blinker on. The cop also had no blinker on so I assumed he was also going straight. So I started to move through the intersection. Half way through the intersection the cop cuts to his left, crossing the intersection and cutting directly in front of me. No blinker, no flashers, nothing. Of course, it would be difficult to turn on his blinkers since he was using his left hand to hold a cell phone up to his head. So, as I usually do when I see cops causing a danger to the public or violating traffic laws, I honked my horn and flashed my high beams at him, in accordance with the law.
He whips his head around to look at me with a pissed off look, throws on his blue lights, cuts in front of someone else who was at the stop sign to my right, makes a U-Turn and gets behind me. But when he gets behind me he does not have his blue lights on. So I continue moving forward. I get to the entrance of the highway and I turn onto it and he just keeps going straight and I left him behind me.
I was disappointed that he didn't pull me over because I would have had a great video as I told him that he violated 2 traffic laws while I violated none and, when I would've asked him why he pulled me over and he would've said that I honked my horn at him I would've said, "There's no law against that, is there?" He would've had to admit that, no there wasn't. "So if I violated no law, then you have no reason to detain me so that means I'm free to go." Of course this would have been after I explained to him in detail that, just because he's a cop, he has to obey the traffic laws and he almost caused an accident because of his distracted driving.
Instead, nothing happened other than him trying to scare me by tailing me for 1 quarter mile.
He whips his head around to look at me with a pissed off look, throws on his blue lights, cuts in front of someone else who was at the stop sign to my right, makes a U-Turn and gets behind me. But when he gets behind me he does not have his blue lights on. So I continue moving forward. I get to the entrance of the highway and I turn onto it and he just keeps going straight and I left him behind me.
I was disappointed that he didn't pull me over because I would have had a great video as I told him that he violated 2 traffic laws while I violated none and, when I would've asked him why he pulled me over and he would've said that I honked my horn at him I would've said, "There's no law against that, is there?" He would've had to admit that, no there wasn't. "So if I violated no law, then you have no reason to detain me so that means I'm free to go." Of course this would have been after I explained to him in detail that, just because he's a cop, he has to obey the traffic laws and he almost caused an accident because of his distracted driving.
Instead, nothing happened other than him trying to scare me by tailing me for 1 quarter mile.
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