Tinstar wrote:
soren wrote:
Watched the exact same thing happen to a buddy of mine, while I followed his motorhome, as we were within sight of the border, exiting Wyoming. He was totally trapped, unable to move left, as there was three or four vehicles on his left side at the moment. I was clear, and got into the passing lane. The cop chased him down, and behaved like a total Aze-hole, since he needed to strut and prove that he was the man with the gun and badge. Once he calmed down enough, and my buddy continually and politely told him that it was physically impossible to get any further away, as he passed, the idiot wrote a warning. Sadly, sometimes you are just at the wrong place at the wrong time, and face the wrath of another sad example of an officer in this country. I can't count how many of these idiots end up with a car stopped, on the white line, with their patrol car parked tight behind the "suspect" on the line, lights flashing, and their butt 3' into the travel lane, as they lean in the window of the car. Total morons! Get the car you are stopping as far off the road as possible, place your patrol car as a crash barrier, and angle it to deflect a strike. If you have a bit of a clue, and training, a motorhome passing by, in the travel lanes, should have ZERO impact on your personal safety. Unfortunately, too many of these chucklenuts have zero concern for safety, and are only interested in putting on a show.
Sounds like someone got their butt spanked by an officer at some point in time. You should be teaching these officers since they have no idea what they're doing.
Plenty don't, actually. Standing on the white line, totally invisible to traffic at night because they have all sixty-three rear-facing LED strobes on their cruiser going on full brightness (incidentally, totally ruining the night vision of everyone driving past them) and they are wearing a dark blue uniform shirt, black pants, and no safety vest, totally blind to oncoming traffic because they also have their hi-beams, twenty front-facing strobes, and their spotlights (I have seen as many as six) also on. I have seen many that don't even take the basic precaution of stopping their cruiser far enough behind the car pulled over that it won't be pushed into it if hit, and turning the steering so an impact will push it AWAY from them. I did all this (as well as wearing hi-visibility safety gear), and I had a six-ton tow truck between me and traffic!
