getcereal wrote:
There are a lot of dick head cops here. They will stake out places where the can write up a lot of tickets- stop signs, rolling through clear right turns on red. I think the CHP is the worst. I have seen them at the bottom of a long freeway down hills with there radar guns and nailing poor saps going around 70 mph.
You may not like the way or manner in which the traffic laws are being enforced, but, to call the police officer tasked with traffic law enforcement a dick head is petty.
It is 'Right On Red AFTER Stop' not 'Yield Only If You Are Going To Get Hit On Red'.
If the 'poor saps' are exceeding the speed limit then they must not be that poor because they can obviously afford to pay the speeding fine.
Personally, I have never been pulled over while obeying traffic. I would like to see GPSs in all automobile ECUs in order to have Big Brother track all traffic and automatically issue speeding / stop sign / red light citations to the owner of an automobile when said automobile exceeds the speed limit or runs a stop sign / red light. Just think how much safer cyclists would be if the ALL cars on the road were required to follow the laws of the road.
We could take it one step further and put GPSs in all bicycles so anyone who buzzes a cyclist within three feet automatically receives a citation.
There is no end to how we can use technology to make our world safer for cyclists...
Before you are tempted, don't bother throwing up any arguments regarding rights.
I have a personality disorder, I don't drink coffee...