Today Was A Good Day!

Just a few minutes ago, I got home from walking to my local Fred Meyers. The route I took was down State Route 410. I was going down 410 when I saw on the other side of the road, a cop car with it's lights flashing. He was pulling over a minivan. Then, on my side, another cop car with it's sirens on flies right past me, making a u-turn at the very first available intersection. 2 cops for 1 driver? Anyways, I get to Fred Meyers, couldn't find what I was looking for, and headed home. I saw that the second cop had already left. By the time I had gotten right across from the cop car, a tow truck came by, and was getting set to tow away the minivan! I may have not gotten what I was looking for, but I think that this trip was totally worth it just for seeing someone getting pulled over!:)

Oh, and don't you hate when the people who slow down to about 20 under the limit, because they are: A-nosey or B-scared to get pulled over:confused:. I got to see that happen as well on my way to the store.

its a state law here that you have to slow down below the speed limit (forget the exact #) when a cop is possibly walking along the side of the road. And you are REALLY supposed to move over to the other lane if two lanes exist.

Do you know why he was pulled over? I admit I take joy in seeing someone pulled over, but usually only if I've seen them doing something bone headed before. :)

(PS: law in Ontario is that you must change lanes to give as much room to emergency vehicles if there's a lane to change into.)

That could be the law here. I'm not sure though... Might be. I never really thought of it that way before though, for the safety of the cops. If it is a law for us though, they didn't include it in our state driver's ed manuals when I took driver's ed a year & a half ago. And I do understand moving over to the other lane, if possible.

EDIT: Yeah, our law is similar to what yours is, rabbit. My dad was saying something about that, and they just changed it recently apparently.

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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Do you know why he was pulled over? I admit I take joy in seeing someone pulled over, but usually only if I've seen them doing something bone headed before. :)

(PS: law in Ontario is that you must change lanes to give as much room to emergency vehicles if there's a lane to change into.)

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Not sure why. Must have been something serious if the car got towed... The only things I could think of are DUI, stolen car, or warrent for arrest. IDK though, so I couldn't really say. I would look like an oddball just sitting on the side of a state route, watching what was going on. Plus, Bonney Lake cops have a tendency to be overly anal with teens. I'm only 18, and kinda look like I should still be in high school, so then I'd probably have had to go through a bunch of bs with them.

in Nova Scotia, they jsut passed a new law where you have to change lane if possible and slow down to 60 km/h, if you don't it's a fine of $340

I slow down and move over anyways lol, it is the right thing to do, a good law I think

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Originally Posted by trempus

in Nova Scotia, they jsut passed a new law where you have to change lane if possible and slow down to 60 km/h, if you don't it's a fine of $340

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Damn, $340! Well, that's a good lesson about safety then. So, I'm guessing in mph, it'd be slow down to 35 (actually, it'd be 37.something, but I don't see them doing anything ending in anything other than 0 or 5). Which if it were on the road that I was walking down, that would be extremely fair. The speed limit on that is only 45 mph (75.42 kph). So you wouldn't be going that much slower (it would seem that way to me, at least).

they can also tow cars for inspection, registration, and insurance.

yeah so dont piss them off :D

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Originally Posted by thehunterooo

yeah so dont piss them off :D

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I don't plan on that anytime soon. Our town has so many problems, so it's not a good idea to mess with the cops here... Hell, probably not a good idea anywhere to mess with the cops.

I dunno, the cops in my town are pretty cool, then again my friends one of them. But like 2 towns over and they profile street racers hard. If your a young male, listening to loud music, chances are your street racing

I slow down and move over anytime I see an emergency vehicle on the side of the roar. Even slowing down a few MPH and half changing lanes (I often do this when I am not in a passing zone on a 2 lane highway) makes me feel a lot more comfortable that I will not cause an accident with the vehicles, and will be able to see them in time to react if necessary. I tend to slide over a little bit even for regular cars on the side of the highway, just because you never know.

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Originally Posted by Ratchet104

I dunno, the cops in my town are pretty cool, then again my friends one of them. But like 2 towns over and they profile street racers hard. If your a young male, listening to loud music, chances are your street racing

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My brother ALWAYS has his stereo blasting! I'll be outside, and can hear him just down the street. And there are other people who do that too, though. But my dad was saying that cops tend to mess with you if your younger, and you do something to catch their attention. I wouldn't do anything to catch the cops' attention ever, but I could do something by accident, and I'll get a bunch of bs unlike my dad.

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Originally Posted by daug1502

I slow down and move over anytime I see an emergency vehicle on the side of the roar. Even slowing down a few MPH and half changing lanes (I often do this when I am not in a passing zone on a 2 lane highway) makes me feel a lot more comfortable that I will not cause an accident with the vehicles, and will be able to see them in time to react if necessary. I tend to slide over a little bit even for regular cars on the side of the highway, just because you never know.

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My dad was saying that he'd move over to the other lane (when possible) AND slow down because he doesn't want to have the thought of even screwing up the cop on his mind for the rest of his life, let alone killing him. But yeah, before I just thought that everyone was acting like my mom, thinking that it's their business. Some might truely have that feeling, and will do something like roll down their window (my mom did that when my dad was driving, and we were going past a car accident).