Inattentive driver saves me from a possible ticket
 

Travelling about 10 over (60 in a 50) coming over a hill on a 4 lane
road (2 each way, double yellow between them). Very few cars out last
night at 7pm oddly enough.

Radar goes off, hit the brakes as the cop passes me the other way. I
see in my mirror that he turns around. I figure I'm toast, even though
around here, 10 over generally isn't going to get you a ticket. But
hey, the month is nearing end and the donut patrol needs to hit their
quota.

So I pull up to the light, about 3 drivers in front of me, a car behind
me, and the cop behind him. Light turns green, first guy takes FOREVER
to get moving, and it's only about a 15 second light at best. I get
through the light as it turns yellow, car behind me, afraid he'll get a
ticket for running the red stop, stops, keeping the cop behind him.

"Larry Bud" > wrote in message
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> Travelling about 10 over (60 in a 50) coming over a hill on a 4 lane
> road (2 each way, double yellow between them). Very few cars out last
> night at 7pm oddly enough.
>
> Radar goes off, hit the brakes as the cop passes me the other way. I
> see in my mirror that he turns around. I figure I'm toast, even though
> around here, 10 over generally isn't going to get you a ticket. But
> hey, the month is nearing end and the donut patrol needs to hit their
> quota.
>
> So I pull up to the light, about 3 drivers in front of me, a car behind
> me, and the cop behind him. Light turns green, first guy takes FOREVER
> to get moving, and it's only about a 15 second light at best. I get
> through the light as it turns yellow, car behind me, afraid he'll get a
> ticket for running the red stop, stops, keeping the cop behind him.
>

If he wanted you bad enough to flip a U-turn, he would have
hit his rotators and gone through the light.

In article >, Bernard Farquart wrote:

> If he wanted you bad enough to flip a U-turn, he would have
> hit his rotators and gone through the light.

Exactly what I was going to post. A red light won't even come between
cops and the doughtnut shop.

Oddly enough, I've found the local cops park their cruisers in the lot of
a closed gas/service station next to the doughtnut shop ;)

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:04:05 -0500,
(Brent P) was understood to have stated the following:

>
>Oddly enough, I've found the local cops park their cruisers in the lot of
>a closed gas/service station next to the doughtnut shop ;)

The only doughnut shop in my town used to be located across the street
from the county police department, although the doughnut shop was in
that area first. They recently relocated and expanded, though, to
about 3 times the floor space, and twice the height; they moved across
the street to be on the same side as the police department. :-D