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Pig driving recklessly this evening...
While headed home today I pulled up behind a cop stopped at a red light. We
were both turning left. The protected left turned green and we turned. He proceeded to tailgate the guy ahead of him, doing the standard cop behavior or riding nearly up to touching the guys car and tapping on his brakes a bit, then accelerating and repeating. The guy ahead of the cop then turned right. The cop stayed right on his bumper until he completed his turn, despite the fact that there was no oncoming traffic on the other side of the road and plenty of room to go around the guy who was turning right. The cop then proceeded to accelerate at a high rate up to ~45 MPH (25 MPH residential zone). I decided to follow him and see what was so important that he be driving so recklessly. He did not at any time use his lights or siren. The cop then approached another car and proceeded to do the same tailgating routine as he did to the previous car after making his left. Cop came to a traffic light and got in the protected left turn lane. I got in the lane behind him. While waiting for teh light I got out my notepad and pen and wrote down the license plate, time, day, roads, and actions I observed. I believe the cop noticed me, judging from his reaction as he looked at me through his mirror. In any case, the light changed and I followed him some more. He drove more normally after making his left. Driving at about 30-35 MPH (typical speed for this particular road which is psoted at 25 MPH. I followed at a good distance. As we went along he slowed down to 25-30 MPH. Then as he was approaching a traffic light that changed yellow a good distance ahead of him he accelerated and the light turned red while he was in the intersection (not illegal in NJ), however he had plenty of room to stop comfortably when the light changed to yellow. I see this type of reckless driving all the time. Cops seem to be some of the worst drivers here in NJ. When I travel I've not noticed cops driving so recklessly as I regularly observe here. I don't know if that's indicative of anything or not, but this sort of thing is totally unsafe. 45 MPH in a residential zone is crazy. Kids are out playing, people are walking, people are pulling out of driveways and turning. No one expects anyone to be driving that fast ina residential zone posted at 25 MPH. I could go on and on about this, but I won't. I'll just report it as I always do, and watch as the same behavior continues to happen. Maybe when a cop totals someone's car or kills someone's kid those pigs will finally get it. Cory |
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Hi Cory, how about applying to the Cop Academy and becoming
a model cop? Show them how its done |
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:59:43 -0500, "Cory Dunkle" >
wrote: > I believe the cop noticed me, judging from his reaction as he >looked at me through his mirror. One day we're going to read in the news about some young guy driving a classic car that was beaten to death by cops. I don't know what their excuse will be, but it wouldn't surprise me if his name was Cory Dunkle |
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In article >, Cartlon Shew wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:59:43 -0500, "Cory Dunkle" > > wrote: > >> I believe the cop noticed me, judging from his reaction as he >>looked at me through his mirror. > > One day we're going to read in the news about some young guy driving a > classic car that was beaten to death by cops. > > I don't know what their excuse will be, but it wouldn't surprise me if > his name was Cory Dunkle I guess we can count you out on resisting the loss of liberty in this nation Mr. Shew. |
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Brent P wrote:
> In article >, Cartlon Shew > wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:59:43 -0500, "Cory Dunkle" > >> wrote: >> >>> I believe the cop noticed me, judging from his reaction as he >>>looked at me through his mirror. >> >> One day we're going to read in the news about some young guy driving a >> classic car that was beaten to death by cops. >> >> I don't know what their excuse will be, but it wouldn't surprise me if >> his name was Cory Dunkle > > I guess we can count you out on resisting the loss of liberty in this > nation Mr. Shew. CD, who are you going to complain to? Where I live, cops drive fine. If you want to make a difference, film this stuff, then give it to FBI and local media. Better have many such films. You don't expect PD to investigate itself, do you? I generally respect cops and what they do, but if and when they drive recklessly, they are destroying the very important relations with the community. |
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Utah Sucks wrote:
> Brent P wrote: > > >>In article >, Cartlon Shew >>wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:59:43 -0500, "Cory Dunkle" > >>>wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I believe the cop noticed me, judging from his reaction as he >>>>looked at me through his mirror. >>> >>>One day we're going to read in the news about some young guy driving a >>>classic car that was beaten to death by cops. >>> >>>I don't know what their excuse will be, but it wouldn't surprise me if >>>his name was Cory Dunkle >> >>I guess we can count you out on resisting the loss of liberty in this >>nation Mr. Shew. > > > CD, who are you going to complain to? Where I live, cops drive fine. If you > want to make a difference, film this stuff, then give it to FBI and local > media. Better have many such films. You don't expect PD to investigate > itself, do you? > > I generally respect cops and what they do, but if and when they drive > recklessly, they are destroying the very important relations with the > community. It's not so much that they drive recklessly - I mean they do, of course - but that god help you if you get pulled over for 10 over, then you get to listen to the same cop lecture you about how unsafely YOU were driving, when he was just doing 20 MPH faster a few minutes ago. It's the hypocrisy that really wears out my fillings. nate -- replace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel |
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Can jaybird or anyone comment on why police tend to tailgate? I see
this behavior all the time and it really disturbs me. I've also had it happen to me, and I find it rude and intimidating. (And unsafe!) Maybe there is a logical explanation, but the cynic in me is really starting to believe it is to intimidate drivers into speeding. |
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spinfire wrote:
> Can jaybird or anyone comment on why police tend to tailgate? I see > this behavior all the time and it really disturbs me. I've also had it > happen to me, and I find it rude and intimidating. (And unsafe!) > Maybe there is a logical explanation, but the cynic in me is really > starting to believe it is to intimidate drivers into speeding. > I think they do it mostly because they can, and they're trying to get you to move right and let them pass. So for the most part I think that it's at least 50% the tailgatee's fault. However, there was one cop locally that seemed to have a pattern of tailgating people in the left lane and then pulling them over for speeding when they sped up to complete their pass (how's that for discouraging courtesy!) I discovered this when I went to court to fight a BS speeding ticket (given by the same officer, except I didn't actually speed when he pulled his little stunt on me, I was watching) the first time I went the cop didn't show and the judge made me come back a second time, the second time a different judge merely stated that that officer was "no longer in traffic enforcement" and dismissed all his tickets. I'd like to know the rest of the story but never saw anything in the papers. nate -- replace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel |
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On 27 Mar 2005 17:56:08 -0800, "spinfire" > wrote:
>Can jaybird or anyone comment on why police tend to tailgate? I see >this behavior all the time and it really disturbs me. I've also had it >happen to me, and I find it rude and intimidating. (And unsafe!) >Maybe there is a logical explanation, but the cynic in me is really >starting to believe it is to intimidate drivers into speeding. Yeah right. jaybird - "cops never break the law, and so they never tailgate. You are just trying to increase the hatred of a poor, misunderstood group of humane individuals who occasionally might make a mistake but should never answer for those few billion mistakes." |
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:52:46 -0500, Nate Nagel , one of an infinite
number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters said the following in rec.autos.driving... > spinfire wrote: > > > Can jaybird or anyone comment on why police tend to tailgate? I see > > this behavior all the time and it really disturbs me. I've also had it > > happen to me, and I find it rude and intimidating. (And unsafe!) > > Maybe there is a logical explanation, but the cynic in me is really > > starting to believe it is to intimidate drivers into speeding. > > > > I think they do it mostly because they can, and they're trying to get > you to move right and let them pass. So for the most part I think that > it's at least 50% the tailgatee's fault. I've had them do that to me when I have been doing the SL and in the far right lane with very light traffic(IOW, the cop could have passed if he wanted to). I agree with spinfi they are doing it to get people to speed so they can rake in some revenue. |
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