One of the blogs I frequent, ggKimmieGal, has a great post up regarding jerks on the road. It reminded me of an incident I witnessed on the way home from Nightwish in Orangevale that I fully intended to post here, but forgot about.
I believe we had just stopped for Rockstars to keep us awake on the way home, and we were on out way back to the freeway when we saw some guy turn left into a parking lot, RIGHT IN FRONT OF A COP. When I say “right in front of a cop”, I mean that the cop had to SLAM on his brakes to avoid hitting the guy, who made his turn right behind someone else, like he didn’t want to wait for oncoming traffic to pass by.
We kinda freaked out, thinking that maybe the cop had actually hit the guy. We pulled forward to the stoplight and kept an eye on the cop. Man, he flipped around really fast, blew through the light to make a u-turn and turn into the driveway in search of the right-of-way offender. The jerk had pulled into a parking space as if to say, “ha ha, you can’t pull me over if I’m parked!” Wrong.
The cop jumped out of his car, hand on his gun and cautiously approached the vehicle while his partner got out of car and stayed behind it, using the car for cover. It was kind of surreal. You can’t be too careful, I guess, but it seemed as though the cops were sure this guy was going to jump out of his car, guns blazing.
People turn like that in front of me all the time, and I don’t mind saying that it was more than a little satisfying to see this guy do it in front of a cop. I’m not going to go vigilante, but I won’t tell you that the thought has not occurred to me with the sheer number of people I see on a regular basis who think the rules just don’t apply to them.
Anyway, it was an interesting, satisfying incident. I’m sad to see that I didn’t get to stay there and watch how the whole thing played out, as my light turned green, and I really needed to get home and sleep. (Us old people can’t stay up like we used to be able to.) But I’m glad I got to witness it.
Oh man I always dream of someone hitting the horn for me to go at a light right near a cop. Legally speaking, the horn is supposed to be used for emergency purposes only, so they could be slammed with a ticket for being a jerk. That is so awesome you got to see someone get p0wned for being stupid.
Yup yup.
The problem with the dream scenario (and I agree, t’would be RAD) is that it seems that cops never pull over people doing dumb things, unless that person is me. lol
One of these days, though…. :)
WOW. That’s insane. You gotta wonder what people can possibly be thinking when they do things like that. I mean, seriously. That’s about the time I start giving “running commentary on idiots” when I’m driving. =P
Oh, and for the record, I LOVE the new layout. Very, very nice. ^_^
Thank you. I like the new layout as well. I’m working on some things that will make comments nicer, but so far, the plugin isn’t working so well. :)
I’ll post when it’s working.
I remember that, that jerk was an idiot.
Made for an exciting trip back home, though.
Well, he paid for his idiocy. That cop really looked like he was ready to shoot someone.
I drive around for a living and beleive me everyday i am more and more surprised with the way people drive. Its like as long as they dont see any police anything goes.
No kidding. The country roads I always drive on are almost entirely devoid of cops. As a result, people rarely stop at stop signs, and do all kinds of other crazy stuff.
Just the other day, I was approaching a stop sign when someone flew through it going at least 80mph. Now, California stops are one thing…where someone slows down a little at a stop sign. But this guy didn’t even pretend to slow down.
One of these days, I’m going to see an accident from that kind of thing, and I really hope it’s not my own.