re: Is it pointless to report someone driving like a a-hole?

The boss of a friend of mine passed a possible drunk driver on the Causeway. This was before cell phones so the boss stopped to use a call box on the bridge to report it. Along came the other car and smashed into the boss' car that was stopped on the bridge and killed him. I don't know why he didn't use one of the crossovers.

He had the bigger vehicle and I wasnt awake yet.
Coming from AP to Baton Rouge around 645am.
Lifted Toyota Tundra
Blacked out
light bar with no lights
Licence Plate BR######

I asked a officer here in Shreveport about this. He said to call it in with description and direction of travel so they can get the word out. I got passed by a guy on a motorcycle on I20 doing well over 100mph and I started to call, but I knew that by the time they tried to respond, the bike would be past Minden

i did it once on I-10 when a guy almost hit my bumper and then almost ran me into a big rig and proceeded to drive on the shoulder, all because i was (already) passing a truck at 85 mph and the redneck wanted to go over 100.

talked to the cop for awhile--they seemed to be taking it seriously. no evidence they got him though.

oh, and one time in atlanta, i chased a car full of UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS all over town after seeing them run a red light and t-bone a car. someone else was attending to the victim. i went all around 285, and kept changing jurisdictions. not sure why they didn't just connect me to highway patrol. they actually pulled over and i kept my distance. stayed on the phone with the cops but they ultimately said to gtfo of course.

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Saw someone run a car halfway off Airline Hwy this morning. Then before he took a right @ Highland...he acted like he was going to do it again. Have License Plate # and vehicle description.

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You would have to swear out the affidavit and go to court. If we don't see it, we can't write the ticket. A lot of times we will respond and if you are following the driver we can get behind him and a lot of times he will commit a violation in front of us. If that happens, then we don't have to use you as a witness and you don't have to come to court. We get a lot of DUI arrest this way.

Last week I almost rear ended a trailer with no functional lights. It was 6:00 pm on I-10 in BR, and I could not tell that it was stopping. I did not call the police, but I did call the company safety line as it was an electric company logo on the side of the truck. I did not want to get them fired or anything, just needed to inform them of a huge liability issue. They were appreciative and said that they would address either the malfunctioning of lights or ineptitude of the person hooking up the trailer.