OT Cops - When Did It Become the Norm to Pull Over Drivers in the Middle of the Road?

It’s called power. They get their little hardons when people stop traffic and frick everything up because they didn’t use their blinker to change lanes…

LSP policy is to pull onto the shoulder IF the vehicle can be completely removed from the roadway. If the vehicle cannot be completely removed from the roadway, they are required to use the directional light bar (the arrows pointing to the left) and leave the cruiser fully in the lane of travel.

The rationale is that it is easier for an approaching driver to perceive that a vehicle is completely blocking a lane of travel than it is to perceive that a vehicle is partly blocking the lane (which is safer and makes a collision less likely if the cruiser is fully blocking the lane). If they can get all the way on the shoulder, they are supposed to do that. I had to talk to a trooper about that this week.

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even if you've put your flashers on to drive to a safe location.

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Law says you are supposed to pull over immediately, safety be damned.

And they get pissy if you try otherwise.

We need the law to be changed.

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It’s called power. They get their little hardons when people stop traffic and frick everything up because they didn’t use their blinker to change lanes…

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I'm not disagreeing, but I want everyone who refuses to use a blinker to suffer these consequences.

It's a flick of the fricking wrist. You aren't the only one on the road. Stop being a selfish a-hole. I sometimes do it when I turn a sharp curve because after you do it so much it becomes second nature when you're making a turn.

You're actually causing danger on the road when you don't use a blinker.

I'm all for safety, but those effin lights are ridiculous.

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So you want praise for being so fricking retreadable that you cannot mentally judge a turn from a curve?

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Praise from you idiots is maybe the last thing I want. In fact, when I get praise from people around here I typically reassess my position.

I'm saying that if you get in the habit of utilizing your turn signal, it becomes so ingrained that you might start to do it when you make anything resembling a turn. I know reading comprehension is tough, so my thesis is this:

Using your turn signal is so easy and becomes a habit so quickly, that the only reason someone doesn't do it is because they're a bad driver and an a-hole.

I’ve never seen this

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Then I’d get out and meet the cop at the tailgate to start talking my way out of the ticket

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Try that today

Didn't take long for this response. No reason to state facts, just innuendo will do.