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Should this be legal for a cop to do?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 12:44 am
Posted on 2/22/24 at 12:44 am
Anyone that has driven US Hwy 165 from Alexandria south is aware all the small towns are nothing but a speed trap. Last night I was driving north on 165 thru Forest Hill and one of their yokels was setting in the center turn lane with is lights off hoping to score on another speeder going a couple MPH over the limit. How is this legal? Cop setting in the center turn lane, lights off?
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Posted on 2/22/24 at 12:51 am to duckblind56
St Gabriel does that at 74 and 30.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:01 am to duckblind56
Is this your first day in Louisiana?
The government fricks you at every chance it can. It’s the only thing that actually functions.
The government fricks you at every chance it can. It’s the only thing that actually functions.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:02 am to RedFoxx
Agreed, this has been going on since I showed up in the 90s. This is why I got pulled over on NAS Belle Chase for driving too slowly. Paranoia.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:02 am to duckblind56
Even legit should be embarrassed at the actions of those thieves.
But they won't say a word.
But they won't say a word.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:13 am to duckblind56
Lights off is better than them throwing a goddamn rave every time they pull someone over.
I swear, if I pass a cop making a traffic stop in the middle of the night I'm blind for a good ten seconds from the 18 damn lightbars they've got going.
I swear, if I pass a cop making a traffic stop in the middle of the night I'm blind for a good ten seconds from the 18 damn lightbars they've got going.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:16 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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Lights off is better than them throwing a goddamn rave every time they pull someone over.
I swear, if I pass a cop making a traffic stop in the middle of the night I'm blind for a good ten seconds from the 18 damn lightbars they've got going.
This. It's like common sense disappears when a person has a light bar - same applies to baws with light bars on their trucks, turning them on while driving in the city.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:42 am to duckblind56
I got stopped for having to many lights on the front of my truck. Cop said it wasn’t foggy enough to be running my light bars in my bumper. I use them at night to project out to the side to see deer.
Yes it’s illegal to have more than your dims or brights on unless it incremental weather but really geesh
Yes it’s illegal to have more than your dims or brights on unless it incremental weather but really geesh
Posted on 2/22/24 at 2:13 am to duckblind56
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thru Forest Hill
Doesn’t everyone know to slow down through Forrest Hill?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:39 am to duckblind56
Back the blue!
Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:51 am to duckblind56
While it seems a bit dangerous to be sitting there ( don’t really know, never been there) if it’s posted, you know the possibility exists for exceeding it.
Every ticket I’ve paid over the years I knew I was over the speed limit when I got pulled over. I wasn’t a dick about getting pulled over so they weren’t dicks about it. Got off with a couple warnings by not being a dick about it.
Every ticket I’ve paid over the years I knew I was over the speed limit when I got pulled over. I wasn’t a dick about getting pulled over so they weren’t dicks about it. Got off with a couple warnings by not being a dick about it.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:44 am to BabyTac
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Back the blue!
I appreciate the job cops do. But in my mind they are a necessary evil, and I do everything in my power to avoid them.
Most I've known are ill trained and trigger happy. I don't want to get lit up like Acorn Boy.
I don't have anything against cops, but I will avoid any situation where I could end up dead, and every interaction with a cop could result in death.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:36 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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every interaction with a cop could result in death.
Which is why I literally laugh in the face of every fool who claims black people cannot be racist because they have no power historically. There’s been black police with the same powers of arrest and authorized to use deadly force since the Emancipation Proclamation if not earlier.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:57 am to duckblind56
quote:Was the cop from Killarney or Cork?
and one of their yokels was setting in the center turn lane with is lights off hoping to score on another speeder going a couple MPH over the limit.
An Irish Setter?
:stopbreakingthelawasshole:
Posted on 2/22/24 at 5:58 am to duckblind56
Police follow the laws of jurisdiction, they do not make the laws. If there is a "speed trap" it is because the town or city government and the locals have asked for it to be enforced.
Livonia has a speed trap because the Mayor's office and the town council voted for it and now the police have to enforce the laws.
Your issue is with the town. How more people don't know this is shocking. The blame police for the laws the politicians and citizens passed.
Livonia has a speed trap because the Mayor's office and the town council voted for it and now the police have to enforce the laws.
Your issue is with the town. How more people don't know this is shocking. The blame police for the laws the politicians and citizens passed.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:07 am to winkchance
I’ve noticed in Houston and Katy now some are sitting in “trappy” spots but they have the lights on. Reb and blues on but not flashing?
Is that a new law here? County? State? Enough cops here have gotten blasted though I think while sitting in a spot. Some dumb (or drunk) bastard driving along hits them full speed.
Is that a new law here? County? State? Enough cops here have gotten blasted though I think while sitting in a spot. Some dumb (or drunk) bastard driving along hits them full speed.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:12 am to duckblind56
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Cop setting in the center turn lane, lights off?
Hit him head on. He won't do that anymore. I think it should be illegal for police to sit anywhere just to handout a speeding ticket.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:38 am to PurpleandGold Motown
quote:So most you've known have fired their weapon unnecessarily in the line of duty?
Most I've known are ill trained and trigger happy
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:40 am to bulldog95
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bulldog95
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I got stopped for having to many lights on the front of my truck
Posted on 2/22/24 at 6:55 am to Ron Popeil
According to the statutes its against the law to park on a highway. No exception for emergency vehicles. Officer should be ticketed. It also requires lights between sunset and sunrise. 2 tickets.
Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes Louisiana Laws 2011 Louisiana Laws Revised Statutes TITLE 32 — Motor vehicles and traffic regulation RS 32:141 — Stopping, standing, or parking outside business or residence districts
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2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 32 — Motor vehicles and traffic regulation
RS 32:141 — Stopping, standing, or parking outside business or residence districts
Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 32:141
SUBPART E. PARKING, STANDING AND STOPPING
§141. Stopping, standing, or parking outside business or residence districts
A. Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district, no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main traveled part of the highway when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off such part of said highway, but in every event an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of such stopped vehicles shall be available from a distance of two hundred feet in each direction upon such highway.
B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the main traveled portion of a highway so that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle in that position. However, the driver shall remove the vehicle as soon as possible, and until it is removed it is his responsibility to protect traffic.
C. The driver of any vehicle left parked, attended or unattended, on any highway, between sunset and sunrise, shall display appropriate signal lights thereon, sufficient to warn approaching traffic of its presence. If the vehicle is not removed from the highway within twenty-four hours, the provisions of R.S. 32:473.1(B) shall apply.
D. In the event of a motor vehicle accident, if the driver is not prevented by injury and the vehicle is not disabled by the accident, or the accident has not resulted in serious injury or death of any person, the driver shall remove the vehicle from the travel lane of the highway to the nearest safe shoulder. Compliance with the provisions of this Subsection shall in no way be interpreted as a violation of requirements to remain at the scene of an accident as provided for in the Highway Regulatory Act or by R.S. 32:414.*
Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes Louisiana Laws 2011 Louisiana Laws Revised Statutes TITLE 32 — Motor vehicles and traffic regulation RS 32:141 — Stopping, standing, or parking outside business or residence districts
There is a newer version of the Louisiana Laws
View our newest version here
2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 32 — Motor vehicles and traffic regulation
RS 32:141 — Stopping, standing, or parking outside business or residence districts
Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 32:141
SUBPART E. PARKING, STANDING AND STOPPING
§141. Stopping, standing, or parking outside business or residence districts
A. Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district, no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main traveled part of the highway when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off such part of said highway, but in every event an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of such stopped vehicles shall be available from a distance of two hundred feet in each direction upon such highway.
B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the main traveled portion of a highway so that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle in that position. However, the driver shall remove the vehicle as soon as possible, and until it is removed it is his responsibility to protect traffic.
C. The driver of any vehicle left parked, attended or unattended, on any highway, between sunset and sunrise, shall display appropriate signal lights thereon, sufficient to warn approaching traffic of its presence. If the vehicle is not removed from the highway within twenty-four hours, the provisions of R.S. 32:473.1(B) shall apply.
D. In the event of a motor vehicle accident, if the driver is not prevented by injury and the vehicle is not disabled by the accident, or the accident has not resulted in serious injury or death of any person, the driver shall remove the vehicle from the travel lane of the highway to the nearest safe shoulder. Compliance with the provisions of this Subsection shall in no way be interpreted as a violation of requirements to remain at the scene of an accident as provided for in the Highway Regulatory Act or by R.S. 32:414.*
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