tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post7373730494825978449..comments2024-03-17T11:09:57.186-07:00Comments on Officer "Smith": Thoughts From Behind the Badge: No Sense of Direction...Officer "Smith"http://www.blogger.com/profile/16053602205443157704noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-64256895295202115312010-05-23T10:06:34.957-07:002010-05-23T10:06:34.957-07:00When someone crosses my cone pattern because they ...When someone crosses my cone pattern because they are special, unlike the previous 100 motorists who followed my directions with no problem whatsoever, they are pulled off to the side of the road, always in the sun. License is confiscated, along with the car keys. (No air conditioning or radio for you, dumbass) It usually takes me about 20 more minutes of directing traffic for me to walk back over to them and tell them I'm too busy to write them up a ticket. Then they must proceed on their way, going the direction everyone else had to go in the first place.BootedCophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07820750912842579347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-24352730679653971502010-05-17T05:45:54.889-07:002010-05-17T05:45:54.889-07:00Oh my gosh! This had me laughing....as I could def...Oh my gosh! This had me laughing....as I could definitely see the whole thing unfolding! ;)<br /><br />I know, I should not be laughing - it's just the image of that moronic driver sitting on the side of the road waiting for their ticket that did me in!Front Porch Societyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515383787374168157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-61987642029970673192010-05-16T19:57:29.028-07:002010-05-16T19:57:29.028-07:00Unfortunately, some people have so little confiden...Unfortunately, some people have so little confidence behind the wheel, that even something as simple as having to circle around the block to go around an accident results in an abject panic.<br /><br />Honestly, if you are one those people, is it that hard to spend $100 on a decent mildly-used GPS unit? I'm not one of those drivers, and it's still among the best $150 I've ever spent.HonkingAntelopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630108209996326842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-78258202135610793262010-05-15T20:12:22.957-07:002010-05-15T20:12:22.957-07:00No, it is not just Smithville, it is everywhere el...No, it is not just Smithville, it is everywhere else that we got the HUAs on the roads.<br /><br />Just a few weeks ago, I was two cars behind one of those HUAs. The police officer (whom I recognized as my son's grade school classmate's dad) was standing in the roadway, directing the cars to turn right in precisely the manner described by Officer Smith, and the HUA wanted to go straight.<br /><br />HUA got the officer to the "yell at" phase, and then, in a flash of genius, decided to comply and proceed rightward. It is quite likely that had HUA persevered just a few seconds longer, he may well have persuaded the officer to go into "citation" mode.<br /><br />My passenger wondered aloud why the officer was there in the first place. I told him that the local papers would probably carry something about it in the next day or two, but that the electric utility's two service trucks about 150 yards behind the officer probably had something to do with it.<br /><br />Sure enough, there was a write-up about a downed power line. Nothing about what must have been a 20 - 30 car backup because of HUA's reluctance to turn towards the right, and take the 3-block detour along the residential street before being directed leftward, back to the main road, by another officer.Expatriate Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05094406368801045958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-5838649463039993922010-05-15T11:35:11.556-07:002010-05-15T11:35:11.556-07:00The other day when I was going to the mall, I atte...The other day when I was going to the mall, I attempted to turn down a side road that is a shortcut. There was one car ahead of me, and I saw there was a police car parked across the middle of the road and an officer standing in front of it indicating that the car in front of me should continue going straight. I couldn't hear what the driver was yelling, but I could plainly hear the officer and three times he said, "Ma'am, you can't turn here. There are electrical wires down across the road." Of course by the third time he said it, he was getting a TAD more emphatic:)...as was his body language. All of a sudden, I remembered all these cop blog posts about people who insist the rules aren't for them;).*Goddess*https://www.blogger.com/profile/03012831511206842735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-89840698905821978542010-05-15T04:38:46.303-07:002010-05-15T04:38:46.303-07:00Incredible. Perhaps they thought you were practici...Incredible. Perhaps they thought you were practicing your dance moves. Was music playing anywhere?Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04636239965764222636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-81179449951097411242010-05-14T21:13:41.014-07:002010-05-14T21:13:41.014-07:00"But...but...but I don't know how to get ..."But...but...but I don't know how to get home any other way then going that way!!!"Murphy's Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17164780742334950772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190524197374045099.post-71626975652820736602010-05-14T20:39:26.857-07:002010-05-14T20:39:26.857-07:00I bore witness to this kind of situation just six ...I bore witness to this kind of situation just six weeks ago. I was working a grass fire that had closed part of an interstate-type highway and part of another highway. I was in a fire truck clearly operating with lights flashing and had to drive from the one highway to the other on a ramp the police had closed. They let us through and several cars followed us, including a couple to pass us (it's not a very fast fire truck). All of them got to stay by the roadside waiting for the officer to ticket them after he was done his traffic detail.Jay911https://www.blogger.com/profile/01344712401755902545noreply@blogger.com