StinkyLinky
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Wasn't in my 10, but an interesting thing happened in Lexington today.
A State Police detective in an unmarked car was behind me as I made a right turn at a red light (after a legal stop). After turning the corner, there are three lanes, the left and center go straight, right lane is turn only in about 500 feet. I hopped into the current center lane with moderate acceleration (as much as you can get from 105 hp VW Jetta TDI) and the DICK-tective turns into the right lane and hammers it to go around me. No traffic behind me at all, nor anyone in the left lane next to me. All I hear is his V8 winding up with full acceleration. The wife even turns to see what the fool is doing.
As we get to the merge (maybe I sped up a little out of spite), he slides in front of me and I keep my same pace. He flips his lights on and pulls to the shoulder (we are now past the right turn). OK, I figure he's up to something else, so I continue on and he pulls out behind me and waves me over.
When he approaches the car, he proceeds to tell me I was "following too close" and asked if I was aware of the law regarding tailgating. I responded "As I see it, YOU are the one that cut ME off and therefore created the short gap. I don't understand why YOU felt a need to pass on the right in a turn lane. Where is the emergency?"
He proceeded to tell me that he was doing me a favor and was not going to write me a ticket. I almost wish he did, as it would have been fun destroying him in court. I was guilty of being cut off by a guy who felt untouchable because of "who he is".
About 2 miles down the road, a Lexington city cop car miraculously started going on the exact same route as me, as a twisted and turned down an abnormal route from point a to point b, at 10 mph UNDER the limit, just to be a pain.
A State Police detective in an unmarked car was behind me as I made a right turn at a red light (after a legal stop). After turning the corner, there are three lanes, the left and center go straight, right lane is turn only in about 500 feet. I hopped into the current center lane with moderate acceleration (as much as you can get from 105 hp VW Jetta TDI) and the DICK-tective turns into the right lane and hammers it to go around me. No traffic behind me at all, nor anyone in the left lane next to me. All I hear is his V8 winding up with full acceleration. The wife even turns to see what the fool is doing.
As we get to the merge (maybe I sped up a little out of spite), he slides in front of me and I keep my same pace. He flips his lights on and pulls to the shoulder (we are now past the right turn). OK, I figure he's up to something else, so I continue on and he pulls out behind me and waves me over.
When he approaches the car, he proceeds to tell me I was "following too close" and asked if I was aware of the law regarding tailgating. I responded "As I see it, YOU are the one that cut ME off and therefore created the short gap. I don't understand why YOU felt a need to pass on the right in a turn lane. Where is the emergency?"
He proceeded to tell me that he was doing me a favor and was not going to write me a ticket. I almost wish he did, as it would have been fun destroying him in court. I was guilty of being cut off by a guy who felt untouchable because of "who he is".
About 2 miles down the road, a Lexington city cop car miraculously started going on the exact same route as me, as a twisted and turned down an abnormal route from point a to point b, at 10 mph UNDER the limit, just to be a pain.
