I'm sure there are still things that could convince you to return to those days =p
I got close in the deaf/signing thread.
Provoking traffic offences, common outside sweden?
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I got close in the deaf/signing thread.
Sara's mother left the UK and married a Swede when she was 22. She has two older sisters who live in Birmingham and London with their husbands and have one kid each. Their parents (Sara's grandparents) still live in the Manchester. Plus add any friends of the family.
I was surprised he didn't try anything actually. But considering all the locals are still partnered with someone from metro, i don't think he had the guts to do it.
Really? I can live with outlandish, but i dare say I haven't always come out on top. I can give as good as i can get, but nobody ever gets out always on top. I've gotten my ass whopped a few times, I freely admit that. As for the time i beat up that copper. He was undercover and didnt identify himself. I knew who he was, but in the eyes of the law. He was a civilian who attacked me. Self defense.
Why? Ambulances have the same lights as coppers. I don't have to pull over for them when they flash blue. Hell emergency medical transports like more or less identical to a cop car if you're far enough away from it. If everyone pulled over for a blue light you'd clog the roads within seconds. Besides, i slowed down and pulled to the side three times so he could overtake me. If he wanted something from me and thought i was running from him, he would've done overtook me and ran me off the road. I got out of his way, just like the law states. What more do you want from me?
Besides, the issue was that he was tailgating me so closely that if i made the slightest mistake, say i shifted into the wrong gear, he would've hit me. Its illegal, reckless, stupid and dangerous. There is a reason you're supposed your keep your distance.
That's other people, not me. These days, anyway
I'm sure there are still things that could convince you to return to those days =p
I got close in the deaf/signing thread.
I did wonder!
That sounds very lovely. So, are you the quirky uncle who sends cool presents, or the grouch who only watches sports?
Make up stories about sticking it to The Man?Well I think you're great. This is the funniest thread I've read in quite a while.
"I can beat a bloody Ferrari!"
I do this for a living, what did you expect me to drive, a Yaris?
Do what for a living?
Well, you SHOULD be apologizing for being born.
I'm the crazy uncle who rides a motorbike and considers the sport section in the papers the new bible. And brings cool presents. I multitask.
We always pull over for ambulances here (the US) and it doesn't really cause much disruption to traffic or clog up the roads. But I don't know, maybe traffic patterns are much different where you live?
My point is, surely it would be easier to simply pull over for all cops who are flashing lights at you - if they want you, then you're already stopped; if they don't, then they'll go by and you can go. Wouldn't this be easier than trying to remember which light color means stop and which doesn't?
As for ambulances, we don't have to pull OVER for them, just change lanes so they can get by.
If somebody is tailgating you like that, just slow down gradually.
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I was once in a situation that makes this sound brilliant.
Out on a back road at 3:00 AM a cop zoomed up behind me, red/blues a-flashing. Not wanting to stop in the middle of nowhere, I slowed to 5mph below the speed limit as to indicate I have no plans of trying to flee, but I did not pull over and stop where there was zero potential for witnesses and I would have been utterly helpless. I knew there was a 24-hour truck stop/filling station a reasonable distance down the road. After 30 seconds or so he whipped past me and continued on about his way.
Had I known he just flipped the lights on to get me to pull over so he could get past me, I would have done so right of the bat.
For all I know he may have actually wanted to pull me over just to snoop, it was 3:00 AM after all, but he realized what I was doing and determined I probably wasn't going to be worth the wait/effort.
Perhaps not, but i sure hope that you at least follow most traffic laws. Here they mean nothing. Traffic lights? Huh? Indicators? What? Right hand yielding? Whats that rubbish?
I havent seen a turn indicator in two weeks. And i drive every day.
If I hear/see the blues and twos, I tend to keep driving, I do pull over closer to the kerb it's up to them to get past me. Of course I look for a place to stop if needed as per Higway code regulation 219.
Emergency and Incident Support vehicles. You should look and listen for ambulances, fire engines, police, doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens or flashing headlights, or Highways Agency Traffic Officer and Incident Support vehicles using flashing amber lights. When one approaches do not panic. Consider the route of such a vehicle and take appropriate action to let it pass, while complying with all traffic signs. If necessary, pull to the side of the road and stop, but try to avoid stopping before the brow of a hill, a bend or narrow section of road. Do not endanger yourself, other road users or pedestrians and avoid mounting the kerb. Do not brake harshly on approach to a junction or roundabout, as a following vehicle may not have the same view as you.
Emergency and Incident Support vehicles. You should look and listen for ambulances, fire engines, police, doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens or flashing headlights, or Highways Agency Traffic Officer and Incident Support vehicles using flashing amber lights. When one approaches do not panic. Consider the route of such a vehicle and take appropriate action to let it pass, while complying with all traffic signs. If necessary, pull to the side of the road and stop, but try to avoid stopping before the brow of a hill, a bend or narrow section of road. Do not endanger yourself, other road users or pedestrians and avoid mounting the kerb. Do not brake harshly on approach to a junction or roundabout, as a following vehicle may not have the same view as you.
The way I learned it, you pull over and stop for *any* siren once you establish it is on your part of the road, so long as doing so is a practical way to get out out of the road. If not you do whatever works best to clear passage for the vehicle.
Any emergency vehicle which doesn't need you to get out of its way uses only lights, no siren. Siren means move.
Also, ambulances have only red lights, as do fire trucks. While many police cars have red lights, they're usually dominated by the blue ones so blue is the color typically associated with police lights.
Utility vehicles usually have yellow lights, which are just a caution and require no special action on your part.
In Illinois you have to pull over, but that's always in town. I have no idea if the laws are different for the highway. I don't think I've ever encountered an emergency vehicle on the highway that had its lights flashing.
This.
You start pulling over when a cop flashes his lights, note if he's following you and then you know to pull over all the way or to simply go it part way to give him room to pass you.
No need for "different colored lights", hell in America people would use the "just passing" color as an excuse to not move for emergency vehicles.
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