| Re: Got pulled over riding a bike yesterday!
In article <uo42b.9092$bj.6743@twister.austin.rr.com>, "Duffy Pratt"
<ylin@houston.rr.com> wrote:
> I've been pulled over 3 times:
>
> First was about 20 years ago, for speeding. It was a long downhill stretch
> and I was going 40+ in a 35 mph zone. I asked the cop to give me a ticket,
> but he wouldn't.
>
> The other times were in a nearby neighborhood where a cop seems to have it
> in for cyclists. Both times he stopped me for running a stop sign at an
> empty 4 way stop in a quiet neighborhood. He warned me both times that if
> he saw me do it again, he would give me a citation. The second time I said
> that if I had to stop at every single stop sign, it would be completely
> pointless to ride in the area, and he said that that was the idea.
>
> Duffy
>
Geez, maybe they could be on the lookout for, say, rapists or robbers?
Unless you're in a low-crime area where there is nothing for cops to do.
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