it's kind of amazing how dangerous driving can be. Sadly like a lot of things it can turn in a moment.
And it’s even more terrifying to think how many sovereign citizens are behind the wheel, their numbers are growing rapidly. If you haven’t heard of these guys they believe the law doesn’t apply to them, so they are on the roads with no insurance, registration or a license. They’ve confused the right to travel with driving a motor vehicle… they’re ignorant and proud, it’s freaky.
I was just telling someone about them. And how they think that there is a loophole that means laws don't apply.
Van Balion’s YT channel is fun to watch, his channel runs clips of all their failures of driving illegally. Most of them are deplorable to the police, I really feel bad that they have to put up with that crap. I have to admit, it’s quite satisfying to watch them fail miserably.
so many people just don't understand that safe speeds involve considering the highly unexpected. The one though that gets me around here are the number of people that either need lines on a road to stay on their side or treat less packed roads like they're the only ones on it. The only accident I almost got into was on a blind turn and the idiot was completely in my lane and I've seen people do that on certain roads so many times. Not paying attention to the lanes on certain roads until they see another car.
I don't always agree with the police I don't think all of them are good (not going to get into percentages, but every job has people that are either just bad at the job or got into the job for the wrong reasons), but even if I have to disagree with a police office I don't see any point in being a jerk or adding unneeded stress. On one level just the fact that it's pretty pointless to argue sometimes. And also they have to deal with so many people at their worst already why not cut them some slack and not giving them one more idiot jerk to deal with. So to me it's not just pointless it's also pointlessly rude.
Yeah, I agree. I certainly have had a run in with a bad officer in my younger days but overall they’ve mostly been fair with me but luckily I haven’t had a run in with them after my adolescent years. The last place you want to cause trouble is at a traffic stop, on the side of the road. That should be common sense but these buttheads have a real problem with authority so they will do whatever they can to get the upper hand. They basically have a script they go by. Part of that script is demanding their supervisor, so much of the time they end up holding up precious recourses just to try to talk their way out of a ticket (usually ends up in several tickets and/or jail time).
I have had a few bad ones. I got detained by an overzealous cop who was still a massive jerk after they caught the guy. I should have reported him. If I am totally honest my observation is that in a large part it comes down to the department and their policies.
One of the things I love about their advice is that it is a script and it sometimes is good if you're hauled in on suspicion on a big crime. The fact that they treat being pulled over or questioned by the police on a minor issue, the same way you might want to treat being questioned about a mysterious disappearance.
It's largely not as dangerous as people say (One job I had my client was a hospital in an area with some of the worst areas for violent crime in the country and the police injuries mostly came from being out in bad weather slip and falls driving in bad weather and rarely being punched. Delivery drives, convenience store clerks, cab drivers got murder or shot regularly). But even if the worst thing they dealt with were annoying drunks it's still a stressful job.
