Yes, the intersection was clear. The cop was impeding traffic.
This is why “pig” is a synonym for “cop”.
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If you’ve been smoking for 20 years and inhaling, you have cancer and it just hasn’t been detected. And somewhere, lots of people are smiling about the future customer/patient. Somewhere else, some tobacco farmer and some executive are having a toast to your health.
Well, he honked twice, so that’s obviously terroristic.
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“I disagree with this study’s conclusion, therefore I’m going to pretend its an anecdote and ignore it. I am a Smart Self-Aware Rebel for doing this, not willfully ignorant.”
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I just watch the larger cycles of studies conflicting with each other. When some hotbed issue like this comes out, there’s a vogue-ness having studies corroborate it in the way that feels right to people and good to legislators and corporations; a good old fashioned witch hunt has a life of its own, and can serve many purposes. Sometimes studies survive the test of time, sometimes they’re drivel. Sure, I’m a rebel… a lazy, sexy rebel… but I know when to sit back and let the wheels turn a few more rounds. Remember me in ten years when the hysteria around this issue has died down and some new ones have come to take its place. In the meantime, don’t smoke weed (it’ll fry your brain), don’t eat eggs, eat lots of carbs, coffee reduces cancer, and don’t get your kids vaxed because they’ll end up autistic. You’re welcome.
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These guys are not both jerks. There is only one jerk here; the cop. Honking at someone who is not paying attention because they are on the phone is a completely legitimate indication of “danger” which is what the horn is supposed to be used for. That an unmarked police car might have been the one not paying attention is irrelevant.
Do not blame the biker here - he was doing what is right; calling inattentive drivers out, be they cops or not.
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Look, that’s just a bunch of anecdotes, arranged nicely into tables. I’ve been munching on the 2-foot hoagies while driving for nearly 20 years now, and the only things that’s happened to me is diabeetus.
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Why is it so hard for the cops to admit that with a laptop and a CB and a phone in the car, they are distracted?
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Basically, it’s an issue with cops who insist on being treated like they’re the 1%, even as they’re being paid just like they’re any other shmoe. The badge and the gun are supposed to bump them up several notches in the heirarchy, and woe to any civilian who doesn’t defer to this.
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I’m with the cop here. If the cop was a true asshole the biker would be arrested. The cop was trying to reason with the biker and telling him to “chill”. The biker was just being another type of ‘cop’ policing other drivers for perceived infractions.
Also, you’re seeing an edited version of the story from the biker’s POV.
And yeah…I’m sure NO ONE HERE has ever, NEVER ever…used a cell phone while driving. (Which BTW isn’t illegal in CO)…
The biker is tin god cop in his own right…that quickly changed his tune when seeing the driver he was harassing was real cop.
Actually, if that had been a regular person driving in the SUV and a cop had pulled up behind them, the cop could have issued a ticket. It’s against the law to use the phone while driving in Colorado.
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You must not drive in an area where using the horn is an integral part of driving to get other people’s attention. If the only use of a horn was “road rage” they wouldn’t be put on vehicles. Unfortunately people in some regions tend to only look at them as aggression.
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Yup.
Routine situations that call for horn use on Sydney roads:
- Driver merging into your lane as if you didn’t exist, forcing you to evade.
- Driver forgot to put their headlights on.
- Driver failing to notice that the lights have gone green (often, because they’re fiddling with their phone).
- Driver holding up traffic to make a turn at an intersection where that turn is prohibited.
If any of those situations escalated to “road rage”, it’d be the honkee seen as the aggressive psycho, not the honker.
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I swear at the end of that encounter, if I had been that motorcyclist, after the cop had gotten back into his undercover SUV and gotten into the roundabout I would have honked at him again. I wouldn’t have been able to resist it.
Well I don’t want to speak for anyone else here, but I haven’t.
Hate to break it to ya, just because it ain’t illegal doesn’t make right or safe. For example, driving a train full of Bakken crude oil through the Columbia Gorge in Oregon, it’s legal but it sure as hell ain’t right and it definitely isn’t safe.
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Aren’t you equating studies run by scientists (Vaccines=Autism, Smoking weed=BAAAAD):
With studies run by scientists (Nicotine=Carcinogen, Distractions=Dangerous driving):
???
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Wrong!!! There was PLENTY of room!
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Based on the comments half of boingboing commenters are bad words and drive like maniacs. That intersection wasn’t clear but even if you think it was, it wasn’t clear enough to honk at the driver in front of you. Cop isn’t a prize either.
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That’s some damn solid statistical work there bro. keep it up.
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I hate to break it to you, but honking at people who aren’t breaking the law isn’t right or safe either.
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