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Do you flash your high beams for oncoming traffic if you see a cop camping out?
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Sometimes. If there is someone in front of me I'm much less likely to flash my lights.
I don't do it out of a "fuck[/b] the police" type of attitude. Sometimes I'm not paying as much attention to my speed as I should and I get going a little fast. The flashes atleast remind me to check my own speed to see if I need to slow down. 🙂
I don't do it out of a "fuck[/b] the police" type of attitude. Sometimes I'm not paying as much attention to my speed as I should and I get going a little fast. The flashes atleast remind me to check my own speed to see if I need to slow down. 🙂
MidasKnight
Diamond Member
Drive the speed limit ... problem solved.
AlienCraft
Lifer
No
I always do, and, thankfully, up here in Bucks County, Pa. there are enough old time non-yuppie brain dead drivers that I also get alerted!
Up here (once rural but being relentlessly developed) there are a lot of two lane roads with 35, 45, and 50 mph ranges, but everyone goes 60+ whenever and wherever they can, because of distance (not that bad, but still . . .), so when the cops are set up you can get screwed. So people still warn each other up here.
Btw, I still appreciate the natives, whom you can tell, because they set up 4-5 car lengths behind you at speed and DON"T tailgate on two lane roads with double yellow lines. But more and more, the brain dead, self important, cell phone yapping trophy wives of the incoming yuppie scum in their Expeditions get right up on your ass. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Up here (once rural but being relentlessly developed) there are a lot of two lane roads with 35, 45, and 50 mph ranges, but everyone goes 60+ whenever and wherever they can, because of distance (not that bad, but still . . .), so when the cops are set up you can get screwed. So people still warn each other up here.
Btw, I still appreciate the natives, whom you can tell, because they set up 4-5 car lengths behind you at speed and DON"T tailgate on two lane roads with double yellow lines. But more and more, the brain dead, self important, cell phone yapping trophy wives of the incoming yuppie scum in their Expeditions get right up on your ass. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Good luck with it... I saw someone attempt the same in court in bumfvck NY - attempting to get it reduced to something that wouldn't put points on his license and go to traffic school - the judge said "we're more simple out here. They might mess around with that kinda stuff in the big cities, but we don't"
Buickbeast
Platinum Member
Well in most cities tickets account for 30-40% of there income. So how about they raise your taxes another 10% and see how happy you are :disgust:
Sometimes if I remember, and if the highway isn't a huge divided highway where the oncoming cars wouldn't notice.
NikPreviousAcct
No Lifer
Why the EFF would I do that?
blurredvision
Lifer
I always flash the beams. It's the word of the road, ya know?
EDIT: Forgot to add that it's easily gotten me out of 2 or 3 tickets in my short driving career, when someone else has alerted me. Ever seen the movie Pay It Forward?
EDIT: Forgot to add that it's easily gotten me out of 2 or 3 tickets in my short driving career, when someone else has alerted me. Ever seen the movie Pay It Forward?
Flashing your headlights won't make someone think twice about doing 60 in residential areas, driving with excessive speed in heavy traffic or tailgating.
In my experience, you won't get pulled over for driving in a safe manner, and people driving in a safe manner are much less likely to cause accidents.
Everytime I think about flashing my high beams to other people I think of how bad it would suck if some guy was speeding or driving like a fool and hit me, regardless of what other problems may come from that, he might not be doing that if he just got a ticket for it.
I'm not a perfect law-abiding driver, but I do my best to not put other people's lives and cars in danger. I'd like the same from everyone else and helping some loser avoid a ticket isn't the way to do that.
In my experience, you won't get pulled over for driving in a safe manner, and people driving in a safe manner are much less likely to cause accidents.
Everytime I think about flashing my high beams to other people I think of how bad it would suck if some guy was speeding or driving like a fool and hit me, regardless of what other problems may come from that, he might not be doing that if he just got a ticket for it.
I'm not a perfect law-abiding driver, but I do my best to not put other people's lives and cars in danger. I'd like the same from everyone else and helping some loser avoid a ticket isn't the way to do that.
TheToOTaLL
Platinum Member
Depends what kind of mood I'm in - usually I will, but sometimes I like doing it just to freak people out 😀
Yes I do, when I know the area and can be reasonably certain another cop isn't waiting further back for headlight flashers. 🙂
I've been saved a few times by them and thus I return the favor.
Figured there'd be more no's here, most people who post here are perfect drivers who never speed. Well, so it seems.
I've been saved a few times by them and thus I return the favor.
Figured there'd be more no's here, most people who post here are perfect drivers who never speed. Well, so it seems.
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