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stranger saved me from a ticket today

OS

OS

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I was driving home in my usual moderately aggressive driving tonight and I start rolling up beside a Taurus and the Taurus starts flashing it's hazard lights.

Sometimes that means there is a cop around so I roll up a bit more slowly and I see a lightbar on a car in the right most lane. I'm kind of a bastard so I pull up to the cop's blind spot and check it out. It doesn't look like a highway patrol but I certainly appreciate fair warning.

Thanks to the guy who was watching out for me. 😀 I need to rethink my night driving strategy.

 
Originally posted by: feralkid
I never knew about this "signal" but will share it with fellow motorists from now on.
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The signal is as old as time. Don't get caught doing it though, for it will be you that's pulled over instead.


 
hmmm ive never heard of flashing your hazards while cops are around before, sounds like a good idea though
 
do u ever flash your beem lights if u are on 1 lane highway and u just passed a cop to let other motorist going other way about the cop ?
 
Hmm, haven't seen someone flash there emergency lights for a cop, but have seen a few people rapidly blink there brake lights on and off before to warn of a cop ahead. Makes more sense to me to use the brake lights, because it is less likely the cop would see you do it.
 
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Originally posted by: feralkid
I never knew about this "signal" but will share it with fellow motorists from now on.
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The signal is as old as time. Don't get caught doing it though, for it will be you that's pulled over instead.
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Can they pull you over even if you're not doing anything else wrong?

 
Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Originally posted by: feralkid
I never knew about this "signal" but will share it with fellow motorists from now on.
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The signal is as old as time. Don't get caught doing it though, for it will be you that's pulled over instead.
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Can they pull you over even if you're not doing anything else wrong?
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its your word against the office if u go and constest the ticket
 
high beams usually means cop ahead, but that's oncoming traffic only that it works for... usually 4 ways calls a race 😛
 
In Marin County, years ago - I was really saved by a "stranger" - probably a criminal - from a VERY expensive ticket (try 80 in a rural 25; probably "exhibition of speed"; racing and whatever else the officer wanted to "comment").

As the officer was walking toward my car with ticket book in hand he got a call on the radio. He walked back to his car and listened to the radio for an instant, got in and pulled up alongside me - he said, "Son, you're really lucky tonight - I have to go now and you hope I never see you again". Lights flashing and siren screaming he pulled a U-turn and sped off. . .

Phew!

I DID slow down soon after that.
 
Originally posted by: TonyG
Hmm, haven't seen someone flash there emergency lights for a cop, but have seen a few people rapidly blink there brake lights on and off before to warn of a cop ahead. Makes more sense to me to use the brake lights, because it is less likely the cop would see you do it.
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That might have been what he was doing, I'm not sure because some new cars now have red turn signals.

I agree that's a much better way of doing it.

 
I was driving home in my usual moderately aggressive driving tonight and I start rolling up beside a Taurus and the Taurus starts flashing it's hazard lights.
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He was Polish..?
I am not kidding that is a COMMON practice in Poland, people would warn you agains so nasty cops lurking in the bushes...
I am trying to make this habit popular in Michigan as well....
 
Im not sure if I would flash my lights here in calif. Its usually interpreted as a sign of rudeness.
The hazards maybe.
Thanks for the tip.
 
Dunno but i was following a speeding RX300 and a C class down that long stretch at Chino Hills... all of a sudden the RX300 slows down almost to a stop... so i slow down with him... 😀 ...Guy in the benz got tagged by the cop hiding behind an intersection. 😀
 
Be careful what you do. You can get pulled over and ticketed for flashing your lights/high-beams to alert others of oncoming cops. I can't remember which law it falls under, but they'll get you if they see you doing it.
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Be careful what you do. You can get pulled over and ticketed for flashing your lights/high-beams to alert others of oncoming cops. I can't remember which law it falls under, but they'll get you if they see you doing it.
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You have to be really "slow" to get a ticket for that. It's really easy to "accidently" flash your hi beams.
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Be careful what you do. You can get pulled over and ticketed for flashing your lights/high-beams to alert others of oncoming cops. I can't remember which law it falls under, but they'll get you if they see you doing it.
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Family friend got a ticket for it. I also cannot remember what the ticket was classifed under. They were not happy with her.

I have never heard of the hazards, but I have used my brights to flash other motorists.

Spac3d
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Be careful what you do. You can get pulled over and ticketed for flashing your lights/high-beams to alert others of oncoming cops. I can't remember which law it falls under, but they'll get you if they see you doing it.
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Depends on state/municipality. One afternoon some overzealous cop in Philly started ticket people for doing this citing laws about using high beams in the city, and using them within too close a distance of another car, etc.

All the tickets were overturned.

My friend did the brake light flashy thing to me once. First time I ever saw it, but it seemed like a good idea.
 
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