Flashing lights speed trap warning

[ralph7]

Strictly a scenario, but imagine if you will, that police were in the area monitoring traffic unbeknownst to you for a specific red car with a white bumper containing a child abductor. And there you are flashing away, just to help your fellow citizen, a person that you do not know avoid a speeding ticket. Have you given no thought that in doing so you could have potentially warned this offender of police presence and that the person may have changed their course because of your actions and avoided arrest. Is this the reward of your noble deed that you want?


A little later while you're watching the news, what goes on in your mind when its reported that nearby police are looking for a specific driver of red car with a white bumper, one identical to the car you just flashed 20 minutes ago that contains a little girl who has been abducted.

Isn't she also a fellow citizen worthy of your help?

By not flashing your lights and allowing the abductor to become arrested perhaps you potentially would be giving the little girl a far greater gift.



terry

You are the winner of the golden shovel award for digging the deepest, this morning.

 

[OFT II]

Way back in the dark ages when the speed limit was 55 mph I would flash my lights if I saw a radar trap. Now the speed limits where I live are 75 or 80 mph so I don't flash. That's seems to be fast enough to me. I will still flash them if there is a road hazard such as a wreck or livestock loose that they should be aware of.

 

[moe smith]

Strictly a scenario, but imagine if you will, that police were in the area monitoring traffic unbeknownst to you for a specific red car with a white bumper containing a child abductor. And there you are flashing away, just to help your fellow citizen, a person that you do not know avoid a speeding ticket. Have you given no thought that in doing so you could have potentially warned this offender of police presence and that the person may have changed their course because of your actions and avoided arrest. Is this the reward of your noble deed that you want?


A little later while you're watching the news, what goes on in your mind when its reported that nearby police are looking for a specific driver of red car with a white bumper, one identical to the car you just flashed 20 minutes ago that contains a little girl who has been abducted.

Isn't she also a fellow citizen worthy of your help?

By not flashing your lights and allowing the abductor to become arrested perhaps you potentially would be giving the little girl a far greater gift.



terry

Oh yeah? Well how would you feel if you didn't flash your lights and the red car with the white bumper was on the news because it was going so fast it couldn't stop for the family of undocumented workers running from ICE across the road? But really, these traffic cops that whine about being found out will never make it to detective. What they need to do is put forth a better effort at hiding, then flashing lights would be a mute point.

 

[Badquaker]

I had someone flash their lights this morning. Sure enough, a cop was shooting radar about two miles up the road. I'm OK with that.

 

[NYlakesider]

I had someone flash their lights this morning. Sure enough, a cop was shooting radar about two miles up the road. I'm OK with that.

Flashing lights in my neck of the woods is common. We have many deer and it's common for year around residents to warn that deer are close by the road. (Seeing a car on the side of the road with 4 ways flashing while they are watching the deer is also common as we have NO cell service up here)

With that said we live way out in the boonies at the far end of the county and hardly see LEOs around, and when they are here they park in ambush spots write a few radar tickets and they are gone. Flashing lights is common when they are spotted and is also done on regular basis. Saved me a couple times and I know I have saved a few people.

 

[feralmerril]

Now just what are the odds of that senerio? One in 500 thousand? The last time I was on highway 50 near I think, Austin Nevada I seen a sign some desert rat had put out in front of his house "Speed trap Ahead!" The sign wasnt fresh paint either, looked old.

 

[feralmerril]

Years ago my dad was driving from florida to wisconsin very late at night trying to save a motel bill. Got caught in a speed trap in some some town in wisconsin. The type that go`s from 55 to 35 in like 50 yards. Dad was mad. Drove like 60 years and first ticket. Then dads brother that looked a lot like dad hit the same spot a few weeks later and also got a ticket, first in like 55 years. The cop looks at his license and said, didnt I get you a couple weeks ago?

 

[Dennis The B]

Says he is a Federal Judge. Does that make a difference?

This becomes so-called "settled law" within the 8th Judicial Circuit. If, and until an appeal is filed, and the 8th Judicial Circuit of Appeals overturns, it becomes the law.

The results in other circuits are settled law within them.

It would only get to the U.S. Supreme Court, if a number of appeals were filed among the several circuits, and it became of such importance that the Supreme Court would hear an appeal.

A judge in another circuit may cite the decision of the 8th Circuit, if a particular case fits the circumstances, etc., when deciding his/her case. This is the "stare decisis" concept.

Ordinarily, when a Federal judge rules that a law in unconstitutional, the law is unconstitutional until an appeal is filed, and the appellate court rules on the matter.

 

[eveled]

I like to flash them when there is not a speed trap ahead, just to get them to slow down. I figure I am making the world a safer place. Ed.

 

[b_san]

then flashing lights would be a mute point.

...MOOT!

 

[Edmo]

Flash for a road hazard? Yes...

Flash to alert someone of a LEO ahead? Never.

If you elect to disregard the law, you face the associated risk... Sorry, but those are the rules.

I just wish there were more traffic stops for those who drive while distracted. Some can pull off the cell phone and texting thing, but most can't. Apparently, they don't realize just how bad their driving sucks when distracted. The next time you try it make note of you lane control, signal usage, and general awareness of other traffic. Be honest with the assessment, maybe you are one of "those drivers".

When I'm in my F250 "cage" it doesn't bother me as much... It is a 6,000 pound truck. Run into me with your little sedan and I think I'll survive. However, if you ride a motorcycle you become hyper-aware of the bad drivers. It's ironic how most will give me the "why are you in my way" look after they try to run me over.

I'm not talking about the occasional honest mistakes we all make behind the wheel, but those who make the conscious decision to suck at driving because they feel the need to talk or text.

Just my thoughts... All of the YMMV and IMHO thingies apply.

Edmo

 

[moe smith]

...MOOT!

duh

 

[mike from st pete]

Breaker Breaker One Nine, smokies takin' pictures on route 50.

Was that agin the law?

 

[GKC]

Perhaps its a function of getting older, but I just try to stay at or under the speed limit, and then I don't worry about getting a ticket. Makes driving a lot more pleasant!

 

[snake803]

There has been a ton of deer killed by cars in a small section of road about 3/4 of a mile from my house. They put up a deer crossing warning sign with flashing bulbs all around a yellow stop sign shape warning. A few days after they put it up I seen two dead deer that got hit by one vehicle about 20 yards one on each side of the sign. Hows that working for us?

If they wouldn't put the signs up, the deer wouldn't cross.. They're law abiding animals...
JIM.........

 

[M29since14]

Perhaps its a function of getting older, but I just try to stay at or under the speed limit, and then I don't worry about getting a ticket. Makes driving a lot more pleasant!

But more boring, too.

The flashing lights thing has been a toy for the police and lawyers to throw around back and forth for as long as I can remember. Here in Indiana it is usually described as "interfering with the official duties of an officer," or some such rubbish. Fussing over something so silly has to be one of the most useless wastes of the taxpayer's money imaginable.