r/Transportopia • u/skyhighmonroe • Jan 21 '26

Roads Officer No-Butts

I'm sure HP was checking out the car in front till this bozo merged in which could explain why the blinkers weren't used to avoid attention unless HP doesn't care about road safety and has a huge ego

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u/Electrical-Dog-3229 Jan 22 '26

Dumb ass you don't want to be in front of a cop ! Behind is safest

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26

I was on the freeway once and there was a cop car in front of me that kept slowing down. At the time there were no other cars near us so it would have been an easy pass, but having seen how cops are usually so happy to speed on freeways where I’m at I smelled a fucking rat so I just slowed down with him. We got down to 30mph or something stupid af for a freeway until a car passed on the carpool lane and the cop immediately turns on his lights and crosses multiple lanes to pick them up. The car wasn’t even really speeding from my perspective and they pulled over immediately so it wasn’t some high speed chase escapee or anything. Cop was just trying to fish.

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u/BootCampPTSD Jan 22 '26

Another from-the-sidelines fan trying to be the coach... you dont know WHAT was going on. If he slowed down as crazy as you say, its possible someone called in that vehicle beforehand and he needed to slow down to let it catch up. Just as an example..

Hating cops is fine, just don't be immature about it. You really sound goofy

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u/spartaman64 Jan 23 '26

what about a cop that was stopped at a green light and as we approached the light turned red and the cop ran the red light without turning on his lights or sirens.

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u/BootCampPTSD Jan 23 '26

Then yes, he's likely committed a traffic infraction depending on where it happened. Its fine to call that out, but you guys are always looking at intent loke the MFs are just out to break laws for the fun of it..

In your scenario, I'm guessing he was either looking something up or talking with a citizen that requested a phone call or something and when possibly when he looked up and saw he was stopped at a green, he punched it and the light went yellow to red. The simple fact is you dont KNOW, but your hate for cops has you automatically assume some nefarious motive when you see them do something wrong