I always advocate cooperating with the police and never letting the situation escalate if, for example, youre pulled over. Ive written about this sort of thing several times on FB, so I need not go into detail here yet again. But Ive always pondered what I would have done if a phony police officer were to try to pull me over (this is a tactic thats infamously used by rapists and--even worse--rapist-murderers). This was back in the days before cell phones (I havent driven at all since 2000), so my only alternative to peacefully stopping in a timely manner would have been to somehow indicate to the patrol car that Im driving to the nearest police station and that he can ticket me there; fortunately, I never had to resort to doing that. But I DID have a frightening incident one night when I was driving a co-worker home from our swing shift job: Someone targeted me, deliberately bumping the back of my van. My gut told me that the bumper wanted me to pull over and stop, and that something horrible would be in store for me if I did so (Id had problems with a co-worker at a previous job, and he had threatened me)--so I just kept on driving, and the other car gave up, pulled away, and sped off. (My poor co-worker was completely freaked out, poor guy! Frankly, I was freaked out, too!) Heres an article about a road rage incident in which a woman impersonated a police officer and bumped her victims off the road. Fortunately, the victims were able to call the police on their cell phones to make sure that the lunatic who was vehicularly-harassing them was not, in fact, a law enforcement employee. (California law makes it illegal to drive while talking on ones cell phone; however, Im sure that an exception would have been made in a similar instance [in this case, the passenger was the one on the cell phone].)
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:46:12 +0000
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