Several other drivers and I were startled to find a police man standing over his motorcycle in the right shoulder, facing traffic, pointing a radar gun at cars coming around the curve this morning. I’ve never seen such a thing before — it seems unnecessarily hostile. The first thing that springs to mind when you see someone in that stance is not, ‘hey, a police man’ but rather, ‘hey, a gunman’. Not conducive to safe traffic behavior.
Is it so imperative to threaten drivers into going sixty-five that it’s okay to nearly cause accidents? Going a bit faster than what the big sign says is pretty low on the list of violations of the social contract. Go do something useful, highway patrol man. Make it look like my tax dollars are doing something instead of paying you to stand on the freeway.
