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Posted: 7/10/2021 3:19:09 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You haven't seen rage until you've seen a trooper throw a flare through someones open passenger side window while yelling "You fuck! You stupid bitch!" Holy shit did that actually happen? |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 3:40:34 AM EST
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You haven't seen rage until you've seen a trooper throw a flare through someones open passenger side window while yelling "You fuck! You stupid bitch!" Can’t stop laughing at this. Wtf! |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 3:47:32 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy shit did that actually happen? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You haven't seen rage until you've seen a trooper throw a flare through someones open passenger side window while yelling "You fuck! You stupid bitch!" Holy shit did that actually happen? Oh yeah, I don't know if anything came of it. I was EMS at the time and saw it all go down while staging encase they had any BLS transports. Flare goes in, drive jumps out and yells, trooper goes in and removes flare, guy gets back in a few minutes later and drives off. All I know is the trooper said he thought the windows were closed. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 3:48:07 AM EST
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Most officers here hate doing funeral escorts. They see it as beneath them. We pay for them here and they routinely don't show up or speed through town not holding lights. Somebody is going to get killed eventually, and then they'll either ban them or actually take them seriously.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 3:50:14 AM EST
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One of our local AM radio guys once said that the problem isn't that driving is hard. The problem is that driving a vehicle is too easy now, so people don't have to pay any attention to what they are doing anymore. It becomes second nature like breathing. So when they encounter something that isn't routine their brain doesn't know how to handle it.
It made a lot of sense to me. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 4:05:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of our local AM radio guys once said that the problem isn't that driving is hard. The problem is that driving a vehicle is too easy now, so people don't have to pay any attention to what they are doing anymore. It becomes second nature like breathing. So when they encounter something that isn't routine their brain doesn't know how to handle it. It made a lot of sense to me. Years ago there were some studies comparing American roads to European roads that found basically the same thing. The more you add signage and road controls, the less engaged and aware people are. Roads made for idiots produce idiot drivers. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 4:36:59 AM EST
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Detail cops road rage on people at the drop of a hat. I've worked with them for almost 20 years. 70% of the time they rage at someone who is simply confused about traffic patterns who is doing nothing wrong.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 4:45:13 AM EST
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. Holy fucking shit! Mig! You nailed it! There were occasions when I wanted to rip off my own jaw and beat myself to death with it. In 26 years I’ve only had to do it maybe a dozen times. Thankfully |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 4:49:54 AM EST
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Posted: 7/10/2021 4:52:23 AM EST
[#10]
That guy was probably not a cop. Funeral escort motorcyclists typically provide this service in central Ohio.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 4:55:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That guy was probably not a cop. Funeral escort motorcyclists typically provide this service in central Ohio. And they get Deputy uniforms & boots? 
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Posted: 7/10/2021 5:02:35 AM EST
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Perhaps they had just had this conversation at the last light? And he had continue from where he left off?
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Posted: 7/10/2021 5:12:44 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And they get Deputy uniforms & boots? |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 5:57:31 AM EST
[#14]
Funeral processions are stupid, wrong, bad, and wasteful.
Maybe the cop would have preferred to do his fucking job than babysitting dumb shits that can't follow directions. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:09:31 AM EST
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You know, I was thinking about that, and the thought crossed my mind that this cop would NOT have been amused if he saw me making video. I didn't want that rage to suddenly get directed at me. Good call OP. That most likely would have escalated quickly. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:13:12 AM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. Man that's the truth |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:16:13 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No vertical video? No whirrlstar? 2/10.  The least OP could have done is MS paint. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:16:17 AM EST
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I don't blame him. Plus I would imagine the longer he holds the light there may be a chance of someone road raging.
And I sure don't blame you for not taking video. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:17:04 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. TRUTH |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:17:05 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. This is correct, been there, done that. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:18:21 AM EST
[#21]
Having worked road construction, and society's stupidity, I feel his pain.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:24:31 AM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 6:38:14 AM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Years ago there were some studies comparing American roads to European roads that found basically the same thing. The more you add signage and road controls, the less engaged and aware people are. Roads made for idiots produce idiot drivers. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: One of our local AM radio guys once said that the problem isn't that driving is hard. The problem is that driving a vehicle is too easy now, so people don't have to pay any attention to what they are doing anymore. It becomes second nature like breathing. So when they encounter something that isn't routine their brain doesn't know how to handle it. It made a lot of sense to me. Years ago there were some studies comparing American roads to European roads that found basically the same thing. The more you add signage and road controls, the less engaged and aware people are. Roads made for idiots produce idiot drivers. With my latest car, the driver doesn't need to steer or use the gas once the gets going. It's dangerous to teach a driver that he is just ballast. In some urban areas excessive sign posting is an issue. There's a stop sign near my office that people routinely drive through because it's one of a dozen signs. People don't see it, which suits a cop making quota just fine. If you want people to drive safely, you can't also design intersections so they become 35mph reading tests. 
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:02:26 AM EST
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We pulled up on a minor fender bender a couple of years ago, where a cop was wildly waving his arms to direct traffic. The guy ahead of us wasn't sure what he meant, so he just sat there rather than do something wrong. The cop went beserk and got so animated that he dropped his cell phone which shattered in two on the street. He bent down to pick up the pieces and then his radio fell and was dangling by the cord. Full shit show. When he came up, he was incoherently raging at stopped car, who finally hit the gas just to get away from him. My wife and I were laughing hysterically as we passed that maniac and wondered how in the hell he was in law enforcement.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:08:22 AM EST
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The funeral escort guys here in central Ohio hire active cops as the riders. This is no different than working special duty at a Walmart.
As to the idiocy of people in traffic. I was flagging traffic and a woman failed to obey and was going to run me over while digging in a bag of donuts. I jumped up on the hood and actually stepped on her windshield to jump off her car. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:16:14 AM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That guy was probably not a cop. Funeral escort motorcyclists typically provide this service in central Ohio.  Attached FileThey are Sheriff’s Deputies. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:18:10 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:23:23 AM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. True . |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:27:40 AM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You haven't seen rage until you've seen a trooper throw a flare through someones open passenger side window while yelling "You fuck! You stupid bitch!"  I've never seen that but I did once see a firefighter throw his helmet through the back window of a car that got on the shoulder to speed around several blocking vehicles and drive straight into the scene of a serious accident where a patient was being cut out of a mangled pile of steel that used to be a pickup. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:30:07 AM EST
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The guys that work motors generally do a better job with funeral and other escorts. The guys that do it on the side suck balls and tend to get twisted up at drivers more often. Guessing it was some dude moonlighting doing escorts. its good money if you can get it. Taking oversized loads through our city gets them $250 a pop for an hours work.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 7:57:17 AM EST
[#31]
With all the stupid shit I see people do, it's amazing they aren't in a constant state of rage.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:00:27 AM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. Yet you'll be on that detail slip like a fat kid on a Twinkie and calling the station for another detail before the ink is dry. 
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:04:28 AM EST
[#33]
Traffic is universally hated. It’s dangerous, the vast majority of the motoring public is functionally retarded and it takes forever.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:05:13 AM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Traffic is universally hated. It’s dangerous, the vast majority of the motoring public is functionally retarded and it takes forever. Self driving cars can't come soon enough. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:20:01 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: -Uber or ride share drivers acting as if they have special exemptions to road closures based on what their app tells them. -Making pickups/drop offs in active lanes with traffic, or just right in intersections. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You forgot .. ..Moves your cones to drive past ..Pulls up to a 5ft x 3ft sign on an 8ft barricade that says 'ROAD CLOSED', with marked unit and lightbar next to it, and asks 'Is the road closed? Can I get through here?' ..Drives on sidewalk to get around you, then when you stop them, they say 'I had to, you're blocking the road!' and actually mean it. -Uber or ride share drivers acting as if they have special exemptions to road closures based on what their app tells them. -Making pickups/drop offs in active lanes with traffic, or just right in intersections. Block road 1/4 mile ahead of scene where an easy detour is available so nobody has to do a u turn in the street. Literally every other driver that approaches claims " I live just right up there, can't you just let me through?". Ask them their address. Gives you random numbers that don't match anything on that block. Some don't even know the name of the road they're on that they claim to live on. People who have lived in an area their whole life that only know one way to get home. I'm not giving directions home to 100 different vehicles. Figure it out or sit there like the dumb ass you are until we open the road. Rescuing three drivers in under two hours that moved barricades to drive down a flooded and washed out road. The list could go on and on.... |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:23:49 AM EST
[#36]
Why the fuck does a funeral procession need precedence at a red light?
They afraid the dead guy is gonna get better if they don’t plant him quick enough? |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:27:52 AM EST
[#37]
I'd wager everyone loses their temper at some point in life over some trivial issue.
Just don't make it a habit or let it escalate to violence or threat of violence and I can ignore once. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:30:00 AM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It takes two to tango. In this case it was an officer trying to complete an assigned task so he can get to the next call and another driver with his head up his ass who was oblivious to the officers hand and arm signals. I used to get just as frustrated with people who would get behind the wheel without engaging their brain. He is working a paid detail in OH. Extra cash. Officers on duty don't get funeral escort. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:35:12 AM EST
[#39]
I was at a stoplight and a guy ran by being chased by a deputy. Minded my own business. This was 20 years ago and phones didn’t have cameras, only the snake game.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:35:35 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: One of our local AM radio guys once said that the problem isn't that driving is hard. The problem is that driving a vehicle is too easy now, so people don't have to pay any attention to what they are doing anymore. It becomes second nature like breathing. So when they encounter something that isn't routine their brain doesn't know how to handle it. It made a lot of sense to me. It's true, which is why I prefer unregulated intersections (when feasible), speed limits only suggestions except in residential, and no lane markers or shoulder lines on the road. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:35:53 AM EST
[#41]
Should of cremated the sumbitch.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:42:04 AM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You will never see the true depths of human stupidity until you have directed traffic at a major intersection. Oh my goodness yes. I also firmly believe that if any EMT, nurse, or doctor would ever take the bp of an officer or deputy directing traffic, said officer would be hospitalized at once. I've been in lethal force encounters, and reckon 5 minutes of traffic control duties has done far more long term damage to my circulatory system. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:42:14 AM EST
[#43]
Double tap.
Though I'll also note while I'm here, most of my traffic direction was done in the days before smart phones, and much before widespread cell phones period. At this time of my life, if I suddenly decide to end it all, I'll just volunteer to direct traffic...... |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 9:12:37 AM EST
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I've seen drivers scream at cops a lot more. Throw a hissy fit complete with tears as well. It's amazing how many people only know one way to get home and have a major anxiety attack when you tell them to detour or even wait a few minutes. I've watched two different drivers kill themselves by going around barricades, officers and fire trucks into a flooded low water crossing.
RIP Officer Drew Bolin. Killed by a drunk bitch while working an accident scene. She went around a half mile of stopped cars, two fire trucks, Drew's police car and over a triple line of flares. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 9:16:01 AM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You haven't seen rage until you've seen a trooper throw a flare through someones open passenger side window while yelling "You fuck! You stupid bitch!" I know of a person who tossed a Stinger through the back window of a vehicle. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 10:21:18 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You forgot .. ..Moves your cones to drive past ..Pulls up to a 5ft x 3ft sign on an 8ft barricade that says 'ROAD CLOSED', with marked unit and lightbar next to it, and asks 'Is the road closed? Can I get through here?' ..Drives on sidewalk to get around you, then when you stop them, they say 'I had to, you're blocking the road!' and actually mean it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This... right here. Or as I've always put it, "If you ever want to completely loose faith in humanity... direct traffic for 15+ minutes." People stop when you wave them through.... they drive through when you hold up your arms for them to stop. They'll stop to ask for directions, holding up every other car behind them (because SOMEHOW in the year 2021, there are people driving around who do not have access to any sort of GPS type device). They'll drive around your marked patrol car (with the overheads on) while you're blocking an entire lane only to return a minute or two later once they discover that the road is blocked by a crash or downed tree. You forgot .. ..Moves your cones to drive past ..Pulls up to a 5ft x 3ft sign on an 8ft barricade that says 'ROAD CLOSED', with marked unit and lightbar next to it, and asks 'Is the road closed? Can I get through here?' ..Drives on sidewalk to get around you, then when you stop them, they say 'I had to, you're blocking the road!' and actually mean it. How about "Drives around offset "road closed" barricades because she's in a hurry, and right through the freshly poured concrete"-because my sister in law did that. Bill from the county, insurance covered it-then insurance went after the county. Apparently there's a law that if the road is actually impassible it has to be blocked, not just marked. |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 10:42:17 AM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Most Americans shouldn't have a driver's license or even own a vehicle. Just saying . QFT |
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Posted: 7/10/2021 10:44:37 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of our local AM radio guys once said that the problem isn't that driving is hard. The problem is that driving a vehicle is too easy now, so people don't have to pay any attention to what they are doing anymore. It becomes second nature like breathing. So when they encounter something that isn't routine their brain doesn't know how to handle it. It made a lot of sense to me . Give someone a 5 speed manual with shitty brakes. They’ll pay attention then. 
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Posted: 7/10/2021 10:47:01 AM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You know, I was thinking about that, and the thought crossed my mind that this cop would NOT have been amused if he saw me making video. I didn't want that rage to suddenly get directed at me.
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Posted: 7/10/2021 10:08:12 PM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh yeah, I don't know if anything came of it. I was EMS at the time and saw it all go down while staging encase they had any BLS transports. Flare goes in, drive jumps out and yells, trooper goes in and removes flare, guy gets back in a few minutes later and drives off. All I know is the trooper said he thought the windows were closed. My hero! 
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