I was driving on the Palisades Parkway last night, tooling along in the left lane, lead car, when my radar detector goes off just before the new York line. I slam on the brakes, and sure enough, just sitting on the side of the road is a PIP cop, who i pass doing the seed limit of 50.
I am feeling rather smug, and look in my rear view mirror to see the lights of an SUV right on top of me. I felt a little bad for the spontaneous and seemingly unnecessary braking, but i felt the guy should really give me a big thank you for saving him a ticket by slowing him down.
I travel a bit further, with this guy still pretty close on my back bumper, thinking he should be more grateful and get off my tail. I then decided to pop in to the gas station not far from the State line. As i pull off, I look over to see who the yahoo in the SUV is as he passes me.
It was a cop.
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The yahoo is the guy who STAYS IN THE LEFT LANE AND STILL GOES FIFTY!!!!!!
After the initial braking...WHY DIDN'T YOU MOVE OVER?!?!?!?
FBB,
I stayed in the left lane and went back to cruising speed.
The gas station is on the left
In New York, there is no law against riding in the left lane, like in New Jersey.
there's no law, but DECENT people do not putt-putt in the left lane. even if you are going the speed limit, if the guy behind you wants to go faster, you need to get out the way.
being from out of town, I'm a little confused about the jurisdictions: The State Cop was from which state and what would have happened if he'd continued into NY tailing you?
Rabbim, I believe it was a New York cop, but couldn't see if it was a local, state police, or some other jursidiction just driving through ( which happens quite a bit on the Palisades).
Had he actually thought to pull me over, TRUST ME, these would have been interesting questions to ponder, and probably fodder for additional blogs ( that would NOT contain waffles).
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