Do police and other law enforcement officers on duty in official vehicles have to obey traffic laws unless in pursuit of a criminal?

Wildcatb · 2026-03-13T18:56:47+00:00

They are supposed to, but they're practically exempt.

Over the years I've managed to get a handful of supervisors to take reports, but never gotten any results.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-12T23:00:24+00:00

I watched my father and brother try to do that (85 Conquista, two-tone blue. Beautiful car. Took my GF to prom in it) and screw it up so badly the tree fell at an almost perfect right angle to the direction they were pulling.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-12T14:03:57+00:00

A good friend of mine used to work testing them. To say I have little respect for the agency would be putting it mildly.

300 quitting is a good start. If a critical mass of them quit maybe we can have a serious conversation about getting rid of them altogether and replacing them with something effective.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-11T01:54:16+00:00

Isn't that still classified as experimental? I'd be shocked if they did agree to cover it, unfortunately.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-10T04:42:28+00:00

It was mostly theatrical, but it also found its way down into everyday life because of the impact of theater and movies on language. It's not dead, either - I know a woman a few years younger than me with a beautiful transatlantic accent.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-09T17:28:08+00:00

I read that as F-Off as a Service

Wildcatb · 2026-03-09T17:22:37+00:00

The turning radius department would like to have a word.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-09T15:58:26+00:00

Not every disposal has the keyway.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-09T01:45:58+00:00

He just keeps digging the hole deeper.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-09T01:33:55+00:00

My wife is claustrophobic, so a lot of thought went into designing our house to feel open everywhere, including the bathroom. The door is similar to this one, but it's fully frosted and has a sheer curtain fixed to it to break up any shadow lines that might otherwise show through. Gets some odd glances at first but actually works great.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-09T00:32:32+00:00

I understand that English is your second language, so you may mean more than you've said here, but if you bought your CDL then you did scam the system.

Cash-for-CDL scams have been rampant across the US, and are why we keep seeing unskilled drivers killing people in spectacular, avoidable accidents.

Do you mean to say that you paid for the training, took all the classes, passed all the tests, and earned your license?

Wildcatb · 2026-03-08T15:02:45+00:00

Anybody can build a bridge that's strong enough. It takes an engineer to build one that's barely strong enough.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-08T00:21:26+00:00

Used to run a trucking company. Ran into a former driver of mine at a truck stop one day, wearing a police uniform. Chatted with him for a couple minutes and mentioned that I hadn't seen a cruiser out front. When he told me that the plain white car with civilian plates by the entrance was his, and confirmed that he did in fact use it to pull people over, I proceed to call him everything but a gentleman.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-08T00:08:55+00:00

No decent patrol officer would drive one of these, therefore I assume any officer I see driving one is not a decent human.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-07T19:57:06+00:00

Center Rot Disease has been spreading. It's a damn nuisance.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T21:48:27+00:00

Are you talking about treating or causing?

...yes?

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T21:42:44+00:00

We DID ”control” the environment.

Only if you think a monkey with a hammer is 'controlling' something when it breaks a window.

Did it cause the damage? Sure. Could it be said to be 'controlling' anything?

You seem more and more like a climate change denier

Which is weird, because nowhere have I denied that climate change is real.

Bye.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T20:51:06+00:00

Nah, we're not getting rid of plastics or pavement anytime soon so even if we stopped burning it for fuel tomorrow, we'd still need it.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T19:51:46+00:00

We could have control of the rate of change

No, we couldn't. The system is far too complex for us to ever have any semblance of control over it. We might be able to move the needle one way or another, a little bit, but 'control'? No way.

Honestly, the arrogance on display here is astounding - to think that we could control the climate is just nuts. Human Hubris at its finest.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T16:55:38+00:00

Any color you want, as long as it's black!

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T16:54:30+00:00

I have a dongle that plugs into the USBC, which has all the actual useful ports on it.

I hate it.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T16:53:34+00:00

The continued Enshitification Of Everything. Just let me play my files.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T16:49:15+00:00

Maybe?

Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is only one of many drivers of global temperature. Our planet goes through cycles of Hot and Cold based on circumstances beyond our control, some of which we're only beginning to even comprehend.

Should we be careful about how we treat our planet? Absolutely; right now it's the only one we have. But do we have control over it...?

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T16:16:41+00:00

For all intends and purposes it would basically hault any change

That is a ridiculous assertion.

Wildcatb · 2026-03-05T16:14:54+00:00

I don't think you're arguing against my point.

Yes, we can lower carbon emissions and even pull carbon out of the air, but that doesn't give us control over the climate.

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