67Dart273
Well-Known Member
No, I did not get a ticket, nor did I get stopped
This I hope will eventually result in a story:
Sat drove down from Coeur d Alene to "close to" Tekoa WA to pick up some junk outboards. On the way I saw no less than FIVE Kootenai County sheriff units, and I think FOUR (different vehicles) on the way back
Yesterday I drove up to Sandpoint and bought an old '50 Johnson cool-as-hell 10 hp and had lunch with a friend. There were FIVE state bulls in an "alledged construction zone." Now this is NOT a construction zone for a couple of reasons. First, the lanes are not narrowed any different than they had been BEFORE construction, and there's no WORK going on, no EQUIPMENT on the side of the road, there isn't even any dangerous pavement cuts or narrowed shoulder. And yet on a Sunday, for a few miles over the limit, there they are, stopping people WHICH IN ITSELF CAUSES a dangerous situation for several MORE reasons-----it causes an "attraction" which distracts drivers who should be watching the road instead of the sideshow, and of course inhibits traffic flow as well as causing an obstruction on the shoulder. SO IT IS A DANGER in itself
Now for the story. This is Saturday, going S on US95 I go up "Mica hill", up over the top where it turns into a 4-lane 60 zone, and there are maybe 4 of us, spaced out, doing maybe 62-63. A sheriff unit steams by in the left lane, doing maybe 65ish
We start down the other side, a long decline, and so maybe 1/2 mile up is the deputy, behind him is a pickup, me some distance back, and a couple vehicles behind me.
Someone steams by on the left, doing 68ish-70--in a 60. He drives on down, and you can sort of see the "stumble" when he realizes it's a cop, he slows and pulls to right behind another vehicle, then after a brief moment pulls back out and kinda "hovers" there in the left lane, creeping up, following the cop, when -----LOLOL-------- the deputy turns on the lights and lets them flash for about 3 cycles and then turns them back off!!!!----------So the guy following pulls in and slows down LOLOL
This I hope will eventually result in a story:
Sat drove down from Coeur d Alene to "close to" Tekoa WA to pick up some junk outboards. On the way I saw no less than FIVE Kootenai County sheriff units, and I think FOUR (different vehicles) on the way back
Yesterday I drove up to Sandpoint and bought an old '50 Johnson cool-as-hell 10 hp and had lunch with a friend. There were FIVE state bulls in an "alledged construction zone." Now this is NOT a construction zone for a couple of reasons. First, the lanes are not narrowed any different than they had been BEFORE construction, and there's no WORK going on, no EQUIPMENT on the side of the road, there isn't even any dangerous pavement cuts or narrowed shoulder. And yet on a Sunday, for a few miles over the limit, there they are, stopping people WHICH IN ITSELF CAUSES a dangerous situation for several MORE reasons-----it causes an "attraction" which distracts drivers who should be watching the road instead of the sideshow, and of course inhibits traffic flow as well as causing an obstruction on the shoulder. SO IT IS A DANGER in itself
Now for the story. This is Saturday, going S on US95 I go up "Mica hill", up over the top where it turns into a 4-lane 60 zone, and there are maybe 4 of us, spaced out, doing maybe 62-63. A sheriff unit steams by in the left lane, doing maybe 65ish
We start down the other side, a long decline, and so maybe 1/2 mile up is the deputy, behind him is a pickup, me some distance back, and a couple vehicles behind me.
Someone steams by on the left, doing 68ish-70--in a 60. He drives on down, and you can sort of see the "stumble" when he realizes it's a cop, he slows and pulls to right behind another vehicle, then after a brief moment pulls back out and kinda "hovers" there in the left lane, creeping up, following the cop, when -----LOLOL-------- the deputy turns on the lights and lets them flash for about 3 cycles and then turns them back off!!!!----------So the guy following pulls in and slows down LOLOL
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The norm has been, a speed trap by state troopers once a month, all other times no speed traps and local police just come out and scrape you and your car up when you wreck. State troopers write the tickets local police do wreckage cleanup.
