@x00z @talzag Traffic engineers often consider themselves much more expert than they actually are on a lot of things and their traditional methods of setting speed limits are little more than astrology which all but ignore the needs of non-car road users, but if there’s one group less expert than traffic engineers on safe driving speed, it’s cops.

Yep, I had the same happen to me shortly after I got my liscense.

Overfunded, extremely bored police department…

… I went back to that shitty, exurb town 20 years after moving out and they are still, still, completely tearing out and then rebuilding the exact same major intersection every 5 years.

In those 20 years, they now have… one bus line.

That goes to the city that this town is an exurb of.

Still no way to actually get around the extremely non dense ‘city’, which consists of basically 2 small commercial areas, almost 10 miles apart, and then tons of houses either out in the boonies or in suburbs… without a car.

Following the laws is suspicious? 🤔

It really does seem like driving is the only activity in which laws are mostly optional. Every driver complains about cyclists not following the rules of the road, but they do things that are illegal or fail to take require actions all the time: speeding, rolling stops, switching lanes or turning without blinkers, illegal u-turns, etc. But if confronted it’s just “eh, it’s not a big deal, who cares?”

This happened to my sister because she was near a “bad neighborhood” and they needed some reason to search her car for drugs.

This is the type of thing my subconscious tells me to worry about, to which my consciousness says: There’s no chance that would ever actually happen, but apparently it can indeed happen…?

I would sue them for kidnapping because that’s exactly what that is