His other option was to remove the car from the road (pull to the side) before stopping for the light bar.
"Nick Shue" <nshue@8dot3.com> wrote:
> I guess my only question would be...
> What were his other options? Leave it in the middle of the road for someone
> to hit, and cause an accident?
> Not alot of options, but he may have taken the best one.. In this lawyer
> happy world we live in, the dept would be alot more likely to get their a$$
> sued off if they left it there and someone hit it.
> --Nick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Halterman" <OLZNUT@webtv.net>
> To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>; <socaldoc@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:51 AM
> Subject: DML: Man, Y'all Gotta Read This!!
>> This is no bs, I saw it myself, and wouldn't believe it unless I didn't
>> see it!! This aft=ernoon, I was driving east on the 134 fwy in Burbank,
>> at about 5:30 (I know the time for sure, the 5 o'clock funnies was on
>> 95.5 KLOS) at Pass Ave, a LAPD cruiser was in the carpool lane, I was in
>> the slow lane, and right after he passes me, HIS LIGHTBAR FLIES OFF and
>> lands in the next lane, and this dumb a$$ cop slams on his brakes,
>> throws it into reverse, jumps out and retrieves the thing with traffic
>> coming at him 70+!!!!! One car looses it, almost tags the center
>> divider, and causing another one to get sideways, and when the cops (as
>> in 2) see this, he high tails it back to his cruiser, throws the light
>> bar in the back seat and takes off, never even looking at the cars that
>> spun out. This all happened in about 30 secs. Dumb a$$es, reminds me of
>> the time there was a chase on tv (LAPD again...) and the suspect started
>> driving in circles in the middle of the intersection and 3 LAPD cars
>> were following him, doing circles as well like a merry-go-round, and
>> making a$$es out of themselves on nat'l tv as a bonus......... Before
>> you go out and call me a cop hater or some "basura" like that, my whole
>> family works for the California Highway Patrol, so I know how cops
>> think, or in this case, lack of. Told my Dad, retired Lt Commander w/
>> 38yrs in, and he just laughed and said "figures". There, my only off
>> topic post for the year :)
>>
>> Ed "Olznut" Halterman Sunland, Ca
>> '01 Dak Quad Cab 4x4 SLT+ 4.7L V-8, Auto, Bright Silver Aka the "Silver
>> Streak"!!!
>> '66 Olds F-85, 5.4L V-8, HAS 410hp at the crank, Will be Intense Blue
>> next month!!
>>
>> See the Silver Streak and Project Olds here!!
>> www.dodgetruckonline.com/ed.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>
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