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Don't most patrol cars have laptops in them? Laptops that I usually see open and turned on, while the officer is driving?

I don't care what kind of special training you have, a vehicle can still pull out in front of you in less time than it takes to look at a mirror, let alone a laptop screen.

Yet police officers hand out expensive fines to citizens for doing the same. Bewildering.




"Emergency vehicles" are not required to obey the law. A friend of my was ticketed for "riding a bicycle on the sidewalk," by a police officer who was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. The District Court ruled against my friend based on my first sentence. (True story, really.)




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