Around where I live when the pigs are camping next to the highway they will often have another car set up a kilometer or two in either direction pulling people over for flashing lights.
There are no laws that say flashing your lights to warn others of speed traps is illegal. In fact, doing so was ruled protected free speech. Please provide a source that it is illegal in your state and people are being ticketed.
I'm in Canada, and in my province of Alberta you'll get a ticket for 'stunting' when you're caught doing it. The definition of stunting is broad enough for them to get away with it. Find your own source with a search for "Alberta stunting headlights", you'll see people bitching about their tickets on Reddit and articles about people fighting it, etc.
Personally if I ever happened to be driving in the states I would never try it regardless of what anyone claims about "free speech"; your cops get away with much more shenanigans than ours and just need an excuse, regardless of the laws definition.
I saw someone do this the other day in the middle of the city, but it's kind of hard to tell until after I saw the cop because there's way too many reasons to flash your beams. That, and simply hitting a bump or drip in the road looks very similar sometimes.
Y'all need to come to the Pacific Northwest, where people drive 60-70mph on the highway in torrential rain without headlights in a silver vehicle.
It's like a battle between "Fuck the Police" and "Fuck Cars" ideologies out here: ten minutes on the road on an average rainy Tuesday in November and I'm 'bout to tattoo a thin blue line flag on my forehead and personally petition tripling of the police budget just for even a smidge more enforcement of headlight laws.
(inb4 all the Europeans start up about their mandatory headlight regulations)
I am keenly aware of the relationships between police budgeting, enforcement, and traffic safety. Hence why I paired it with an equally useless action (getting a thin blue line tattoo) for comedic exaggeration of my frustration around a chronic issue.
Fair! Though I think we both know there are plenty of people dumb enough to think a tattoo and budget increase would change their reality around them... At least I hope... because there are plenty of simply brainless morons on this planet...
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If you see a motorcyclist tap the top of their helmet, it means the same thing.
I’m warning the oncoming driver of wildlife encroaching, they need to know there’s a fucking pig on the road up ahead.
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Around where I live when the pigs are camping next to the highway they will often have another car set up a kilometer or two in either direction pulling people over for flashing lights.
There are no laws that say flashing your lights to warn others of speed traps is illegal. In fact, doing so was ruled protected free speech. Please provide a source that it is illegal in your state and people are being ticketed.
I'm in Canada, and in my province of Alberta you'll get a ticket for 'stunting' when you're caught doing it. The definition of stunting is broad enough for them to get away with it. Find your own source with a search for "Alberta stunting headlights", you'll see people bitching about their tickets on Reddit and articles about people fighting it, etc.
Personally if I ever happened to be driving in the states I would never try it regardless of what anyone claims about "free speech"; your cops get away with much more shenanigans than ours and just need an excuse, regardless of the laws definition.
I saw someone do this the other day in the middle of the city, but it's kind of hard to tell until after I saw the cop because there's way too many reasons to flash your beams. That, and simply hitting a bump or drip in the road looks very similar sometimes.
Y'all need to come to the Pacific Northwest, where people drive 60-70mph on the highway in torrential rain without headlights in a silver vehicle.
It's like a battle between "Fuck the Police" and "Fuck Cars" ideologies out here: ten minutes on the road on an average rainy Tuesday in November and I'm 'bout to tattoo a thin blue line flag on my forehead and personally petition tripling of the police budget just for even a smidge more enforcement of headlight laws.
(inb4 all the Europeans start up about their mandatory headlight regulations)
Tripling the police budget won't make them enforce traffic laws any more than they already do.
I am keenly aware of the relationships between police budgeting, enforcement, and traffic safety. Hence why I paired it with an equally useless action (getting a thin blue line tattoo) for comedic exaggeration of my frustration around a chronic issue.
Fair! Though I think we both know there are plenty of people dumb enough to think a tattoo and budget increase would change their reality around them... At least I hope... because there are plenty of simply brainless morons on this planet...
One of the most embarrassing days of my life was some very nice people warning me of the cop.
"Weirdos" I thought, 30 seconds before I got pulled over.
If you're in android auto there's a voice command report police. I use it when I can.