So, who pulls over to assist a Trooper with a flat tire?
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See, now - I’ve done this exact thing and they didn’t budge. I was jumping up and down like a total nutter and they didn’t move a millimeter. Fortunatly, a nice young man stopped to help me. He had a mechanical nut remover.
I would say that I just don’t weigh enough, but this morning I broke my bed by jumping on it (that’s a whole other thread…)
The point you’re missing is that you have exactly zero knowledge of what transpired between the woman and the troopers. As mentioned already, it very well could have been a statement from the woman that she did not need their assistance, thank you very much.
So, you’ve had a few bad experiences (which at least one of is your own fault) and you decide to trash two individuals about whom you know exactly nothing other than they’re police officers?
Did you bother to call the police station to report those two officers?
Given your, shall we say, very creative description of the road-side event in the OP, I feel safe in dismissing your description of this incident also.
And this incident also, I feel safe in dismissing your description. You have exactly zero knowledge of what transpired between the time you saw the officers passing you and the time you encountered them at the drive-thru. For all you know, the incident to which they were responding was resolved and their assistance at that incident was no longer required.
I seriously doubt this is the case. Or did they inform you that there was not enough information for them to go find the carjacker and you should proceed to the station, see such-and-such division, and complete a police report of the incident?
It’s actually possible to be going over the speed limit while you’re braking. You see, there’s a nifty little thing called Physics. When one begins braking, one begins at the upper speed and stops braking at the lower speed. There’s no law of Physics that says your upper speed, just because you happen to be applying your brakes at the moment, is automatically lower than the posted speed limit.
BTW, did you bother to report the officer in question for harassing behavior? Or perhaps his patrol route just happened to correspond with your route to school. That might be how he encountered you in the first place, mightn’t it?
Too easy to make a comment on that one.
Bad advice.
I’ve seen China Syndrome. Does that mean I am now qualified to be a nuclear power plant operator?
Any guesses why a certain group of people you obviously disdain weren’t so friendly to you?
Sounds like a simple difference of opinion on the merit of the charge between the officer and the judge. You and the others benefitted from the judge’s opinion.
I like.
Maybe your comments about the doughnuts and the coffee are simply jerkish comments? Maybe you’re making too much out of an incident you briefly witnessed only a portion of and of which you have absolutely no other knowledge?
Try this: put on the lug wrench so it’s horizontal, but on the upswing. Then put the jack as close to the end of the wrench as possible and crank upward. Even a small jack can lift 500kg, about ten times your weight.
Of course, they’re always the chance it’ll slip and take your head off. I understand the state troopers are good at investigating cases like that.
I don’t know why anyone would buy one of those. Use it twice, and you’re done. Renting is the way to go.
I just a crusin down a secondary State Highway in Eastern Oklahoma one day when I spotter up ahead and around a bend the shape of an OHP troops cart with the door open. As I got closer, I could see no movement anywhere.
By the time I had passed the car, I could see no other vehicle, track of one down the embankment, nor any other cars coming along from either direction. I kept checking my mirror as I went and I never saw anything.
I kept remembering that a trooper had been shot not too long before this so I finally turned around and went back. Still no movement anywhere. I parked, put my hands in my pockets with my CC permitted pistol in the right one so as to be able to get it in action quick but so not to get shot myself from approaching a trooper with a drawn gun.
I was calling out for anybody to respond. By the time I got to the edge of the brushy bank, an OHP trooper raised up from the brush and asked what I wanted.
I put my hands in sight and related what I had thought and done, ( leaving out the part about having a gun in my pocket ) and he told me he was checking where a motorcycle had gone off the road and trying to determine if someone had gotten hurt. It was a very faint track he was working from a tip.
He thanked me profusely and kept on about how I was the first person in his 15 year career as a State Trooper to have anyone ever stop to check if he was alright.
Another time late one night ( within 6 months of the other time so the concern of cops getting killed or shot still applied for me ) while running the Indian Nations Turnpike to the Southeast at about 2 AM I passed a totally dark OHP car parked beside the road in what looked like a funny place for a speed trap and there was no lights like he was writing up the rest of a traffic stop.
I pulled over and started backing up and just as I was getting to him, the gumball lights and stuff came on. I just held my hands up and leaned out the window and asked if all was ok? He came up and we chatted a bit and I explained why I had come back to check on him.
He too was sort of confused that a civilian would bother to check on a troopers safety.
Kind of a sad state of affairs IMO that they are so convinced that no one cares.
Too bad that the asshats among them get all the press.
Daaamn, that sentence just gave me a case of the cringies.
$50 isn’t expensive if you have $50 to spare, some people don’t.
So you can help foxy damsels in distress, such as myself. 
I don’t know, does he have mechanical nuts?