{"id":37383,"date":"2013-09-17T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37383"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:42:02","slug":"i-wish-i-could-be-a-police-officer-for-one-working-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37383","title":{"rendered":"I wish I could be a police officer for one working day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-37384 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertroopers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertroopers.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/supertroopers-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I was sitting in traffic this morning, which is nothing out of the ordinary.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was worse than it usually was due to the fact that for no apparent reason, six straight traffic signals were out, and the vast populous of Atlanta is completely oblivious to the rules of the 4-way stop in such conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">On more than one (fifty) occasion(s), I watched as people sped off into a turn lane, dividing lane, oncoming traffic, or some other form of asphalt not designated for regular automotive traffic, and then cut in front of some schlub too slow-reacting to prevent impatient and inconsiderate assholes from cutting in front of not just them, but every single law-abiding citizen who opt to grind it out with the rest of the pack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s times like these that I wish that for one day, I could be a police officer.\u00a0 Not to do anything dramatic and go off on high-excitement, high-speed car chases, bust drug dealers, stop crime and be a hero.\u00a0 No, I\u2019d love to be a police officer for a single day, just so I could troll the ever-living shit out of law breakers, and by \u201ctroll,\u201d I mean enforce the fucking law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Like the impatient asshole lane cutters, sure, the easy thing would be to simply bust them in their act of impatience, and tag them for a ticket for inappropriate use of turn lanes or non-lanes in the first place.\u00a0 No, that would be far too easy.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to prepare for such occasions, and on known areas where lane cutters frequent (Northside Drive), I\u2019d love to just put a wall of cones in the non-lanes that appear right after the point where a lane cutter would decide to go for the illegal maneuver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Shortly after they jump into the area where they\u2019d like to cut through to traverse past everyone else, the wall of cones would trap them in an illegal area, with the cones gradually forcing them into oncoming traffic.\u00a0 At this point, they would have absolutely no other options than face oncoming traffic, stopping and having to painstakingly back into the opposing flow of traffic, or haphazardly run traffic cones over, which I can say (based on the experience of people I once knew who did it) is most certainly NOT a good idea to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Either way, I would be watching, and I would then, pull them over for reckless endangerment and attempting to evade traffic or whatever charges I could bring them up on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Another place I\u2019d like to lay down the law is kind of a no-brainer to my seven readers \u2013 the HOV lanes.\u00a0 It drives me mad to see people blatantly violate the HOV lanes, when there are people like me who actually do have someone to carpool with to use it legally.\u00a0 Unlike the City of Atlanta that really doesn\u2019t seem to care about the thousands of dollars of free money it could make from violation fines, I would be like T-fucking-1000 about busting those arrogant assholes who thinks they can use the HOV lane to bypass the worst of the morning rush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I really wouldn\u2019t do it any differently than how the few times there have been cops actually watching it would.\u00a0 I\u2019d position myself at the points where I couldn\u2019t be seen in advance, and keep vigil for anyone making any dramatic shifts either in or out of the lane, because I know they\u2019re either guilty, or thinking I\u2019m not watching when they go in after they pass me.\u00a0 But either way, I would pursue and write citations as if they were porno baseball cards on the Las Vegas strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And then there are the obvious things that most police around here actually do give a rat\u2019s ass about enforcing \u2013 speeding and DUIs.\u00a0 It\u2019s like any savvy driver with half a brain that is somewhat receptive to their surroundings or keeps vigil of the tendencies of the routes they take \u2013 they\u2019ll eventually figure out if particular areas are susceptible to, or completely ignored by the police, and drive accordingly.\u00a0 If people can figure this out, why don\u2019t the police?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">See, that\u2019s where I\u2019d come in, and open up a can on all the speeders who live near me that apparently don\u2019t have any fear for the police.\u00a0 I\u2019d capitalize on this confidence and be waiting for the worst perps to come flying by, before whipping out from some bushes in the median and tagging them with reckless endangerment and the maximum penalty possible, because they would without question be going anywhere from 30-40 mph over the speed limit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The bottom line is that if I were a cop for a day, I have no aspirations of utilizing my firearm, or going on any action-packed car chases.\u00a0 But I would undoubtedly write a shit ton of tickets and make the roads a safer place, where the drivers have to respect the potential possibility of actual police enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting in traffic this morning, which is nothing out of the ordinary.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was worse than it usually was due to the fact that for no apparent reason, six straight traffic signals were out, and the vast populous of Atlanta is completely oblivious to the rules of the 4-way stop in such &hellip; 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