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I suppose this is the place to rant....
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:25 am
by Hammer
Ahem...
I hate stupid people. U.S. Military police are definently the lower level of that category. I work on an Air Force base and got pulled over this morning. The officer told me my tail light was flashing. After standing in the rain for twenty minutes saying the same thing to him it finally sunk in. It's not my tail light flashing, its called a brake light. It comes on when you step on the pedal. So not only was I late to work the dumb f### gave me a ticket for being "hostile to the officer".
i hope he dies
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:04 am
by Knight Templar
Uh huh... maybe your blinker was on?
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:38 am
by liberator
Were there a lot of stop signs/lights? Redstone Arsenal has got them all over the place on some of the more esotheric public roads.
Re: I suppose this is the place to rant....
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:07 am
by karajorma
Night Hammer wrote:The officer told me my tail light was flashing. After standing in the rain for twenty minutes saying the same thing to him it finally sunk in. It's not my tail light flashing, its called a brake light.
That worries me. What kind of an idiot doesn't know what a brake light is? It might be forgivable in someone who doesn't drive but in someone responsible for handing out traffic tickets? I'd contest that one in court if I were you.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:14 pm
by Hippo
Yeah, you get 2 appeals in myy state, so you probably have something similar in yours...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:46 am
by Taristin
Break light... tail light... the terms are interchangable.
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:55 am
by Hippo
Like foglights and daytime running lights...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:42 am
by Knight Templar
Or frank / peter...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:41 pm
by Taristin
Well, tail light is generally the entire light assembly, while brake light is just the portion that glows red, but yes, people do use them interchangeably, atleast in NY and on any car forums I've been to.
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:15 pm
by Hammer
but when have you ever seen a tail light flash?
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:14 pm
by Hippo
when someone without anti-lock brakes is stopping
Or when its a new driver...
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:53 am
by Knight Templar
Or when I'm bored.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:12 am
by liberator
Actually, I saw a kit some where that could make the brake lights flash enough to give eppileptic fits.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:09 am
by Knight Templar
My friend wants to put strobes on his headlights...
f### if I know why.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:08 pm
by d3jake
My dad had a friend that got spotlights off of an old aircraft and put them on his car for hi-beams. aboput two battries later he decided to take them off...