Bike Getting a Ticket - on a Highway

jfilip: 27th Jul 2006 - 00:01 GMT

One day I was riding home down a really busy street at rush hour. Some guy who was riding slowly kept running red lights every chance he got. The process would go like this:

I'd pass him. Hit a red light. He'd run in. Repeat.

So I come up to one intersection with a delayed green in my direction, stop behind a bicycle cop at the red light. I wonder if they guy coming up from behind is going to run the red or if he would notice the cop and actually stop.

After he runs the red light the cop looks around, turns to me and says: "Kind of makes me wonder why I'm sitting here."

I kind of laugh and say "yeah" but then I think: "Wait, whatthefuck? Give the guy a ticket, jackass!"

Kind of makes me wonder why I follow the rules.

colavitos ghost: 27th Jul 2006 - 02:22 GMT

i love running red lights on my bike. for me, half the fun of riding a bike is the fact that i don't follow the same rules as the schmucks driving cars. and if car-drivers get upset about it, ummmm, i don't really care.

of course, bicycle vs. car crashes are terrible things, but plenty of rules can be broken on a bike without putting oneself in grave danger.

f*ck a car. ride a bike.

chiamattt: 27th Jul 2006 - 09:21 GMT

Why does a police officer need a 14foot police car? So stupid.

daniel: 8th Sep 2009 - 08:44 GMT

try 20 foot S.U.V.
i just got a ticket today for biking past a stop sign with no cars in sight. of course other than the cop car a block down that i didnt see until it came screaming past the same stop sign, past pedestrians, sirens blazing just to give me a ticket. awesome. also, i was going about 5mph, about the speed most cars roll through stop signs.