Originally posted by {Kontofosho}:
Fyi i was pulling out of an office complex onto a large road with a median in the middle, so i had only one option. I didnt use the signal because i was waiting for traffic to clear for several minutes and it started to annoy me. It was pretty obvious the cop was picking on me because i was a kid in a decked out car. It pisses me off how you all are so quick to jump on me for this when you have no idea what the circumstances are, try to be a little more mature if you are at all capable of it.



Damn...that does kind of suck.

From the way I understand his post (there was a median in the middle of the road...I'm guessing this was a physical median and not a double line 'imaginary' median)...
I mean there is no other way he CAN turn if there is a physical median in the middle!
He can't go left, he can't go straight....I'm guessing he can't go backwards....
That only leaves one option to the...RIGHT!

If this was the scenario...then I must say, that officer is a stiff. It just means he has some quota to fill or something. If there was no physical median then I guess the officer has some grounds for giving his ticket, but even still thats being a bit nitpicky.

Don't get me wrong...I use my turn signal everywhere (just a good habit), even in the above scenario, ... but to give someone a ticket for not using a turn signal when there is only one plausible direction he can go seems a bit overboard.

Here in California (especially my area in the Bay Area), officers are being ridiculous. They pull people over for almost anything now just in an effort to gain revenue to offset local budget cuts because of the state budget. I have no problem with officers pulling people over for breaking the law, but why should they need the pressure of quotas from the state budget crunch to do so? If they are such upstanding officers there should be no need for quotas to force them to give tickets...believe me, there are plenty of bad drivers out here in California to gain revenue without quotas.

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