Did you know--flashing high beams 112$ fine

[kitkat]

and not for ANY reason, no less.   State trooper Cliff Pratt: "This is not Europe."  yeh...mores the pity, too...

anyway, one more innocuous & potentially useful thing not to do when the pigs are rooting around your vicinity...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/eastsidenews/2003712164_ontheroad18e.html

[Scratch33]

Only two sentences?  KitKat, yer slippin'.  

This should've been a 3 paragrapher at the very least  

[Sport]

"when the pigs are rooting around your vicinity..."

Pigs are they now?  Had problems with police before?

[MisterSmooth]

"Don't even think about using your horn."  C'mon.  Although standard bike horns shouldn't count as "horns" anyhow.


I intend to continue using my high beams for communication, and damn the law.  I'm a rebel!  

[Mookie]

I'd flash em, but my highbeams are on 100% anyways.  I suppose I could Un-flash them  

[JoelCool]

I always thought flashing high beams was a warning for speed traps  

[Mookie]

I always thought flashing high beams was a warning for speed traps  

That's why they probably banned it.  Since they can't ban it just for warning people about speed traps (1st amendment?) they'll try and ban it altogether.

[Nimh]

"Don't even think about using your horn."  C'mon.  Although standard bike horns shouldn't count as "horns" anyhow.


I intend to continue using my high beams for communication, and damn the law.  I'm a rebel!  

I'm with ya.  A potential $112 ticket a couple of times in my life beats slamming into some inattentive left-turning cage.

Flash with the left hand, cover the front brake with the right.  

[goto]

So..... we could have some fun and have a modulator rally there... maybe we could get Kisan to sponser it.
 

[spd2918]

and not for ANY reason, no less.   State trooper Cliff Pratt: "This is not Europe."  yeh...mores the pity, too...

anyway, one more innocuous & potentially useful thing not to do when the pigs are rooting around your vicinity...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/eastsidenews/2003712164_ontheroad18e.html

Kitrat:  The "pigs" didn't write the law and I highly doubt they enforce it.  And I hope you call them pigs when you or someone you love needs them.  

[jimmystartup]

These are the kind of bullship laws that drive me insane. Do our elected officials really think we're so inept that we can't be expected to function as a community when on the road. C'mon... what's wrong with a little beep to let someone know they're sleeping through an advance green or signal when they have a brakelight out. The other day I came up behind a schoolbus going down a divided highway with the red flashers going. Driver didn't have a clue and when I pulled up beside him and honked, he had that "oh crap look what I did" and flashed me the   sign as he turned them off. We're all out there together on the road people, why not extend the courtesy of acting like it and using all available means to communicate.

Moreover, it's the responsibility of law-enforcement officers, not other drivers, to deal with people who have a headlight or taillight out, he said.

Don't even think about using your horn. Per state law, the horn is used only in emergencies. A missing headlight or taillight doesn't qualify, Pratt added.

To hear this guy tell it, we'll all be fine if we just leave things up to the cops. I'm betting the majority of police would rather people work together for road safety instead of acting like a bunch of brainwashed lemmings dutifully following the letter of the law.

 

[kitkat]

Kitrat:  The "pigs" didn't write the law and I highly doubt they enforce it.  And I hope you call them pigs when you or someone you love needs them.  

slowboy, i never needed a cop in my entire life. and neither has anyone--anyone-- i have ever known.  

and another sheep goes into oblivion.... *ignore*

[Bounce]

Bullox!

2 different uses.

When overtaking another vehicle from behind:

In HS driver's ed they use to teach everyone to flash their lights to pass. For some reason someone decided it was "road rage". I bet it was idiot who parks in the left lane and refuses to move right when people start stacking up behind him.  They need to fine the people who fail to move right after passing. They also need to fine those who think "passing" is going 3 mph faster than those folks in the right lane.

When approaching another vehicle going to other way:

Flashing brights: a cop is x miles behind me (where x=number of times you flash).

re: "cop" vs "pig"

get a grip. "Cop" is even used by cops today to refer to themselves. But, when it originated, it was as derogatory a term as "pig" is today. Yet you see copy buying plush pigletts in cop uniforms all the time. If you expect for use to refer to them a "Officers of the Law" then it ain't gonna happen. that takes too long when trying to attach it to other phrases like "fuquin".

[DrMikey]

More heavy-handed guidance from the Mommy State!

These are the kind of bullship laws that drive me insane. Do our elected officials really think we're so inept that we can't be expected to function as a community when on the road. C'mon... what's wrong with a little beep to let someone know they're sleeping through an advance green or signal when they have a brakelight out. The other day I came up behind a schoolbus going down a divided highway with the red flashers going. Driver didn't have a clue and when I pulled up beside him and honked, he had that "oh crap look what I did" and flashed me the   sign as he turned them off. We're all out there together on the road people, why not extend the courtesy of acting like it and using all available means to communicate.



To hear this guy tell it, we'll all be fine if we just leave things up to the cops. I'm betting the majority of police would rather people work together for road safety instead of acting like a bunch of brainwashed lemmings dutifully following the letter of the law.

 

[Mr Sunshine]

Yet another reason why Washington State sucks donkey balls.


Now on the horn thing....what is an emergancy and how do they prove it wasn't an emergancy to you?

[Mr Sunshine]

Kitrat:  The "pigs" didn't write the law and I highly doubt they enforce it.  And I hope you call them pigs when you or someone you love needs them.  

Have you ever been to Washington State or worked here as a police officer?  If not...you have no idea how nanny state Washington and Oregon is.  It's pathatic.

[sLiP n SLIDE]

In Ca-li-four-nia it is permitted for passing.  


21753.  Except when passing on the right is permitted, the driver of
an overtaken vehicle shall safely move to the right-hand side of the
highway in favor of the overtaking vehicle after an audible signal
or a momentary flash of headlights by the overtaking vehicle, and
shall not increase the speed of his or her vehicle until completely
passed by the overtaking vehicle.  This section does not require the
driver of an overtaken vehicle to drive on the shoulder of the
highway in order to allow the overtaking vehicle to pass.

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"slowboy, i never needed a cop in my entire life. and neither has anyone--anyone-- i have ever known."  
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YOU WILL

[Snowbird]

Have you ever been to Washington State or worked here as a police officer?  If not...you have no idea how nanny state Washington and Oregon is.  It's pathatic.

Let me add Cali to the list.

[kitkat]

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"slowboy, i never needed a cop in my entire life. and neither has anyone--anyone-- i have ever known."  
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YOU WILL

It's been 50 years and i'm still waiting...so no, not very likely, sorry...

[Mr Sunshine]

Let me add Cali to the list.

California has *nothing* compared to Oregon and Washington.