Originally Posted by
pharasz
At one point there was another driver who'd witnessed it and pulled over, an older guy who looked like your average uneducated trailer park resident, started to tell me, right in front of the cop "You shouldn't be riding out in the road like that!"
I pointed at the bumper sticker on the rear fender of my bike and angrily retorted "You see what that sticker says?! SAME ROAD, SAME RIGHTS, SAME RULES! I have a RIGHT to be in the road. You drivers simply need to PAY ATTENTION when you drive!"
Then the cop turned to the old guy and said "If all you're going to do is say things to aggravate this gentleman, then you need to just stand over there." And then he wrote a ticket for Careless Driving to the kid.
Glad you are relatively OK. Kids in Lexuses (Lexui?) are fairly common sad sight - too much money, too little supervision. There is nothing average about FLA trailer park residents. Geez, what characters! OTOH, have never had anything but pleasant experience with FLA cops, ranging from "smile and wave" to escort through particularly unresponsive light. Couple of motorcycle cops pulled next to me for left turn into major arterial, turned lights to stop the traffic and waved me to take the turn alongside. WOW!
SF