Originally Posted by
Burton
So whats your point? The officers in the car were responding to a call they just recieved and you were blocking their way. They would have done the same thing if you were driving a motorcycle, car or semi-trailer.
Last time I checked motorists were expected to give priority to emergency vehicles - fire trucks, ambulances and police cars with lights and sirens. Why should bicycles be an exception?
From the original text:
a police officer approached in a marked squad car, blew his "horn", turned on the sirens and did the microphone/intercom thingamajig at me.
Had the cyclist been obstructing a marked police car that already had its sirens on you'd have a point. What I read in the original text was that the police car approached and only then blasted the horn and the sirens. Truth be told the sirens alone should have been enough, unless there's some aspect of it BadBoy didn't tell us.
The way BadBoy also said that "
The looks on the faces of the drivers was one of horror" doesn't paint a picture of a jackass cyclist refusing to move for an emergency vehicle, more a jackass cop who couldn't bear the thought of waiting for a cyclist.