I used to live in a rural area and the stop signs were more often than not, useless except in corn season. Hardly any of the cars even stopped.
But when I moved into the city for college, I would be riding the shoulder and I would trackstand at intersections as needed, trying to keep feet up(clipped in). The cops in this town are especially bored and one day I happened to go across in front of one, on the crosswalk that said to walk. Oops. He wanted me to stop like a car in the lane next to a huge mall parking lot. I was able to persuade him to move to the parking lot since it was rush hour after all. He proceded to give me the talk about running lights and behaving like a car, not even mentioning about the fact i was on the sidewalk's crosswalk. He then asked for my licence and I said I was unaware that I could be ticketed for crosswalks since I had just moved there.
My liscence still said Guam.
He relented.
Then a year later we were coming out of a parking lot in the same area late night and the light in the 4 way intersection coming out of the parking lot was green but changing. He was on one of the other routes and proceded to charge us with running a red because we were in the lane when we crossed for the left turn. A totally bogus charge but I never argue with a person of power. He again asked for liscence and fortunately I had my new pennsylvania one, so he had no recollection of me but I knew him. In PA bike code we cant get more than 10 buck bike tickets, he wanted to give us 110. To add insult to injury, he then proceded to try to convince me that my freshly charged Cateye 300 LED light and brand new tail light were 'not up to the specifications' according to the code. He finally let us walk home with written warnings. Some cops take it a little too far.