Originally Posted by
hairyman
I had this one happen the other day. I was on my bike in a downtown area (all buildings are 6-10 stories tall) where sound echoes like crazy and you can't tell where it's coming from. A siren starts wailing and the cars in front of me immediately pulled over. There was no emergency vehicle in sight and it didn't sound very close so I just kept going. It turns out the emergency vehicle wasn't anywhere near us - the siren faded away and I never saw the vehicle.
Maybe being on a bicycle and being able to hear what was going on around me gave me a better sense of where the vehicle was.
At least the motorists pulled over.
Several years ago when I was still living in Tampa I was down on Base and one the Base's emergency vehicles came down the street with it's sirens and lights going. And no one pulled over for it.
One would think that in an environment where the laws/penalties can be and often are more severe then their civilian counterparts that the drivers would pull over. But the only one who did was the person on the bicycle.