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DoubleF · 01-23-2024, 12:26 PM

I finally caught up with this thread. What a bizarre scenario. Sorry you had to go through that JonDuke. I can understand why the cops called, but the attitude and professionalism issue is kinda bizarre.

RE the wife aspect, if my wife got a call like that, I think she'd behave like JonDuke's wife too. Some posters who say, "Oh, do things this way instead. Why would the person be confused? Verify." Umm... props to you and your wives, but my wife would be absolutely confused by a call like that, especially at 5-6 AM. I've explained and told my wife what to do in accidents before and I have a checklist of instructions in the glove in case there was an accident... and when she got into a fender bender, instead of thinking of that, I got a screaming panicked phone call. I had to tell her what to do, step by step, figure out how to explain what was happening (without actually being there), tell her to take a crap ton of clear pictures and videos of the intersection, vehicles etc.

Even though we're both registered, if she got a call from a cop saying, "Who is driving your car?" she'd probably assume it meant it wasn't me and start off in a completely confused state (amplifying the situation). I agree with others that it wasn't that the OP's incident happened, it was how the incident unfolded that is the weird part of this.

I've driven past cops before without incident plenty of times doing speed limit, but never in inclement weather as I recall. The closest I recall that was kinda weird was driving past a cop (ghost car) in the left lane on Deerfoot maybe doing 103-104 kmph and then pulling out of the left lane to continue on doing 100 kmph. But I knew he was a cop. A few minutes later, I see a light flickering all over the place inside my car and I follow it for 6-8 seconds only to realize it's coming from outside my car from the ghost car in the left lane. There was a cop in the passenger seat shining a flashlight into my car with a scrunched annoyed looking expression. Perhaps he was checking to make sure I wasn't distracted driving or something? (which I wasn't) I look at him with a shocked look and waved at him and immediately the vehicle took off and then started flashing lights to pull over a vehicle about 150 metres in front of me. The only strange part of that interaction was the annoyed look and shining of the flash light. I wondered if it could have been argued he was trying to distract me, but at the same time, it was dusk. How else could he have seen inside a dark vehicle? So I just shrugged it off.

My wife actually commented during this incident that he could have tried to not look so annoyed as a form of professionalism. I told her that I probably would have pissed myself and accidentally run myself off the road thinking a psycho was going to target me if he was smiling. Therefore, his expression was probably appropriate.

01-23-2024, 12:26 PM	#290
DoubleF Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2014 Exp:	I finally caught up with this thread. What a bizarre scenario. Sorry you had to go through that JonDuke. I can understand why the cops called, but the attitude and professionalism issue is kinda bizarre. RE the wife aspect, if my wife got a call like that, I think she'd behave like JonDuke's wife too. Some posters who say, "Oh, do things this way instead. Why would the person be confused? Verify." Umm... props to you and your wives, but my wife would be absolutely confused by a call like that, especially at 5-6 AM. I've explained and told my wife what to do in accidents before and I have a checklist of instructions in the glove in case there was an accident... and when she got into a fender bender, instead of thinking of that, I got a screaming panicked phone call. I had to tell her what to do, step by step, figure out how to explain what was happening (without actually being there), tell her to take a crap ton of clear pictures and videos of the intersection, vehicles etc. Even though we're both registered, if she got a call from a cop saying, "Who is driving your car?" she'd probably assume it meant it wasn't me and start off in a completely confused state (amplifying the situation). I agree with others that it wasn't that the OP's incident happened, it was how the incident unfolded that is the weird part of this. I've driven past cops before without incident plenty of times doing speed limit, but never in inclement weather as I recall. The closest I recall that was kinda weird was driving past a cop (ghost car) in the left lane on Deerfoot maybe doing 103-104 kmph and then pulling out of the left lane to continue on doing 100 kmph. But I knew he was a cop. A few minutes later, I see a light flickering all over the place inside my car and I follow it for 6-8 seconds only to realize it's coming from outside my car from the ghost car in the left lane. There was a cop in the passenger seat shining a flashlight into my car with a scrunched annoyed looking expression. Perhaps he was checking to make sure I wasn't distracted driving or something? (which I wasn't) I look at him with a shocked look and waved at him and immediately the vehicle took off and then started flashing lights to pull over a vehicle about 150 metres in front of me. The only strange part of that interaction was the annoyed look and shining of the flash light. I wondered if it could have been argued he was trying to distract me, but at the same time, it was dusk. How else could he have seen inside a dark vehicle? So I just shrugged it off. My wife actually commented during this incident that he could have tried to not look so annoyed as a form of professionalism. I told her that I probably would have pissed myself and accidentally run myself off the road thinking a psycho was going to target me if he was smiling. Therefore, his expression was probably appropriate.