Originally Posted by
reefaholic33
http:///forum/post/3236113
Here's a scenario....
You see a cop and flash your lights at other people going towards him.
A drunk driver sees your flashing and slows down and pays attention to not swirve and makes it past the cop.
Drunk driver goes down the road several miles and hits and kills and innocent person.
Maybe if you had not flashed at them they would have sped or swirved and the cop pulls them over, maybe not.
I just never understand why anyone would want to protect someone from a speeding ticket or DUI and you don't even know them.
I watched someone speed through my subdivision about 45 in a 25 and hit my cat that had gotten out. Why would I try to protect people so they can speed?
It's not really fair to justify a maybe, with a maybe. An example would be what if maybe a DUi driver happens to see cops speed checking ahead, flips out and crashes and kills innocent people? He maybe very well could have made it to his destination without killing anyone, if it wasn't for the cops.
As Tangman pointed out, the speed traps are use to meet quotas and quickly bring in some cash. They are purposely setup either in the middle of no where, or areas where the speed limits drop for no reason (coming into a town, but the limit changes well before where the town starts). The intent to alert fellow motorists of speed traps is pure.I wouldn't warning people of a speed trap through a neighbor. But I am definitely going to alert people of a cop trying to snag people in a construction zone, that's been under construction for over two years, zero work as been done, but the speed limit is artificially lowered.
