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Originally Posted by Elliot Naess
On the other hand....
If I stop on the shoulder because my whole left side just went numb and there is a horrible pain in my right temple... I just might welcome a little Motorist Assist.
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Absolutely agree. And indeed that would be a good outcome. Certainly a bus pulled over on the side of the road arguably should be "assisted" because of possible safety issues. And as the driver, you get to make that choice. Suffer signs of a stroke? Pull over and hope help comes. But if you dont have an emergency, or urgency, the smart money is to get off the road, into a parking lot, and then deal with it.
Again: I'm not hating on the cops. If they do their job lawfully, uniformly, and professionally, then we are all going to get along just fine. But Andy Griffith is long dead, so as I tell our clients, "the less Danno in your life, the better your life will be".
My core point is to intelligently control your exposure to them. Call them when you need them, sure, and be grateful when they catch the bad guys, but when one shows up on your doorstep without a warrant and "just wants to chat", close the door and leave it closed until they slip a warrant under it. Same goes with pulling over on a public road. Many expensive "misunderstandings" start this way.
Then again, I'm sorta betting against myself here because my house, car, bus, and kids college expenses were all paid by people who thought they "knew better"... at least until the harsh realities of life set in and my phone rings with cries for help.
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