Siren 2006 November 20 17:55
Posted by diamond in : Work, Random , trackbackI got pulled over by the mountain view police on the way to work this morning. The reasons given were:
- Failing to yield to oncoming traffic at a juntion
- Failing to yield to a pedestrian on a crossing
Oops. The latter is definetely true, i didn’t spot the pedestrian until i was well past (nor was i aware of the exact laws on how pedestrian crossings work over here). The former is debatable, i thought i had cleared the junction in plenty of time, but i wasn’t about to debate it with an american policeman -)
He was very polite, told me his name and why he’d pulled me over, asked to see my license, registration and proof of insurance, asked how long i had been over here, then went off to check them. He came back and asked me why was i here, when i replied i worked for google and was over on training, he replied with “So.. you’re over here a lot then yeah?”, to which i hastily replied that i’d only started working for them about 6 weeks ago.
He finally told me that he was going to let me off without citation, and explained very clearly the rules that i had broken. I went on my way, shaken but not stirred.
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Lucky you didn’t meet these guys:
http://geekologie.com/2006/11/ucla_student_tasered_by_ucla_p.php
Oh boy. I had heard vague reports of that, that video is terrifying. So glad i don’t live in the US.
I thpight you were supposed to do an Akroyd/Belushi on US law enforcment officers if they tried to pull you over. You know, drive off, burn some rubber, jump over a bridge kindofstuff.