I saw the oddest thing last night while driving. It appeared to be a big delivery truck whose both sides looked like a giant television screen flashing an advertisement. THAT was a distractment......
This particular truck certainly does not look like it would be misleading to drivers at night, but some lighting schemes could be, and so for simplicity’s sake the state bans external lights that are not officially blessed on vehicles moving on its public roads. (I hate it when a huge trailer’s only tail lights make it look like a car until I get close.)
If I’d been a traffic cop I’d have issued the truck a warning and told them to light up the interior any way they pleased and/or use the external holiday lights only when parked. And whatever non-lighted decorations, even reflective, on the outside would be okay when on the road.
I’m with the cop on this one. Not only is the truck a distraction, but the lights could start coming off on the road and create a hazard.
I’ll have to ask my daughter and SIL if they’ve seen that truck since they live there.
-HO HO HO-
Does this mean it is now ILlegal to Have Flashing red and blue lights on POLICE CARS, because it is a distraction, and EVERYONE slows down and rubbernecks upon seeing them, we need to BAN these Lights in the name of Public Safety, the Police can always use their whistle to signal drivers to pull over.
"When you take a vehicle and you cover it with that many lights, it's an issue of safety," Schroeder said. "You're going to get the rubberneckers who are going to be staring at the vehicle. They're going to have a collision or rear end somebody because they're too busy looking at this car that's driving down the road."
Gee. Thanks for protecting us all from ourselves, Joe.....you sniveling little p***y.
And yet those blue headlights that blind oncoming drivers are legal?
Meanwhile modern cop cars blast pulsing and piercing flashes of bright colored lights that literally hurt the eye. Like those aren’t ‘distractions’? And where do they get off ripping $274 off from this citizen? A simple citation wouldn’t do or do the men in blue need to be revenue collectors rather than protectors? Eff Govt.these days.
And please all-—spell it Christmas rather than XMas.
We don’t say or wish each other Happy Birthday X. Perhaps the X is a symbol for Christ but the word Christmas is 9 letters-—just spell it out for crying out loud.
They’re going to have a collision or rear end somebody because they’re too busy looking at this car that’s driving down the road.”
Clairvoyant police state!
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
The wind was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
And the highwayman came riding
Riding - riding - riding -
The highwayman came riding up to the truck driver poor....
(From: The Highwayman by Alfred Noise...1906)
The copper because he has a badge makes an assertion which should not have gone unchallanged. Hill should get another lawyer and go back into court and require that cop to prove his claim. I’ll bet there is nothing in state/city statutes dealing with that assertion.