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Wait, some police officers abuse their power? Say it isn't so!
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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See, no, it's not an abuse of power, because their job is LIFE AND DEATH, and so when they go to get a coffee or fuck around doing whatever absolutely necessary thing away from their cruiser they need to do, they absolutely have to park like the biggest dicks in town, because it lets them get to the emergency faster somehow. Or I guess they should just let your mom get raped, then??
Wow, uh, that’s uncalled for but I guess user name checks out.
It’s extremely sensible to think it’s not great for someone in a position of authority to use that authority to do the things they’re meant to do and not other things.
Pretty sure this was sarcastic.
Wow. Since I’ve met so many of that kind of person online that tonight never crossed my mind.
New york cops too
Probably cops everywhere.
Hell, one day I had an altercation with a motorist in the bike lane and called the police. The cop showed up... and parked in the bike lane. That I had called the police to keep cars out of.
(I'm proud to say that bike lane has those flimsy plastic sticks "protecting" it now, though.)
A while back I saw some NYC cops park very illegally to go into a Dunkin donuts. It was like seeing a political cartoon in real life.
Cops make a lot of money. I'd be less mad if they at least went to a local coffee shop instead of shitty tim hortons
The solution is simple. Call the bike cops on them😏
LOL, good idea -- I wish I could request one specifically! Atlanta Police does have bike patrol units, but I've never seen one within a mile of where this incident occurred.
(Edit: I thought I was writing a follow-up to this comment, not a reply to a top-level comment, so that's what the "incident" non-sequitur is about. Whoops.)
Call the cops and tell them someone illegally parked in the bike zone
I park illegally to get coffee in Montreal all the time, but I don't do it-
-on crosswalks
-on bike paths
-for fucking Tim Hortons "coffee".
So if I'd crash into one of these with my bike, could I sue the city?
Worth a shot!
I wonder what happens when you crash your bike into a vehicle that's parked in the bike lane? Surely there's some case law precedents on it by now? If they all show in favor of the bicyclists, I wanna see what happens when one crashes into a cop car doing the same thing.
Unfortunately, when a moving vehicle crashes into a stationary vehicle it's pretty much always going to be the operator of the moving vehicle at fault, even if the stationary vehicle is parked somewhere it shouldn't be and, I believe, even if the moving vehicle is a bike.
Don't get me wrong: I've definitely been tempted to pull a Casey Neistat myself, from time to time! But it's really not the, uh, "prudent" move, from a legal perspective.
