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Originally Posted by Diesel911
This is something that happened to Me.
I was driving by a School and came to an intersection with a Stop Sign (narrow residential Streets).
Acrossed the intersection was a Police Car and 2 Officers with what I guess was a Suspect sitting against the School Chain link Fence.
From the Sidewalk the one Officer saw Me and pointed His Flash Light at Me in a manner that made me think He wanted Me to go around them. I also saw a Hat in the Middle of the Road near them and thought that He wanted Me to go around that; evidence maybe?
So I pulled away extremely slowly to go around the Hat and as I was doing the Office stepped Towards Me still waving the Flash Light in the same Manner and I continued and He kept waving and advancing until He partially blocked My way.
I stopped and He went on as to why I continued to come forward instead of making a left Turn; apparently He was not waving Me around that Hat and did not want Me to go straight down hat Street.
He had stepped in front of My Car He also said He thought I was trying to run over Him.
So I ended up backing up the Car and going the way He wanted to.
This is what I got from the Experience. The Officer some how expected Me to know what He was trying to communicate to Me when He was waving the Flashlight.
The got from the comment that He though I was trying to run over Him that that particular Officer must be a little paranoid.
I also know from some training that I had in the past you can't effectively direct traffic from the Sidewalk.
As I thought about it later I came to the conclusion that the Poilce Officers are a groupe of People that extremely isolated from the main stream of the People and they have their own group think and values. They don't ever get to have a normal life even when they are off duty.
And, that that isolation and the part of the Public that the do deal with does not leave them in a normal frame of mind.
Now what do you suppose would have happend to Me if I had gotten mad at being accused of trying to run over the Officer and talked back?
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Some of them do run on paranoia and yes, you are supposed to be able to read their minds. I've noticed the paranoid ones will try and place blame on you with the type of comment you experienced. If you truly were trying to run him down, I submit that your foot would have been to the floor board as you aimed your vehicle straight for him which wasn't the case.
If you ever hear one say, "I am in fear for my life", they are a heart beat from ventilating you. They have been taught to say that to CYA when the police investigation comes down. They have a license to kill and they have a gun to back it up.
The problem is there appears to be a small percentage who are loose cannons. Scary.