"Confused Miata" (confusedmiata)
05/16/2015 at 10:47 • Filed to: police
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"Confused Miata" (confusedmiata)
05/16/2015 at 10:47 • Filed to: police | 10
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(photo from yesterday morning)
Last night I went for a ride with my roommate after work. At about the halfway point of the route we planned, we were accelerating after a stoplight and he was going a lot slower than usual. I pulled up beside him and it turns out he couldn’t shift out of first. He pulled over to the side of the highway and tried fiddling with the shifter and clutch, turning it off and on, and such.
After a few min a local sheriff pulled up behind us, lights ablaze. He had been waiting near the last intersection we were stopped at for an easy speeding ticket, lots of idiots take this section way too fast. My first thought was that we were easy pickings, already being pulled over. Turns out he just wanted to give us some light.
In the end, the clutch cable just needed to be adjusted. All of my experiences with the police in the past have either been getting pulled over. It was a nice change for an officer to just want to help out.
ttyymmnn
> Confused Miata
05/16/2015 at 10:50 |
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Not all cops want to shoot you.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> Confused Miata
05/16/2015 at 10:59 |
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I had one do the same for me changing the tire of my wife’s old contour on the side of the road in the dark, just flipped the rear lights on to warn traffic then set the spot lights on the rear of our car so I could see what I was doing
Rainbow
> Confused Miata
05/16/2015 at 13:54 |
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When my dad’s old Focus died, I was the one driving and I was there with my friend. The cop who pulled up on scene was nice, but really, really impatient. I kept telling him that I called my parents and they called a tow truck, but he would always say “I’ll give them five more minutes, but then I’ll have to get a different tow truck over here. You can’t be stopped there.” (I was at the very beginning of a long turning lane on a road with no shoulder; there was literally no better place to pull over.) In the end, he never called anyone, but I was really worried we’d be stuck paying two different tow trucks and explaining to one of them why we wasted his time.
The cop also didn’t want to let my friend wait outside of the car with me, even though it was the middle of summer and both the AC and power windows had died with the car. She would have seriously gotten heat stroke in there, but he eventually said it was fine as long as we just sat next to his cruiser.