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Old 08-28-2011, 02:21 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by hancoveguy View Post
Dead on..this would be my guess. Only other theory is if this was on a highway. If on a multi-lane highway the law requires you to pass in the left lane and travel in the others. Thus making it illegal to travel for any great distance in the furthest left lane unless passing/overtaking. If the person was merely tooling along, the officer may have used his lights to move him out of the "passing" lane.

I do agree that we will probably never know and the officer may have in fact just been an ignorant dipstick. However, I believe we owe law enforcement the over all benefit of the doubt when a plausible explanation exists.

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Nope, not on a multi lane highway. Just a two way street with a yellow line.

I really don't care why he did it, we just thought it was obvious what he was doing. I don't think it was necessarily a bad thing. They have better things to do than follow someone who is not doing anything wrong, which this guy wasn't (that we could see). They do hold up traffic when they do that because it's now secret most people slow down when they see a cop.
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