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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Not regarding nipples.
When I was a kid, if a driver passed a cop waiting in an obvious speed trap or about to get back in his car after pulling someone over, the driver would warn oncoming traffic of the potential ticket by flashing his lights.
Is that regional or did was it pretty widespread? Does anyone do this anymore? Whenever I see someone flash their lights, I immediately hop into the right lane (if I wasn't already there) and slow back down to the speed limit. And whenever I see a potential speed trap, I try to warn the oncoming traffic. Lately, though, the speed trap never materializes, and I'm beginning to think that I'm doing a rain dance when everyone else just checks doppler radar.
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This was common in the Northeast when I was younger. No idea if it is still done today because I do very little highway driving in Texas.
I did have an interesting (to me) encounter with a cop car the other day tho when I decided to pass a very slow moving truck (going about 10-15 mph) on a kind of busy city street in an area where dashed yellow lines were painted on the street. I thought it was a questionably legal maneuver when I did it, but was surprised when I got to the side of the truck to see slow moving traffic on the other side being passed by a police car on my (rightful) side of the road. We both made it past our respective crawlers and he never turned around to stop me, so it worked out ok.
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