Oh, dear. There's also a tsunami watch in Chile.

8.3? Fuck.

Last ticket I got, pulled over for speeding 5 miles over the limit in rural Idaho by patronizing as fuck cops. Driving a rental, being blown past by locals.

In this area, pretty damned sure I'm not the one with the target on me. Never gotten a ticket here (yet) and fully expect if I do, it'll be because a slow night.

Walking back from the pool one night, had a cop pull a U-ie in front of me as I was about to cross the street. It was the depths of winter; only thing visible (and not really even that) were my eyes. Conversation abruptly changed from curt "where are you going." to "there's been a lot of foot crime..," when I pulled down my scarf revealing my whiteness. Spotlight came off my face.

I was unamused. I imagine if it were one of my black neighbors, who have lived here longer and done more for this community, it would have been a different conversation.

I pretty much view all cops here with skepticism. I'm likely to benefit from my interactions with them, but it's because the root is rotten. I cannot rejoice in that.

Yeah, I get that, sarameg

A couple weeks ago I got an alert from the campus that there was an altercation off campus. There are usually a few alerts in a row until the ruckus clears. This one ended with an Incident Resolution notice: it was a drunk community member with a gun, no violence, brought in without incident. Why isn't that the norm?

As for the quake, I can't really fathom 8.3 except that it sounds scary and please please not too much devastation.

One of my office mates got an alert about the tsunami watch, but it was truncated, so I had to look it up. The arrival time (if there is one) was oddly specific: 3:11am local time.

I got pulled over here (not stopping at a stop sign), but did not get a ticket. In this case, I think it's because my car was in my name (i.e. not a rental. i.e. not a tourist)

Today I drove by a parked policeman who had his radar gun out. I was speeding and just got a hand signal from him to slow down. Whew.

I was speeding and just got a hand signal from him to slow down. Whew.

One time I was speeding down the interstate and passed a sign for the correctional facility; about 2 minutes later, I noticed a cop car on the shoulder, and a cop who had basically walked out into the rightmost lane and was just pointing his finger at cars and gesturing them to pull over.

I swear to you my first thought was that maybe someone broke out of the correctional facility. I thought this AS I WAS SPEEDING. And then he pointed at me, and I thought, huh, did I miss a radar gun somewhere?

Yes. Yes, I did.

Quote for the day: "My pocket is like a panini press."

I've been pulled over for driving while a teenager. Other than that it's been speeding.

I once got pulled over on the Texas/Arkansas border for failing to signal a lane change as I swerved to avoid the idiot cop who was walking in the road alongside a pulled-over car. It was a flimsy pretext for a drug search, so I hope he had fun looking through the trunk that was approaching total entropy at the time.

I swear to you my first thought was that maybe someone broke out of the correctional facility. I thought this AS I WAS SPEEDING. And then he pointed at me, and I thought, huh, did I miss a radar gun somewhere?

I would've totally done that, Steph, if it makes you feel any better.

I've also more than once failed to correctly interpret the flailing hand signals of LEOS. They dislike that.