Easy Rider and Chopperguy

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

 

Breakin' the Law! Breakin' the Law!

I broke the law tonight. I did it with full intent and knowledge that I was breaking the law. I did it right in front of four police officers.

At approximately 1:45 AM I pulled up to a red light and stopped. I waited. Just across the intersection were two police cars, lights flashing, the officers surrounding a pulled over vehicle and questioning the occupants. I waited some more. A car pulled up behind me. We waited. Several cars went through the intersection in the opposite lane of traffic. We waited. A car pulled up to the cross street of the intersection and stopped. We all still waited. A girl pulled up next to me in a little red sports car. We waited. The girl next to me gave me a questioning look with a shrug of her shoulders. I shrugged back. Kicking the bike into first gear, I looked for cross traffic and oncoming traffic. The police were still just across the way, but no other vehicles were visible. I gunned it. I twisted that throttle hard and screamed across the intersection. I don't normally do that around cops, especially that close to bar close, but I was not going to spend half a second longer in the middle of that intersection than was absolutely necessary and I was not going to wait forever for that stupid light to change. While I was pretty far away from the intersection pretty fast, a look in my mirror showed no one else following my lead.

Every rule has at least one exception.

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