Waiting at a red traffic light at 4.15 am

Sorry, but I have done this a few times myself. At that time in the morning and there isn't a car around with headlights on, I don't see a need to sit at a light and burn gas. I keep thinking one day my luck will run out.
 

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Been There said:
Sorry, but I have done this a few times myself. At that time in the morning and there isn't a car around with headlights on, I don't see a need to sit at a light and burn gas. I keep thinking one day my luck will run out.
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You’re one lucky dude. I had a flight from Washington DC and by company rule, we must check in at the airport 45 minutes prior to flight. The flight was to depart at 5:40 a.m. going to Las Vegas. I got caught in a traffic accident on the beltway, not me, but 3 or 4 other cars. I called my dispatcher, but he only said get here asap. After I cleared the accidents. I started hitting one red light after another. Isn’t that the way it always is?

I started jumping red lights and I finally got caught on my third light. That took another 20 minutes. Cops didn’t have computers in their cars back then, so things took longer. I got to the airport 10 minutes prior to flight time, but we were 20 minutes late leaving and that cost me a write-up. If I wouldn’t have been stopped by the cop, I would have been within the window of being “just OK.” I could have appealed the write-up through the union, but I knew I was wrong, so I accepted the write-up.
 
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It was 4 AM, and I stopped at a red light. And I'm waiting. And I'm waiting. I listen to two songs on the radio, and the damn light still hasn't changed. And I'm waiting. There is not another soul in miles, so I decide to run the light. Out of nowhere-lights and siren-the cops. Of course, I got a ticket. You've heard of speed traps, well, this was this town's version. At night the red light wait was unusually long, and when people got fed up and ran it, there just happened to be cops in the bushes.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
It was 4 AM, and I stopped at a red light. And I'm waiting. And I'm waiting. I listen to two songs on the radio, and the damn light still hasn't change. And I'm waiting. There is not another soul in miles, so I decide to run the light. Out of nowhere-lights and siren-the cops. Of course, I got a ticket. You've heard of speed traps, well, this was this town's version. At night the red light wait was unusually long, and when people got fed up and ran it, there just happened to be cops in the bushes.
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Exactly!!!! :)
 
Then there is the flip side: the light changes and the car in front of you doesn’t go because the driver fell asleep. A couple taps of your horn and they peel off like a Jack rabbit.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
It was 4 AM, and I stopped at a red light. And I'm waiting. And I'm waiting. I listen to two songs on the radio, and the damn light still hasn't changed. And I'm waiting. There is not another soul in miles, so I decide to run the light. Out of nowhere-lights and siren-the cops. Of course, I got a ticket. You've heard of speed traps, well, this was this town's version. At night the red light wait was unusually long, and when people got fed up and ran it, there just happened to be cops in the bushes.
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Exactly the reason I do not go through a red light that seems to be taking an eternity to change.
Bound to be a cop somewhere waiting to nab me.
I refuse to give money to the government through fines.
Here in Australia the advice is to wait 4 minutes, if the light has not changed then give way to the right and proceed with caution,
 
When I was bringing my mother home from the hospital after an abdominal operation, she was in a condition where she absolutely had to go to the bathroom & pronto. I went through many lights and could have been arrested for that and speeding as well. My intent was to proceed to my mother's house if a cop was behind me or not and explain the situation then. Didn't have to.
 
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