Reverse, reserve, reverse, reserve, reverse, reserve! Which? You are correct however about what happened being "glossed over, we all do it, don't we?

Ok, I can laugh at myself... that was pretty dumb. I guess I'm coming down with a case of dyslexia (j/k). Either way though, what this guy is saying is stupid - I cannot imagine somebody getting pulled over because their reverse lights were not working. What would your friend even be doing for the officer to see the reverse lights were not working. Keep in mind they enforce laws on public roadways, not parking lots.

When a policeman stops a car due to any one infracton, he has the right to check the rest of the operating features per law. When you put your vehicle in reverse, the back up lights come on---if they are working. I think the law says that if you have something on a car for safety reasons, it must work.

Ok, that's all well and good, but he only said that she got a warning for the reverse lights not working. Is he saying she got pulled over for that? If not, what sort of idiocy did she get pulled over for? That's what puzzles me. If she got stopped for something else, and then for some reason the officer decided to inspect the rest of the features and found that they don't work - then that would make a little more sense. I guess that's what you're trying to say, but either way that doesn't *seem* to be what happened from what Bladder is telling us happened. I've never actually heard of a police officer invoking his right to conduct a safety inpsection on a vehicle like that (not that they can't). If any of this actually happened, my bet is happened like this: Girl is driving badly and doing something she should not. She gets pulled over. During the stop, she for some reason puts her car in reverse and her lights don't work. Since the officer has already written her a warning for what she got stopped for, he goes on to mention the defective reverse lights. He releases her from that stop. She continues driving and somehow fails to observe (or purposely disobeys) the clearly marked turnlane northbound on Peachtree Pkwy at Hwy 54. The officer (or maybe even a different one) sees her do this, and pulls her over for committing such a stupid moving violation. He writes her a citation (which I would expect if I did that) and releases her. She then leaves and goes around whining to all of her friends about how mean and terrible the police are for making her obey the same laws as everybody else - even after her mommy explained to her that she is special and should not have to be responsible for her own actions.

I called a friend of mine at the police deaprtment and he said they do not do safety inspections and he has never heard of anyone getting a warning for back up lights unless it was part of an accident and the victim said there were no back up lights.
What we have here is a liar and jerk in Bladderq. Has been on this one and has been on just about every blog he has written. Mental case if you ask me. Hates government, police, his neighbors and anything else with authority attached to it. His children will be just like him, an ingrate bottom feeder. Can't type, spell, use correct english and is always right. Calling him a jerk, ingrate, liar, bottom feeder and slug will not faze him because he is right and the world is wrong.

We need to just pretend he is not breathing in this world or PTC. He is just a pimple on the butt of society just waiting for the right cop to stop him and give him the old wood shampoo when he opens his mouth. If I had my Capt. Kirk ray gun, he would be a memory. Ignore him.

I'll bet you a pepsi-cola that what the person meant was her back lights (tail light out, or some such! We don't all communicate alike. What policeman was it that said that they do not do safety inspections? Millions of tickets have been written for such things.
I agree that peiople say only what they want you to hear, to the best of their ability, but all this dumb unknowing talk just aggravates the situation.

The comments by Gun and I were not unknowing or dumb. I said that police officers extremely rarely (if ever) actually invoke their right to conduct a safety equipment check. They may stop you for a broken taillight or something like that, but that does not constitute the type of equipment check that you were (unknowingly perhaps) referring to. The equipment section of Georgia Traffic Law states that after stopping a vehicle for some equipment violation, the officer can check certain other things as part of a safety inspection. Why do you insist on being so disagreeable?

Who deleted my first post (before the one above)... and why???

You are trying to fog up the facts due to a person who didn't make themself clear about a traffic stop. You are assuming that a person who is unable to defend themself in writing must be covering up something. This is not to say that the officer who gave the ticket shouldn't have. Now you know that no one is stopped because their backup lights aren't working unless the policeman saw that occuring in a parking lot beforehand? So, why stopped? Lane changing?
Facts are, it is not good to drive in Fayette as DWB, DWY, or own an old vehicle, poorly maintained. Tail lights will be checked, but not citizenship or identification.

Actually this sad person sounds like they are bi-polar and has stopped taking their medicine, and or they are acoholic.

Either way it is sad since there appears to be kids involved. You are right biggun we need to ignore this jerk.

Is Concerned Citizen your real name? I couldn't find it in the phone book. I happen to know that Bladder Boy is a real name and not a screen name!
What do police officers do to peole who give them a "hard time" to their face? Are you allowed to talk or protest at all?
The copter used to go over my house nearly every day to get fuel at PTC airport but I haven't heard it lately. Is it sold? Are they both sold? Can I get copter lessons at the county's expense, using the county copter, or is it the sheriff's copter?

Hey dollaradayandfound Concerned Citizens name is right under your name in the phone book. Bladderq and you make a pair that would beat a full house any day of the week. I belive you two were seperated at birth. You hide behind your blog name becaue you don't have the guts to attack police officers with your real name. Come on buddy give it up. I suggest you go to Atlanta and find a cop standing on the street and give him your standard "hard time" and find out what happens. Police around here are way to nice to jerks like you. As for the copter, call the Sheriff's office and ask them your questions. I am sure they would be glad to answer.

Concerned Citizen you are right on the money. He sits in his computer room, and tells tales and lies. Can't spell, bad english and sorry kids. He does not have the guts to say anything to a police officers face. Bet he is talking to kids on the internet as he is always defending the ones that are arrested. Yup a sorry coward, sitting at his computer, in a dark room with lots of lotion near buy.

Nothing More to say. When it happens to you or yours you will be cry'n

& then you must be an A-Hole. My posting is only to document that the PTC PD target the least among us who can defend themselves. I myself have been on the receiving end but had the time and intellect to beat the rap.
Not sure where the defaming my Mother or thinking this story was "9th" hand or that my life is troubled. I would invite you to document the typing and spelling errors but that is not what "blogging" is about. You are the A-Hole.

You are not worth responding to. Hope the cops really stick it to you one day.