What is Impeding Traffic?!?
I have always been under the assumption that impeding traffic was going to slow in a speed controlled zone? I was pulled over for impeding traffic at....of all places....A stop sign. lol. How the hell does that happen. Anyone familiar with Texas Traffic Laws. I've been searching but have yet to find a definition.
Here is what happend. I was at a 4 way intersection of 2 highways. One of which is controlled with a stop sign, and the other is through traffic. I was stopped at a stop sign waiting on oncoming traffic. The car approaching was going really slow. I didn't notice they weren't speeding up until it was too late to pull out. In this time, a police officer had approached the stop sign on the opposite side of the road and proceeded to his right. He then pulled into the carwash parking lot and watched me. Also a car had approached me from the rear signaling to turn in the same direction. After the slow car had turned, there were two other cars coming from the opposite direction, So I had to wait on them. Then, once it was clear, I pulled out and proceeded on my way....So I thought. The cop pulled me over His reason for doing so was that I was Impeding traffic. I had been at the stop sign for 25 seconds with a car behind me. He claimed that such an act implied something else going on in the vehicle, mainly criminal activity. Then, proceeded to ask me to leave my truck, Once at the front of his car, he began to all but accuse me of trafficking or some other type of illegal activity. I gave him permission to search my truck. Hell he even asked me what was in my back pack....He could have opened it, but not understood the titles of my math books. lol. He then asked my little brother to step out of the truck and he searched my vehicle. He didn't search very hard. But my issues are this, 1. There is a set time you have to leave a stop sign by? Especially when there is oncoming traffic????? 2. I am a good upstanding citizen. I've lived here for 13 years. Everyone knows me by my first name. And that is NOT because I am their crack dealer.
We were rolling with the windows down, so its not like we were trying to hide anything......fricking dick head.
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