Got pulled over

[JetGirl]

Oh good lord!!
You know, this morning I was minding my own business - doing the speed limit- traveling down a highway.
Some lady (apparently an INGOer) from the opposite direction was attempting to make a left (slowing in her own lane/crossing over mine).
She was all tickified that I was either going too fast for her liking or too slow...whatever...but she honked her horn and presented the secret INGO wave while then cutting across and squealing tires.
Was she a butt-bonnet? Yes.
Should she get a ticket for honking for a non-emergency? No.
I just tooled on down the road...

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

There is a Indiana code somewhere that said something to the affect that you must honk your horn while turning if a pedestrian may be near.

 

[Greeper]

I almost forgot to tell everyone. I was pulled over the other day because some jerk pulled out in front of me so I laid on my horn, next thing I know there is a police car behind me. So I pulled over and the officer came up to my window and asked if there was a problem and I kindly replied, "Why, are you looking for one", I really didnt say that, but I wanted to. I said no but that guy pulled out in front of me and he said, no he didnt, I seen it, and I said well I dont care what you saw, that guy pulled out in front of me so I let him know what I thought about it. He then asked for my license so I pulled them out along with my LTCH and he said he didnt care about the LTCH so I put it back in my wallet. He went back to his car with my license and wasnt even in the car 15 seconds and came back and told me im free to leave. He didnt even ask if I was carrieing or if I had one in my truck. I think when he saw my LTCH he figured why run a check and then let me leave. Over all, he was a cool cop.

Wait...a...minute...

You voluntarily showed your LTCH???...to a LEO???...and admitted it in a post on INGO?!?!?! Then you didn't explain and show your work?!?!?!?!

May God have mercy on your soul!!!

 

[TJSaltdog]

Wait...a...minute...

You voluntarily showed your LTCH???...to a LEO???...and admitted it in a post on INGO?!?!?! Then you didn't explain and show your work?!?!?!?!

May God have mercy on your soul!!!

I have nothing to hide. I just wanted the officer to know that he is safe and I dont plan on taking my gun out on him if I was carrying. If he runs my license then it will come back that I do indeed have my LTCH and I just saved him the trouble of asking me if Im carrying or not.

 

[AndersonIN]

I'm calling my State Rep right now and DEMANDING A HORNY FREE SCHOOL ZONE !!!! I believe it can have multiple benefits!

(I have 8 granddaughters!!!!!)

 

[95wrangler]

LOL butt bonnet!

 

[Birds Away]

I'm calling my State Rep right now and DEMANDING A HORNY FREE SCHOOL ZONE !!!! I believe it can have multiple benefits!

(I have 8 granddaughters!!!!!)

Good luck with that. The only time teenagers aren't horny is...no, wait, um...no,...oh crap. I can't think of any.

 

[cosermann]

... Lindsay’s Law ...

That's great. Yet another knee jerk enacted law with someone's name on it. Somehow we got through the last 236 years without this law, but there's a bad incident and wouldn't you know it, we need another law.

"If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law." - Winston Churchill

 

[88GT]

I blow mine all the time at oblivious people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjHe9NBro1I

Is this YOUR personal vehicle, and how can I get one of those. The factory horn on my truck just doesn't seem to cut it anymore. You'd think the 1-ton truck would be large enough to be noticed, but apparently not.

 

[PGRChaplain]

88GT, They put the same horn on everything now, from a Prius to a 4X4.

 

[Lex Concord]

The minimum speed law is 45. But yes, the person doing 50 on 465 has a death wish!

The only IC I could find on minimum speed follows:

IC 9-21-5-8
Minimum speed limits
Sec. 8. Whenever the Indiana department of transportation within the department's jurisdiction or a local authority within the authority's jurisdiction determines, based on an engineering and traffic investigation, that slow speeds on a part of a highway consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the Indiana department of transportation or local authority may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below which a person may not drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law. A limit determined under this subsection and declared by appropriate resolution, regulation, or ordinance becomes effective when appropriate sign or signals giving notice of the limit of speed are erected along the affected part of a highway.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.9.

This would seem to indicate that, absent a sign giving notice of a minimum speed for a particular section of road, no such minimum exists.

Am I missing something?

I've seen such signage in Illinois and other states, but don't recall seeing any in Indiana, though I'm not very well traveled of late.

 

[88GT]

88GT, They put the same horn on everything now, from a Prius to a 4X4.

Well, that's just stupid.

 

[jsharmon7]

So flashing your brights and honking your horn at the idiot doing 50 MPH in the left lane on 465 you can get a ticket for? Interesting.

At least until they legalize blowing them off the road with an RPG.

 

[MTC]

At least until they legalize blowing them off the road with an RPG.

Who says LEOs have no sense of humor? Tryin' to picture what that bill will look like. Instead of complicating IC 35-41-3-2, it might be simpler to add something like:

(sample)
35-41-3-12(?) Use of force to ensure right of way.

Sec. 1 Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, a person shall be justified in using force, up to and including use of an RPG or similar, to ensure right of way and/or to remove slower moving vehicles from the left lane.*

*(shall be construed to mean slow-ass MFers who won't get the hell out of my way 'cause I got things to do.)


(ETA: HB 465 died in committee. Dangit. Couldn't make it work. We'll have to try again next session.)

 

[Deusvult]

My fiancee is from Indiana but learned to drive while living on the East Coast. Out there, I have been told, using your horn is rather like its own language. I have to remind her often that in Indiana blowing your horn is often the equivalent of declaring war on another driver. At least, that has certainly been my experience even if the other driver is clearly doing something wrong.

 

[j706]

The minimum speed law is 45. But yes, the person doing 50 on 465 has a death wish!

It is a violation of the law to drive below the posted limit with two or more vehicles behind you.

 

[TheReaper]

It is a violation of the law to drive below the posted limit with two or more vehicles behind you.

It's 3 or more vehicles. 9-21-5-7

 

[Brandon]

I really want to put an air horn on the car and truck.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I really want to put an air horn on the car and truck.

IC 9-19-5-1
Necessity of horn; audibility Sec. 1. A motor vehicle, when operated upon a highway, must be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than two hundred (200) feet. However, a horn or other warning device may not emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.7.

There goes that "reasonable person" standard again.

 

[KG1]

There goes that "reasonable person" standard again.

So much for that unreasonably loud harsh sounding whistle I was gonna put on my vehicle.