I’m guilty of doing this myself. I wonder when my ticket is due.
It’s a common practice. A driver sees a policeman set up by the roadside to clock speeders and flashes his lights at oncoming traffic to warn them.
It’s a neighborly sort of gesture with a lightly rebellious edge. It is also, at least in the city of Franklin, against the law. It got Harlie Walker ticketed for interfering with the duties of a police officer.
But, if you really want to mess with the fuzz (and probably get your sorry butt thrown away forever) you could always be a designated decoy:
A policeman parks his car outside a bar shortly before closing time, certain that the exodus of drinkers will provide him with a tipsy driver or two toward his arrest quota. Immediately, an obvious drunk stumbles from the bar. The drunk drops and retrieves his car keys repeatedly as people leave the bar, enter their vehicles and head home. Convinced that he’s found an easy target, the officer ignores the departing crowd. Finally, the drunk reaches the last remaining car, enters and starts the engine.
The officer flips on his lights and pulls his cruiser next to the drunk’s car. Grinning and obviously stone-cold sober, the man says, “How’s it going, officer? I’m tonight’s designated decoy.”
