A moment of zen - red lights and police

[illusionofjoy]

As I was walking downtown today, I saw a car run a red light. There was no way this was a vehicle completing a move through the intersection on yellow - this was a flat-out "behind the stop line" with plenty of time to brake running of the red light. There was a police cruiser immediately behind the perpetrator. "Ah ha," thought I, "surely it is obvious that a law has been broken and the motorist who thinks he or she is too good to obey traffic signals will be punished." So, I watched, as the police car drove through the same red light, the roof lights and sirens remaining inert and both car continued through the green light at the next intersection down the street and out of sight.

This is why it does not pay to be a pedestrian.