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I got pulled over and the cop shouted "HELLO? Can you see me?"
Uh, yes?
"I'm asking because of the thick fog"
It was a cloudless sunny day. I stared at him blankly.
"Your fog lights are on. License and registration please."
What magical world do you live in where cops pull people over for leaving the fog lights on?
Around here (the US), that's the kind of thing cops do when they're actually racially profiling you and looking for a pretext.
My (ambiguously brown) wife once got pulled over late at night in rural South Carolina for "one tail light not lighting up as brightly as the other."
Germany
Verboten!
Useless anecdote: My first girlfriend was Russian and immigrated to Germany with her family when she was 7.
"Verboten" was the first word she learnt to read in German, cause it's written on signs everywhere.
Fun fact: Fun is definitely verboten in Germany
Was her second word "ACHTUNG!"?
I love the word achtung! It's printed on many German parts at work...
I first read it in the Sniper Elite games.
Was the cop teasing you or did you actually get a fine for this?
He let me off with a warning. He saw we were a bunch of 18-year-olds in a shitty old hatchback, running fog lights cause we thought it looked cool, and probably decided to have a bit of fun.
nowadays this is actually a good thing, because even fog lights are so goddamn bright that they blind you
but yeah a decade ago who gave a shit. 10 year old highbeams are less blinding than a new car's lowbeams
Buddy of mine got a citation for wrong use of the vehicles lights. A fine of the equivalent of 300USD. What did he do? He had been driving in fog, and didn't switch off his fog lights. He was pulled over less than a km out of the fog. Dude was pissed.
Rightfully so, outside of fog fog lights are fucking annoying.
But still, he was just in fog and expected to be in fog again in a moment. Maybe it's just me, I don't have a problem with people's fog lights. What I do take issue to is people using auto hi beams, because they turn down too late.