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by sillyfluke 245 days ago
>And as a German I have to say: He's bang on.

>Here, at a deserted street, people stop dutifully at a red light. Not a car in sight.

This made me chuckle as I remembered a German friend who passed a red light on a bike at 3am at a deserted street in a German college town and got fined 150 euros by an out-of-nowhere cop car.

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Happened to me in Death Valley, in the very hot middle of nowhere.

I came from a dust road and did not fully stop on the stop sign for the main road through the valley, I had only slowed down and then made the turn.

Out of nowhere there were park ranger lights behind me. I still don't know if they were cloaked or if they teleported behind me, I don't know how I could possibly have overlooked them. Everything flat and nothing anywhere, suddenly they are there.

I don't remember if I had to pay or if it was just a warning.