Scenario: 8:15 am
Not foggy. Not rainy.
Driving the 0.5 mile back from dropping my kid off at school.
I pull into my driveway, open the garage by remote, pull in and start to lower the door by remote.
I don’t know what prompted me to look in my mirror…or maybe just motion caught my attention… but as the door was half way down, I saw legs walking towards me and a dark gray car parked broadside across my drive’s entrance. I thought someone who’d been driving behind me was going to tell me I had a turn signal out or a tire going flat or something being amiss about the back of my van, so I hit the button to raise the door again. As the door stopped and reversed course, a cop I didn't know ducked under and stepped into my garage between my van and the pickup truck. He told me that my running/driving/marker lights (that come on automatically when you turn over the engine) were not enough and that I should have had headlights on yada yada. The conversation and result isn’t so much the point, but my question is, did he have the right to duck under/ enter my garage without my say-so since I was right there exiting my vehicle? Sorry to all the cop types here, but it really pissed me off. I don’t cross thresholds of anybody else’s front door/garage/shed/porch/deck without invitation or permission and the neighbors reciprocate in kind. What about this?
Not foggy. Not rainy.
Driving the 0.5 mile back from dropping my kid off at school.
I pull into my driveway, open the garage by remote, pull in and start to lower the door by remote.
I don’t know what prompted me to look in my mirror…or maybe just motion caught my attention… but as the door was half way down, I saw legs walking towards me and a dark gray car parked broadside across my drive’s entrance. I thought someone who’d been driving behind me was going to tell me I had a turn signal out or a tire going flat or something being amiss about the back of my van, so I hit the button to raise the door again. As the door stopped and reversed course, a cop I didn't know ducked under and stepped into my garage between my van and the pickup truck. He told me that my running/driving/marker lights (that come on automatically when you turn over the engine) were not enough and that I should have had headlights on yada yada. The conversation and result isn’t so much the point, but my question is, did he have the right to duck under/ enter my garage without my say-so since I was right there exiting my vehicle? Sorry to all the cop types here, but it really pissed me off. I don’t cross thresholds of anybody else’s front door/garage/shed/porch/deck without invitation or permission and the neighbors reciprocate in kind. What about this?