• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 month ago

    A friend from college got a job as an ER nurse in a not so nice city I grew up by…

    She didn’t really explain to anyone who knew the area where she worked, and she didn’t tell co-workers she wasn’t familiar enough with the area. But like, she was an ER nurse, she knew people were getting shot constantly. But she wanted to seem cool and like she could handle herself.

    So like a month in of 3rd shift she’s sitting at a red light a few blocks away from the hospital and a sketch all black tinted car flashes their high beams at after pulling up behind.

    She doesn’t know what to do, so she just sits there in here car.

    Luckily it was a cop who then turned his lights on. He assumed the only reason a car would stop at a red light was because the driver fell asleep drunk, and rather than the cop wanting to stop and get out of his vehicle, he was trying to wake a drunk driver up so they’d leave…

    TLDR

    He told her to never stop at a red light around there. Slow down, look, and then run the red light.

    • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 month ago

      I’ve heard of that in Detroit. My jujitsu instructor told a story of driving through there somewhere and he stopped at a red light. A police officer pulled him over and explained that he would get robbed if he stopped at lights, and that everyone would know he was clueless and from out of town.