It took a while, but it seems he was on the clock according to the highway patrol spokesperson, but got permission so wasn't derilict. No idea if he got golden time or regular pay, or for how long, but he got paid, so personal kudos rescinded, kudos to the department head that OKed it.
A gofundme to pay the department back might be good, but I'm not starting one....I wouldn't know how.

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Or: "Car runs out of gas on the highway and the driver decides to endanger everyone else instead of walking a few hundred feet to the gas station."

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"The highway is comopletely backup up!"
(Stock footage shows freely moving highway)
:-D

So, you think, with no training, no equipment, no pay, and no oversight, I should become an armed vigilante, a punisher, and that somehow addresses police corruption? What?
Edit: I already do that when reasonable....when I see something I DO something. Where I live we have highway patrol and that's it. They don't show up when people are reported detonating huge explosives or shooting their guns rapid fire in the neighborhood, so I and others must investigate ourselves.

Police don't do those kinds of studies, why should I? They don't address corruption a bit.

Why?

Not a bit motivated to do meaningless busy work at your whim.
You do a study, it has nothing to do with solving police corruption and abuse, why would I?

Since it's your field, how about you do a study on how often police are given a pass on felonies that would put anyone else in prison. Then do another showing how often they get away with crimes that would cost anyone else their net worth. Then do one examining what happens to cops that turn in criminal cops. Then do a study about what happens to cops that threaten other cops off the force. Have your studies verified, repeated, and published, then if you aren't in prison on trumped up charges I'll give you that atta boy you didn't offer me before explaining what a waste of time that was.

Not a bit sure what your point could be. Cops do some needed work, so give all their crimes and abuses a pass?
What are you saying? Nothing rational or helpful that I discern.

Sounds like ' You need farmers to feed us all, so let them use deadly poisons and sell deadly, contaminated, even fake food without repercussions, or consider the implications of having no farmers.' Deep.....to a gnat.

If you need to give love a character name, I can live with that. Artists do it all the time.

Truth is, love is all you need. It's the highway to hell. If you want to get to heaven, you've got to go through hell.
How can there be such a sinister plan
That could hide such a lamb, such a caring young man

Reminds me of every movie scene with empty cars scattered along the highway. There has to be a dozen or two films with such scenes. I'm thinking end of the world or zombies. Name those movies or better yet find a video of those scenes.

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I see him alot on the highways. Always in a different car though.

"Can you take the highway to hell please?"

Whenever I return back to America from visiting Europe, I'm always depressed by how badly things have turned out here. Our buses suck; our trains are a joke -- there's no high-speed rail; our roads can barely support traffic moving at 70mph (look at Highway 280 in the California Bay Area someday to get a taste of how good roads could have been).

It's a good thing we blew all that money on our multi-trillion dollar military while the rest of the civilized world invested in education and infrastructure, because that shit's paying nothing but high dividends, right?