Policeman in Chicago are now giving tickets to adult bicyclists who ride on the sidewalk and disobey stop signs. (according to Chicagoist, Gapers Block, Chicago Notebook.
I’m trying to picture the scenario of a policeman giving a bicyclist a ticket in the city.
Are these cops in cop cars?
Are they on cop bikes?
Are they just walking around?
How does a biker get pulled over? Is there a siren? Does the cop just yell, “Hey you, stop!”?
When they pull you over for being on the sidewalk, do they make you pull over onto the street? Or does the cop go onto the sidewalk with his bike? Would they just stand there on the street and give you a ticket?
I was pulled over while I was rollerblading. I was 13 and skating down the sidewalk. A cop car pulled up along side me, clicked on his lights, and then yelled for me to stop. I didn’t think he was talking to me, but he got my attention with a chirp of the siren. Had I not been on a family vaction and in a strange town, I surely could have lost him, but I stopped. He made me take the skates off and then spent a few minutes getting my information. No ticket, but I felt like an idiot, standing there in my socks. That was the first time I was “pulled over” no matter the mode of transportation.
I was pulled over on my bike for what the cop insisted was running a red light. If you ask me, I was in the cross-walk and following the walk signs. Anyways, I was in the street with him, and he pulled up along side of me and rolled down his window and screamed at me to stop. That’s how he did it. I argued my way out of the ticket but still felt like a jackass for getting pulled over on my effing bike.