OhioDriver
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- Ohio
I had an unusual experience this afternoon that bothered me enough to create an account here and pick the community's collective brain.
On my way to my brother-in-law's house this afternoon, I accidentally drove the wrong way down a one-way street. To my knowledge, it's not clearly marked "one way" or "wrong way", but I could tell I made a mistake by the angle of the entrance to the neighborhood. Immediately upon entering the neighborhood, an unmarked truck that was facing the neighborhood entrance backed into the nearest driveway, and very quickly pulled out into the road, perpendicular to traffic, nearly causing us to have a collision (I hit my brakes with a couple feet to spare), and completely blocking off the neighborhood road in both directions. After about 5 seconds of him blocking the road, he rolled down his passenger window and began taking pictures of my vehicle. I rolled down my window and said "What's up?", and he said "You went the wrong way down the road! I'm reporting you to the sheriff!". I said "I'm sorry, I didn't realize I couldn't go that way down that road." He responded with "Too bad, buddy. The sheriff is already working on this and I'm turning you in!" I just said, "Ok." and waited until he moved his vehicle. For whatever it's worth, the entire time he was blocking the road was 30-45 seconds.
Once I got to my brother-in-law's, I told him what happened. He immediately pulled up their community Facebook page and showed me the guy. Apparently he has done similar things to this multiple times, and posts about it on that Facebook page. Then it clicked, and I asked him "Is this the same guy who stands at the end of his driveway with a radar gun clocking people/ shouting at speeders, and then posts pictures of them on Facebook?". It turns out it's the same guy. As you can imagine, his behavior has not been well received by people in the community.
If this were just a regular guy, I'd laugh and go on with my day. What really rubbed me the wrong way was finding out he's an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio. Maybe I'm completely off base, but it seems fundamentally wrong for someone in his position to be blocking the road to obstruct and take pictures of vehicles he feels are breaking the law. Playing vigilante is bad enough when it's normal person. It seems flat-out crazy when it's a person with a certain degree of influence doing it in his own community. I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed, but I'm curious to hear the opinions of this board on this situation.
On my way to my brother-in-law's house this afternoon, I accidentally drove the wrong way down a one-way street. To my knowledge, it's not clearly marked "one way" or "wrong way", but I could tell I made a mistake by the angle of the entrance to the neighborhood. Immediately upon entering the neighborhood, an unmarked truck that was facing the neighborhood entrance backed into the nearest driveway, and very quickly pulled out into the road, perpendicular to traffic, nearly causing us to have a collision (I hit my brakes with a couple feet to spare), and completely blocking off the neighborhood road in both directions. After about 5 seconds of him blocking the road, he rolled down his passenger window and began taking pictures of my vehicle. I rolled down my window and said "What's up?", and he said "You went the wrong way down the road! I'm reporting you to the sheriff!". I said "I'm sorry, I didn't realize I couldn't go that way down that road." He responded with "Too bad, buddy. The sheriff is already working on this and I'm turning you in!" I just said, "Ok." and waited until he moved his vehicle. For whatever it's worth, the entire time he was blocking the road was 30-45 seconds.
Once I got to my brother-in-law's, I told him what happened. He immediately pulled up their community Facebook page and showed me the guy. Apparently he has done similar things to this multiple times, and posts about it on that Facebook page. Then it clicked, and I asked him "Is this the same guy who stands at the end of his driveway with a radar gun clocking people/ shouting at speeders, and then posts pictures of them on Facebook?". It turns out it's the same guy. As you can imagine, his behavior has not been well received by people in the community.
If this were just a regular guy, I'd laugh and go on with my day. What really rubbed me the wrong way was finding out he's an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio. Maybe I'm completely off base, but it seems fundamentally wrong for someone in his position to be blocking the road to obstruct and take pictures of vehicles he feels are breaking the law. Playing vigilante is bad enough when it's normal person. It seems flat-out crazy when it's a person with a certain degree of influence doing it in his own community. I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed, but I'm curious to hear the opinions of this board on this situation.
