The next rant on the list is emergency vehicles and the people who refuse to pull over for them.  What are these people thinking?

An emergency vehicle is a police car, a fire engine, or an ambulance with its revolving lights and audible warning device activated.  If you see an emergency vehicle approaching you from in front of you or behind you the law requires that you pull over as far to the right as possible and parallel to the curb line, clear of any intersections.  And the law requires you to stop, not just cruise along the shoulder at 45 miles per hour.

It doesn't matter if you think he has enough room to pass you.  It doesn't matter if you think he is trying to pull you over or not.  It really doesn't matter if you were planning to make a left turn and to pull to the right would be inconvenient.  Just pull your damn car over and stop.  It's the law, and it could save lives.

In Brookfield, and in a large number of other towns, the police are dispatched to all medical calls along with the ambulance.  If you are driving along and see a police car with its light and siren activated behind you, it could be responding to an emergency medical call reporting a four-year-old child who was just pulled from a pool and isn't breathing and has no pulse.  The time you waste trying to figure out if you should pull over, or if he has enough room to pass, or whatever else you spend time dicking around with, could literally mean that someone dies.

Imagine that was your four-year-old son lying on the patio turning blue while you prayed for the police and the ambulance to hurry up and get there.  Wouldn't you want people to get the hell out of the way?