Police escorts for funerals mostly about respect | The Columbus...

Dawn wrote:

This business about "pulling over" for a funeral seems absurd to me. I understand that the procession gets the right of way through traffic lights and stop signs. Additionally, it's not appropriate to attempt to pass one or more of the vehicles in the procession to get ahead of them. However, if it's on the opposite side of the road, I don't agree w/ the practice of pulling over. That's a great way to potentially cause an accident.

Bodie wrote:

Some people have no self respect let alone respect for the dead or those grieving.

Birds of a Feather wrote:

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Respect........It's all about RESPECT. How many funeral processions do we really see on a daily basis anyway?

Dawn wrote:

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You think is shows respect. I do not and will go around you if you pull over in front of me.

John Galt wrote:

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You would probably run over him to get to your next hair appointment, funeral procession or no procession.

Dawn wrote:

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I understand it's illegal and do see it as disrespectful to do any of the things the poster after you indicated has recently happened. However, I fail to see why so many people think it's being disrespectful to not pull over.

TOOK THE WORDS wrote:

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It's about putting others' loss, and their sensitivities, ABOVE, your own.
NOT pulling over, or 'racing around others' while glaring at them, says, what I HAVE TO DO 'RIGHT NOW,' IS MORE IMPORTANT, than this family's irretrievable loss, I'm too self-absorbed to delay my oh-so-important day, by three minutes, to show some respect.
Whether this is how accurate- or how you SEE yourself- that's how those who CAN put others' feelings first, interpret your actions.

Dawn wrote:

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Hopefully the folks here who are looking for reasons to be offended do not have a concealed carry permit. If you do have that permit, hopefully you don't have that loaded gun near you while driving b/c it certainly increases the chances you will be adding to the body count. Good golly.
It's now been added that I "race around" and "glare" at other drivers. While I do drive around them, I never race around them. Nor would I be giving them the evil eye or the bird or blare my horn or come this >< close to side-swiping them or anything else any other overly sensitive person wants to tack on. When going around another vehicle that is pulled over, I actually ease off the gas and give as much space as the situation allows for safety.
Maybe people pulled over and maybe they didn't for my grandmother's funeral procession. Maybe people pulled over and maybe they didn't for my grandfather's funeral procession. Maybe they pulled over and maybe they didn't for my two uncles' processions. I didn't notice b/c it's simply unimportant and I did not and will not take it as these strangers being disrespectful of my family and me if they don't pull to the side.

TOOK THE WORDS wrote:

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Interesting- might YOU not be 'jumping to conclusions yourself, now-
'racing around and glaring' are things that have happened to me.
If that ISN'T you, then- sort of defensive, aren't you?
Speaking of giant, non-sequitir conclusions- Where the hell does law abiding 'CCW' carriers, come into this? You think you have something to fear from permit-holding, law abiding citizens- paranoid much?