yet when i was 10 and brothers were 8 and 5, we were all there when my youngest brother was born
i agree, they should have been escorted
You were in the delivery room? Impressive, I wasn't aware that they allowed kids in there due to sanitary/infection risks. I have a 4 year old and a 19 month old right now and one due at the end of Feb. We're definitely going to take the time to find someone to watch them since I doubt we'd have much control over them in all of the activity, especially the 19 month old, she's a bit of a handful when it comes to places she might like to "explore."
I still would like to know why it is that driving at a reasonable rate in the breakdown lane is so dangerous. Sure it's meant for stopped vehicles and emergency vehicles but so are the other traffic lanes. There could be a stopped car in any lane on any highway and emergency vehicles can be using any open lane. Driving at a reasonable speed in the breakdown lane in an urgent situation, like being in labor, is not any more dangerous than driving in any other lane.
The article is a bit vague as well, how far had they driven on the highway covering the 3 officers? where was the nearest exit from the first officer stop? How close were they to the destination hospital at the final stop?
For all we know it could have been a stretch where exits were few and far between, and the officers happened to be tightly clustered, they might have been trying to exit to use side roads and avoid the congestion, or the final officer may have stopped them at a point where the nearest hospital was their destination. If the officer didn't ask, how did he know they weren't going to the nearest hospital from their starting point? Not everyone starts going into labor at their house.
There are a lot of unanswered questions here, I'm not even sure I believe that all three cops were state troopers. I'd be more inclined to believe that the first two might have been city or county cops, and thus a little more lenient and it might explain why the trooper did not know about them, or maybe he did and decided that they've been in the breakdown lane too long without trying to get off the highway to find an alternate route, maybe they were speeding in the breakdown lane in which case they should have gotten the ticket.
A lot of questions that could really shed light on this seem to be missing, but that seems to be the norm for media these days, omit any details that might make the story less shocking.
my issue is let me repeat, having the cops perform the role as judges and not issuing tickets when they were breaking the law
thankfully the third cop came to his senses
Cops do this all the time in deciding whether or not to issue a warning or a ticket, or whether or not to pull over someone going 5 mph over the speed limit or not, why should this situation warrant any more scrutiny than those?