Opportunity Knockin'!

A sheriff's deputy in Waukesha County in Wisconsin received the chance of a lifetime today when he saw a vehicle disobey Wisconsin's law about yielding to emergency vehicles. The law, like those adopted in many states, requires drivers to move over and leave the entire lane free next to a stopped police car, fire engine or ambulance.

Sometimes drivers forget to do that and sometimes they may not believe they need to move over because the stopped cars are well away from the road and the danger of hitting someone standing beside them is slight. So law enforcement officers may not always stop a car that has not pulled over. But in this case the deputy realized that he literally had to pull over this offending driver and at least issue a warning (which, by the way, is what he did.) Why?

Because below is the offending vehicle in questions, shown stopped at roadside:

If you are a law enforcement officer and the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile commits even a mild traffic infraction right in front of you, the chances that your fellow officers will ever let you forget not stopping it are just about zero. As they should be.