Ridiculous encounter either way. Absolutely ridiculous. Too much vigilantism and vigilante-like tactics.

Well, should they be trying to act within the scope of their employment when off-duty (i.e., directly intervene via road rage) unless there is such a grave threat to the health and safety of the public or there is a clear, dangerous crime potentially being carried out? Improper procedure? And I think anyone who would follow a stranger's car into a parking lot at night just to verbally berate them may not be in their right mind. I should have asked if they had anything to drink that night or were taking medication or controlled substances.

>By the way, if you think I'm trying to ask these obscure questions because I somehow plan to use them on some weird, non-existent assignment: not true. You may believe me or not. I'm an economics and accounting major attending college in Missouri. There is no class I could take where this information would be remotely relevant. And no this isn't some god-awful high school assignment where the teacher says do a book report on another state. No high schooler on earth would inquire with this type of depth about PA. They would just squirm around and say, "PA is in the Northeast, aaaand there's Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention was, aaand it gets all four seasons, aaand can I use the bathroom now?"

By the way, if you think I'm trying to ask these obscure questions because I somehow plan to use them on some weird, non-existent assignment: not true. You may believe me or not. I'm an economics and accounting major attending college in Missouri. There is no class I could take where this information would be remotely relevant. And no this isn't some god-awful high school assignment where the teacher says do a book report on another state. No high schooler on earth would inquire with this type of depth about PA. They would just say, "PA is in the Northeast, aaaand there's Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention was, aaand it gets all four seasons, aaand can I use the bathroom now?"

My own interest

Even if it were true (it's not), it would be a very efficient way to do it.

I don't know what type of term paper would require this very specific, offbeat information. I go to college in Missouri, anyway, and I doubt most people in Missouri think about Pennsylvania to begin with.

Googling is asking the Internet to do your leg work.