You guys are funny lol. I ride my shee all over the side of the road and straight on down it too, BUT I am lucky enough to live out in the country where there aren't that many popo's around to pop me
I had one close call about 3 weeks ago while I was tunin my shee, me and a buddy were turning around in the ditch down the road from my house and I happened to glance up and saw a forest green crown vic coming right towards us and it was speeding up. I took off like a bat outta hell and my buddy followed suit, (He didn't know what I was doing at the time) luckily we got to my house and were around back by the time the vic had gotten to my driveway and slowed down.
I was about shittin myself when we got back to the house, my buddy had NO clue why I took off so fast but luckily decided to follow me thinking something wasn't right. He was like WTF!!! when I told him.
Nevertheless if I get popped, it's my own dumbass fault. I too think it's complete bullshit that we can't ride on the sides of the road "safely".
Just my .02