I was a passenger in a car one night around 10 or 11 pm about 15 years ago.
We stopped at a railway crossing that had boom gates down and signals ringing.
Strange thing is that it was a train line that stopped operating after 7.30 pm back in those days due to noise.

After a while of waiting, a cop car turned up. One cop went to the other side of the crossing, over the tracks, and the other appeared to have made a gesture for us to go through the crossing via the other side of the road.

So we did...

We were met on the other side of the crossing by a red faced, spitting and screaming cop who yelled "Are you pissed or something?" and demanded to see the driver's licence.

After seeing our driver was a young girl, from the country, with no sign of having been drinking (She hadn't been) and us explaining that we were waved through by the cop on the other side, he threw the licence back into the car and told us to "Piss off!"

I'm still puzzled by the event to this day. Did the first cop signal us through the crossing or did she mean something else? Was there trains running on the line, that could have killed us?

We survived and I guess that's what counts.