Scenario:
I'm at a light turning left,sun in my eyes along with everyone elses,Approx. 5:15 PM.

I get pulled over......Cop tells me reason I got stopped was because he thought I was asleep at the light...But I knew when to turn?


Maybe it's just me,but does'nt it require some commen sense to be a cop? Because it would tell you when the sun gets in your eyes,you'll squint.
I don't know,It was kinda funny though. At least I know he was doing his job,Which is something most cops don't do.

What are some of the reasons you guys get stopped for when Its something this lame?

 

doing 45 mph in a 25 zone on a side road, the rookie cop in front of me pulls over, then stops me. . i knew i was getting a speeding ticket. stupid bast*&d walks up to me and asks "why don't you have an inspection sticker on this truck?" i looked at him like he had 3 heads, and said it don't need one.its a diesel. that was his turn to look at me stupidly and say what do you mean? i explained that in new jersey a diesel vehicle registered over 10,000 lbs is self inspecting, it is in the title 39 codes. he walked back to his car, calls headquarters and asked about it.(i have a scanner mounted in the truck). came walking back to me, apologized for bothering me, said have a nice day, and left. he never called in my plate, checked my paperwork, or even looked to see what i was registered for. never said a thing about the speeding, not a peep about not wearing a seat belt, never noticed the scanner or even looked in the truck.

I saw him 2 weeks later in headquarters , and questioned him about it, and he told me, i knew i knew you from somewhere, i just could not figure from where..... then it dawn on him that i was in a restricted area of the police dept, and was not just another schmuck, but someone he did not know, but probably should. took him 3 months to find out who i was.

 

who are you ? you got me curious

 

yeah me to... president or somethin... or mayor?

 

ex cop in town. but mostly only the senior officers know me, and why i have access to restricted areas of headquarters. the young guys just know that i can go there, they do not question it.

 

Doing his job? Hardly. He pulled you over for squinting into the sun...instead of busting someone speeding, or driving dangerously. This kind of crap pisses me off.

 

the cops here have nothing to do with little crime so they bust people for stupid things.

 

Okay, I gotta stick up for these guys. No, I'm not a cop, I'm a soldier and I put up with almost as much silly, political crap as these guys do. They often have a thankless job at times and the only time anyone says anything to them is to complain about being harassed. He may have just been having a bad day, fought with the wife whatever. You ever have one of those days when somebody is just gonna catch the wrath, no matter what? Think about it.

Now, with that outta the way. I got pulled over in Virginia, going uphill over a pass with a trailer full of ATV's. The speed limit was 65 or 70 and like usual I had the cruise set at about 5 over (speedo reads 2 or 3 fast, so actually 1 or 2 over). So I come over the hill and this guy is in the median. I knew I wasn't going that fast, so thought nothing of it. Well, I see this guy pull out and think, ahhh crap.

So he pulls me over and I'm thinking, "You gotta be kidding me, I wasn't even 5 over"

So he comes up (real young guy) and proceeds to get pissy about by suction cups on the window. I usually have a radar detector there, but I do take it off as they are illegal in Virginia. He swears up and down that I had my detector up there. I swear up and own that I didn't. He says I got 20/20 vision. I say, I got 20/15, so what's your point. My wife is in the passenger seat giggling. This guys looks tells me, "So you make a habit outta lying to the police?" I say, "No, I make a habit out of proving people wrong when they are!" So now he's pissed. I'm no less pissed. He wants me to take the suction cups off the window. Fine, no problem. So he lets me go, but follows me for about 15 minutes, just looking for me to do something.

Yeah, I was a little pissed about that. But at the same time, my old Drill Sergeant attitude came out and wasn't about to be talked to like that by somebody that was just looking for an excuse for a ticket. So I definitely didn't help the situation.

 

A few years ago I had a cop outright fabricate the address he pulled me over at. He wrote that he pulled me over at least 3 miles from where we actually were so he could write me an $300 (59 in a 35)ticket instead of the $90 ticket on the 50mph road that I was really on AND he wrote me a $500 "no proof of insurance" ticket because I didn't have a "card". I DID have a fax from the insurance company with my policy # and the cars VIN stating that it was covered and "cards" were being mailed.

BTW, nothing happened to the cop for lieing and forging paperwork in court. He "just made a mistake" acording to the judge. I just had my witnesses testify, showed my passengers pictures of the crime scene, including crossroad road signs.

Never drive without a camera, even a cheap disposable works. Cops will do anything to make money for the city they work for.

 

You or your car probably look like some guy he busted for dealing drugs yesterday, or a car that was on the stolen list.

 

I had an officer pull me over when i was driving my mom's Cherokee for drag racing, the thing is I was in bumper to bumper traffic.

Well my mom had just bought a 00 xploder and I was drving the jeep, and this officer was ALSO in the Natl. Guard, same unit as my mom and that unit had something against women in general.

ANYWAY, I went to court and this cop didn't do ANY paperwork for this ticket.

One of my co-workers lives not too far from this guy and said he is a total ****.

 

one of our delivery guys got pulled over last week, the cop asked what he had oon his truck cause it was leaning, my driver showed him the 100sqft of wood he had (250) lbs. the cop then pointed to the mudflaps, one was higher off the ground (one is shorter than the other......

The Same driver then got "pulled over" while delivering that same wood cause he was parked on the street facing the wrong direction..... This is a new construction subdivision we're talking about,, trucks and cars are parked every whichway.

 

Oh, I've seen a lot, and heard a lot. I've got a good freind thats a highway patrolman.

First, bad cop story.

I was at the bar one night, with my freinds. Well, Rich got drunk, I mean sloppy drunk, but he wasn't driving home, his old lady was driving him home. Designated driver, thats what they are for right? Well, a rookie cop pulls them over half a mile from the bar. Often cops will do that back home, park and watch the bar. Well, the cop said, "get out of the car" So Rich got out of the car, and boom, was immediatly arrested for public intoxication. If he had stayed in the car, he'd have been fine, but since the cop didn't drag him out, or didn't have a warrant, he could be arrested. Thats just stupid. His wife had nothing to drink, and was able to drive home. Rich, spent two days in jail, and had to pay a 1000 fine. WTF. From now on, if a cop asks me to get out of the car, I am going to tell him to go to hell, drag me out.

Second, good cop story

My highway patrol buddy pulled a guy over for 15 over. He walks up to the car, and asks, "Sir, did you have your seat belt on when I pulled you over?" The guy said of course, and Bobby said, "Do you always drive with your seat belt through the steering wheel?" The guy put it on in a hurry because he was being pulled over, he ran it through the wheel.

Most cops I know are good guys, and even if you do 10 over, and there are good road conditions, and little traffic, they'll let it slide. There job is to keep people from killing one another, and usually settle domestic disputes.

Point is, most cops are good guys, you might run into a D*** from time to time. I even hear that the cop from the first story, was pulled over by two of his fellow officers for speeding without his lights on, to soften him up.

 

They do have a hard job but some of them I worry about. I had a weird situation with th Missouri Highway Patrol the other day. I didn't know and I drove the car almost a year with the speedo being 5mph off. Never got pulled over even though I always go 5 over... even passing cops. Well till the other day.. I was going 60 in a 55 and I get pulled over and he said I was going 68 in a 55, and of course like **** I was sir I was only going 60 according to my speedo well he goes back to his car and comes back saying that if I was going another mile over I would have gotten a ticket. Another thing he was almost 2 miles behind me before he started my direction and followed me for another mile before he pulled me over. I still wonder why he truely pulled me over. I dropped some inventory at my dad's store before I headed out of town and if that was reason.. maybe thinking I was stealing something.. I would of defaintely thanked him, and maybe even sent a thank you letter to the department.

 

NOw I got a GREAT story about that...

my roomate in college burst through the door of our room (pretty drunk) proclaiming that he was going to jail.

After calming him down, it turns out he was walking home from a few keggers at about 4pm on a saturday. He's 22 but looks younger, A campus cop sees him and pulls up and says "looks like we got an underager here" my freind in his drunken wisdom says "yeeeeeeeer underage" the cop replies " well if its not underage, its gonna be public intox....." my freind recalled to me that he didnt know what that was, and didnt wanna find out, the cop came upto him, and my freind "thwapped" the cop in between his legs and bolted for the dorm.

I figure the only reason that the only reason he never got in trouble is because the cop was too embarrassed to explain to his peers how my freind got away....