Stupid Cops

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Well I just went to the video store to pick up a movie for something to do. (God I hate not being in school.) Any ways Blockbuster is only about 2-3 miles from my house. So I'm driving, the speed limit and just going straight on down the road, no ones around. All of a sudden there is flashing lights and a whale. So I pull over, the good old cop comes over to me and wants my license and all the other stuff. So I give it to him and he goes you know why I pulled you over? I told him not a clue, he proceeds to tell me that my Euro tail lights are illegal and so are my Xenon headlights, along with my fuzzy dice, and my campus parking pass hanging in the mirror.

I almost lost it laughing, but I controled my self. So I tell the officer that my tails and my headlights are DOT approvied. Well he didn't believe me, so I get out and show him the imprint of the DOT on the tails, and I pulls out one of my bulbs to show him they were DOT approvied. He said that I was luckey I could show him but he still wrote me a warning for having Fuzzy Dice and a campus parking pass. So ya thats my new story. Cops are just bastards sometimes.

Anyone else have a run in like this?
 
Yep.

I am hesitant to drive the ACR a lot because I don't have a front liscence plate (there isn't a spot for one) and every time I go out I get pulled over for it. Drives me crazy.

Sometimes I just throw my second plate up on the dash in the windshield so it's visible, but they still pull me over.

The thing is that I am pretty sure that around here we don't need one legally.

I just don't know where to find that info.
 
Go to a local police station, I plan on going monday and getting the offical law in writing.
 
I once had a cop give me a ticket for "Miscellaneous Mischief." He didn't write down what I was doing wrong, so I had it dismissed in court because I couldn't defend myself against it.

What was I doing at the time? I was sitting in a shopping cart.

I also had a bunch of FI reports filled out. FI stands for Field Investigations. Cops fill them out when they think you are doing something wrong, but don't quite know exactly what you are doing.

I never get tickets anymore. I have a bunch of Gary Penrod Sheriff business cards, he's the head Sheriff in my county, in my car. I tell the cop who pulls me over, "He's my Uncle," and he wont give me a ticket. Yes, he's not my Uncle.
 
sydney australia has the worst problem with its highway patrol cops. they can basically defect ANYTHING even if its stock they will pull you over and find something defectable.
silly things like, no washer fluid for winscreen, minor oil leaks (minor as in almost non existant) no 'H' pattern on your gear knob, no 'unleaded fuel only' sticker on the pertol gate, ANY aftermarket engine components (zero tolerance there) and the most ridiculous to date, having bird poo on the passenger window. police here are hitting car enthusiests hard.
 
What really bugs me is that police most usually book youth, in thier modded, lowered cars. Most people pay out big bucks for brand new tyres and parts for their cars, when theres an old guy up the road who tows his caravan on crappy retreads, and gets away for it!

That really bugs me! Damn governments picking on youth!
 
not just youths but any form of stereotype, including racial. police often pull over ethnic drivers in well presented cars on suspicion of drug offences. and they have recently passed a law to make this 'suspicion of drug related offence' legal.
 
Cars with Dutch plates crossing the Dutch-Belgian border are pulled over by default.

BMW X5s are pulled over by default.

I highly applaud this.
 
Well I asked my cousin who's a cop. He did tell me fuzzy dice are illegal to have in your window. All I got to say is that they will not come down.
 
Originally posted by BlazinXtreme
All of a sudden there is flashing lights and a whale.
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What?

Have you been doing LSD again?
 
In the paper a guy was visited by police for a random car check and they gave him a ticket for no windscreen washer fluid after checking the entire car for defaults.

the dice are probably illegal because they will rock to and throw and hit you in the face. But might they aswell say listening to the radio while in the car alone is also an offence.It might get too loud!
 
In the UK if the pigs pull you over and you havent got any water, you can get three points on your licence. Thats what some copper said to me a while ago. I always get pulled because I have a PS2 in my car with a dash mounted screen. DVDS are only put on if there are other people in the car otherwise I have my Navigation head unit on.
 
I know someone in Italy once got pulled over. The cop couldn't find anything wrong with the car so he fined the driver for having a full ashtray. The court case took up 2 days and cost them £500. The driver was let off. The police officer was suspended :D
 
Originally posted by Famine
What?

Have you been doing LSD again?
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Uh, I think he meant "wail" , from the sirens.

Funny you should post this, I just received my first ticket last night. Doing 70 in a 55. It's Route 40, everyone drives fast, but honestly I really don't drive much above 60 on that road. I was adjusting my radio, and looked up, saw that I was doing 70, and started to slow down some. Too late, cop radar'd me, pulled me over, and gave me the ticket. $75 isnt too bad, but I am just hoping the judge will knock off the two points.
 
One time I accidentally blew by a cop doing 112 in a 35 zone. :( Well the good thing is I got away. I guess he gave up considering he was heading in the opposite direction and by the time he turned around I was able to hit the highway.

Another time I had my cruise controll on and it was like 1 am and noobody on the road and the light turned red and I drove right in front of a cop. I guess he was too tired because he didn't chase me.

the other time was an accident...we were on the highway and he pulled on my left and motioned for me to pull over...So I took the exit and he missed it. :lol:

I got pulled over by a mustang GT in our residential zone...it was the guy who never gives warnings, fortuantley he recognized me from the day before when I stopped at the police car wash becasue my car was dirty. He actually let me go!
 
Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
One time I accidentally blew by a cop doing 112 in a 35 zone.
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Yeech, the title was "Stupid Cops", not "Stupid Drivers"! I don't particularly think speed limits are high enough, but 112 in a 35 zone is just asking for jail time. Erm, you don't speed like that anymore, do you?

I don't have any stupid cop stories, but I wish some of them would lighten up a bit. One time my mom was driving along a stretch of road through the industrial center... a car had stopped ahead of us, and we assumed he was making a left, since a lot of people make lefts through that area without using their turn signal. So, she went around him on the right, and there was a cop standing in the middle of the road. Apparently, he had stopped that car to allow a movie to be filmed. Realizing this, my mom stops the car, but not before the cop comes up to our window yelling,
"Didn't you see me stop that car?!?"
"No, sir."
"Oh, so you thought you'd just go around him, eh?!"
{My mom, in all sincere naivety} "Yes, sir."
*Grumble grumble*

Com'on, how the hell were we supposed to know movie was being filmed? Gad.

You guys do need to stop calling them "pigs" though. You try doing your job and getting called a pig for doing it.
 
I wish the cops around here would do a better job. We've called in about a hundred times to tell the city to post cops around our street because everyone speeds. This isn't just a couple over, either. I'm talking doing about 70 in a 35. It doesn't help that my street is the first street that connects on major road to another, but it's getting ridiculous.
 
Originally posted by Sage
Yeech, the title was "Stupid Cops", not "Stupid Drivers"! I don't particularly think speed limits are high enough, but 112 in a 35 zone is just asking for jail time. Erm, you don't speed like that anymore, do you?
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Well it was around midnight, so no one was on the road. It's also perfectly straight with no sidewalks or anything. There also aren't any cross streets or intersections for quite a while. I have no idea why the speed limit is 35 especially since the roadway is 3 lanes in each direction... Anyway to answer your question, No I don't drive like that anymore, I still occasionally speed but not that much.
 
Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
[...] Anyway to answer your question, No I don't drive like that anymore, I still occasionally speed but not that much.
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Erm-kay. :)👍
 
Originally posted by kikkoman
sydney australia has the worst problem with its highway patrol cops. they can basically defect ANYTHING even if its stock they will pull you over and find something defectable.
silly things like, no washer fluid for winscreen, minor oil leaks (minor as in almost non existant) no 'H' pattern on your gear knob, no 'unleaded fuel only' sticker on the pertol gate, ANY aftermarket engine components (zero tolerance there) and the most ridiculous to date, having bird poo on the passenger window. police here are hitting car enthusiests hard.
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I got pulled over in a stock Impreza RX I mean its like dodgy ffs, and he breath-alised me and stuff And then he said that my "sports exaust" (This car is stock and makes about 100kW or somethin) was poluting the surrounding area with "excessive noise", for anyone else who lives in sydney I was on Parramatta road which is hella-noisy anyway. So I get out the log book and show that its had no work done to it and stuff and hes well I'll let you off this time. (Like he was doing me a favour or somthing) So then I go off slowly to the lights and hes next to me turning left and I was going straight on so I get my Feet and hands ready the light changes to green and I burnt him so hard in this ***** little car even though hes in the V8 and he couldnt turn round cos of the traffic. Dodgy Impreza 1, Cop 0
 
I deserved all of the tickets that I was written up for.

Wreckless driving. It was my second week as a driver, I thought this guy wasn't going fast enough, got around him, blitzed up an onramp, only to freak out when the car started slidding a little. I spun the wheel around, which of course in turn, spun my 1995 Nissan Altima right around, and hit the only pole in sight. :banghead: One good thing to come out of it was the courts lost the ticket. No fee, no points taken off.

Speeding in my little Hyundai Accent, 10mph over the speed limit. A lot of others do it there, and it just wasn't my lucky day. :banghead:

Careless driving. I was in hurry to meet a friend at her appartment. I realized that I needed to turn right within half a block, and I was two lanes over. Turn signal, glanced in the mirror, over the shoulder, merged. Then I needed to turn left, it was one of those things, "Nope can't go, wait, yes, I can... Do I?" I chose yes, and I had slipped it into first, and while still rolling, and then mashing it, the tires screamed. That's when the cop flips on her lights. :banghead:

I don't drive like that anymore. Speeding is a rare occasion. Half throttle to speed limit (still pretty quick), and then plateau and continue at 35, 45, etc. I love my car, and I'm not going to risk it because I'm in a hurry for something. I usually save all of those wants for autocrossing. Now I spend my time trying to get revs matching. I've learned to double clutch decently, and now I'm trying to learn the heel-toe method... It's going.... okay. :p

I guess a Subaru owner in Colorado was pulled over for having a modified exhaust. :confused: Seems stupid to me, and I think it's being slighty unfair. I have my exhaust on because autocross rules allow it for my class, and I need every little help I can get. It just seems they want to decrease on street racing, but people aren't stupid and use that exhaust for the strip, or a course, get caught in it.

Driving home tonight, I was thinking, as much as I dislike cops being around sometimes, I'm truly glad they're here. They're the ones trying to cut down on these morons who drive around blitzed, and people street racing, etc.
 
Originally posted by BlazinXtreme
Well I just went to the video store to pick up a movie for something to do. (God I hate not being in school.) Any ways Blockbuster is only about 2-3 miles from my house. So I'm driving, the speed limit and just going straight on down the road, no ones around. All of a sudden there is flashing lights and a whale. So I pull over, the good old cop comes over to me and wants my license and all the other stuff. So I give it to him and he goes you know why I pulled you over? I told him not a clue, he proceeds to tell me that my Euro tail lights are illegal and so are my Xenon headlights, along with my fuzzy dice, and my campus parking pass hanging in the mirror.

I almost lost it laughing, but I controled my self. So I tell the officer that my tails and my headlights are DOT approvied. Well he didn't believe me, so I get out and show him the imprint of the DOT on the tails, and I pulls out one of my bulbs to show him they were DOT approvied. He said that I was luckey I could show him but he still wrote me a warning for having Fuzzy Dice and a campus parking pass. So ya thats my new story. Cops are just bastards sometimes.

Anyone else have a run in like this?
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Do they have runway cops, my friend bought his dad some fuzzy dice for his Sesna.
 

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