You must be pretty lax, to let those overgrown rodents crawl around on your car.

I'm going to generalize here, and say the young cops are prudes, way too textbook.

 

The cops that have spoken here are the
exception and not always the rule.
Sadly there are some that are mean
and hateful.
Just like any other line of work. I have
a few freinds that are cops in other
counties.Great people, but they do
realize that not everyone is like them.
Especially in my small town. That was 8
years ogo since I was getting pulled
all the time. A lot of cops that were harasing
me and others are no longer cops.
Maybe that's why. But to the honest members
of law enforcement- You guy's are much
appriciated.

 

You also gotta remember that with just about everyone owning cell phones, it isn't too hard to dial #77 and report somebody.

I got pulled over on the PA Turnpike. The officer told us(there were three of us in three cars) that someone had called and reported three vettes travellling at a high rate of speed. Well maybe 81 mph is a high rate of speed, but so it 55 or 65. But based on the fact that three vettes were doing 81, never mind the fact that every soccer mom and redneck in their SUV's and trucks were passing us, we got singled out.

But she was nice about it and gave us tickets for"failure to obey official sign" no points, small fine(but in PA there is no such thing with all the surcharges). and we were let go.

Could we have gone to court to prove our innocence?(or more importantly would the other party have shown up to prove our guilt?) We sure could have, but it's cheaper to pay $100 fine than to take a day off and drive halfway across PA to defend yourself.

So as I stated already, time and a place for everything.

 

With that type of new "ratting" rule, I feel like I can rat my enemies or just about anyone that comes close to making me mad while driving on the highway. I wonder if they took the name of that "rat/material" witness.

This might be a good technique to get ricers off the streets and highways just because I abhor the way their car looks. So their car looks super fast, ricey and has a loud exhaust, I think I'll go rat on some right now because if they have an unpainted bodykit + altezza tailights and a loud exhaust, they must be reckless drivers!!

 

Yes, get the young ricers. They
watch fast and furious and go
race on the street in civics with
aluminum wings and 6" muffler tips.
They are the ones killing people.

 

Hell why not. I guarantee that the cops profile us, based on car appearance, area, time of day, and during the stop by our skin color, appearance or age.

Why don't we do the same. After all, everyone going over the speed limit is speeding.

 

Well those two cats are the family pets and who am I to tell them what to do. I can tell you the my authority ends when I walk into the house.

Here is something that was sent to me a while back. Try this next time you get pulled over.


A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Sheriff's Deputy. He thinks that he is smarter than the Deputy because he is sure that he has a better education. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the deputy's expense.

Deputy says, "License and registration, please."

Lawyer says, "What for?"

Deputy says, "You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."

Lawyer says, "I slowed down, and no one was coming."

Deputy says, "You still didn't come to a complete stop. License and registration, please."

Lawyer says, "What's the difference?"

Deputy says, "The difference is, you have to come to a complete stop. That's the law. License and registration, please!"

Lawyer says, "If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my license and registration and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and no ticket."

Deputy says, "Exit your vehicle, sir."

At this point, the Deputy takes out his nightstick and starts beating the ever-loving crap out of the Lawyer and says: "DO YOU WANT ME TO STOP OR JUST SLOW DOWN?"

 

That's a good one

 

I got pulled over in late December. His reason for pulling me over was that I got up to the speed limit pretty quick. Ended up with a DUI one block from my house. It took me a while to admit that I broke the goofy 0.08 law, but I truly feel that the only reason that he pulled me over was because it was late and I was in a Corvette.

 

Again, I can tell everyone your not getting targeted because of the vette, if you had been in anyother car and accelerated quickly late a night you would have still been pulled over. Late night stops always seem to be dui checks so be smart when driving late at night. Pretty simple.

 

OK, I must admit I did pull over a black C6 the other day. He did run the red light but I wanted to see the car more than anything. After spending about 15 minutes talking vettes to this guy I told him to have a nice day and be more aware at red lights.

 

Now, you sound like an honerable officer. The guy that pulled me over was a member of the Maricopa County Sherriffs Dept. That means Joe Arpiro "the toughest sherriff in the country". What a joke. That publicity-seeking ***** is the biggest joke in Arizona. Still, I broke the law and am willing to suffer the consequences.

 

This guy is also a Cop.

 

I need to think of a good witty joke to tell the cop next time I get snagged.

 

PLRX787 how did you get your engine so clean? What did you use?

 

Correction, cops from CA are prudes. I bet a patrolman from the south would be more likely to appreciate a tasteful hotrod and let me on my way with a compliment and a stern warning. I feel misplaced.

 

Now thats how you might run things but i can't say i believe that for all the cops. It is one of those actions that you don't think about but it just happens. i hope i am wrong but whatever you say i think that some cops have emotions that get the best of them and prejudices towards anything in some way. And i can't blame them for pulling me over since two of the times it was a normal law that i was breaking. but excessive acceleration from a stop was kinda a nit-picky one.

 

Well, of course it doesn't make it "right," at least not according to the law. But in my personal opinion, while I do drive extremely fast sometimes, I am a very safe and cautious driver. That's probably why I've never been in an accident that was my fault. I would say I am a better driver and less likely to get into an accident than most citizens who follow every traffic law and drive under the speed limit. The reason is that I'm constantly focused on the road. I may be going fast, but I am always concentrating on the road and analyzing my surroundings, which I often have to do to avoid some idiot plowing into me at 90 mph. Just because someone drives slow and follows all traffic laws doesn't mean they are a good or even safe driver. Just my opinion.

Having said that, I do recognize the fact that I break numerous traffic laws every day, and accept the fact that I will get tickets. However, going to court and contesting the tickets has saved me enormous amounts of money and time. This may not be the case for you, as you seem to live in a smaller town where there's only one judge who will be likely to remember you. My case is different. I live near Chicago, so there are probably at least 10 judges at my courthouse, and furthermore they have to handle several hundred traffic cases per day. Needless to say, it's basically impossible that they will remember me. Not to mention, they face so many traffic cases, they just want to get through each case as quickly as possible. Most times they don't even ask for my side of the story or check my previous record, they just give me a lenient sentence, hoping that I will take it so they can move on to more serious cases and get on with their day.

Not to mention that I live 15 minutes from the courthouse, which makes it really convenient.

 

I am young, drive a Vette and never got pulled over. I got pulled two times and the cops always said they wanted to look at the car, at the engine compartment and they let me go. There are not many Vettes around here, they are excited when the see one

 

i was 18 and working at mcdonalds when i got my 93. i took every shift i possibly could and worked up to 88 hrs a week and 92 hrs once ina 2 week period. bought my y2ks slammed the car and quit. but anyhow what i meant to say is one time driving home with my purple uniform on.. i got pulled over 5x in 5 kilometers. i was like wtffff

Im not ever one to bitch but the last cop.. i told him he was the 5th person to pull me over.. he laughed and said.. 'you know what everyone on the radio didnt believe the first officer that pulled you over that you worked at mcdonalds and drove a corvette" And then he also said it was late and they were just bored ona monday night/tuesday morning at 4am.

i always get a laugh remembering that