Think the police are more likely to pull someone over in a Porsche?

[Magyar Kiwi]

Hi
When you follow a car for a few miles you can get a feel for its "body language" the style/way it is being driven.
Cops can be very sensitive to this "body language"
Plus if they follow you closely; maybe they can intimidate you into a mistake.
You passed the driving test this time.
It also takes a little time to radio in your number plate and get the records for the owner.
Cheers

[Arizona_928]

Radio. They have the computers now with full access to civil and criminal records, insurance and registration info, address, all of your DMV photos, etc. There’s a reason why people put registration in a trust, no snooping.

[sc_rufctr]

(From a cop friend)

The number one "flag" for a cop is dark tinted windows.
Number two is a loud exhaust.

With the cops it's not personal. If you attract their attention that's on you.

Also, if you don't want to get caught speeding - Don't speed.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

Radio. They have the computers now with full access to civil and criminal records, insurance and registration info, address, all of your DMV photos, etc. There’s a reason why people put registration in a trust, no snooping.

Our cops have cameras that automatically read the number plates ahead of them. They check for the owners license status, vehicle registration, stolen reports, outstanding warrants etc. All the cop has to do is drive around. Their screen will notify them if there are any issues with the cars that their cameras can see.

I'm assuming your cops use a similar system.

[LWJ]

My little suburb town has cops with very very little to do. Subsequently, they jump all over the smallest infractions.

Best story? My wife is on her way to read to a school for some sort of literacy event. She gets pulled over...wearing a Cat-in-the-Hat costume.

Epic.

[Billiam 911 2.8]

The directive to bring in revenue is only going to get worse. Federal funds drying up, cameras everywhere. Fun times we live in.

[KFC911]

I put the word out....

Don eff wif Fred

They went fishin' ... just wasn't yer unlucky day...

BTDT the very first early morning I was driving my Macan with temp paper tags... in a spaceship I didn't know how to freakin' drive yet .

I been there quite a few times too in past years...

You owe me buddy !

[oldE]

One day on her way home from school, my wife got pulled over by a local constable. She was wondering why he stopped her and when he got up to her door, greeted bim with, "Hi Dale what's up?" (She had gone to school with him) He just turned and went back to his car. We found out later the local police were looking for guy who was driving a car identical to hers.

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

Radio. They have the computers now with full access to civil and criminal records, insurance and registration info, address, all of your DMV photos, etc. There’s a reason why people put registration in a trust, no snooping.

Don't even need a radio. Most now have plate scanners, they know who the owner is instantly. And if its an individual they know if he has an ncic record. Oh 1984...

As to op, I agree with posts above. At 1 am you're chum in the water. Regardless of vehicle.

[Rapewta]

Calif. front plate law.

Got pulled over in my Carrera for not displaying a front plate.

He asks if I have been drinking.

I answer "Why.... are you buying?"

Had to take the DUI test. Passed and just told be to put the plate on the car.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Rapewta

Calif. front plate law.

Got pulled over in my Carrera for not displaying a front plate.

He asks if I have been drinking.

I answer "Why.... are you buying?"

Had to take the DUI test. Passed and just told be to put the plate on the car.

On one of my trips to California I stopped for gas. A motorcycle cop pulled in to go into the store. He glanced at the front of my 911 and pulled out his ticket book, and walked to the back of my car as I pumped gas. He saw the Oklahoma tag, and he closed the ticket book, and walked inside. I refrained from yelling nana nana boo boo as I did not want to push my luck.

[DWBOX2000]

If a cop is riding your bumper, can you just pull over and say I got nervous with you driving so close or I thought you wanted to pass? I don’t agree with fishing in any way. If I’m driving the speed limit and legally, LMTFA. Cops followed my Vietnamese friend out of my super majority white town. Pissed me off a bit.

[Zeke]

I made it into Lake Havasu City one night after a long stint. They sell beer at a drive up window (or did at the time) CA plates on a PU and the cop picks me up the moment I drove off the lot. Now if he thinks I'm gonna pop open a beer while he's tailing me, he's either stupid or I am. The thought that I had been drinking and pulled in for more is a valid thought.

Instead, I drove to a friend's house I had not been to before 9 at night. So you know I was looking around at addresses. But the cop stayed back and didn't hassle me all the way until I got out and rang the bell. My friend happened to be a retired cop from LA and was known to the local dept.

It's that kind of thing that gives those cats a bad rep. I hadn't been drinking so I wasn't worried but I have a feeling that was his mission, to get me worried. Dick. I was there overnight and when I left I didn't see any cops until 5 miles out of town where they lay in wait.

It was the same deal living in Boulder City NV. The cops were aliens. Total black long sleeve uniforms in 107º weather. Always lurking under a shade tree around town. I approached a parked patrol car when I first moved there and asked a question. The way that went I never talked to a BC cop again in the year I lived there. After I met some locals they told me you don't talk to them. No one knew where they lived or came from, but not there.

Unhuman. If a drifter was on their way into town, they were intercepted and deposited on the city line at the other end of town. No one walked in or out of that city, ever. Or stayed. Only city in NV where gambling was illegal. An island. I couldn't make a living there so I left. It takes years to integrate into their acceptance. Any work went to a local first and only if they were short could you get in. I worked mainly 30 miles down the road in Vegas. They don't give a crap about where you are from or how long you were staying.

[dlockhart]

The topic is as old as the pelican bbs.. back in the day there were threads - Getting hassled for driving a $12K SC because everyone thought they were exotics with exotic prices.

Crazy how prices have changed a bit, but in the world of 6 figure PU trucks they still seem cheap.

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[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

(From a cop friend)

The number one "flag" for a cop is dark tinted windows.

I see cop cars all the time with DARK tint and they’re not K9 cars.

If you look at your windshield, on the sides, about 6 inches from the top, you’ll see the A1 line and you’re not supposed to tint any lower than that. I’ve got a dark tint to that line, but I see people all the time with tint on their windshields.

[A930Rocket]

The Charleston/Mount Pleasant area is crawling with police. Sometimes I’ll pass two cop cars on the same road. There’s the Mount Pleasant police, state patrol, Charleston County and the sheriffs department.

There was a small town in SC near 95 that was notorious for giving tickets, but somebody contested one and it was ruled that the town could not give tickets because they didn’t own land next to 95. What did the town do, they bought a ****ty lot next to 95, so they could patrol 95 and give tickets. Their main source of revenue. 🙄

[DWBOX2000]

I frequent James Island a lot. Same deal there. I have a red 986 with Massachusetts plates there. I get a bit worried every time I pass a cop. Only been pulled over once in 3 years.

[David Inc.]

Mostly any time I've been pulled over in a Porsche is when I was asking for it, like when "I got you at 80mph" (in a 70) came as a huge sigh of relief as I was absolutely standing on the brakes when he got the radar out.

When I bought my first 911, a speed yellow eight year old 996, when I was 23 years old, I did get pulled over once by a copy in a small town south of Atlanta to check my registration. Fishing for a stolen car? Not sure, but he said nothing about why he pulled me over and sent me on my way.

[Gogar]

Nicer cars are a gold mine for the city in the ticketing/towing department.

Pull over a nice car and 'find' the problems, tow the car and make some money on the impound.

The responsible capable owner will be at the yard about 10 seconds after the car comes in and you net $$$ above and beyond the number on the citation.


Beater trash cars are the opposite, they become a liability to the city because the accused will never even come to get the car and it wastes time and space on the yard before it finally gets sold or scrapped down the road.

That's what I heard here on PPOT, anyway! Cynical but I like it.

[DavidI]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Or any other perceived " status symbol " type vehicle ??
We got followed home last night by the police . I took my lady friend and my young son out for some cool indoor mini golf, and we ended up doing a late dinner . My lady had one beer, I had none.
We left the establishment right about 1 am, and I mentioned to her that it is a holiday weekend, and I was taking the back roads home to avoid the next 3 small towns, where Jonnny law , would surely be out salivating at the prospect of handing out DUI's and other infractions at that hour on a Saturday night, on a holiday weekend .
What do you know? I pick up the local cop on the back roads . That son of a gun, rode my bumper the entire way throughout his jurisdiction . A good 12 miles or so .
Its crazy how you can be 100% legal, sober, and they still make you nervous . I hate that feeling, trying to keep it right at the speed limit and do not dare, swerve or do anything else remotely curious
My lady said they have no reason to pull you over, you were not speeding and you are not swerving. I told her " they will just make up a reason and there is no way he is not lighting us up at some point "
We were in my Macan.
He follows us, pretty much right to the border of that municipality , and as I have my left turn signal on. I was surprised to see him light up his right signal and go the other way .
The rest of the way home, I was wondering if it was my superior driving skills , or my clean driving record, and criminal record, or was he just leaving me alone because I was in a shiny poser Porsche car, and maybe gave the impression of a person with his schtuff together .
Life is funny, you are almost always just a few bad decisions away from altering the course of your life . Had I decided to have 2 beers with dinner, the outcome could have been a lot different .
I bet, if had I been in a work truck or my beater Volvo wagon with hippy band and surf decals on the back , the chain of events would have been altered .
What do you think goes through a coppers head in situations like this ?

There is a national database that lists a person named "Fred" who drives fast in a Macan to cite on sight! Of course the information is encrypted in Navajo and only cops can translate it. We call it "Fred Whispering" and each cop gets an extra $5 and a gold star on his uniform for citing him.

On the serious side, cops are just people. They have the same issues and problems as anyone else, not better or worse. After 35+ years in the field, I still got nervous when I was off duty because I carry a pistol and I don't want a youngster cop to pull me over, see my gun, and make a quick decision that I am a threat. I actually follow Chris Rock's advice on how to deal with a cop when stopped for a vehicle violation.

Milt, you wrote earlier that you "hate" cops, but you and I have known each other for nearly 30 years and I absolutely love you! You are a good man with a lot of wisdom, knowledge, and experience. I will never forget taking my young son, now 30 years old, to our TRE runs on Thanksgiving and New Years Day and you allowing my son to get in your Porsche to check it out and you answering his non-stop questions about our beautiful machines.

We are all in this crazy world and life together. The more we speak to each other, the more we find we have in common.

I love you Pelicans! Rock on, David