Got pulled over last night....

[TerryBPP]

I decided to break out the 911 on a 1st date. So I throw the license plate in the back window because I took the bracket off the other day. So I'm leaving a dinner, coming over a bridge, when I get the flashing light. So I pull over and the cop says "do you know why I pulled you over?". I said "probably because my license plate is not in the right spot". He says "yes and the fact that you were doing 51 mph in a 35." I of course appoligize and says that the speedo isn't all that accurate. He take my papers back to his car and waits for about 10 minutes. I had such a good time on the date that I really wasn't pissed about the speeding ticket I was about to recieve. My date was cool about it and said it knocked up my "bad boy factor." Anyway, the cop comes back and says "I sorry to have to do this but I have to right you a warning for the improper tag placement." Shocked I said "thank you very much that I was certian he was going to ticket me." He said "I hate going to court and I know how it is going down a bridge with a stick shift."

Just goes to show that no all cops are *****s.

[masraum]

Very cool!!

I'd say it was your lucky night, but i wasn't there for the rest of the date.

[k9handler]

I am a police officer and you would call him a dick if he wrote you a ticket! I wonder if everyone did their job was called a dick, what kind of world this would be.

[yelcab1]

A police officer in Germany, that is a different story. People still get to drive past the police in Germany, don't they?

[TerryBPP]

Take it easy K9. Just as in every job some people take it ways to serious. I deal with poeple in the engineering field every day that live to make peoples lives miserable. I meant no offense. I have been pulled over and had my car searched for 45 minutes because my tail light was out. I have also recieved a speeding ticket for doing 72 in a 70. I should have said "you do run across nice police officers that will cut you a break."

[Jim Smolka]

If an officer pulls you over and ask if you knew fast you were going. Simply say yes and then ask him if he knew how fast he was going to catch you

[Superman]

I'm a labor cop, in a way, so I suppose I get called a "dick" sometimes. For making contractors obey their own signed agreements. I sleep just fine.

BTW, occasionally but rarely, there is justice. This morning, I saw a pickup truck that was last in a line of cars entering the freeway...do the trick where you speed up just as the "core point" is ending, swing out to the next lane and basically cut off the guy in front of him from being able to pass the car in front of him. I hope someone out there knows what I'm talking about. It's the old NASCAR sraft-and-pass routine played out on a freeway onramp.

Anyway, I then noticed that this pickup truck was a passing lane-style guy and sure enough he got over to the passing lane and camped there at the speed limit. As soon as a vehicle was able to get around him he increased speed, and dogged that car until he got in front again. By this time he was going 80 mph or so, and I decided that watching this guy was not worth the potential citation. A few miles later, he's pulled over by one of Washington's finest. There is justice.

Originally posted by k9handler
I am a police officer and you would call him a dick if he wrote you a ticket! I wonder if everyone did their job was called a dick, what kind of world this would be.

I agree. It's unfair to the police officers. The real "d*cks" are the politicians who decide on a speed limit of 30 mph on a road build like a race track (yes I exaggerate, but hopefully you get my point).

[GeorgeK]

About passing police officers on the road: I once BOMBED past a police car, goung about 100Km/hour faster than he was. I even flashed my lights at him copiously beforehand so he knew I was coming.
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[Grady Clay]

Let me tell you a story;

In about '74 I was speeding north of Casper, Wyoming (say 145) in my 2.5 914-6. I came over a rise and, lo there was one of the two Wyoming State Troopers about 3/4 mile ahead. Yes, I think there were only two on duty in the state at any one time. Of course I hit the brakes and was down to 70ish in a flash. As I puttsed along, he pulled out and turned on his lights. I dutifully pulled up behind his parked State car and prepared myself for "The Big One."
Well, after presenting my credentials, the officer asked me did I know why he stopped me. Of course I sheeplishly said "Was I going too fast?"
He sais "Well, I have never seen a car stop so well." We proceeded to inspect the still hot 'S' brakes. I then was admonished to "be careful" and went on my way.

A true story!

Best,
Grady

[ZOA NOM]

Originally posted by Mikkel

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I agree. It's unfair to the police officers. The real "d*cks" are the politicians who decide on a speed limit of 30 mph on a road build like a race track (yes I exaggerate, but hopefully you get my point).

No kidding, and what about speed limits catching up with the capabilities of modern automobiles. We aren't driving around in the massive steel monsters of the fifties anymore. Even SUV's can stop on a dime compared to those days. Has anyone ever actually driven around at 25 MPH for awhile to see what it feels like? It's ridiculous. Try 55 on any freeway and see what happens. Speed limits need to catch up to reality

Originally posted by ZOANAS


Speed limits need to catch up to reality.

YES!

[Rick Lee]

Why, just this morning I paid my Fairfax County ticket for failure to properly display a license plate. Ran me $80, but at least the front bumper of my 993 looks cool.

[ZOA NOM]

Has anyone measured the radar cross-section of a license plate? It would surprise you.

[djmcmath]

Speed limits already _have_ caught up to reality. The only problem is that the reality isn't safety, it's revenue generation. Small towns are absolutely the worst -- speed limits are often set artificially low based on inaccurate engineering surveys. Worse, small town cops have been known to totally falsify tickets. I've heard stories of municipal officers locking in a signal from known interference (like a 41mph signal from the defrost fan, for example), then waiting in a 30mph zone to get somebody. Similar tactic, lock in one 41mph speeder's signal, then use the same reading for another half-dozen people. Of course, it's only a short step down on the integrity ladder from there to just totally making up a ticket.

Of course, the reason I'm so hot on this right now is because in November, I got pulled over for overtaking in a legal overtaking zone. He cited me at a speed that I would have needed to violate the laws of physics to obtain, and that would have exceeded the specifications of his radar unit. So yes, I've got it out for small town cops.

OTOH, many of the other cops I've known have been pretty cool. California Highway Patrol? Yeah, those guys are alright. Just watch out for the backwoods, that's all...

Dan

[Breeang]

I once got pulled over at 3 a.m. doing 65 in a 30 mph limit area in Central London when I lived there. The bobby was in the Metropolitan Police traffic division (possibly the world's most amazing drivers),he asked me why I was going so fast at such an hour.I told him that I lived and worked and drove in London traffic every day, and that this was the first time I had been on that road without any cars in sight,and just wondered what it was like to drive fast through there.He looked up and down the road and said 'Hmmm,--well now that you know, could you please keep it legal the rest of the way home sir?' True story.

[Mike Feinstein]

Officer: Sir, do you realize that the speed limit on this highway is 55 miles per hour?

Steven Wright: Yes I do officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long.


Who knows...it might work!

[Jgordon]

Zoanas -- Please explain a bit on radar cross sections of license plates. Personally, I have no idea what it is, but I suspect one of the reasons they want it on the car is to tag us more easily. So would the sprays or covers weaken or lessen that cross section?

Jared

[HarryD]

Originally posted by Grady Clay
Let me tell you a story;

In about '74 I was speeding north of Casper, Wyoming (say 145) in my 2.5 914-6. I came over a rise and, lo there was one of the two Wyoming State Troopers about 3/4 mile ahead. Yes, I think there were only two on duty in the state at any one time. Of course I hit the brakes and was down to 70ish in a flash. As I puttsed along, he pulled out and turned on his lights. I dutifully pulled up behind his parked State car and prepared myself for "The Big One."
Well, after presenting my credentials, the officer asked me did I know why he stopped me. Of course I sheeplishly said "Was I going too fast?"
He sais "Well, I have never seen a car stop so well." We proceeded to inspect the still hot 'S' brakes. I then was admonished to "be careful" and went on my way.

A true story!

Best,
Grady

Brings back memories.....

In 1976 I was coming home from Dinosaur Monument in Utah. I was cruising alone on a Wyoming road and all of a sudden, these flahing lights were behind me. I check the speedo as I am slowing and I see it dropping to 70 mph.

I stop, the officer gets out of the car, asks for my documents. He asks if I knew how fast I was going. I said, "No sir". He said I was going "pretty fast" and asked if I wanted I could look a his gun. I told him "no thanks".

He proceeded to write a ticket for 64 mph. I asked what that meant and he told me that if I was going 65+ it would have been a big fine but since I wasn't going all that fast it was just $15 towards books for the local school district. He told me to take care and drove off.

Guess I got lucky.

[Scooter]

Originally posted by k9handler
I am a police officer and you would call him a dick if he wrote you a ticket!

I believe Terry wrote "Just goes to show that not all cops are *****s". He did not say that if he got a ticket the police officer would be a *****. He was merely indicating that even though some police officers may be *****s (not because they are doing their job, but because he or she may be by their individual nature), some are also very generous. This police officer turned out to be generous in this case.

I take this post to be in support of our men and women in blue. But hey, I am a glass half full kind of guy.