What's your weirdest cop encounter ?

[masraum]

Also, one of the guys from Imagine Auto told a story once about being pulled over in a 911. The story was the cop wrote the ticket for something ridiculous like 225mph or something like that. When the ticket got to court, they showed that the power and gearing were way insufficient to get the car up to that speed so the judge *****ed out the cop and threw the ticket out.

[RonDent]

I was 18 and driving through Folsom Ca. I used to spend a lot of time with friends there. I had my mother with me in my 58 Cameo PU. Next thing I know there are lights in back window.
Mom: Were you speeding?
Me: No
Momid you run that light?
Me: No
Mom: you had to have done something.

Cop walks up to my window. Hi Ron. Saw that you had some girl in your truck. Just wondered who it was.
Me: Its my mom!
Cop: Oh sorry. I'll talk to you later

[Joe Bob]

So.....was Momz hot?

[McLovin]

"I don't normally write to your magazine, and I never thought something like this could happen to me, but I was leaving a party one night when I was pulled over by a police officer. Imagine my surprise when the officer walked up to my window, and I saw that she was a smoking hot blond, 25 years old, very large chested wearing a uniform at least one size too small . . . "

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by McLovin

"I don't normally write to your magazine, and I never thought something like this could happen to me, but I was leaving a party one night when I was pulled over by a police officer. Imagine my surprise when the officer walked up to my window, and I saw that she was a smoking hot blond, 25 years old, very large chested wearing a uniform at least one size too small . . . "

Beat me to it.

[Mark Henry]

Back in my HS days (30years ago) my buddy, 3 other friends and I had just scored a bag of weed and we went down to the lake to smoke our brains out, hey we were normal Canadian HS kids.
We had just got there and I only had time to twist up a couple of joints and this car pulls right in behind us. "The COPS" I stashed the bag under the floormat (we were in a jacked up bronco) and as soon as I sat up there was a cop on either side of us. Cop on my side "what are you guys doing... looking at girly mags" I said we were down looking to see if the ice was safe for fishing. Brilliant excuse, but the lake was barely froze over and it was about 1AM on a Saturday. Other cop asks my buddy for his ID, title, etc and they tell us to get out of the car.

The cop on my side says to his partner "Let's search the truck" and I think ohhh fuch...2 blunts on the console and the bag under my floormat, I'm taking the hit.

Suddenly my buddy looks the cop on his side in the eye and says very loudly "Dude, you totally REEK of rye!!!!"
His cop goes red in the face, my cop goes all tongue tied and blurts out "you boys stay out of trouble you hear!" Buddy's cop tosses him his ID and both of them bail into their car and hightail it out of there.

We're all freaked out, still standing there, mouths open and someone says "what the fuch do we do now" and I said "I don't know about you, but I'm smoking a doobie".
Someone says "is that wise?" and my buddy goes "do you really think they're coming back?"

We took a walk to check on the ice.

Two of Durham regional police's finest

[pwd72s]

Didn't realize this was going to be an old time memories thread. It's easier to tell ya to read the June '95 issue of Excellence.

[jpd]

Back in high school, this girl and I used to go to a local pool hall and shoot pool and drink $5 pitchers almost every night. (New Orleans - drinking age was 18, and no one cared anyway back then). One night, cruising back towards home, after pitchers and a little weed, in my '73 Valiant with no working speedomter, I was coming down a bridge when I see a light waving around in the road. Slow down a little, we're both going wtf is that? It was a cop running a speed trap. He was friendly, asks why the hurry. I told him I had to piss really bad. Writes me up for speeding, then says "Son, step out."
ME: (step out, thinking - oh crap, going to jail. Got wreed in the car, been drinking beer. damn. I hope she eats the weed.)
him: You really have to pee?
Me: umm, yes sir.
Him: You can go on that tree over there.
Me: really? Is this a trick or something do you can arrest me?
Him: Nope, you can go pee on that tree, you gotta go, you gotta go.

I went and peed, we exchanged good nights, and i drove off, wondering how it would have played out if I had had to take a crap.

[Christien]

I have yet to ruin my streak of getting pulled over and ticketed - I've never been pulled over and let off with a warning, ever, not once.

But as a passenger: Last summer we were in the van from Toronto to Montreal to play a gig - 6 of us, the 4 in the band plus 2 of our ladies, mine and the singer's. Saturday of a long weekend. We've got a cooler full of beer, but a few hours into the journey the beer's gone. So we decide to pull off the highway to reload. Son of a b!tch, there's a RIDE program on the off-ramp! (cops setup stopping everyone to check for drinking and driving). WTF, on a Saturday at 1pm? He looks in, asks the usual questions, driver was sober, opens the back door to check us all out, was just about to let us go when then sun glints off something that catches his eye. We'd stashed all the empties except for one in the seat pocket behind the driver's chair.

"What's that?"
"Nothing"
"Let me see"
[f*ck]
He keeps looking around.
"What about that?" [*****]
"and that one too..."

All told he found 6 or 7 empties. He was a good guy, realized it was only passengers drinking. Thank god he didn't dig deeper and find the ounce of weed in the bassist's bag We toned it down until we hit the Quebec border and bought another case...

[jshape]

My Dad's 90th birthday was this last August. My whole family met at a resort outside of Tampa to celebrate. I had to take my son back to the airport early on Sunday morning for a flight back to Boston. Instead of taking freeway all the way back to the resort, I got off an exit early in order to go to a supermarket I knew was open early on Sunday.

As I enter into Ruskin, FL on a 4-lane highway, I see a gray car approaching in the opposite lane. Then it lights up all over the place! It's an unmarked car with lights in the grille. I figure he's heading somewhere else but I pull over to the side of the road just in case - and he does a 180 and pulls up behind me.

Out of the unmarked comes a very large Florida sheriff who asks for my license and registration. I tell him I don't have any registration since its a rental - and I give him my rental contract. He tells me he clocked me at 59 in a 35. I had no idea that the speed limit had dropped and that I was now in town.

After a few minutes he comes back to my car and says,

"You're from Michigan?"

"Yep, I'm down here for my Dad's 90th. I just took my son to the airport and I'm heading back to the hotel."

"I used to live in Michigan. You know, you people up there have got enough problems without getting a ticket in Florida. Keep your speed down and have nice stay in our state."

How's that for a nice turn of events!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by jshape

"You're from Michigan?"

"Yep, I'm down here for my Dad's 90th. I just took my son to the airport and I'm heading back to the hotel."

"I used to live in Michigan. You know, you people up there have got enough problems without getting a ticket in Florida. Keep your speed down and have nice stay in our state."

How's that for a nice turn of events!

Bizarre!

[wdfifteen]

When I was young and thought I never needed sleep I'd worked an 8 hour midnight to 8AM shift, spent the day with my girlfriend at her folk's house (we may have taken a "nap" ) and spent the evening playing ping pong with her brothers and father. I was on my way back to work when I was apparently weaving along the road. The cop told me to get out of the car (an MG Midget) and I tripped and fell on the road getting out. He got me up and said, "Son, have you been drinking?" I said, "No sir. I've been playing ping pong." He smelled my breath and looked in the car for a long time. Then he said, "Well, you just ping pong yourself on home, OK?"

[wdfifteen]

Gosh, there are so many ...
Just after the 55 mph speed limit was imposed I was hauling a client's Formula B to Atlanta for the SCCA runoffs. I was doing about 90 on I-75 in Tennessee and got pulled over by a local cop. It was right out of Andy of Mayberry. He didn't know what to charge me for, so he made me leave the van and took me to town and put me in jail while he called a judge to see if he should charge me with speeding or reckless operation (or BOTH!). The cell was right next to the desk, just like in Mayberry. He had to leave a message and I sat for 3 hours before the judge called back and told him to charge me with speeding. The fine was $40 or $60, but the flashers had run the van battery down and it cost another $40 to have someone come out and jump it for me. Plus my boss and the client were both pissed at me.

[Normy]

I grew up in Michigan, but went to college at Embry-Riddle.

I had a 1985 Volkswagen Scirocco, something that my parents purchased for me in late 1986. Initially I took it to Florida with Michigan tags, and had the windows tinted. I brought the Scirocco home in the summer of 1987, and suddenly I get pulled over-

"I pulled you over for the illegal window tint" He said.

Me: "Well, I'm going to school in Florida, and the sun down there destroys cars, so it is a good idea"

"What school are you going too?" the cop said.

"Embry Riddle. I'm studying aviation"

"OH cool! Hey, I've heard about that school, and I'm working on my private pilots licence!

Suddenly, I could do no wrong-

"Well, hey! If your an aviation guy, then I think I can overlook the tinted windows! Especially if you are going back to Florida in a month or two"

And he let me go. As soon as I got back to Florida, I titled my Scirocco in this southern state so that the Michigan State Police [aka State Bacon...] couldn't give me crap for something as innocuous as the tint on my windows~

N!

[Schumi]

A friend of mine has a good one.

He and a friend were out all night drinkin some Foster's oiler cans of beer.. the big ones. They were a bit buzzed, decide to drive and get food. They get pulled over. Cop asks how many they had. Driver responds "about 3" (big ones, mind you) and my friend says "I only had 2."

Cop looks at both of them, points at my friend and says "You look more sober than him, so you two switch." And walks away.

They switched and drove off.

[Ron R]

.Pulled over by the same cop 3 nights in a row.
All 3 times given the full on DUI test.
Yes it was 2:30am and I was driving home.
Yes I was driving 3 dif. cars over the 3 days.
Yes I was coming home from WORK not the bar.
No he did not recognize me the second or 3rd night.
Yes I was given the all clear.
Yes he said there were a lot of DWI drivers out,
No I’m not pissed. I would rather have him catch all of them and bug a few then the other way around

[Ron R]

One more time.
Driving from Seattle to SoCal.
In a station wagon (it was a kick ass vista cruse woody), pulling a motor cycle trailer (kick ass 53 triumph).
I had no idea you could not be in the fast lane in Cal with a trailer.
Got pulled over, Cop was really pissed that I did not see the 9000 signs posted.
wrote me a ticket for 10 over (speed limit was 65 but only 55 for trailers) and one more for towing in the fast lane, As he handed me the ticket a big rig went by and blew a tire, the Cop hit the deck on the side of the freeway and started yelling at us... I said take it easy, no way in hell I would ever shoot a Cop let alone over a $350.00 ticket. He got up and then told us it was his first day all by himself and he was a little jumpy.

All in all they are good guys, with one ****ty ass job.
Yes I have gotten my fair share of speeding tickets, yes I will prob get a few more.
But someone has to pay to play!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Ron R

All in all they are good guys, with one ****ty ass job.
Yes I have gotten my fair share of speeding tickets, yes I will prob get a few more.
But someone has to pay to play!

+1 I'm glad they do it, because I wouldn't want to.

[Dave 86 930 Fl]

Getting chased by a Sheriff's helicopter down the Intercoastal Waterway in my Fountain. Must have spent 1000's of $$ to give me a $55 ticket.

[jpd]

When I was about 19 or 20, I had picked up a roast beef po-boy froma store near my house and was going home to eat it. Got stopped for 40 in a 35 by a traffic cop who was sitting behind a tree.
Him: What's the hurry?
Me: I just got this roast beef po-boy, and I'm trying to get home and eat it before it gets soggy.
Him: It's gonna get soggy.

Then he walks off to run my plates. I was in my mom's car. She had forgotten to put her new insurance card in the glove box. Got 3 tickets - speeding, no insurance, no brake tag. Went home, gave my younger brother one my tickets to use as a fake i.d. (yes, that used to work in New orleans, they'd take your license, so bars would honor a ticket).

Fast forward 5 days. Same spot, same cop steps out. Busted, 40 in a 35. I hand him my two remaining tickets.
Him: I remember you. Roast Beef po-boy again?
Me: No sir. just speeding for no reasons. You got me.
Him: Where's your license.
Me: You took it sir.
Him: Yes, but I specifically gave you one of the tickets and said that speciofic one is your "license." Where is it?
Me: I guess I lost it.
Him: ok.

2 tickets that time - speeding, no license.

That cop was a notorious traffic dick kin my area. Turned out I knew dozens of people pulle dover and written multiple tickets by that guy.

Fast forward about 12 years, my father in law calls from jail. He was driving in from Ms. when he got stopped for doing 70 in a 65 on the interstate. His attorney friend forgot to take care of a prior ticket, so he had an attachment and went to jail. We got him out. He's telling us what a dick the cop was, and shows me his tickets/paperwork. Yep, same cop.