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Originally Posted by DonDavis
Yeah, getting popped at 22 over is no surprise, IMO.
Did the officer mention the car? Were you able to chat with them at all?
I like to think driving that car would indicate to police that the driver is probably a "car guy". And maybe the cop thinks "the car guy just had a lapse of judgement and generally drives reasonably, maybe a warning is in order."
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Don:
Good luck with that....it's been my experience you're better off with a dog in your car as odds are in your favour the cop will be a dog-person more than a car-person.
Of course, I was given 2 tickets once with my blue heeler girl Winkipop riding shotgun in my '64 356. "Following too closely" and "Failure to use turn signal when changing lanes". Yes you read that correctly. The car in front of me for some reason slammed on his brakes and I had to swerve around him - I think it had something to do with him not appreciating I was in a Porsche but that's just speculation. There was no reason for him to slam on the brakes. I was not tailgating until he hit his brakes. I asked the cop if he saw what happened and he said he was watching me for some time before the incident. I still don't know why he didn't see how it all happened. Heck, my girl could have been injured but didn't matter - he held me for 30 minutes to write those tickets even though I was polite through the whole process and had all my legal papers in order. There was even an accident that happened (rear-ender it looked like) right in front of the shopping center we pulled into and he didn't even make the decision to go there instead of writing me up. What a total tool!
So much for using common sense enforcing the law.
