[2006Red750NJ]

When I was a Sheriff's Officer, I used to moonlight by buying and selling cars and trucks. I got a killer deal on a Ford stepside with 21,000 miles. I paid $2200, because the truck had a ridiculous flame paint job. I put a dealer plate on and got pulled over. When I showed my badge, the cop chastised me for driving a truck with flames painted on it. When I asked what I got stopped for, he told me the truck looked suspicious, go figure.

On my bike, I have been stopped in Seaside Heights NJ (shore town) for weaving. Traffic is bumper to bumper and moves less than 5 MPH. Just more of your typical harassment. I can't really complain about tickets, I haven't had one since 1986.

[zuma]

Okay...the day passed and I thought of one. (Slofuze...I'm surprised you didn't pull the teacher card...almost always works for me...but I sometimes resemble a barbarian in the summer, so I sort of have to)

In the summer of '71, I was 17. One night I had just finished umpiring a girl's softball game and was still wearing my shoes with steel cleats. A friend riding a tiny plastic bodied Yamaha bike (think 125 cc's) stopped to talk and I wanted to ride his bike, so I gave him my car keys and took his bike. At the first stop sign I put my feet down and found that each cleat would shoot sparks for six feet behind me. Six spark trails off each foot...man, I was Mercury. I did that all over our small community and was having a blast until the local officer on patrol saw me and pulled me over. No talking my way out of the "wreckless driving" ticket, and though the fine was less than $50, it seemed like a fortune to me. There's your story...good night to all.

[HemiKat]

Okay...the day passed and I thought of one. (Slofuze...I'm surprised you didn't pull the teacher card...almost always works for me...but I sometimes resemble a barbarian in the summer, so I sort of have to)

Cincinnati cop friend of mine, told me unless its something really bad, he wont write a ticket to; teachers, doctors, police, fire or military.

[zuma]

I know. I don't take it for granted. One time a state trooper pulled me over for doing 10 over on a ghost town road...my hair was on my shoulders, I was in a Wink/Loving ISD vehicle, and he wasn't convinced that I was an English teacher (he was wondering why a nicely dressed hippie was driving a school vehicle) until I listed the 8 parts of speech and their definitions and acted out the gravedigger scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

[rexazz2]

2 speed traps about a 1/4 mile apart
second cop very well hidden , pulled me over for flashing my headlights
Young and cocky I played stupid when he asked me what I was doing
The cop threaten to site me for a safety inspection "that my headlights must not be working properly "
I told him to go ahead, I was sure the car would pass inspection without question
He was starting to lose his cool
He said " you are defeating the purpose of what they were trying to do "
My cocky responce was " not really ,I was slowing down traffic also it just did not cost anyone "

I think I was close to a beat down , he told me "get out here"

OR



when I was 16 my dad bought a Crown Vic at a city auction for me to drive
It still had city decals on it LMAO
I got stopped lots of time for no other reason than being 16

[HemiKat]

2 speed traps about a 1/4 mile apart
second cop very well hidden , pulled me over for flashing my headlights
Young and cocky I played stupid when he asked me what I was doing
The cop threaten to site me for a safety inspection "that my headlights must not be working properly "
I told him to go ahead, I was sure the car would pass inspection without question
He was starting to lose his cool
He said " you are defeating the purpose of what they were trying to do "
My cocky responce was " not really ,I was slowing down traffic also it just did not cost anyone "
I think I was close to a beat down , he told me "get out here"

Dude that is so hilarious you did that because I did the same thing! I flashed my lights at a car because I saw a cop so the cop up the road pulled me over to do a "safety check", when he got in front of my car and asked me to turn on my lights, I said, "why? you know they work!"
He wasnt happy.

[JRod750]

Dude that is so hilarious you did that because I did the same thing! I flashed my lights at a car because I saw a cop so the cop up the road pulled me over to do a "safety check", when he got in front of my car and asked me to turn on my lights, I said, "why? you know they work!"
He wasnt happy.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sonosam]

not on the bike, but I got pulled over in my altima for "illegal tint" in MA. Fall River cop said that I was only 5% off the legal limit so he would let me off, then proceeded to offer me a job on the force

Marc

[BigFish]

I got pulled over 3 times in one day (long)

Age 17, August, 1995: My hair was 9 inches long, shaved on the sides and back, and pulled back. I had some dirt on my face that I fondly referred to as a goatee. I drove a black, 82 Mustang with a rebuilt top end and 351w headers. I should have just worn a shirt with a bulls eye on the front and "police, please harass me" on the back. Oh, and my friend had decided to store a (legal) beehive firework in my glove compartment about a month earlier.

1st time getting pulled over that day - aggressive driving:
Got pulled over for flooring it through a yellow light, getting onto Beltline freeway. Also touched 140 for a moment before dropping to the speedlimit. Talked my way out of that ticket - something about not trusting the guy behind me, and not wanting to be in the intersection and get hit by cross traffic when the light turned red.

2nd time - aggressive driving:
Merging onto 99 and there was a line of cars with open space in front of them. I dropped it to 2nd and pulled ahead. Explained it was safer than getting rear ended while waiting for a safe gap between cars. Officer gave me a warning.

3rd time - possession of illegal fireworks, rolling through a stop sign, and not enough seatbelts for the passengers:
We decided to go up to Hendrix park and play on the swing set. There were about 50-100 people there lighting off fireworks, mostly bottle rockets. It started to rain and everyone left. Driving down the hill I stopped at a stop sign with poor visibility, then slowly pulled out and turned right. That's when the cop nailed me.

Him: "I'm pulling you over for suspicion of posession of illegal fireworks."
Me: "Cool, cause we don't have any illegal fire works."
Him: [something I don't remember]
Me: "There were some guys lighting them off at the top of the mountain." His expression changed, in retrospect it meant he was considering my statement.
Jesse (my perpetually drunk friend) started to say something.
Me(to Jesse): "Shut up Jesse"
Him: "It's illegal to possess...[I forget some of this]...you could be guilty by association."
Me: "We went up there to play on the swings and a ton of other people were there, there was hardly any parking. I can't stop them from lighting off fireworks." Getting busted for what someone else did? Homie don't play that.

Him: "That's ok, I actually pulled you over because you rolled through that stop sign." NOW he tells me.
Me: "I didn't roll through the stop sign." After changing his reason for pulling me over I don't trust this guy to be honest with me. My guess was that he's the sort to give a ticket if he thinks he can get away with it rather than if it's merited.

:smt084 After 5 minutes of arguing he says, "I saw it with my own eyes."
Me: "Well then you need glasses." Oops...I went personal. He looked shocked and started to say something, but I cut him off. "What you think you saw, and what you actually saw are not the same. It's ok, we all make mistakes."
Him: "Have you been drinking."
Me: "No. I'm not that stupid." Somewhat true:, I hadn't been drinking that day.
Him: "California Rolls are not legal in Oregon."
Me: "They're not legal in California either! I stopped at that stop sign." He stood there for a good 15 seconds with his mouth slightly open.

Him: "License and registration." Finally, he's going to run my info to see that I'm not some criminal. As long as he doesn't pull up Jesse's record this should be over soon.
Me: "It's in the glove box." His hand inches closer to his holster, but he nods. "Jesse can you get my registration for me, it's in the glove box." As Jesse opens the glove box the Beehive firework falls out. Officer looks at me.
Me: "First of all that is a legal firework."
Him: "Why is it in there?"
Me: "My stupid friend left it there on July 4th." Jesse is laughing . "We didn't light any fireworks though. If we did it wouldn't still be there." The officer accepts my licence, registration and insurance, closes his eyes and shakes his head before walking back to his car.

After a minute he brought my paperwork back and looked into the car. "How many seat belts do you have in there?"
Me: "4, but it's legal to..." He walked away as I was in the middle of the sentence, got into his car and spun the tires as he sped off.

[BIGKAT1100]

...... After a minute he brought my paperwork back and looked into the car. "How many seat belts do you have in there?"
Me: "4, but it's legal to..." He walked away as I was in the middle of the sentence, got into his car and spun the tires as he sped off.

WHAT A JACK-A$$ ....

[downsouth]

come on now don't leave us hanging did you get a ticket or not

[JimG4652]

I was 17, it was 9 p.m., I was pulling out of Papa Johns in my Firebird. Saw one set of headlights coming down the road, and they were close. I decided I didn't want to wait and I wanted an excuse to drop the hammer on my car. Pulled out, got stupid sideways, ( I think I burned about 10K miles off my tires ) straightened the car out, checked my rearview and saw those dreaded flashing lights. My stupid a** pulled out in front of a cop. I pull over in a parking lot. In the middle of his riot act, another cop car comes FLYING around a corner, lights and sirens going, and comes sliding to a stop about 10' in front of my car. Dude scared the bejesus out of me. The first cop gets my license and insurance.....he started laughing when he saw how much my hands were shaking....I was scared. He ran everything, came back, said "I know you can't afford the insurance spike if I give you a reckless op ticket, so wait the extra 10 seconds next time." A weak "yes sir" somehow managed to escape my trembling lips.

Last time I did something like that.

[BigFish]

come on now don't leave us hanging did you get a ticket or not

Me? Nope.

It's worth saying that in spite of the quantity of argument and conflict between me and the Oregon police I do respect LEO's. Most anyway. A few ego centric idiots manage to slip through no matter the profession.

[dlmerdian]

I've got a pretty strange one. It was about 9 at night and I was going to the gas station in my neighborhood maybe half a mile from my house. Right as I pulled out into the street there was a car coming down the road behind me. I went and headed down the street making 5 or 6 turns on the way to the gas station. This car is riding my bumper the whole time. I finally sped up to about 45 on a neighborhood road to get away from the car. BAD IDEA. Lights came on and I found out exactly what type of car was tailing me. Cop comes up and asked if I knew how fast I was going. Of course I knew how fast I was going, but I wasn't about to tell him that. He asked for my license and registration. I handed it to him. He turned around and walked about 2 steps and stopped. Then he turned back to me and told me it wasn't that big of a deal and it was his fault for being a jerk and riding my bumper . Never even gave me a warning. Just let me go. Still kinda confused about the whole thing

[LAsunbird86]

^perfect example of a bored cop who gets a cool call while trying to kill time