Chickenshit tickets and why people don't like cops

I got out of doing 85+ in a 55 (this was some years ago). Topped a hill on the interstate hauling ass and the HP was sitting on the exit ramp about a half mile away, radar detector is now going off the charts. I just got off at the exit ramp and pulled in behind him. He got out and asked me why I pulled in behind him and I told him, "Well sir, I figured you'd be wanting to talk to me so I was just saving you the trouble of having to pull me over." HP-"Do you know how fast you were going?" "No sir, my speedometer only goes to 85."

He runs my license and comes back with a warning and told me to slow it down.

I guess it was the lack of a plate cover that saved me. :the_finge

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Originally Posted by Superstar Punani

I think if you just act chill, be honest, polite and respectful, then the cop (if he/she's cool) will be more likely to give you a break. If you start denying shit that was blatantly obvious then that will probably piss them off and more reason for them to write you up.

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That's exactly where I was coming from. If you're nailed you're nailed but if you do like supu said you can often get away with a warning or at least a reduced charge. It has worked for me multiple times, just ask Tipp and EPSkis, they were there for one of them, all I got was a warning and a "slow it down, okay?" and away we went.

I got pulled over once for rolling a stop sign, going 40 in a 25, admitted to having 4 beers, when asked for id my fake one fell out, the cop suspected there was weed in my carpet ( i dont think so) and I got off.

I still dont understand how.

I got out of doing 74 in a 55 on rte. 23B heading towards Windham, NY once. It was the first snow of last year and I was in a hurry to try to get some good photos of the snow and the foliage. So, I was rushing and this huge Ford Expedition is coming the other way and low and behold, it was a local cop (forgot which town). Anyways, he comes up and asks if I knew how fast I was going and I said, "To be honest, I know I was probably going a little fast, I'm sorry, I was excited by the snow." So, he asks for license and registration, informs me I was going 74, at which I said "whoa, wow, really?"

Meanwhile, I can't find my registration card...AND...I forgot to put the new insurance cards in the glove box. So, basically, I was flying like a bat out of hell, no registration card and and expired insurance card.

After he ran my plates, he said "I can tell you don't get pulled over often. Just keep it that way and slow down, will you please." At that, he just smiled and walked back to his SUV.

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Originally Posted by SuPu

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Originally Posted by BCR

DO NOT DO THIS! On several occasions, my officer friends have told me that in their minds, "he apologized" equals "he's guilty". Denying that it was you who was speeding puts doubt in the officer's mind.

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I've heard that too, but the few times I've talked my way out of a ticket started off with something along the lines of:

"I'm sorry Officer. Blowing through that red light was a completely boneheaded thing to do and I swear I will never run a red light again"

He said he appreciated the honesty and issued me a warning for the red light and a $10 fixit ticket for not being able to provide proof of insurance.

I think if you just act chill, be honest, polite and respectful, then the cop (if he/she's cool) will be more likely to give you a break. If you start denying shit that was blatantly obvious then that will probably piss them off and more reason for them to write you up.

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Officers, expecially Staties here in MA are much more likely to write you up than give a warning, even with a badge in your wallet (as I had when I was a firefighter for 4 years). I got that advice from my officer friends, not from urban legend or "one time I did this..." All's I was saying is that I would gladly trade an "out" at the end for the small chance of a warning at the time of the citation...guess it depends on your locale as well.

The BCR approach:
"Do you know why I stopped you"
"No."
"You were doing 76 in a 55 zone."
"No I wasn't"
"Yes you were."
"I wasn't even driving. "
"Yes you were."
"No, I was sitting here having a spot of tea."
"No, you were driving."
"Driving? Don't be ridiculous. I don't even have a car."
"You're sitting in a car."
"No I'm not. I've never even been in a car, I'm at home. Having tea. Please go away, you horrible man, my tea is getting cold."

and so on

the iceman approach:

officer: do you know why I stopped you?
iceman: because I threw out a beer can back there or did you smell the pot?
o: no, you were going 76 in a 55, step out of the car please.

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Originally Posted by lemon boy

the iceman approach:

officer: do you know why I stopped you?
iceman: because I threw out a beer can back there or did you smell the pot?
o: no, you were going 76 in a 55, step out of the car please.

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Please. I'm not a litterbug.

Friday we were leaving through the MId-town tunnel in Manhattan in the pouring rain. The tunnel has EZ pass lanes and we have a tag, but when we pulled up, it said there was a low balance and the gate wouldn't open. I've been behind someone else who this happens to and a cop is usually right there to take the money and open the gate.

So the rain keeps pouring and no cop for 10 seconds, meanwhile a line of about 20 cars is forming behind us so I honk the horn. Soon after, a cop shows up at my wife's window and starts yelling at me about how honking the horn is a violation which could be a summons and he's written them before and they all stand up in court, etc. So when he's done yelling he asks what the emergency was and I said, "I'm blocking the midtown tunnel."

He states again that honking the horn is a blah, blah, blah, and basically ignores my comment and says that I've got to pay the $4.50 to open the gate. I give him $5 and he opens the gate and waves us through and puts the fucking money in his pocket...no change!

My license was in the place we were headed, not in my pocket, so I didn't do any arguing or anything otherwise to provoke him, but this guy was a douche and typifies traffic cops in NYC.

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I was driving down to the SLC premiere last year and was busted in rural Idaho for speeding. No biggie, I payed the ticket and moved on with my life.

HOWEVER I did not tell my wife, as she would give me to much shit about the way I drive for months on end.

About a week ago in a completely different part of Idaho I am pulled over with my wife and the cop gives me a warning.

HOWEVER he states "do you remember me". I deny everything. "no officer, wasn't me". etc.

Fucker comes back with my registration and states, yup I just checked I gave you a ticket on x day for xxx. Big smile on his face, dude loved busting me in front of my wife with that.

I am still in the shitter for that one.

Back in the really st00pid days, we were at some punk party in Portland out on Milwaukie until 3:00 or so. Doing MDA, bongs, liquor and beer. The Wipers had played. I'd chipped my friends tooth when we were fighting over the last quart of beer and I fiendishly let go of the bottle so he smashed it into his face.

So we're totally loaded with two girls in the car and my bud is punching his little kamakaze wagon, a rotary Mazda rx-3 at like 70 mph on Holgate below 28th.

Where Holgate crosses 28th, there's a big roller coming up to the intersection and we go completely airborne.

And there's two cops in a cruiser at the light going N. on 28th.

We smash down onto the pavement, sparks flying, girls screaming.

I see an old chevy truck up ahead and bellow at the driver to slam on the brakes, and he does, just barely avoiding tagging the '56 chevy truck in the rear. But he bashes into the curb in the slide and flats the passenger side front. And on come the cop lights.

So my pal makes it up to 39th. and pulls over.

He jumps out of the car, staggering and yells OK, OK You got me!!!

The cop checks us out, laughs and asks us where were going. WE say just a couple more blocks. The cop says to my pal: "we're following you down the block. You park the car and walk home, OK?"

I doubt that leeway occurs anymore.

A guy I know, more like a friend of a friend, has been drinking and he gets pulled over in our home town. He's like two blocks from home, the cop in some fit of kindness or stupidity allows the guy to drive the final two blocks home, saying he'll follow him.

For some unknown reason the guy gets in the car, floors it and smashes straight into a tree after about a hundred yards, totalling the car. I mean he burned rubber all the way to the tree, never touched the brakes.

I doubt the cops do that kind of thing anymore either.

That's a great story, iceman. If that scenario hasn't already been used in a movie it should be.

While in NYC I was thrown in mid-town's overnight holding cell (gallows) for an open can of beer on the street ... overheard the cops bragging about how many they each bagged that night and how much overtime it would give them (vans full)... later on they also discussed how they each had a quota - friend told me that tix/arrests go up at the end of the month as catch up ...

I've met good and bad cops, gotten outta some - best thing, be polite but not a cocksucker.

whoo hoo...just got a speeding ticket on the way home thanks to an airplane that radio'd the cops! :fuckyou:

For such a small town idaho springs has way too many cops with nothing too do. just walking around town i got questioned twice in one day, doing nothing wrong just walking. Another day i was at the park got questioned again, once again doing nothing wrong. Also they like to pull over people going like 2 over the speed limit, so watch out if your in idaho springs.

tough shit deal with it it is not that bad. if you are nice to the cops they will give you a break usualy. and dont be an ass to them.

I speed so much of the time that when I'm caught it's just well hell, you got me. Get caught every couple of years, operating expense. Last fall I was out in Eastern Colorado headed to SoDak for pheasant hunting. Blasting along the interstate and a patrolmen nails me, down through the median and flips around, tumbleweeds flying everywhere. I know I'm nailed so I pull over and get my shit out. Zoom they fly by me lights and siren going and pulls over another truck. I think well what the hell is that? I sit there a few and drive up to where she has the other dude pulled over and wait. She comes back and I said I thought you caught me, Oh I did, but that ass didn't yield to me so I tagged him. I caught you at 92, but I'll drop it to 75. Thank you maam. A comedian once said he drives like hell when it rains because if they want to get out of their car and stand there in the rain he'll talk to them forever. I took a break in my college years and worked as a 911 dispatcher for a year. Cops have so much shit to deal with they deserve to be treated as nicely as possible. Not that they don't make mistakes, everyone does and everyone has a shitty day. They go to domestics at the same address time and time again, and get to deal with all kinds of bummer kids in shitty situations every damn day. Getting pulled over for speeding or something stupid isn't a cause to be a prick.

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Originally Posted by roscoe

tough shit deal with it it is not that bad. if you are nice to the cops they will give you a break usualy. and dont be an ass to them.

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That must be it. The guy walked up to the car and I had my bare ass cheeks pressed to the window, and then I called his mother a terrorist and a whore. After that I insulted his ethnicity and threw feces at him. :rolleyes2

Piss off jong.

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Originally Posted by flatlander #2

I speed so much of the time that when I'm caught it's just well hell, you got me. Get caught every couple of years, operating expense. Last fall I was out in Eastern Colorado headed to SoDak for pheasant hunting. Blasting along the interstate and a patrolmen nails me, down through the median and flips around, tumbleweeds flying everywhere. I know I'm nailed so I pull over and get my shit out. Zoom they fly by me lights and siren going and pulls over another truck. I think well what the hell is that? I sit there a few and drive up to where she has the other dude pulled over and wait. She comes back and I said I thought you caught me, Oh I did, but that ass didn't yield to me so I tagged him. I caught you at 92, but I'll drop it to 75. Thank you maam. A comedian once said he drives like hell when it rains because if they want to get out of their car and stand there in the rain he'll talk to them forever. I took a break in my college years and worked as a 911 dispatcher for a year. Cops have so much shit to deal with they deserve to be treated as nicely as possible. Not that they don't make mistakes, everyone does and everyone has a shitty day. They go to domestics at the same address time and time again, and get to deal with all kinds of bummer kids in shitty situations every damn day. Getting pulled over for speeding or something stupid isn't a cause to be a prick.

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I have no problem with cops as a whole, I have a problem with wasting our tax resources on chickenshit. Plus, I know from many sources the things my local police department are involved in. Lets just say that if they were in Super Troopers they would be the "local Spurberry Police," and not the highway patrol.

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Originally Posted by PaSucks

That must be it. The guy walked up to the car and I had my bare ass cheeks pressed to the window, and then I called his mother a terrorist and a whore. After that I insulted his ethnicity and threw feces at him. :rolleyes2

Piss off jong.

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Well, I figured I'd quote you to get my post count up, cuz I'm all about that. :rolleyes:

Here's another possible scenario.

You're driving a car that isn't marked as a pizza delivery car. You deliver a pizza to a known drug house...cop sees you go in, stay a minute or two, and then bail.... He pulls you over for the license plate cover as probable cause....he then figures out your a pizza delivery guy. You throw some 'tude, and he throws some back with a ticket.....

Blurred, if he sees me walk into the house, he sees me carying the food. That being said, I'm sure the cops know a lot of drivers deal on the side. (I'm not one of them)

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Originally Posted by Jim S

whoo hoo...just got a speeding ticket on the way home thanks to an airplane that radio'd the cops! :fuckyou:

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How fast were you going? You're the first I have ever heard of being caught by the elusive air patrol.

Do they fly aircraft just for catching speeders? Seems a little costly.

On the NYS Thruway, they're constantly flying planes, doing TIMING runs...NOT RADAR. Those strange white hash marks on the side of the road...those are start & finishing lines. A trooper in the airplane clocks your passage through the speed trap, runs the time into a computer and relays the speed to pursuit vehicles on the ground.

How do I know this? I grew up near the New Baltimore rest area. They do this shiat all the time down there. I used to listen to them on the scanner. Typically, I never heard them pursue anything below 75.

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Originally Posted by funkendrenchman

How fast were you going? You're the first I have ever heard of being caught by the elusive air patrol.

Do they fly aircraft just for catching speeders? Seems a little costly.

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I also got by first ticket in over 3 years by getting clocked by a plane over Memorial Day weekend. The shitty part about it was the fact that I wasn't even speeding, only doing around 68 in a 65. The cop that pulled me over told me that the pilot in the plane basically uses a stopwatch and 2 marked points on the road to determine your speed. I figure that they have to give x number of tickets in a given day using this method in order to justify the cost of putting the plane up in the first place.