Rant=Cops
10-12-2009, 11:43 AM
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Rant=Cops
I'm being tailgted & followed. Stoped this weekind for going through two red lights! I ask the officer if I went through a red light how how come he didn't stop me at the first light? "I was too far back and in traffic and couldn't catch you" How can someone tell if you went through a redlight from 200+yds behind traffic? I am guilty of going past one yellow light but no red lights. Thank for hearing my rant
10-12-2009, 04:13 PM
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yeah i hate them (all respect to cops who actually do their job) but the ones who ticket uselessly are so ridiculous!! a few years ago i was driving home from hs in my z and i got all the way home not very far from school and got pulled over IN my driveway and he "caught" me on 16 different violations including not wearing my seatbelt which i had just removed as i was already HOME the court dismissed all but the one of me not having a front plate WTF
10-12-2009, 04:25 PM
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yeah i hate them (all respect to cops who actually do their job) but the ones who ticket uselessly are so ridiculous!! a few years ago i was driving home from hs in my z and i got all the way home not very far from school and got pulled over IN my driveway and he "caught" me on 16 different violations including not wearing my seatbelt which i had just removed as i was already HOME the court dismissed all but the one of me not having a front plate WTF
10-12-2009, 04:28 PM
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i did and actually he was citing me for EVERYTHING leading up to my driveway but the only thing that held was the no plate coz i was driving my car before i got to my driveway and he literally turned his lights on when i was in my driveway ... he was such a d**k ive been caught before and when its my fault i respect the fact that the cops are doing their job but geeze!
10-12-2009, 04:36 PM
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I've seen the Highway Patrol holding up traffic in the fast lane of the freeway right at 65 mph...when they change lanes to the right the first car that passes them will get pulled over. At this point whenever I see a cop behind me I go to the slowest lane possible and wait for them to pass.
10-12-2009, 04:54 PM
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I've seen the Highway Patrol holding up traffic in the fast lane of the freeway right at 65 mph...when they change lanes to the right the first car that passes them will get pulled over. At this point whenever I see a cop behind me I go to the slowest lane possible and wait for them to pass.
10-12-2009, 04:59 PM
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I was pulled over last night for going 32 through a 25 in a toll both lane, and for having a tinted license plate cover.....The cop let my go though with a verbal warning...He told me he had a MS3 with 390whp which chirped through 4th. He also told me he has been stabbed, shot at, gunned(spitting of the *****
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He was cool as ****.
), etc.He was cool as ****.
10-12-2009, 08:42 PM
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10-13-2009, 11:11 AM
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As a cop in training, I can tell all of you...don't believe what you see on COPS the TV show! We are show COPS episodes to be shown what not to do. Those of you who got pulled and cited, sux to be you. I had been that situation before...what you may think is a legal stop most likely is. Some cops like to find a traffic law that most others would never pull anyone over for, but it is officer discretion in all cases.
10-13-2009, 12:34 PM
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10-13-2009, 12:45 PM
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Huge hole is huge
That happens a whole lot I'm noticing. Everybody seems to think they know the law and what not, when they are just going off what their friends brothers girlfriends dad said.
10-13-2009, 12:52 PM
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I think Renesis' post says exactly how some people think. Not my opinion of what they think but from I have read here lately. Don't get me wrong, some cops do things they shouldn't do. But then again, everyone does in every profession. Bottom line is if one does the speed limit and follows traffic road signs then nobody will have anything to gripe about when it regards cops giving someone tickets.
10-13-2009, 12:54 PM
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Sped up to 18 KM/H over (21 KM/H + doubles your fine, he waited a long assed time, but I didn't speed up anymore).
Cop never showed up to court
10-13-2009, 12:58 PM
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10-13-2009, 01:12 PM
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Cops that use their power to enforce the law to mess with people give all police a bad name. Some people are just dick heads... maybe they're smart because they picked a career where being a dick to the people you serve won't get you fired or out business like it does to nearly everyone else in the private sector.
10-13-2009, 01:58 PM
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Most of the cops I've had run-ins with have been pretty cool. Stuff like speeding (once I was going 16 over in an area I knew cops were, so I deserved it; another time, he let me off with a warning after giving my friend **** for being from this other part of town) and moving violations (illegal u-turn, though he just wrote me up for not having my front plates since I didn't know the area). On the flip side, I had to deal with this one ***** once--a real jerk that looked and acted like that dude from Reno 911, with the short shorts and all. It's hit or miss, I guess.