The cop should have radioed for the waaahmbulance.
Presumably not as big as the difference between a 2 MPH over ticket and NO FUCKING TICKET AT ALL. Which is what happened.
Possible answers for this question:
“I bet you’re going to tell me.”
“Because you’re an a**hole?”
“You don’t know either?”
–Courtesy of the Bad Driver’s Handbook
I got a speeding ticket last weekend for doing 80 in a 65. I was doing 83.
Asshole cop.
My wife was ticketed for 3 miles over.
OTOH, last time I was ticketed I was something like 20-25 over, but the cop wrote it up for much less, as my actual speed would have been a huge bump in the fine. I thought that was pretty decent of him.
Yeah, cops with attitude suck, but if I were the OP I imagine my joy at having been stopped and escaped unscathed probably would have kept me from complaining too much about the cops attitude.
Like any other profession, some cops are real assholes. The problem is that the job gives them a badge, gun, and the power to ruin other people’s lives. Most cops are fine people, but I’ve run into a few that were just puffed-up high school bullies with a badge.
My favorite: “Because you got Cs in High School?” 
To the OP: I, too, have been mistaken for someone else. For me it was “You turned left out of the Golf Course - that’s illegal.” My response was that I did not; I turned right out of the gas station across the street.
He refused to believe me until I produced my gas receipt, time stamped to prove that there’s no way based on what time it was now that it was me. He handed me my license and receipt back and walked off without saying a word.
A “Sorry, my mistake” or maybe even a “Have a nice day” would’ve been nice. Meh.
That’s weird, were you parked at some point with the car in Park/Neutral? Because if you have an automatic transmission, most of those will flash the backup lights as you move the lever from Park to Reverse to Drive. If you have a manual transmission car, you won’t see the backup lights flash.
Exactly. Due to the power difference, I have much less tolerance for jerks in law enforcement. A jerk at the burger joint has next to zero ability to actually matter in my life aside from hurting my feelings or something. A jerk with a badge has all sorts of ways to seriously fuck with my life.
I’m fortunate that almost all of my interactions with police have been at least professional if not courteous. I did have one instance where a guy was being an asshole, and though I didn’t end up with any sort of ticket, it was a pretty scary situation.
Do you think it’s acceptable for a cop to berate you for something you didn’t do, as long he didn’t bother to cite you for another wholly different thing you actually did? The former was the assholish part, not the failure to ticket. (I’d contend that not giving a ticket for 2MPH over falls under “not being a colossal dick” rather than “being nice”, but YMMV and it’s irrelevant to the point.)
Well, if a hypothetical cop who’s being a self-superior fuckstick is a self superior fuckstick, I suppose a hypothetical Mickey D’s guy can be one as well, if he’s jacking up my hypothetical burger by being a self-superior fuckstick.
Even ignoring the obvious differences between the respective power of a police officer and a fast-food clerk to fuck up your day, and the resulting responsibility of each to keep his emotions in check, what does your whole rant here have to do with anything? Neither Justin nor I (the sources of your quoted insults) came close to implying that all cops are always assholes and/or self-superior fucksticks…only the ones that are, at that particular moment, being exactly that. He referenced a specific incident and I made up a hypothetical. Jesus, back atcha.
Not only that, some people that get pulled over get a little embarrassed and/or frightened, and blame that on the cop.
So, cop number one is an asshole for letting Justin off with a warning, and cop number two is a hypothetical asshole. Ah. I see. All cleared up now.
No, it isn’t acceptable. And had the OP gotten a ticket, as I said, I would have been on board. Had he come here to say “Cop stopped me, accused me of doing 77 when I was really doing 67, let me off with a warning, what an ass,” I wouldn’t have said anything.
But he repeatedly said he wasn’t speeding. And also said that he was doing possibly 67. That in itself I found amusing. And, though it is also irrelevant to the point, I have sat in defensive drivers’ classes and been utterly amazed at the number of drivers who were going just above the speed limit, but were cited for higher.
You seem to keep missing the point that I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! Wow, what a big and noble hero, he let me off with a warning for something I DIDN’T EVEN DO!
If only the entire world could take a page from this stunning example of humanity and use his example to spread cheer in this time of economic hardship.
I said “possibly” because I wasn’t staring at the speedometer the entire time I was passing the cop. I was actually driving. I said “possibly” because the needle was hovering right around the hash mark for 65, which can mean roughly anywhere from 63 to 67.
villa: Ok, so you really were just pointing out the contradiction. I figured you were trying to be a smartass about the OP in general. S’the Pit and all. Sorry about that.
No. See above. Actually, even easier, see below.
As to this:
…for hypothetically doing the same thing that the cop in the OP actually did (assuming Justin’s facts are accurate), yes.
No need for an apology. I am being somewhat of a smartass about the OP in general. Especially seeing as now he is repeating that he DIDN’T DO ANYTHING. In the same post as admitting he does not know how fast he was going and that it could have been 67 when he passed the cop. Not that anyone slows down when they pass a cop at all - I am sure he was at that speed the whole time he was being clocked.
I’d have a lot of sympathy for someone who got a ticket for 2 MPH over the limit. But if you talk to people giving up their Saturday morning sat in the court mandated education sessions that mean we don’t get points on our licenses, you would be utterly gobsmacked how many of them were just two miles over the limit when pulled over, and unable to understand why the cop wrote them up for much higher. And the OP didn’t even get the ticket, which further limits my potential sympathy.
What is the point of some cops lecturing you for traffic violations like you are his 10 year old kid who didn’t clean his room?
Okay, so I was going 80 in a 65. So were fifteen other people that passed me in the last twenty miles. In fact, the officer had to push 100 to catch up with me to pull me over, but I guess that is somehow safer than what I was doing.
No matter, because I was the one that got caught; fair enough. Issue me the citation or the warning and shut the fuck up. I don’t want to be talked to like I just committed armed robbery.
jtgain, at least he didn’t cite you for the unlicensed sawed-off shotgun and molotov cocktail that were much less dangerous than the armament he was carrying, huh? It’s not like traffic accidents kill nearly as many people as armed robbers do, anyway.
I know lots of LEOs, and a high percentage of them, embarrassingly, might indeed qualify as asshole cops from time to time. But a guy who gets a speeding ticket on a given stretch of road, quits paying attention to his driving less than two months later and gets pulled over again, on the same stretch of road, and responds to the non-ticket break he gets by calling the LEO an asshole, well, there’s a guy I hope gets promoted to a different shift than the one I work: I’m only driving to get from point A to point B, I don’t aspire to winning a game of Dodge-Buick with this cretin.
No actually he is smart, not an asshole. If you reply “You stopped me because I was speeding”, that is an admission of guilt that can be used against you if you try and fight the ticket.
I always smile and say, “You know officer, somehow I have the feeling you are going to tell me.” I have admitted nothing, and this tends to break the ice and lower the tension level a bit. I have a pretty fair batting average of talking my way out of tickets, or getting them written up for lesser offenses.