Please disregard the horrible typos above, I was in a bit of a rush and typing from a written text without looking at the screen…
Actually, I think it works well if you just leave it as a response to the post before it.
Yeah, that about sums it up …
Give me a freaking break, man. And get the hell over yourself, while you’re at it. I specifically said, I resented the fact that I was given a ticket out of spite, I didn’t resent getting a ticket, period. I was obviously being pulled over because the cop saw an opportunity to bust a drunk driver and my not coming to a complete stop gave him the opportunity to pull me over. It was a legit stop, I never said otherwise. What I had a problem with is the fact that when the officer realized I hadn’t been drinking, which was the reason he pulled me over, he wrote me a ticket, for something stupid. It wasn’t because I was endangering anyone, it wasn’t because I was driving unsafely, it was because he was pissed he couldn’t make a DUI bust. Just because a person has a badge doesn’t mean everything they do is the right thing to do.
Or maybe it was the mental image of you dancing around with glee at people getting “busted” for minor traffic offenses that the tone of your posts conjured.
That would be the tone I was referring to above. Look any further down your nose at people and you could become cross eyed.
I can’t believe nobody has pointed out that driving well below the speed limit tends to attract more attention that driving slightly above.
If a cop wants to stop you for something, he’s going to find something to stop you for. Not signalling early enough, having dangling things from your rear view mirror, etc. One of my friends got pulled over for [del]being Asian in an all white community[/del] not pulling over to the right lane when a cop sped up behind him(failure to yield for faster traffic). Another one of my friends was pulled over for [del]driving down Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd when white[/del] having an out of state license plate (you have 90 days in California to get plates, so the cop was “just checking” to make sure 90 days hadn’t expired – it hadn’t).
In both of those cases, the cop very quickly realized that there were better things to do.
“License and registration?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where are you headed?”
“Home, sir.”
“Have you been drinking this evening?”
“No, sir.”
“Do you realize you (should have pulled over for faster traffic / need to get new license plates)?”
“Yes, sir.”
“(Make sure it doesn’t happen again / get it done ASAP)”
“Yes, sir.”
“Have a good night.”
“Thank you, sir. Eat shit and die.”