Got pulled over last night - and he let me go!

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Spencer278
When the cop told you to slow down you should have replayed that you need to drive faster so that you can beat the light.

In a related story, I've done this twice:

/siren
/pulls over


Cop: I pulled you over for speeding. Do you know how fast you were going?
Me: If I guess correctly, do I get to leave without a ticket?


First time, the cop looked shocked, then busted out laughing. Ran my license and told me to "get the hell out of here."

Second time, (diff cop) he was NOT amused. Practically pulled me out thru the window, cuffed me and wrote me my speeding ticket. Very unfair treatment in my eyes, but I think he did it b/c I had my GF w/me and he wanted to make me look like a little man. I got laid anyway...after I got yelled at. :roll:

 

[Dulanic]

The absoulte best was when I was on a road I had never driven on before, I was going 45, I got pulled over and the cop asked me if I knew how fast I was going. I answered honestly and said 45, he asked me if I knew the speed limit, and I said no, he told me it was 25. I apologized and said I had never been down this road and didn't know the speed limit, he then saw a stack of CD-Rs on my seat and asked me if I copy alot of games, I lied and said No I don't copy games (I wasn't going to tell a cop I do) and he says, oh that's too bad, I was going to recommend a place down the street that rents PC games, and we starting BSing about stuff like that, was rather funny. He let me go

Another time I was on the highway doing 90 in a 55, radar detector went off and I slowed down to 55... got pulled over. He proceds to write me a ticket for no seatbelt (which I was wearing, took it off to take out wallet) and for expired tags. He then points to my radar detector and says "You know, thoose don't work" and walked away... I soooo had the urge and yell then why the fvck didn't you catch me doing 90, but had more sense then that.

 

[Squisher]

I was let go so many times in my youth that my friends acused me of being a narc.

I wouldn't want to spoil my reputation here by telling stories(har,har,har)


Got caught with a bunch of drugs once, but the cop didn't know I had all that so when he found the first banned substance he thought he would do me a favor and just throw it away. Once he destroyed evidence he was kinda locked into destroying all the rest as he found it.


Had a cop following me about a half a mile back about 3:00am. He didn't think I spotted him so when I went around a turn I made sure to extend our separation. Stupidly I circled back and was pulled over by about six cop cars. The back seat of my Camaro was filled with 40 bottles of Asti Spumante (another story). I had lost my registration and my driver's license earlier that night. I passed the sobriety test. Knew my License # by heart. And was nothing but polite and professed my innocence at trying to evade. Guess he believed me. There was a moment there though when those bottles were lined up on the curb like soldiers and all the lights were flashing.

 

[blurredvision]

I was pulled over one Saturday night around 11pm, and it's on a 55mph highway that was basically almost deserted. I was coming home from a friend's house, and had about 4 or 5 beers that night. Thing is, it had been about 2 hours since I had had anything, and I felt completely fine (4 or 5 beers at the time wasn't much for me). I had the cruise set at 65, because I figured there'd be no cops out wasting their time on this deserted road in the middle of nowhere basically between two cities.

Wouldn't ya know it, a state trooper pulled me over. He came up to the car, said I was doing 65, and I tried to argue a bit with him, saying I was going 62, blah blah blah. He checked out my license, then asked me to get out of the car. I was thinking "oh sh!t" at the time, because I knew I was good to drive, but a .08 blood-alchohol level doesn't give much leighway. I've never been in a situation like this before (I'm basically the ideal law-abiding citizen). The cop had be step around the back of the car, and while asking me where I'd been and where I was going, he was constantly shining his flashlight in my eyes. Basically, he was checking me out.

I guess I passed the test, because he gave me back my license, and told me to slow it down, and go on home. No ticket, just a warning.

 

[Afro000Dude]

I've heard this story so many times from my brother, I don't know how much of it is actually true. He goes to work early in the morning (3-4 am), and rides his Yamaha Fazer. Freeways are pretty empty that early, so he was doing about 120-130 (depending on who he tells the story to), and a highway patrol officer pulls him over. This was right next to the highway patrol station, so he figured the patrolman was just getting off duty. All my brother got was a stern warning to "SLOW DOWN!"

One time I had to pick up a friend at Jack in the Box and take him home. There was a cop in the driveway watching me as I pulled in, and he circled around and went in the other entrance as I circled around to go out again. He passed me twice, looking me straight in the eyes, once as I went up a driveway to a gas station, and again after I turned around in the gas station and went down the driveway to the exit of the parking lot. Then as I am waiting to turn left after leaving the parking lot, I see the cop cut off like 4 people to get right behind me as I turn. It's like 8:45 and he has no headlights or anything on, just following me. He turned into a mini mart like a block later.

 

[stonecold3169]

I was in Albany, my gf had gone to seattle over spring break for a few days to interview with Microsoft for a position they had open. Her flight was massively delayed, and by the time we had left the airport it was 2am, and we lived 5 hours or so north of there.

So, I get on i87 and am going 90-ish, as anyone who has ever driven 87 outside of albany, it's freaking dead, especially late at night. My gf was a little frisky after having been away a few days, and so she had her seatbelt off and was practically crawling on top of me etc etc I'll spare the exact details.

So, I get pulled over from a cop who was sitting doing radar (at 2am, weird as hell). The guy comes up to my window and obviously knew what was going on. The first thing he says is "now, I don't know how accurate these radar gun thingies are, but it seems to say you were going 92mph". At this point I was ready to die, my gfs seatbelt was still off, and I had no clue what was going on.

At this point the officer sees a Clarkson university decal on my back window (it's a big engineering school). .. He then tells me "well, it's 2am, you're an engineer, I bet you know how fast you were going better then my radar did, so, I guess if you could use your engineer judgement a bit better and maybe find a rest stop to get that out of her system and then get home safe, we can forget this ever happened". It was awesome, then he just drove off.

 

[Leetman]

I've not been lucky enough to be let go with a warning. The first was a 55 in a 40, the second time was 61 in a 40. Both were jerks with huge mustaches, talk about crappy luck.

 

[Steve]

First time I ever got pulled over, I was driving my roommate's car and just baaaarely ran a red light. I reached for my wallet to pull out my license and he said, "No, it's okay. I can see you're from out of town." My roomie's car had Maine plates (this was when I lived in Canada) so I foolishly told him it wasn't my car. Then he had to see my license. As I handed it to him he got a call on his shoulder-mounted radio. He took one quick glance at my card and said, "I've got to go. DON'T run the red lights!"

Next day I needed to go somewhere so I borrowed my roomie's keys. As I walked out of our building I looked across the street and saw the SAME COP having pulled someone over. I decided to wait a while.

 

[orakle]

on June 5th, well actually June 26th, cause it was like five in the morning we had dropped off my friend's prom date at her house in a suburb of Montreal (off-island) we got pulled over by some moron police officer. Apparently we had crept out into an intersection to look around (because we weren't sure where the hell we were going.. never been there) and this meant that we had stolen the SUV we were riding in. My friend's sister (the driver) rolls down the window and this prick shines the flashlight in her face and demands to see her license and registration. After sitting in his car for about fifteen minutes he came back and started patronizing kris as if she had no idea what she was doing, that she was a total idiot for not knowing exactly where to go and that it's kind of late to be driving around a residential neighborhood if you don't live there. Last time i checked, it wasn't a crime to drive around at 4:30am. He let us go, but all the way home in our half-asleep daze we swore about how much of a c*nt this guy was

 

[brigden]

A few years ago, my brother, myself and a friend were heading out of town for an Oasis concert. My brother decided to fill his tires before we hit the highway. We pulled into a gas station, where the air compressor was around the back. We filled up and left. As we pulled on to the highway, my brother noticed a cop following us closely. He pulled us over and asked what we were doing. We told him. He said, "Well, it looked as if you were casing the store. Try not to look so suspecious next time."

Seriously. I mean, three white guys in a white Mazda in the middle of the afternoon? Give me a break. He looked embarrassed when we told him what we were doing.

 

[anxi80]

once got pulled over and cited for: speeding, changing lanes without a turn signal, reckless endangerment. let go.

got pulled over for speeding (20mph over), talked it down to a fix-it for my window tint. (no mark on my record, just removed it and paid $10 court costs)

pulled over for speeding, let go.

been lucky thus far. or it could be my protected plates. :evil:

 

Originally posted by: anxi80
once got pulled over and cited for: speeding, changing lanes without a turn signal, reckless endangerment. let go.

Were you cited or were you let go? They're not one and the same.

 

[anxi80]

i didnt mean to use the term 'cited' in the summons in a court sense, i meant as being quoted or being told of my actions. i apologize, i should've used a better word.

 

[DurocShark]

Once I was a passenger: Coming down the mountain from Big Bear on the 38 (30? I can't remember anymore... through Running Springs anyway), we were almost to the bottom when we see a cop coming up behind us with his lights on. We pull over, he's laughing his arse off as he asks for lic, ins, reg. Friend passes them over, he goes back to his car for a few, comes back and explains: "You passed me at Running Springs. It took me this long to catch you! You guys must have been averaging 80+ through those bends. I'm not going to write you a citation because that was the most fun I've had in a long time." :beer:

Another time: family and I were coming back from a Cub Scout meeting (my son was like 7). My wife and I were both leaders at the time, so we were all in uniform. I get pulled over because one of my two license lights was DIM. Not out, just not as bright as the other one. What sucks is my license had just been suspended (unpaid traffic ticket, uninteresting story), but my wife was too tired to drive. He comes back a few minutes after getting all my stuff and says to have a nice night and splits. :Q I told my wife I was buying her some coffee and she WOULD be driving the rest of the way home.

When I lived in Lake Elsinore, I worked in Temecula. A dozen or so miles down the 15. I was late to work one day, and had my 84 VW GTI up to 115mph. I had bad tie rods and the thing shimmied like it was going to fly apart at those speeds. I saw a cop at the horizon in my mirror and slowed down. It was too late though. He had been doing 125 to catch me. We had a good chat about the "15 Speedway" and he wrote my ticket for doing 80 in a 65.

Ok, now that I think about it, this story isn't too uninteresting: Wife and I had just separated. My friend and I went to a strip club on the 4th of July and were coming home at 1am or so. I was driving my Saab. I pull into the street my friend lived on, and a cop pulls up behind me with my lights on. He spotted a dead taillight on m Saab. I just parked in front of my friend's house and shut off the car. Cop comes up and tells me about the light and asks why he can smell alcohol. I told him we had come from a strip club, but drank little since it was so expensive, and offered to take a breathalizer. He asks where I'm going, I say "here". heh He wrote me a ticket for no insurance (and here in Cali that's a $1500 ticket.)

 

[thomsbrain]

only time i got pulled over without getting a ticket was when i hadn't put up my new registration sticker yet. luckily i had it in the glove compartment. but i've only been pulled over twice, so that's a 50% ticket rate.