Speeding ticket in H3 - Page 2

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ORIGINAL: ZYNE

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ORIGINAL: Dennis

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There ain't no way I'd put that crap on my truck! It's a bunch of BS anyways ... the law doesn't apply to us like it does folks with influence/money or cops ... f*ck em, I ain't contributing one red cent to em ... </OPINION> LOL!

Ain't saying you gotta agree with it..but a little wolf bane may save you a $200 ticket....Can't fight em, join em

I got a ticket for running a red light in my H3 another car followed behind me, but he pulled me over !!!!!

Ugh, hell no, I'd rather take the ticket ... and fight it in court if it was yet another BS ticket. I got one for doing 71 in a 65 zone a few years back, WTF!?!?!?!?!?!!!!

The following 15 Police Comments were taken off of actual police car videos around the country:

#15 "Relax; the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch out after you wear them awhile."

#14 "Take your hands off the car, or I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document."

#13 "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."

#12 "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? In case you didn't know, that is the average speed of a 9mm bullet fired from
my gun."

#11 "So you don't know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I want on the ticket, huh?"

#10 "Yes, Sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh ... Did I mention that I am the shift supervisor?"

#9 "Warning! You want a warning? O.K., I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."

#8 "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"

#7 "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy, and step in monkey DOO."

#6 "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."

#5 "In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC."

#4 "Just how big were those two beers?"

#3 "No sir we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas bu t now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want."

#2 "I'm glad to hear the Chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know someone who can post your bail."


And................... THE BEST ONE !!!!!!!


#1 "you didn't think we give pretty women tickets? ... You're right, we don't. .. Sign here.

The best line I ever heard was after a race. I was in my grand national and my frioend was in his supra...I beat him badly and we flew past a cop in the middle of the run, the cop of course stopped the first car he came to, my friend in his supra. Cop walked up to the car and said you were going 90 in a 55, and you were street racing. My friend said officer I lost the race why not go after the guy that beat me and was going alot faster than me. Officer said ....hmm....ok ...here's a ticket for speeding, heres a ticket for street racing and heres a mandatory court appearance for bieng a loser

Amazing the "power" a little piece of metal gives some people .. too bad said "power" doesn't come with a complimentary pouch of "Practice what you preach" ...
If violating laws is a perk of the job for cops ...such as speeding, driving through a red light after briefly turning on lights and siren though there's no emergency, getting busted drunk driving and not going to jail ... If all those are "perks" does that mean a bank manager can help himself from the vault Friday afternoon before he goes home!? Or does it mean the guy that stocks the shelves at your local grocery store gets to take some of that home as a perk!? The underlaying principle is pretty much the same ...

I guess the point is .. it's difficult respecting a police "force" who don't have to follow the rules/laws they have sworn to uphold .. and it's CERTAINLY not easy to respect cops who acts no better or no worse than your average common punk while writing you a ticket. I had one try to pull me over for screeching my tires in the Avalanche here at work .. the irony of it was they were in the grass ... the cop then proceed to start screaming at me when I confronted him and refused to admit to something I had not done. He then changed his story and said it was my fronts doing it ... again, ironically the avalanche I had was RWD ONLY!!!! At this point he asked if I wanted a ticket at which I responded, you go ahead and write your ticket.. He came back about 5 minutes later holding out my license, asking "Do you still want a ticket?". I took my license, said "As much as I wanted and deserved it the last time you asked" and I walked in the building I work in. This is NOT the first time I've almost been ticketed for bullsh*t stuff. I was pulled over in the same Avalanche and got "warned" because I was speeding. Personally I think he wanted to search the car but when I refused I was let off with said "warning" ... great, apparently you don't actually HAVE TO BREAK the law to get pulled over around here ... Should be a pre-requisite to have some friggin common curtesy if you are a cop, it certainly has not been tried around here before!

Speaking of Hypocrite cops..

The State of Oklahoma, it is manditory that you wear the seat belt always or it's a $50.00 ticket, and they can pull you over for just that....But day in day out, I see so many cops driving their rigs around without their seatbelts on....Go figure!

Uh huh, same thing here. Yet I have NEVER seen a cop wear theirs ... then again, if they get in a wreck we at least know only the smart ones walks away ... LOL!

This is an apparant true story:

A woman in Texas was pulled over for speeding by a State Trooper. The Trooper walked up to the car and said "Do you know why I pulled you over Maam?"
The woman said "I bet you want to give me a ticket to the next Texas State Trooper Ball." The State Trooper was a little confused by this answer and said "I'm sorry maam but Texas State Troopers don't have balls."
The State Trooper immediately realized what he said, tipped his hat and said "Have a good day maam." He then returned to his car and drove away.

Here is something I suffer from, not because I am a CDL driver and drive a truck, but because there is less hassle to do it to me than it is to you, although they are perfectly within thier right to do so, and that is get pulled over for a paperwork check. All law enforcement officers have the right to pull you over and ensure that you have your licence, registration, and proof of insurance, and any other legally required documents for that jurisdiction. They can also perform a safety check on your vehicle ensureing that all of your lights work, your winshield is not cracked or dangerously chipped, your horn works, and that your tires have a legal amount of tread. Remeber folks, driving is a privalige, not a right.

I will fully agree that there are punks out there who think they are God because somebody gave them a tin star and gun. And yes, this is my impression of the guy everytime I have to talk to one on the side of the road.

Wow, guys..

Perhaps look at it from the cops point of view. Some of you guys are talking about running into some cops who have a God complex, from time to time..

But imagine, if you will, the amount of asswipes they have to deal with on a day by day basis. The snotty rich puke who thinks he's immune from the laws, to the young punk who thinks he can instill fear in a cop by asking for a badge number and yelling that his rights are being violated... or the countless soccer moms who think they can talk their way out of it because they have a busy schedule of running to Wal-mart and other errands.

There are actually people out there, that think it's my job, as a firefighter, to come over to their house at 3:00am and clean up the mess, when they chit themselves. If they did it because they were having a heart attack, we'll treat the heart attack, but we don't clean up chit.. no matter what reason it escaped. We actually had alady who crapped the floor, and had no medical problems, yet called us over to clean it. Yeah, it aint gonna happen, lady.

So, they're just chit outta luck. LOL

Most of you would cringe if you saw just how mentaly brain-dead the general public is. Common sense isn't very common anymore.

That is a very good point. Police deal with the worst 10% of society 90% of the time. To me though, that still doesn't warrant treating me like I am that 10% because they are having a bad day or whatever.
What really gets to me is when you are given a ticket you don't deserve, then go to court to fight it and watch the judge demand that every defendant require a witness to collaborate thier story against the holy word of the officer's lone word. When siad witness is not produced, the verdict is Guilty as Charged. All this, after the judge reads to you your Constitutional Right to be innocent until proven guilty. Sounds to me like you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

All this po po hating...was getting hard for me to keep my fingers still contrary to popular belief, they aren't all assholes...walk a mile in their shoes a time or 2 and I guarantee you will have a touch of "assholism" in you too!

LOVIN MY LITTLE HUMMER!

ASSHOLISM??

I like that..may I use it in the future?

I think we now know what her screen name stands for

I don't get all the hating either really....I hang out with a few cops that are good friends and after seeing the crap they deal with all day every day, I fully understand why they are diks. They even told me once that people always say that cops are azzholes and are punks with guns...until they need one of us, then they change their tune.

As in any line of work..there are the good ones that deserve the recognition and respect...and then there are the ****weeds that think they're all that and a bag of chips.


Assuming your hubby is the long arm of the law and assuming he is one of the good guys...Tell him thanks for sticking his neck out for us..

Thanks boys...now I feel better!

Your assumptions would be correct (however he is no longer a ticket writin street cop)..and with all that said...I have been around LE all of my adult life (met hubby when I was 17) and yes, I have met a few of those "diks" myself. Especially down here in south FL..we have a wave of bad apples.

By the way he doesn't care for my "Bummer" as he refers to it..GOOD!!..means he doesn't need to be driving it!

btw, am leaving shortly for a road trip..will be checkin that gas mi. post head job...

LOVIN MY LITTLE HUMMER!

PS...Dennis...you may use that term anytime you wish..happens to be one of my fav coined phrases hahaha!

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ORIGINAL: LawWyfe

By the way he doesn't care for my "Bummer" as he refers to it..GOOD!!..means he doesn't need to be driving it!

..Well on another note..He needs the snot slapped out his nose for talking like that!!!

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ORIGINAL: Linus Gump

That is a very good point. Police deal with the worst 10% of society 90% of the time. To me though, that still doesn't warrant treating me like I am that 10% because they are having a bad day or whatever.
What really gets to me is when you are given a ticket you don't deserve, then go to court to fight it and watch the judge demand that every defendant require a witness to collaborate thier story against the holy word of the officer's lone word. When siad witness is not produced, the verdict is Guilty as Charged. All this, after the judge reads to you your Constitutional Right to be innocent until proven guilty. Sounds to me like you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

I guess the point that should be made here is the fact that not all people they deal with are that way ... and I EXPECT and DEMAND some professional frickin curtesy from people, regardless if they wear a badge. I think I'm entitled to that. Guilty until proven innocent!? Yep, that's pretty dead on ..

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ORIGINAL: importkiller

I think we now know what her screen name stands for

I don't get all the hating either really....I hang out with a few cops that are good friends and after seeing the crap they deal with all day every day, I fully understand why they are diks. They even told me once that people always say that cops are azzholes and are punks with guns...until they need one of us, then they change their tune.

So because of all the crap I deal with at work I'm allowed to be a dik towards the people I work for too!? I think NOT!!!!! I'd lose my job in an instant if I had that mentality.

i've had a few tickets in my almost 30 years of driving, but i found that what you give is what you get back. i've never really had a leg to stand on any of the times i've been stopped, guilty each time. maybe i'm just lucky, but i've never had a nasty cop pull me over. was even able to talk my way out of a ticket in Wyoming, got a written warning instead. i have too much respect for the profession to bag on all cops, and i'm sure that just like every profession, there are good and bad. hell, there may even be a lawyer or two in the world that ISN'T a complete snake. i think one of the benefits of driving the bus is that it's so big and brick-like, a cop just can't imagine it going over the speed limit.

I was pulled over for doing 98 in a 55 zone about 5 years ago. I ended up stopping and just waiting for the trooper to catch up, I figured it was easier than having him chase me down. Turns out he was about my age, very nice guy. Wrote me down to 74 mph because I didn't make him chase me down. Now with this said, I have zero issues with incidents like this. He was professional, curteous, and did his job. That's what he received back from me.

With this said, you refer to me as "boy" I'm going to take offense to it and believe me, I'll voice it too. No matter how much crap you see in your profession, REGARDLESS of what you do, you don't fricken treat people in a demeaning mannor and then expect them to show you respect. Like you said, What you give is what you get .. and that door swings BOTH ways, at least in my little world.. regardless of that shiny nifty little badge SOME think give them these rights ...

Yeah, there are some guys who are burned out from some of the stuff they deal with, and need to be assigned to something else for a while to take a break.

I also think that sometimes, people use that "first impression" they get from a cop, as a basis for his or her general attitude. But, when a cop first approaches a vehicle, is probably the most danergour time of a traffic stop. So, I wouldn't expect them to come up all casual and wanting to shake hands and talk about the weather. I pretty much expect to hear the usual, let me see your ID & insurance. Then once they see you not some maniac about to flee, they usually seem a little more relaxed, and personable. But, I think too many people still remember the automated first response, and form an opinion.

No they shouldn't call people "boy" etc. I don't know why they would anyway.. I just see it as a potential to make thier job that much harder if the person takes offense to it. I'd rather everything go smoothly, so we can both go on our way once it's over.

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ORIGINAL: Fireman

Yeah, there are some guys who are burned out from some of the stuff they deal with, and need to be assigned to something else for a while to take a break.

I also think that sometimes, people use that "first impression" they get from a cop, as a basis for his or her general attitude. But, when a cop first approaches a vehicle, is probably the most danergour time of a traffic stop. So, I wouldn't expect them to come up all casual and wanting to shake hands and talk about the weather. I pretty much expect to hear the usual, let me see your ID & insurance. Then once they see you not some maniac about to flee, they usually seem a little more relaxed, and personable. But, I think too many people still remember the automated first response, and form an opinion.

No they shouldn't call people "boy" etc. I don't know why they would anyway.. I just see it as a potential to make thier job that much harder if the person takes offense to it. I'd rather everything go smoothly, so we can both go on our way once it's over.

I agree completely with what you're saying ... I'm refering to what takes place AFTER the initial approach ... There's where the opportunity presents itself to set an example but few rarely do ... at least around here.