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Cop Stories
This section here will have my cop stories. These stories are all real. They are mainly about me getting pulled over and such. I really hope this page doesn't get modified ever, ever again.
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01-09-02 Entitled
"What is it about the green ones?"
or "Getting the Man""Well, I guess it was bound to happen. But geez, why now. Well, here's the story. I got out from work on Friday an hour early. I was going to my girlfriends house. Well, she had suggested one time to take a different way to her place because it was faster. Well, I chose that way on Friday, mistake #1. Aside from the fact that it was terribly busy, I almost got into an accident. But, the worst was yet to come. There was an accident on the right shoulder and two police cars. Well after I had passed them I decided it was getting dark enough to turn on my running lights, mistake number #2. As many of you know, my running lights are green, and I had (changed recently, I talk about that in the Custom Page) green bulbs (15W) in the high beam area. And I had my white fog lights on. Well, as I ventured on there was an unmarked police car on the left shoulder and I was in the left lane. He had someone pulled over and I figured I was fine to have my lights on, I mean come on, what could he do. He had someone pulled over. That was mistake number #3. Well sure as hell, right as I'm a car length behind him he turns his lights off and the car in front that he had pulled over takes off. He's done with him, now it's on to the drug dealer, whose drunk behind the wheel and is speeding. Oh no, my mistake, I just had green running lights. But that must be the same on the scale of "badness". So I turn my lights off right away, but it was too little too late. So right away he pulls me over. And I pull to the left shoulder (plenty of room). Of course lights flashing, the whole nine. I put my hands on the steering wheel and turn down the radio. He comes by, motions me to roll down the window, I do.
"Is this your car?"
"yes."
"Can I see your drivers license?"
"here you go."
I pulled you over because you had those green lights, and you knew they were illegal cuz I saw you turn them off.
"They are merely running lights, I have regular low beams."
At this point he goes to the front of the car and says "Turn on the turn signal." I do. "These are all illegal." Comes back to the window. "You can't have blue, green, red, any color except orange. . .say why are these windows really dark?"
At this point I get more pissed, but as always keep my cool. "I assure you officer, they are legal." He didn't hear, so I repeated myself. On a side note, you may have read that I was pulled over for my tint, and that was a whole thing where I had to go to court, I got it fixed, I know they are legal. He was just trying to stick it to me. So he goes back to his car. Comes back several minutes later with a freaking light meter, which tells how much light transmittion goes through your windows. It comes up as 40. I thought it was the opposite, but apparently it was suppose to be at 50. Now I know I got my windows tinted at 50%, now factor in the minor, minor factory tinting, if any. And the BIG factor that it's freaking dusk out. Hello, give me that on a sunny day and I'll show you. So he then says.
You know you can't have your tail lights painted or modified any way you know. You have to leave them stock."
I'm freaking out at this point. Unfreaking believable. This guy is letting my have it up and down. I of course keep my cool. And keep quiet. He then hands me the ticket and my license back and says to call within or before, I can't remember which, 10 days, and they'll tell me what I have to do. I take the two things and don't say anything. He stands there for a second, hoping I'll say thankyou or somethink like that, and then walks back to his car. Well, I thought the whole thing out in my head as I drove the few more miles to my gf's house and when I got there told here the story. I figured he just gave me the ticket for the lights, because he had the ticket written out before he took the light reading, and before he told me about my taillights. As I looked at the ticket I let out a painfull sound and found that he wrote me up for 1. Covered/Altered Brake light 2. Unapproved Green lights to front (probably meant in front) and 3. Illegal window tint. That fool let me have it. I mean give me a break. You couldn't fill out more spots on the ticket without writing a new one. I was so freaking pissed but thought about it like this. Although it was a hell of a way to start out my weekend, it couldn't get any worse. Also, in a twisted sort of way I have the "immunity idol". Yeah, it sounds silly, but really, if I get pulled over within the next ten days for having illegal lights, I just pull out my ticket and show it to the officer and say, "hey, i'm gonna call and find out what to do, so F, U." I did some reasearch on Saturday night and read up on the statute for moving violations. It's under 169.9. Website is
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/169/
It has a lot of interesting stuff there. More specifically though for lights it's under
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/169/51.html
I'll let you know how things go within or after 10 days. Later all.
CONCLUSION
So I called after 10 days to find out what the fine would be and it totalled ! I was like “hell no, I ain’t paying that.” So I took it to a hearing officer. I went to one before so I kinda knew how it went there. It was in Maplewood, a much smaller setup than St. Paul. Only one hearing officer. I had all my paperwork (tinting getting redone, me not having to pay the ticket), pictures of my car (front turn signals, headlights, taillights), and all that good stuff. I got in there and there was a line of 3 people. The lady helping people was this grey haired older lady and after what I saw there I had much, much more respect for what she does in a day. Well aside from hearing people complain amongst themselvs and tell why they were here (some guy was pissed that he got a ticket for parking on someones lawn), people were complainig to the lady working the joint. The first guy was all bent out of shape when she told him that he had to wait 10 days for them to process the ticket. The officer tells you that and you should call in too just to find out also if it has been processed. Well he didn’t know/hear about that and was like “Well what about the stack of tickets over there, when are they from!?” the lady goes “Anywhere from one to nine days, we’ll get to yours before ten days. Goodbye.” Boy was he pissed. And she also had to give the hearing officer the paperwork about the ticket before they were called in. Another guy who was complaining she “forgot” to give his paper to the hearing guy and got bumped. He was all pissed that he got bumped and the lady was like “Oops, I guess I forgot to give him your paperwork.” She wasn’t a bitch, just really fair with how people treated her. The guy who got bumped ahead though was in there for a minute though. He comes out and goes “Well it’s pretty easy when they say ‘no’.” Well after about 10 minutes of waiting it was my turn to see the hearing officer. I came in and noticed he was listening to a radio show that I listen too also and I figured that might help me if I made some comment to him. Butter him up a bit. Well, I told him my story and how I changed the lights to be legal, and showed him the pictures. He nodded his approval. Then I told him about my tint and showed the paperwork that states that my tint is legal. He said “well did the officer use a light meter?” I said yes. And he goes “well if it said it was illegal, it’s illegal.” And I go, yeah, but right here it states that it isn’t. “Well what did it say?” I said, fourty something, i’m not sure exactly. (I knew it had read like 46 but it was dark out and damnit my tint is legal. He seemed to be okay with that explination. Then showed him pics of my taillights. He didn’t see anything wrong with them. The pics turned out bad and took a lot of the light cuz of the flash and such so they looked bright. He didn’t quite understand why they were illegal. I said well I put a little paint over the ridges but nothing much. He said “so it’s all good now?” I said, Oh yeah, it’s all good. He thought for a bit then and said “And a state troooper pulled you over for this?” I said yes, and he thought some more and said “Well. . .off the record. . .all these offenses are pretty petty. I can’t understand why he would pull you over for such minor things.” I said I didn’t know either but said maybe he had a bad day or something. I wanted to say it was probably because I was black on a friday night, but I didn’t want to press my luck. So he goes “I’m dismissing it all.” I was like, that’s it? “That’s it. Have a good day.” Signed dismissed on the sheet and off I went. I got the man. How I wish that the Trooper that pulled me over would find that out. Eat that you dirty rat! So I went away a happy guy not having to pay a nickel. Oh on a side note I did change my turn signals and side markers to superwhite afterwards, which according to MN law is legal. |
I'm having a bad day so I'm gonna
bust this kid for all he's worth. |
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Time spent-3 hours, Half a tank of gas-, speeding ticket-, Not getting a Playstation 2-priceless
November 26th, 12:15 am. I'm comming home from the U of M after not being able go get my hands on a Playstation 2. I had gone to two Wal-Marts because they were open 24 hrs but needless to say the lines were too long. So I drop off my best friends gf at her dorm and get on 94, then to 394. Well, it's raining out and i've got it on cruise at about 70 in a 55. I usually have it up to 75, thats my normal speed, but tonight I kept it down. So i'm going and my radar detector goes off. K band, very very weak signal. Usually it's a false, or some car dealership around there. Didn't think much of it. So I keep going and to the right of me there is a cop comming off the onramp. So I slow down relatively quickly to about 55. Well, there was a damn cop right behind my ass. Cherrys went up and I pulled over. Went through the whole shpiel. "What's your hurry?" "Just going home." "Do you know how fast you were going" "yes". "okay, how fast were you going?" "I'd like to use my right to remain silent." "okay. . .i'll tell you how fast you were going, 70. Can I see your drivers license." So he took that and I knew I was busted, but I know he didn't use his radar gun. So he gives me the citation and says "please drive slower". I respond by closing my window and driving away. Well, I went home and was trying to figure out how much it was and more importantly how to get out of it. He wrote about five sentences at the bottom of the ticket. Something about me not telling him my speed, him pacing me, and other stuff no one could decipher. Well, the first thing I noticed was that he wrote my b-day as the 17th, not the 14. Plus one for me. Secondly he "paced" me. Which means he stayed a car length away from me and held steady and figured out my speed that way. Not the most reliable way of tagging someone. Truthfully though, I wasn't that pissed about the ticket. I was more pissed that I couldn't find my book that I had at home on "How to beat speeding tickets". I'm going to call the police dept. on monday and ask what the hell he wrote on there, figure out how much I owe (I think it's , but it's unlike the last ticket I got which broke down fines per miles over. This was a straight fine). And find my book and see how I can at least keep this off my record. I believe I ended up paying the man, it was about or so. I really wish I didn't have new material for this section. |
Rich guy. . .sports car. . .hot chick. . .
punk kid in a crappy car! Let's go!
Well, while driving in Minnetonka, I passed a cop going the opposite direction and just knew that he was going to pull me over. I was with a friend of mine and started to speed up, well, sure enough, the cop went out of his way and chased me down. What for was beyond me. I didn't have any of my custom lights on or anything, and was not speeding. Well, it was for my blue license plate cover. Yeah, he was like "You should take it off, if you live around here, I'll give you a warning this time though." So I figured why should I take this off? I just bought a new personalized license plate and I hate it when the plate gets all dirty and nasty. So I left it on. Well, less than a month later, I passed a cop on the same road going the opposite direction, and this time I had my green driving lights on, and sure enough the cop went out of his way to pull me over. I had since turned off my lights and sure as hell, it was the same guy that pulled me over for the licence plate cover. Damn. Well he goes, "Remember me?" I said yes. "Do you remember what I told you about the license plate cover?" *sigh* yes I do officer, you recommended that I should take the cover off. He goes "and, why do you still have it on?" Well, I figure that I want to keep my license plate clean and new looking, it's not like it's obstructing anything." (Now while this altercation is going on two cars pass with no licence plate cover). He's pissed and goes back to his car and says that I have 7 days to take care of it or else I get an ticket. Well, I did some research and you apparently can't have anything on your licence plate. Clear or not. And you have to have a front licence plate in this state. So I go to talk to an officer and she came out to my car and I explained my situation, she said she thought you could have a clear cover on there and she had a few friends with clear covers. Well, she was wrong and thought that it was pretty crappy that I got a ticket for it. So I decided to take it off permanantly. If I ever take my car on a road trip though it will go on again. It just goes to show that cops will pull you over for no good reason, especially if you have a nice looking car. |
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A grand list of things I've been pulled over for.We've all been pulled over, a few lucky ones don't have a speeding ticket. Here's my list of things i've been pulled over for and in what car. 1: Lincoln Town Car, Radar hanging from windshield, apparently an "obstruction of vision". Verbal warning given. 2: Lincoln Town Car, changed from lane onto offramp quickly. Verbal warning. 3: Chevy Corsica, Window tint too dark, blue neon light around license plate. He didn't have a light meter and said that only police cars can have blue lights. Verbal warning. 4: Chevy Corsica, Green neon light around license plate. Apparently you can't have anything around your licence plate (make up your mind people). Verbal warning. 5: Plymouth Breeze (rental car), Speeding 72 in a 55. When officer asked how fast I was going I told him "I'd like to use my right to remain silent" he was kinda pissed but gave me a ticket for 65 in a 55 "so it wouldn't go on my record". fine. 6: Chevy Corsica, Speeding, window tint too dark, radar detector hanging from windshield. Verbal warning for tint and speeding, written warning for Obstruction of Vision. Again no light gun. 7: Chevy Corsica, window tint (again) said my light transmission was like 8%, but that was bs. ticket. Got my tint changed to legal %50 light transmission and took it to court. Got out of the ticket and I still have a good, clean record. November 15th, 6:00 pm, getting dark out. Going home from the mall. Me and my neice in the car. I'm in the left lane, with three other cars. The lanes merge in about 1/2 mile, just after a stoplight. I get into the slow lane where only one car is, in hopes to pass a couple of cars, I just know though that the car in front of me is going to turn at the light. Sure enough it does. I slow down and by then two of the three cars are past me. The car finally turns and I see an opening between car number two and three. I speed up to get in but car number 3 decides she doesn't want to let me in and closes the gap. She must have felt all high and mighty in her white Izuzu Pooper. So me not looking to back down, I kick it down to pass all three cars before we have to merge 1/5 mile down the road. As i'm accelerating I notice a kid on a bike crossing the road, (from the fast lane to the slow lane), I continue accelerating and get into the fast lane with plenty of room between me and the first car, and by the time I passed the kid on the bike he had already crossed the road. No problem, I didn't cut anyone off, kid wasn't in danger. No problem. I continue on my way home and bitch in the White Pooper had caught up to me. She was behind me for a little bit then she turned off and I went my way. End of story. Not quite. I got home, and was working on my website when my neice came in my room and was like "there's a cop here for you". huh? Sure enough I looked out my window and there was a cop car outside. Well, I went to the front and sure enough a cop was there (we'll call him Dick). Dick and I introduced ourselvs and he explained that someone had complained about me almost hitting a kid on a bike earlier. I was silent for a minuite and then explained my story. Dick said "well, i'm not going to give you a citation, just wanted to let you know that someone complained, by the way, do you own the car?" "yes" i said. and he left. Now what I was thinking was: 1. Citation? good luck, i'd fight it all the way to the top, and win. 2. Who narked on me, over something that didn't happen? I know, it was the bitch in the Izuzu Pooper. I've broken it down and came to this conclusion. This lady was just so burned up that I thwarted her plan to box me out and she saw a kid on a bike, she figued, what the hell, i'll call the cops on this guy cuz he MUST have almost hit this kid. Even though Funny, she was three cars away and couldn't possibly have seen anything. Obviously I ruined her day so much, to the point of where she had to catch up to me and call the cops on me. All I know is that this woman is a sorry example of a driver. And just another person who wastes valuable police efforts, over little stuff that was never an issue in the first place. You better watch out bitch, I know what you drive. Oh wait, even if I did see you again, I wouldn't be able to recognize your car amoungst all the plain jane looking cars out there, you rube. |
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