So I got pulled over . . .

[Klutch]

I got pulled over by a cop on the way home from work tonight, he claims that I was driving on the shoulder (which I was, well half on the road and half on the shoulder) He asks me if I had been drinking, to which I replied I don't drink, I don't do drugs and I don't smoke and honestly that makes me better than you (which I honestly didn't say but so wanted to) Anyways he let me off with a "warning" and told me to be careful getting home.

[mcclanahan]

why were you on the shoulder

[G✇JI☈A]

The cop wasen't wear camo pants was he?

[Klutch]

mcclanahan said:

why were you on the shoulder

trying to avoid the jackass behind me, riding my bumper with his brights on.

[Klutch]

gojira1954 said:

The cop wasen't wear camo pants was he?

no

[Captain Wonderful]

Was it Officer Douche McAllister?

[Klutch]

survivalism said:

Was it Officer Douche McAllister?

nope

[G✇JI☈A]

Was Matt Morgon up his tricks again?

[Tyfo]

You should have told him that your only addiction was competition

[thesam07]

I got pulled over at 5 in the morning on my way to work and i was only 100 metres away from work. And the cop didn't give me an explanation why he pulled me over, or a ticket, or a warning.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I've been pulled over before. It isn't fun, but at least I never got a ticket. I am teh grate driverz!1111111

[Rube]

You should have made oinking noises and commented on his bacon stench.

Or not.

I got pulled over for speeding a few weeks ago the guy just let me go. That was cool.

[angryfan]

About four years ago, when I was still with the Sheriff's Office, I got pulled over driving with my sister. We were in Covington (just across the river from Cincinnati) at like 6 pm on a Tuesday, and she was driving after having just picked me up from work. Mind you, she's a paranoid driver, so she was going about five under the posted limit, in a piece of crap 93 T-Bird that had seen much better days. Having just come from work, I was in my work clothes, a suit and tie, so nothing that screamed "cop" outright. OK, enough backstory.

A Coving ton cop swings in behind us and hits his lights, so we pull over right on the main drag through town. He, however, deosn't exit his car, but rather sits there waiting for two more cruisers to show up. The other cars show up and six (!) officers get out, one leading a drug dog. The other five have hands on their weapons, with one actually having his out and in front of him, aimed down. That's the jackass that came to my side of the car.

Mind you, none of them are older than maybe 25, I'm guessing all rookies or near rookies, so I'm sitting with both hands on the dashboard while my sister is panicing like Keith Richards at a drug test. I tell her to relax and have a smoke, but the cop on her side insists that she not reach for her purse, but demands her license and registration. I, of course, wonder how she is to accomplish this, since both were in her purse, but the cop insists that she not touch the damn thing.

Finally, he gets her out of the car, gets her licnese out and runs it (clean of course) while the jackass on my side is pointing a gun at the door screaming at me to give him my "damn license". I tell him it's in my inside coat pocket and he said "let me see it". I slowly (very slowly) give him my wallet, which contained my badge and ID. He, not even looking at the wallet, tells me not to move and walks away.

Maybe 30 seconds later, he comes back, having looked in my wallet and found the special prize inside. He hands it back and starts mumbling about "just doing his job". I tell him, using some fun colorful words that made my sister blush, to holster his weapon and tell me, exactly, why we were stopped, since I know we werent' speeding and hadn't run any red lights. He tells me it was just routine, and I tell him, politely of course, that I need badge numbers and names for all of them. While he gets the info, my sister has gotten back in the car, openly sobbing and tyring to light a smoke. Come to find out, the original car that pulled us over (which contained the idiot that took my wallet and the guy that was talking to her) thought we looked suspicious for driving through that part of town (the main drag through town) with out of state plates (Ohio plates, which is very common since "Ohio" is only about half a mile from where we were stopped).

Long story shortened (somewhat), I takled to their C.O. the next day and, though he did ask if I wanted to file a formal complaint, since he was slightly pissed about the over-reaction, I told him he needed to switch the coffee in the briefing room to decaf.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

Driving on the shoulder is pretty scary... you're lucky no one was walking there.

[Captain Wonderful]

I tell every cop I see to "go back to France."

They never figure it out.

[mcclanahan]

thecrue316 said:

mcclanahan said:

why were you on the shoulder

trying to avoid the jackass behind me, riding my bumper with his brights on.

...so the cop was riding your ass with his brights on

[default]

I never look anyone dead in the eyes for more than a half minute or so really, except for cops. I don't know why, really, but it seems to help.

I've never gotten in any trouble with the law, really. One time my friends and I were being complete idiots back in high school and "running cars" on a side street waiting for the league time to end at the bowling alley. I was in the middle and saw an alley up ahead and a minivan as the next car to run over, so I just stopped on the car and walked over to the sidewalk. My friend behind me did the same thing figuring I saw someone and only my friend in front jumped off the back of the minivan. Turns out some old dude saw his feet buckle as he landed and called the cops.

Cops showed up, talked to the guy and yelled a bunch. I just stood there calmly staring at him and he didn't yell at me directly, but rather friends who had been making out in their cars across the street (who came over before the cop arrived.)

Funny thing though, the cop asked my friend who did jump off the minivan why he was sweating so much. My friend's response?

"I'm Jewish."

Needless to say, the cop let us all go.

[Phosphor Glow]

I've been pulled over on foot before.

No, really.

[The Booty Disciple]

Funnily enough, I was just about to start a thread about police radio scanning...

I guess my opinion is that we only remember the bad experiences we have with LEOs. Most of them are doing their job and not bothering anyone who isn't needing law bothering them, so we don't hear about it. Every now and again, one gets over zealous, but hey...LEO and EMS/Fire are people too. I've NEVER had a problem with an officer when pulled over, but I guess that stems from my stepdad and dad being volunteer firemen and having LEOs in my family tree. Currently, I'm contemplating applying for the local dispatch center, seeing as I've got my scanner on nearly every waking hour anyway.

Don't get me wrong, some cops drive me up the wall. Try talking to them when they're on a power trip in your bar, and you're the head bouncer and manager on duty, and they're convinced that we've let under age people in because of an anonymous tipoff, regardless of my imaculate track record with that and my dealings with police before that. We didn't have such a great track record before I took over as head bouncer, but I cleaned things up and improved our relationship with the cops vastly in the first three weeks...evidently, though, that didnt' matter, so I cooperated and made a smart remark as they left.

However, the long and short of it is that we don't know as much as we think we do unless we've worked in that field ourselves. Aside from the former deputy that already posted, I'd put money on most of us not having done much in law enforcement or any sort of emergency service.

[Captain Wonderful]

tristememoire said:

I've been pulled over on foot before.

No, really.

So have I.

Thank goodness I'm apparently good at pretending to be sober.