How long till first ticket for ya?
11-02-2009, 12:21 PM
#11
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: MA
Posts: 1,387
Got pulled over by a cop yesterday. Picked up my stang 10/15 and got stopped on 10/31, so 16 days for me, almost.
Real cool cop, he clocked me at 56 in a 40 but he let me off with a warning. Maybe he picked on the fact that i was totally pissed at myself for getting pulled over since I wasn't even tying to speed. If I get a ticket I wanna earn it!
Real cool cop, he clocked me at 56 in a 40 but he let me off with a warning. Maybe he picked on the fact that i was totally pissed at myself for getting pulled over since I wasn't even tying to speed. If I get a ticket I wanna earn it!
11-02-2009, 01:03 PM
#12
Gentleman's Relish
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: AZ
Posts: 13,090
Got pulled over by a cop yesterday. Picked up my stang 10/15 and got stopped on 10/31, so 16 days for me, almost.
Real cool cop, he clocked me at 56 in a 40 but he let me off with a warning. Maybe he picked on the fact that i was totally pissed at myself for getting pulled over since I wasn't even tying to speed. If I get a ticket I wanna earn it!
Real cool cop, he clocked me at 56 in a 40 but he let me off with a warning. Maybe he picked on the fact that i was totally pissed at myself for getting pulled over since I wasn't even tying to speed. If I get a ticket I wanna earn it!
I've been drivin my 08 for about 18 months now and not a single ticket (kow). I did get pulled over once though for crossing a gore line getting off the freeway. I know the cop saw me flying up (80+) from behind though until I spotted him and dropped my speed.
His opening response to me was "How are you doing today speed racer?"
That's why I got stuck crossing the gore line. I had to wait for a car in the lane next to me to move so I could get over instead of going in front of the crowd with plenty of room to spare like I had planned on before I spotted him. Anyways, he complimented the stang (windveil blue) and told me to plan better next time. I got off with a warning. My daughter was with me and no sooner did the cop tell me to "Have a nice day" she was on the phone to my wife laughing.
11-04-2009, 01:53 AM
#13
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MO
Posts: 367
Think I made it exactly 1 week before I got a ticket. I think the cop pulled me over simply because he was behind me and ran my plates and they came back to my old car, as I hadn't gotten the paperwork yet to register it yet.
Highway patrol must have been bored, gave me a ticket for failure to maintain a single lane on a multi-lane highway. Every heard of changing lanes you douche?
Guess he thought he could have gotten me for stolen vehicle / stolen tags, and then he was pissed when I provided him with proper documentation, so he didn't want to let me go without at least a ticket.
Thankfully, I work for the local police department, I just handed the ticket to my boss, he made a couple of phone calls, and the ticket magically went away.
Highway patrol must have been bored, gave me a ticket for failure to maintain a single lane on a multi-lane highway. Every heard of changing lanes you douche?
Guess he thought he could have gotten me for stolen vehicle / stolen tags, and then he was pissed when I provided him with proper documentation, so he didn't want to let me go without at least a ticket.
Thankfully, I work for the local police department, I just handed the ticket to my boss, he made a couple of phone calls, and the ticket magically went away.
11-04-2009, 01:30 PM
#16
Gentleman's Relish
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: AZ
Posts: 13,090
I've gotten off with two warnings. One with my old stang and one with this one (mentioned above).
The old stang would've been a speeding ticket but while I didn't admit I was speeding I pointed out I was in a group of cars with less than 1 car length in front and behind me and door to door on both sides so how does he know I'm the car he tagged and if I was, I would've hit the car in front of me or he "randomly picked me" because of the type of car I have. I made absolutely certain to let him know I didn't doubt his skill or his 15+ years of service that he mentioned to me, I just felt there was some personal bias.
That and I admitted I should've just left my house earlier cos I was running late
As soon as I said that, he was like "well that changes things. Now you know, leave earlier. Have a nice day."
Back in CA I never got warnings. Here in AZ the cops are much nicer!
The old stang would've been a speeding ticket but while I didn't admit I was speeding I pointed out I was in a group of cars with less than 1 car length in front and behind me and door to door on both sides so how does he know I'm the car he tagged and if I was, I would've hit the car in front of me or he "randomly picked me" because of the type of car I have. I made absolutely certain to let him know I didn't doubt his skill or his 15+ years of service that he mentioned to me, I just felt there was some personal bias.
That and I admitted I should've just left my house earlier cos I was running late
As soon as I said that, he was like "well that changes things. Now you know, leave earlier. Have a nice day."Back in CA I never got warnings. Here in AZ the cops are much nicer!
11-05-2009, 09:55 AM
#20
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,162
