Driving home Northbound on Wayne Gretzky Drive around 10PM, I was pulled over... Wait, I guess I should start from the beginning.

I was driving up 75ST and saw a police officer with a minivan pulled over, I turned on my signal light, slowed down to a crawl and went cautiously around the officer.

I then proceeded, to turn on 101ave and stop in at my office, I had some paperwork to drop off. As I exited the parking lot at my office, and headed back towards the ramp for Wayne Gretzky, I noticed the police officer had finished with the minivan. He was stopped at the red light, waiting to head North on Wayne Gretzky.

I had a free flow turning lane and went on my merry way, accelerated at a reasonable rate, and I know my exhaust is pretty loud but I wasn't about to baby it just to avoid confrontation.

Well, the lights turned green behind me, and my radar detector started going crazy as the officer obviously started monitoring my speed. I have a radar detector, not because I like to speed (any more than the next guy), but because I like to know where radar is. It's helpful on the highway, and in the city, because it alerts me to dangerous situations ahead. I have come across countless accidents, where the police have left their radar on along with their lights. It's nice to have some extra warning there is something up ahead that I should slow down for, below the speed limit.

Anyways, as I was going up the other side of Wayne Gretzky, the cop got really ****ing close to my *** - uncomfortably close. So I turned on my signal and changed lanes. He changed lines following suit, and he was so close in my rear view mirror that his headlights were really bothering me. (I have no tailgate on my truck, so there was nothing to block the light when he got really close).

At 118AVE the lights were red, I came to a stop, and as soon as I did he turned on his lights. I put my hazard lights on, and he got out of his cruiser and walked up to my door.

Cop: Good evening.
Me: Yes officer?
Cop: You must be really tall.
Me: Almost 7 feet.
Cop: Your shoulders are so high I couldn't see your seatbelt.
Me: Oh, yeah, I have the seatbelt adjusted as high as it will go on the pillar.
Cop: Have a nice evening sir! Sorry for wasting your time.
Me: Be save, it's nuts out here tonight!


What a ****in' nice guy, really, with all that ****ty weather last night he was just honestly concerned about the safety of people on the roads.



Few and far between, are stories about the nice cops.







(Excuse the precise directions in my post, this is copied/pasted for a LOCAL forum, people who actually know the city.)

 

So you mean to tell me that if you did not have your seatbelt on, he would have said:

Cop: please put your seatbelt on, sorry to waste your time, have a nice day.

or maybe:

Cop: I'm going to write you ticket for not wearing your seatbelt and also for changing your exhaust with one that is over the decibel limit. Is that a radar detector? I'll bet you like using that. What you have just done is illegal, and in this state if convicted, you could be fined five-thousand dollars or spend six months in a correctional facility.
Cop: I'm just jerking your chain. Wake up little snoozy.

 

LMFAO!

I live in Canada, so nothing illegal about anything I've done to my truck.

 

You are lucky dude. Here in So Fla, they'll find any excuse. I think trucks get away(sometimes) with loud exhaust, probably cause most cops have trucks with systems in them. But little ricers, they get ticketed all the time for their fart cans.

 

I think it's freaking halirous that you actually devoted a whole paragraph of this story to justify having a radar detector.
I never leave home without it. No reason to allow the state collection agency to get amore money that what they have too.

 

In the US they are only illegal in D.C., Virginia, and Commercial vehicles.

Minnesota has a law that restricts anything hanging from the windshield. So just don't mount them to the windshield. Make a mount that comes from the headliner or mount them on the dash.

Other then that, they can not hassle you about them according to federal law.

 

have to agree with pac; in my experience - that was a excuse to pull you over; a ticket would have been written for the belt and for anything else he could have added.

Also you said it was bad weather. Nothing like a cop on your ***; tailgating to make you more anxious and cause a wreck. Just my thoughts.

Nothing against cops either; they are just doing there job.

 

I am a police officer and I can tell you that when he was right on your rear it was to run your license plate not to make you do something wrong. In Wisconsin you had better have a reason other than you think the person was not wearing there seatbelt. That would not be a reasonable stop. In some states, I am told, that if a police officer runs your license plates it will tell them if the registered owner has a valid license or not. To me that makes sense realizing that there are so many drivers on the road that do not even have a license. The problem with that is that I don't know you so how could I tell if you were driving or not, it could be someone else driving. Obey the law and don't get an attitude when you are pulled over it is not going to help you in fact it is probably going to do the opposite.

 

I do this [sm=alcoholic.gif], then I do this [sm=gears.gif], then when I am pulled over I do this [sm=boohoo.gif], then I tell him a pig joke [sm=yeahsmile.gif], he laughs and then him and Igo do this[sm=partyparty.gif]. And I walk [sm=innoc.gif]. The end. [sm=wootwoot.gif]

 

here in Georgia, you don't even have to wear a seatbelt in a pickup...dunno why exactly