Ridiculous And Retarded Tickets

[3000GT_Formula_350]

I just wanted to make a thread for anyone who has ever recieved a ticket for something they thought was ridiculous or retarded, just to let a little aggression out!

I'll start, tonight around 1 AM I was cruisin to the store to get some ice cream. It's 1 AM not a car on the road, so I leave a stoplight and after a few seconds look down and see I hit 60 in a 40, so I coasted down figuring "it's no big deal, this is a 5 lane wide road with nobody on it". As I start to coast down I see car lights about a half mile down the road, by the time the car gets to me i'm back down to 40. Of course it was a cop and he decides to turn around, tail me for a while, and pull me over. Then after being ever so polite as if he was gonna let me off, because what harm was I doing going 60 for 5 seconds on an empty road, he hands me a ticket for 59 in a 40 and says "have a goodnight". And i'm just like "are you kidding me?? its 1 AM, i'm not drunk, there's no way possible I could harm anyone by what I did, yet I get a ticket." It just doesn't make sense to me to be ticketed for something that's harmless, when there's people driving drunk and high all over, and in traffic. I can understand when I'm doing 80 in a 55 or 130 in a 35 if I get a ticket, but nobody drives the speed limit, they drive whatever is safe to drive. I think for a cop to give you a speeding ticket there has to be some kind of danger caused by the speeder, especially in this situation, but not when it was for 5 seconds on a road with nobody on it. Agree or Disagree?

Please feel free to share your own stories and let me know what you think!

[YogsVR4]

Its to bad he wrote that ticket up. Pretty poor judgement in my opinion. But, I have a low opinion of traffic cops anyway so don't pay me any attention.

[Musashi3000GT]

I think that sucks man! Cops never drive below 65 mph, EVER! And they should be setting the example. My story: It was about 2 years ago. I had a red 1993 Eclipse GSX. My girlfriend (now my wife) bought me some red led window washers which I installed. One night I'm driving home from her house and a cop lights me up, I pull over and turn the car off. The guy orders me to get out of my car with my hands in the air and face him. then he says "put your hands on the roof of the car and dont move". I'm freaking wondering why! the guy comes up and frisks me. then he says loud as hell and up in my face like a highschool gangster "Show me your fucking badge". I'm like what badge? "your police badge, now" Im like "i'm not a cop" ,"are you a firefighter?" "No sir, I'm not" "are you a paramedic? is this your ambulance", "no sir" The cop litterally pushed me up against the car with his hand on my back and says "then why the fuck do you have red lights on your car? you wanna go to jail for impersonating a police officer?" then he wrote me a ticket for $49.00. all that harrasment for 50 bucks!

[YogsVR4]

Originally Posted by Musashi3000GT

I think that sucks man! Cops never drive below 65 mph, EVER! And they should be setting the example. My story: It was about 2 years ago. I had a red 1993 Eclipse GSX. My girlfriend (now my wife) bought me some red led window washers which I installed. One night I'm driving home from her house and a cop lights me up, I pull over and turn the car off. The guy orders me to get out of my car with my hands in the air and face him. then he says "put your hands on the roof of the car and dont move". I'm freaking wondering why! the guy comes up and frisks me. then he says loud as hell and up in my face like a highschool gangster "Show me your fucking badge". I'm like what badge? "your police badge, now" Im like "i'm not a cop" ,"are you a firefighter?" "No sir, I'm not" "are you a paramedic? is this your ambulance", "no sir" The cop litterally pushed me up against the car with his hand on my back and says "then why the fuck do you have red lights on your car? you wanna go to jail for impersonating a police officer?" then he wrote me a ticket for $49.00. all that harrasment for 50 bucks!

Its exactly shit like that which gives the 1% of good traffic cops a bad name

[osok_deadeye_21]

Dang!!!! the guy with the red led lights thats screwed up. I would of reported that man. You could of at least got his badge id or something then you could of filed a police harrasment or something.

[krebs128]

lol, haha. my friend (son of a cop) was impersonating a cop on purpose. he drives a 96 impala ss (looking very similar to caprices) and put a red and blue strobe lights in his car and was pulling people over --people he knew like friends, me for one....but he was driving up to a party with the strobes on, in an attempt to crash the party. an airport security guard saw it, got in his car and started chasing my friend around the neighborhood. my friend eventually decided to pull over, the cops came...and they just laughed it off. they took the lights but no ticket or warning. just a "are you an idiot" comment by one of the cops. i think that's pretty funny in comparison to musashi3000GT's story.

[93_R/T_TT_Stealth]

yeah i agree formula\



and ya mushashi i would file a harasment report all that was not necessary - i got pulled over for green lights he ask me if i was any of the people paramedic... ect.... an i said no - he gave a 47 dollar fine for improper lights an i was on my way - on the ticket get his badge number off it an file a harass. charge that is not a proper traffic stop - he is way to cocky an irrogant - get the mother fucker charged. .... . good luck - 80% chance ya will win

[igota20hpweedeater]

as for doing 60 at 1 am in the morning with no one on the road, i find it very ridiculous that the cop gave u a ticket. In the rule book here in GA it says drive at a safe and prudent speed and doing 60 for 5 secs with no one on the road is prudent in my opinion.

[Thourun]

Do they have quotas to meet or something? Seems like 1/2 the time they are itching to tickey you and others they couldnet care less.

[krebs128]

Originally Posted by Thourun

Do they have quotas to meet or something? Seems like 1/2 the time they are itching to tickey you and others they couldnet care less.

yes, there are quotas they have to meet, at least with the police department here. in indianapolis, the have a certain number each month. that's when alot of police come out, at the end of the month, every month. so it kinda makes it easier on the driver to know when to drive a little more cautious in regards of speed.

[NitroguN]

Well this is my first car so i've never gotten a ticket, yet . I mean i dont plan to, but if the time comes, this is how i'm gonna handle it.

*Cop lights flash, i pull over, officer walks towards my vehicle*

*I roll down my window*

and you see, right before he even says a word, you say:
*Do you know why you pulled me over?*

or i would pull over to a complete stop, then as he's walkin towards the car lmao pull up a little (or way) farther and make the him/her walk further what else ....

lol or right at the very second you see the 5-0 lights flashing, roll down your window and stick out ur License and Registration with ur left hand lmao as you pull over. I mean that's nice right? He doesn't have to waste his breath and ask .

Or if it's not raining, turn ur wipers on for no reason at all.

If i get pulled over though, i'm definitely gonna blast the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial song from Dirty Vegas, and just start poppin' n lockin' and doing hand movements .

[osok_deadeye_21]

Originally Posted by NitroguN

Well this is my first car so i've never gotten a ticket, yet . I mean i dont plan to, but if the time comes, this is how i'm gonna handle it.

*Cop lights flash, i pull over, officer walks towards my vehicle*

*I roll down my window*

and you see, right before he even says a word, you say:
*Do you know why you pulled me over?*

or i would pull over to a complete stop, then as he's walkin towards the car lmao pull up a little (or way) farther and make the him/her walk further what else ....

lol or right at the very second you see the 5-0 lights flashing, roll down your window and stick out ur License and Registration with ur left hand lmao as you pull over. I mean that's nice right? He doesn't have to waste his breath and ask .

Or if it's not raining, turn ur wipers on for no reason at all.

If i get pulled over though, i'm definitely gonna blast the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial song from Dirty Vegas, and just start poppin' n lockin' and doing hand movements .

HAHA please get pulled over and do all that stuff I would like to know what the final results would be.

[igota20hpweedeater]

i love how cops ask u questions they already know the answers to.

"do u know y i pulled u over?''
"do u know how fast u were going?"

questions like these, it just makes me laugh!!!!

[The1NamedMarc]

I got a ticket a few days ago for going 50 in a 35. It was a 4 lane road (2 both ways) with no other cars around. The cop made a u-turn, from the other lane, like I was going 100mph. (I forgot to mention I was in my 1990 Camry too.) I figured he just wanted to make sure I wasn't drunk or something. Thought I would just get away with a warning. Nope, $75 and 2 points. What a bunch of crap.

[Thourun]

I've only been pulled over once, a few weeks ago before I got my 3000, I was in my dad's 4Runner driving through another town and there was this cop behind me, I didn't think he was gonna pull me over so I kept going 45 in a 35 zone like I had done so many times in my own town. Of course he pulls me over and says "I know you saw me tailing you for the past 5 minutes! What were you thinking?" so I said there was no exscuse and played it cool and he let me off with a warning saying "at least your honesty makes up for your stupidity!"