What's The FIRST Thing You Do When You Get Pulled Over?

PatrickBateman

Last time.....

So I...pull over to the side of the road
I heard "Son do you know why I'm stoppin' you for?"

Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hats real low?
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some mo'?

"Well you was doin fifty-five in a fifty-fo' "
"License and registration and step out of the car"
"Are you carryin' a weapon on you I know a lot of you are"

I ain't steppin out of shit all my paper's legit
"Well, do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked so are the trunk in the back
And I know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that

"Aren't you sharp as a tack, you some type of lawyer or something'?"
"Or somebody important or somethin'?"

Nah, I ain't pass the bar but i know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit

"We'll see how smart you are when the K9 come"

I got 99 problems....

Jo

SEE? that's wrong.
The day after I got pulled over and CHATTED UP by the cops, my bloke got caught in the same car and it got an " OFF THE ROAD STICKER"......when I stepped out the car and reminded the cops I was the same chick they pulled over the day before in the same car, they yelled " Shut up bitch "..... :? :oops: :? :oops:

it does help to be a white woman.....so yea....some cops really suck. :evil:

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Jo wrote:

SEE? that's wrong.
The day after I got pulled over and CHATTED UP by the cops, my bloke got caught in the same car and it got an " OFF THE ROAD STICKER"......when I stepped out the car and reminded the cops I was the same chick they pulled over the day before in the same car, they yelled " Shut up bitch "..... :? :oops: :? :oops:

it does help to be a white woman.....so yea....some cops really suck. :evil:

Yeah, it helps to be a young white woman for all the wrong reasons. The cop who pulled me over twice for my headlight being out ended up kind of stalking me. :oops: :(

Bathgate66

roll the window down ?

Heatherj43

I never see the cop behind me. I don't know why. Its like he hides and comes out of nowhere!!
He asks me questions, but I ask him some too.

I want to know why he pulled me over, like I have several incidents that I got pulled over at bar closing time only 'cuz of the time of night it was, that is illegal. They have to have a reason besides that. They always say its cuz I was weaving. The punch line is that I worked those hours and am never drinking. I tell him how its funny that I never get pulled over in the day for "weaving"!

Its bogus. As I said, in my state they have to have another reason besides just thinking you must be drunk since you are out at that time of night.

One bastard went ahead and gave me a no seat belt ticket, this was back when the law was new. Instead of aplauding I wasn't drinking, he came up with something to nail me on. Prick!

Why don't they just sit outside the bars. Maybe its illegal too, but the cop didn't mind breaking the rules for me. I think I was driving extra precautious, cuz of the time of night is why he stopped me to begin with, but he was wrong and "found" a reason to nail me anyways!

mbangel10

It depends on the cop? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioJQFrqMXM

A few years ago I was pulled over for my registration tag being expired. The cop asked for the usual and I handed him my expired registration, expired insurance and my license. Lo and behold, my inspection and emissions stickers were also way past the point of expired. He asked if I had anything that was current, and I responded, "I think my license is".

He just shook his head at me and said, "You really shouldn't be on the road. I could sit here writing tickets that will waste my time, and give you a really bad day."... he thought about it a moment, "I'm going to give you a warning... but if I see you on the road again and this isn't taken care of, I'll have to get your car towed and you're going to owe a lot of money in tickets and tow fees. Will you get this taken care of?"

"Yes, Officer"

And that was that....

g under p

mbangel10 wrote:

It depends on the cop? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioJQFrqMXM

A few years ago I was pulled over for my registration tag being expired. The cop asked for the usual and I handed him my expired registration, expired insurance and my license. Lo and behold, my inspection and emissions stickers were also way past the point of expired. He asked if I had anything that was current, and I responded, "I think my license is".

He just shook his head at me and said, "You really shouldn't be on the road. I could sit here writing tickets that will waste my time, and give you a really bad day."... he thought about it a moment, "I'm going to give you a warning... but if I see you on the road again and this isn't taken care of, I'll have to get your car towed and you're going to owe a lot of money in tickets and tow fees. Will you get this taken care of?"

"Yes, Officer"

And that was that....

Well did you take care of it?

mbangel10

g under p wrote:

mbangel10 wrote:

It depends on the cop? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioJQFrqMXM

A few years ago I was pulled over for my registration tag being expired. The cop asked for the usual and I handed him my expired registration, expired insurance and my license. Lo and behold, my inspection and emissions stickers were also way past the point of expired. He asked if I had anything that was current, and I responded, "I think my license is".

He just shook his head at me and said, "You really shouldn't be on the road. I could sit here writing tickets that will waste my time, and give you a really bad day."... he thought about it a moment, "I'm going to give you a warning... but if I see you on the road again and this isn't taken care of, I'll have to get your car towed and you're going to owe a lot of money in tickets and tow fees. Will you get this taken care of?"

"Yes, Officer"

And that was that....

Well did you take care of it?

Of course, I had it all done within a few days. Although the following year.. I got pulled over for the same exact thing. This cop took the time to write the tickets but told me that if I fixed it all, he wouldn't show up in court and I may not have to pay anything. He kept his word and I had it all current by the time I got to court and didn't owe a dime. After that, I got my head on straight and I never let things lapse anymore.

The insurance would have cost me $300+ but I had the current card, just not in my car at the time... that helped a great deal.

Nothingman54

i grab my dl and when he/she comes to my window i hand him my dl and say im sorry. it has gotten me out of 2 tickets.

Heatherj43

The 1st thing I do is get my driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance ready to show. The 2nd thing I do is get prepared in my head what I am going to say.
Tears have never worked for me.

What drives me crazy is when they ask how my record is. I don't know why they ask. No matter what I say, I still get a ticket.

g under p

Heatherj43 wrote:

The 1st thing I do is get my driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance ready to show. The 2nd thing I do is get prepared in my head what I am going to say.
Tears have never worked for me.

What drives me crazy is when they ask how my record is. I don't know why they ask. No matter what I say, I still get a ticket.

I like this guy's strategy....

True Story. I always make sure my glove compartment is packed full of useless papers and All old insurance and registration documentation. Then...when the cop asks for my stuff, I open the glove box and everything falls onto the floor. I fumble around and gather it up in a messy pile and start paging through it for 10 minutes while the cop stands there. Eventually they ask to look themselves, so I hand them the whole stack of papers, letting some of them fly away in the breeze outside the car window. They never know what to do with that mess of papers while standing there on the side of the road and obviously dealing with a complete idiot (me). So they hand them back and tell me to be on my way.
I have used this method probably 5 times in my life. None of those resulted in a ticket.

Peace

Franny

g under p wrote:

Heatherj43 wrote:

The 1st thing I do is get my driver's license, registration, and proof of insurance ready to show. The 2nd thing I do is get prepared in my head what I am going to say.
Tears have never worked for me.

What drives me crazy is when they ask how my record is. I don't know why they ask. No matter what I say, I still get a ticket.

I like this guy's strategy....

True Story. I always make sure my glove compartment is packed full of useless papers and All old insurance and registration documentation. Then...when the cop asks for my stuff, I open the glove box and everything falls onto the floor. I fumble around and gather it up in a messy pile and start paging through it for 10 minutes while the cop stands there. Eventually they ask to look themselves, so I hand them the whole stack of papers, letting some of them fly away in the breeze outside the car window. They never know what to do with that mess of papers while standing there on the side of the road and obviously dealing with a complete idiot (me). So they hand them back and tell me to be on my way.
I have used this method probably 5 times in my life. None of those resulted in a ticket.

Peace

Tears never worked for me.....the one time I had the tear factory going I had already been crying! I was pregnant (so over emotional anyway), just split with the bf and had a big fight with him, had a phone call that my grandfather was in hospital and was running late for work. Then the bastard decided to top it off by giving me a ticket for doing 70km in a 60km zone and it was a rural area. I think he had the shits and thought I was a perfect candidate to have my day completely shat on!! Fair enough I was over the limit, totally accidentally, I hadn't had a ticket in three years, a warning would have been sufficient.

Needless to say, I am glad that my curren car has cruise control and I use it religiously. Haven't had a ticket since.

yoke

I have been pulled over about 5 times and each time I react differently.

1st time I was pulled over
Newark NJ I was in my work truck(phone company). I took a right turn on red and I was pulled over almost immediatly. I was like wtf did I do wrong? Cop told me you can't make that turn. Well, the city installed a No Turn on Red sign the previous night. Like I said I was there everyday and pretty much went the same route after my exit. So that was a 2 point ticket, I noticed that they had a line of cars infront of me pulled over with cops giving everyone tickets. Fought the ticket in court and lost.

2nd time
Cherry Hill NJ - I was speeding, and I did argue but I lost. 4 point ticket fought it down to a 1 point ticket in court. I was speeding because I was behind a truck carrying rocks/gravel and it was spilling out all over. I just replaced my windshield the week before because of the same thing. I was not doing that again so I hit the gas and went around him and got nailed by the cop sitting there.

3rd Time
195 in NJ - Speeding but didn't realize it. Cop got me from the other side of the highway and came after me. He was a State Trooper and told me I was doing 80mph and I of course argued with him. Well I got out of that ticket. He was a cool guy and let me go, he knew I was on my way home from work and cut me a break.

4th Time
Princeton NJ - sitting in traffic and a cop had someone pulled over on the right. I passed them at a crawl and he pulled out behind me and pulled me over right away. I was pulled over for and ticketed for a Seat Belt.

5th time
Brielle NJ - driving over the Pt Pleasant bridge cop pulled me over for and ticketed me for not wearing a seat belt. He then argued with me because I didn't pull over right away and continued off the bridge and pulled off the main road. I did that because it was heavy traffic and dangerous but he was still a dick about it.


Oh and I never have any paperwork ready for them, they can wait and explain to me what I did wrong first.

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Black-Corduroy wrote:

Tears never worked for me.....the one time I had the tear factory going I had already been crying!

That just reminded me of a time when my sister and I (she was driving) got pulled over and we were both in tears. We were in high school and had just had a big fight with our parents (I think they said we couldn't go out after prom or something) so we took off to our friend's house. I don't remember if we were speeding or had expired tags or what, but we got pulled over and we were still hysterically crying and these two male cops didn't know what to do. To make matters worse, we had an old, fucked up car and the windows wouldn't roll down. So they were trying to tell us to role down the windows and asking why we were so upset and we were trying to tell them - through the windows and through our sobs - that the windows didn't roll down and that our parents wouldn't let us stay out after prom or whatever. Ah.... the drama of being a girl in high school! Anyway, we didn't get a ticket. I think the cops just wanted to get the hell out of there as quickly as possible.

Black-Corduroy wrote:

Needless to say, I am glad that my curren car has cruise control and I use it religiously. Haven't had a ticket since.

This reminds me of another time I got pulled over. I was driving home from work at around 1 in the morning and I didn't even realize I was speeding. Of course I was really nice to the cop and just told him that I didn't realize I was speeding and I wasn't even in a hurry to get anywhere, I was just kind of zoned out after work. He didn't give me a ticket, but he suggested that my next car should have cruise control.

Mahaloev

yoke wrote:

I have been pulled over about 5 times and each time I react differently.

4th Time
Princeton NJ - sitting in traffic and a cop had someone pulled over on the right. I passed them at a crawl and he pulled out behind me and pulled me over right away. I was pulled over for and ticketed for a Seat Belt.

5th time
Brielle NJ - driving over the Pt Pleasant bridge cop pulled me over for and ticketed me for not wearing a seat belt. He then argued with me because I didn't pull over right away and continued off the bridge and pulled off the main road. I did that because it was heavy traffic and dangerous but he was still a dick about it.


Oh and I never have any paperwork ready for them, they can wait and explain to me what I did wrong first.

Only in fucking Jersey. Don't you just love it?

eyedclaar

I usually make sure all the drugs and concealed weapons are, well... concealed.

PearlOfAGirl

eyedclaar wrote:

I usually make sure all the drugs and concealed weapons are, well... concealed.

Good Thinking!!! :thumbup:

chadwick

poop my pants, cross my fingers, and pray that the cop(s) doesn't smell the skunks in my trunk.