+1 on the fuzz. When I go in to new orleans, the murder capital of the US, they have motorcyle cops hiding behind the bridge on I-10 with a radar gun at 6:00 A.M. Meanwhile the same day a buddy I work with gets his truck broken into and the cop says "It's not worth calliing us over this"

Do you really think their priorities are straight? 99% of our murders are not attempted to be solved, but if you go 80 in a 70, you will be dragged out your car in rush hour traffic to risk your life while a citation is written. Obviously, cops are not all this way, it just rubs me the wrong way.

As for the girl, enjoy being single. It's more fun. The settle down/marriage/kids come quick and before you know it, you will be wondering what it was like to be able to "experiment" with young chicas.

Boggtown, I feel for ya man. That's why I try to keep as legal as possible with my car. I recently bought a license plate cover, but then took it back to the store when I looked up the code and found out it was illegal (in California). I figure why give a cop an excuse to pull you over for something small and stupid like that?

As for your specific situation, well I had something similar happen to me. I was driving in heavy traffic for several miles with a cop. No problem. He was right along side of me in the left most of three lanes (I was in the middle), when he decided he had to get off at the next exit (poor planning). When I saw him signal I was going 5 mph under the limit, so I sped up a little to give him a spot to move in. Next thing I knew - flashing lights and a BS ticket for speeding. Took it to court and the cop lied, lied, lied, and I ended up paying more!

Lesson learned. Now I ALWAYS try to hang back and keep cops well in front of me in traffic. Don't do anything to piss them off. Many are decent guys/gals, while some have a real chip on their shoulder. I think you made the same mistake as me in not falling back and just letting him go first.

Max,

1) Motorcycle traffic cops are not homicide detectives. Motorcycle traffic cops write traffic tickets. Homicide detectives work homicides. Two completely different jobs.

2) Cops do not determine staffing levels; politicians do. Governors and Mayors make stupid speeches and campaign promises and then hand them down to Police Chiefs to accomplish. Police Chiefs declare those promises priorities and hand those priorities down through the ranks. Colonels, Majors, Captains, etc divide up their resources and determine their staffing levels to best accomplish the politicians' empty promises. In the end, the poor cop goes where he is assigned to go and accomplishes the task he has been directed to accomplish. It helps if the politician who started the whole chain of events is not a friggin' wacko, which doesn't seem to be the case in your state.

From a recent news article regarding New Orleans' homicide rate...

"Incredibly, the killing fields of New Orleans do not appear to rank high as a concern among state and local officials. The mayor, Ray Nagin, has been silent in the face of the sort of mass killing that occurred and often dismissive of it. This summer, he told a group of reporters that the murder rate "keeps the New Orleans brand out there."

You see, New Orleans' Mayor thinks the murder rate is a friggin' tourist attraction. It's easy to blame the cop, because he's most visible, but the cop's not the problem. The people who dictate the priorities and the idiots who vote for them. They're the problem. I don't know any real cops who wouldn't rather be chasing killers than speeders. Do you remember how Timothy McVeigh was caught? He was caught by an alert Traffic Officer who pulled him over for a license plate violation.

I da no though, these 2 troopers were laughing and talking in the cruiser while i waited. they seemed sadistic. i agree that cops are good. but this particular cop was bored and pissy.

Irrespective, the point of all this is that the guy got a ticket for a violation that he deserved. The rest is just whinning about how he got picked on. If you think there should not be tint laws, call your local poliiticiian and get a lesson how responsive THEY are to your needs. :D

If the guy got a ticket for a violation that he didn't do, he would have a legitimate beef.

Face it guys, he deserved the ticket. :dance:

Lets let the cops do their job. Believe me, you wouldn't want to have to deal with all you whinners on a daily basis.

:D

I think traffic cops in general are enforcing a sham. If the law makers were serious about controlling speed they'd install speed sensing cameras like they have in Austria. No one speeds, less accidents and no need to pay a cop to ride around randomly poping "speeders". But this America and I firmly believe that the highway cops are going to go after the cars with drivers who 1-have the means to pay and 2-will in fact pay up at some point.
20 cars will travel 10 miles over the limit but they will pinch the guy in the German car and let the 15 Minivans, Toyotas and Corollas slide.

And every cop that has ever pulled me over has ALWAYS had an attitude about
my "expensive" car and seemed annoyed that a young person was driving it.
One cop not realizing that I was on DOT R-Comps said (in a know it all tone) "your tires are worn badly, I could easily impound your car but I'm going to do you a favor and give you these other tickets instead, if you can afford to buy a nice car then you can afford new tires for it". I wasn't about to explain to him that my "worn out tires" had better grip than 99% of the cars he'd pulled over that day, I just shut my mouth happy I escaped points and said yes sir, absolutely sir, will do sir. Most highway cops hate being argued with.
Anyhoo the way we enforce the speed laws is malarkey. If they were truly interested in making the roads safer and not just raising revenue, in addition to the speed cameras, they would pull people over for driving too slow in the passing lane. Congestion in this lane leads to stacking up of the other lanes, which in turn leads to the biggest problem: dangerous weaving. A slow passing lane also creates danger when drivers start doing parallels three or four abreast. Then you've got all the cars behind hitting their brakes at 70mph. That's how you get chain reaction accidents. The way to avoid this is for the police to ensure that the passing lane "pressure valve" is always open and going faster than the other lanes.

Griz is right. Traffic cops just go where they are told and it is a powerless, thankless and dangerous job. I am glad they are out there even though it often seems like they have little impact.

If you pass a cruiser it is a sign of disrespect. If you don't give him an obvious reason to pull you over (no front plate, tinted windows) he will look for a reason. Never never pass a cop.

+1 on what Griz and Bruce wrote. I've yet to be pulled over for simply driving a Porsche. Then again, I don't mod my car illegally nor do I recklessly speed -- things obviously present amongst other P-car drivers.

What I do find quite funny is that many people on this forum get pissed about cops or others talking about "them" and "Porsches" whilst great humor is derived from making fun of "ricers" or people with more econmical cars or cars modded to their taste. Am I the only one that notices the hypocracy? Viva el Caste system!!! Seriously, when you guys go to a casino, do you sit there and whine when you gamble and lose and the casino won't give you your money back? Either give the cops a break or write legislation to back your opinions on the legality of tinted windows and other violations like license plates on front and back and driving +10 over the speed limit. Otherwise, if you are too busy and important and shug at the opportunity to perform a civic responsibility to enlighten the public with your vastly superior knowledge as to what should and shouldn't be legal, then shut the "f" up because whining isn't very endearing.

Grizz, here in Texas we just call our buddy and ask him to bring over the extra ammo we've been storing at his place.

Our law enforcement officials are so busy not deporting illegal aliens and not executing drug dealers that they don't even show up when your house is robbed unless you say the magic words, "Robbery IN PROGRESS."

BTW, a good lawyer will get you off of all those charges. It's worth trying to get off of them just to rub the cops nose in it.

AMEN to that! Best feeling ever!

124mph.....Dismissed.......Feels Great!

Yeah! That'll teach him to do his job! Bet that cop will never make a plain view violation stop again! Not after you hire a lawyer to drop that bombshell on him! Maybe you could get OJ's Dream Team!

Imagine the devistation he'll feel when he loses the illegal tint case that he's been waiting his whole career for! I'll call AA now and tell them to expect him. :rolleyes:

Ok. I am going to shut this down.

Why?

Well, we have had numerous posts of this sort here where some guy gets a ticket and admits that yes, he was guily of that violation. But, to his defense, the cop had an attitude and blah blah blah.

This guy was imaginative. He tossed in a cheating girlfriend. Not bad, first time for this line I think,

Then both sides take up the cause, citing examples of how cops are this or that.

ENOUGH!

If you get cited for something you did, BE A MAN and just shut up and PAY THE TICKET.

That will make you better than 80 percent of rest of America. You should be proud of yourself, doing the right thing instead of whinning about how life did you wrong.

Stop looking for some excuse or sympathy, simple do what is right and move on.

Life is WAY to short for these petty tirades.

To Griizz,

Man, thanks for taking care of the rest of us fools. Bejng a cop must suck sometimes.