honeysucklevine wrote:I think cops get a lot of crap from people because of the disrespect they show to most people. Prime example:
I got pulled over 4th of July weekend. Me and friend of mine were pulling out of a liquor store, had not had anything to drink previous to this trip, and when I pulled out a cop came up behind me. I was not driving over the speed limit, just cruising down the road like everyon else, then all the sudden I see the blue light special behind me. I pull over, and he says the reason he pulled me over was because my Margaritaville license plate holder was blocking the expiration on my tag. Now personally I really dont believe this was his intention, I believe that although that may be a violation, he saw me come out of the liquor store parking lot, and that was a way to pull me over, just so he could investigate to see if I had been drinking. I have had that on my car for two years now, and have even gotten speeding tickets with it on there before, and no officer ever said a word, not even, "Oh, by the way, you might want to ditch the license plate holder, we have to see your expiration." Anyways, it kind of p*** me off, just because I know that weekend there were a lot of other people that could have used that officers help...instead he is pulling me over because of a license plate holder. I think they assume way too much a lot of times.
Sounds about right. My other bad encounter was with a deputy sheriff. He pulled up beside me while I was getting the mail at my apartment complex. My radio was too loud
It was a little loud, but I couldn't hear it from my mailbox (20 feet away)...the law is 50 feet...but he said he heard it from a 1/2 mile away
He came up screaming at me, "turn that f*cking music down, I should give you a f*cking ticket"...then he proceeded to harass me about my truck, saying he could probably give me 5 other tickets (at that time, I had a 98 4 door blazer, lowered, on chrome, etc). So I bit and said, "oh yeah? like what". He named every piddly thing from my windows being tinted too dark, my bumber height wasn't high enough and my tread on the tires wasn't deep enough. So I fired back, "my front windows aren't even tinted and the rear windows are factory, nothing illegal there. My bumper is lower than most trucks, but still way higher than any sports car on the road and my tread is well above legal limits). I shut him up fast. I knew every bit of the law when it came to my truck, but he still came cussing and screaming at me before I even said a word
Only other incident was when I was 16. I was going to the rec center to play some baseball with my friends. I had a bat leaning against the passenger seat off the floor board. I got pulled over speeding. Which I wasn't speeding. A WEEK earlier, they changed the speed limit from 55 to 65 in that area. He "forgot" the limit changed. But he saw the bat (also a glove in the passenger seat) and said I was carrying an illegal weapon. He then took the bat out of my truck and THREW, not set, THREW it into the back of my truck, as it banged and rolled around. And never once did I do something illegal. On a side note, that cop was fired shortly after for having so many complaints against him.
