when he asks "do you know why I pulled you over?" the correct answer is not "racial profiling," especially if you're a cracker.

3/26/2008 3:27:53 PM

Or you could say nothing and not incriminate yourself. Fifth Amendment ftw.

3/26/2008 3:29:10 PM

this thread has potential

3/26/2008 3:29:26 PM

"ok, ill play your little game how fast was i going?

3/26/2008 3:30:04 PM

the correct answer is to answer "no" or to not answer in any affirmative manner in relation to a supposed offense.

by admitting to speeding or making an illegal turn (or anything), you have waived your fifth amendment right to self incrimination and are admitting guilt.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 3:32 PM. Reason : der poopenschaft]

3/26/2008 3:31:37 PM

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"Or you could say nothing and not incriminate yourself. Fifth Amendment ftw."

ding ding ding. Alternately, you can ask the cop (nicely) why he pulled you over first. Keeps you from having to lie when you are asked the question, though I doubt saying "I don't know" when you know what you did would ever get you in real trouble.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 3:33 PM. Reason : d]

3/26/2008 3:33:25 PM

i usually don't have a problem with this, because i am never wrong AND if you're a cop, my puppy has always just died, my boyfriend has always just broken up with me, i've always just failed a test, i'm always late for work, and my period is always running down my leg and unless you have a tampon, i really really really must get going.

3/26/2008 3:33:26 PM

DONT TAZE ME BRO

3/26/2008 3:34:36 PM

3/26/2008 3:34:45 PM

why don't cops have a sense of humor

3/26/2008 3:35:42 PM

If he ask you how fast you are going, do not say - "No Officer, my speedometer doesn't go past 100."

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 3:36 PM. Reason : ]

3/26/2008 3:35:59 PM

littering and?

3/26/2008 3:37:13 PM

^^^ i think they just like to make the jokes, not receive the jokes.

^hahaha smoking the reeeeefer

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 3:38 PM. Reason : .]

3/26/2008 3:38:03 PM

meow, do you know why I pulled you over?

3/26/2008 3:39:52 PM

I've tried everything to get out of a ticket. Denying the crime, being nice, keeping my mouth shut, asking them to cut me a break, admitting guilt to play into his power trip, etc....None of them work for me. The next time I get pulled over and the officer says I was committing a crime I'm just going to say "THE FUCK I WAS YOU UGLY POS SON OF A WHORE" and see what happens.

3/26/2008 3:40:51 PM

Or you could just stop doing the shit that gets you a ticket.

3/26/2008 3:43:40 PM

I asked a cop why he pulled me over one time and he said "We'll get to that in a little bit" or something along those lines. Took him like 30 minutes of searching me and my friends to tell us that my license plate cover thing obstructed his view of the state name and "first in flight" so he couldn't tell what state my plates were from.

3/26/2008 3:43:49 PM

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"Or you could say nothing and not incriminate yourself. Fifth Amendment ftw."

more like 5th amendment ftt (for the ticket)

at least be like "no sir i'm sorry i don't"

don't be a smartass and just remain silent like you're in an interrogation room about a murder

3/26/2008 3:44:57 PM

"If I guess correctly, then will you let me go?"

my fav

3/26/2008 3:46:29 PM

Mr. Po-po man is already making my day difficult enough. It's only fair I return the favor.

3/26/2008 3:46:47 PM

I got pulled for going 110 in a 60 once.
When the cop asked me if I knew why he pulled me I said "I don't know."
He laughed at me and told me to slow down and let me go.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM. Reason : -]

3/26/2008 3:47:13 PM

I usually just pop 2 girls one cup in my dvd and let him watch that

3/26/2008 3:48:31 PM

6^ i would've definitely gotten his name/badge # and talked to someone downtown.


i've probably been pulled over 100 times...been ticketed maybe a half-dozen. not sure what the secret is. be polite and professional, friendly but firm. keep your hands up on the steering wheel, top of door, etc, as he approaches the car. if it's dark, turn on the interior light before you do that. don't ever, ever acknowledge that you were breaking any law (i.e., no sir, i don't know why you pulled me.)

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 3:50 PM. Reason : asdfad]

3/26/2008 3:49:18 PM

If you say "The speed limit" and he didn't really register your speed, but eyeballed it. He can't give you a ticket can he? If he tries to write a ticket, and you say "show me" and he can't produce the radar/laser with your speed, he still can't write you a ticket?

3/26/2008 3:49:26 PM

yeah

he can write you a ticket for whatever he wants

and if you do something that cops don't like, but it doesn't have a specific law against it, he'll just call it "careless and reckless".

then you have to get it straightened out in court

3/26/2008 3:51:45 PM

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"Or you could just stop doing the shit that gets you a ticket. "

That's Crazy Talk


CRAZY
TALK
(THAT IS)

3/26/2008 3:53:19 PM

hahaha

IIRC, the right to remain silent doesn't officially begin until you're under arrest / in custody.

meaning anything you say, or your silence, can be used against you up until that point...



Summing up Jenkins v. Anderson (1980):

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"neither the Fifth Amendment nor Miranda extend to prearrest silence, so if a defendant takes the stand at trial (thereby waiving his Fifth Amendment rights), the prosecutor can attack his credibility with his prearrest silence"

so have fun saying nothing.

3/26/2008 3:54:24 PM

if i'm going 80 in a 65 and get pulled over and the cop is like "do you know how fast you were going" i'll be like "i think i was keeping it under 65"

3/26/2008 3:54:35 PM

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"i've probably been pulled over 100 times...been ticketed maybe a half-dozen. not sure what the secret is. be polite and professional, friendly but firm. keep your hands up on the steering wheel, top of door, etc, as he approaches the car. if it's dark, turn on the interior light before you do that. don't ever, ever acknowledge that you were breaking any law (i.e., no sir, i don't know why you pulled me.)"

Shiiiiit. And I thought I was relatively lucky for only being ticketed 2 of the 7 or 8 times I've been pulled. Though I do agree with all of your points there.

Do you usually have a Marine Corps insignia on your vehicle, and if so, do you think that might make a favorable impression (conscious or subconscious) on the officer? Wonder if that could have anything to do with it...

3/26/2008 4:02:08 PM

Police pull me over so they can play my Dreamcast

3/26/2008 4:05:12 PM

if you've been pulled over 100 times, you seriously need to correct your driving habits

3/26/2008 4:07:33 PM

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"i usually don't have a problem with this, because i am never wrong AND if you're a cop, my puppy has always just died, my boyfriend has always just broken up with me, i've always just failed a test, i'm always late for work, and my period is always running down my leg and unless you have a tampon, i really really really must get going."

I was at a friends family reunion once and his cousin, a Va State Policeman, told me me how he only gave tickets to good looking women, especially the ones who cried or made up some sob story.

He said he never gave tickets to homely / ugly women who were polite to him. In his mind, good looking women get all the breaks in the world, ugly women get few if any. He was happily married and didn't need the trim anyway.

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"Do you usually have a Marine Corps insignia on your vehicle, and if so, do you think that might make a favorable impression (conscious or subconscious) on the officer?"

Depends on where you are I'm sure. Having an Army sticker on your car in Fayetteville doesn't mean squat.

3/26/2008 4:11:37 PM

license and registration... CHICKENFUCKER!!


BA-CAW!!!

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM. Reason : ]

3/26/2008 4:14:21 PM

First time I got pulled (18over)...he walked up, said 'license and registration', walked away, and then came back and said 'your court date is October 10'. Literally, all I said the entire stop was 'yes, sir'

2nd time, last week, I got pulled for expired tags, and I spoke first: "Yes, sir?" He just stared at me for a minute before asking why my tags were expired. (I told him I didn't realize they were). He took my license, sat in his car for a good 15 minutes, came back, told me when my court date is, and kindly told me how to go about getting it dismissed (which I already knew )


I figure if I get ticketed for speeding, I've got it coming, for all the dozens of times I should have been pulled, but haven't.

^^I figure if an officer even pretends to care what kind of girly excuse you're gonna offer, he'll give you a subtle opening to say it. Otherwise, it's another way to talk yourself into a ticket

3/26/2008 4:17:09 PM

Someone told me they used the "i am about to poop my pants and if I have to wait here for a ticket I am seriously going to shit all over myself" line.

The officer escorted him to the nearest gas station so he could use the toilet. He didnt get a ticket either

3/26/2008 4:18:51 PM

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"I was trying to get home before I ran out of gas."

3/26/2008 4:20:24 PM

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"Do you usually have a Marine Corps insignia on your vehicle, and if so, do you think that might make a favorable impression (conscious or subconscious) on the officer? Wonder if that could have anything to do with it... "

eh, prob some help (i have a USMC license plate frame), though i don't think it helps much in most military towns. shit, i've been ticketed in uniform before (off base, too). On the other hand, I think it's saved me a few times, too. Still, I got pulled over all the time and usually let go before I was in the Marine Corps.

3/26/2008 4:21:26 PM

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"shit, i've been ticketed in uniform before"

*Gasp*

3/26/2008 4:25:46 PM

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"I figure if I get ticketed for speeding, I've got it coming, for all the dozens of times I should have been pulled, but haven't."

EXACTLY. I chose to speed in all but two occassions which we won't go into. I can't hold it against a cop for upholding the law. So far though, I've avoided any real dickheads.


Hell, I once passed a sheriff going the other way doing 80 in a 55. He was just jammin' away on his steering wheel and didn't even notice me.

3/26/2008 4:26:07 PM

i think it's a crock of shit most times, but kinda just view it as the Fast Driving Tax.

3/26/2008 4:27:32 PM

I was going down wilmington st at ~75 (it's a 45 in there)

Saw a cop sitting in the median facing my way and had a TOTAL oh shit moment. I laid on the brakes to slow down some...you know, just in case, but not enough to make it REALLY obvious.


As I passed him, I looked over with an face, and he laughed and gave a thumbs up

3/26/2008 4:28:08 PM

Well I once got pulled on Pope AFB for doing 2 over, and I once got pulled on 421 for doing 70 in a 55, but it was right after the 65 / 55 change-over and the NCSHP lurks there all the time waiting for guys like me. Both times I wasn't intentionally speeding and I thought they were being overzealous but hey, whatcha gonna do?

^ I'm a big fan of the "overdrive off" button. No brakes, just slowing the vehicle with the engine. Mine is right on the side of my floor mounted shifter in the Taco, so I've usually got my hand right there.

3/26/2008 4:29:05 PM

fight it in court

they'll usually get some of your money, but they have a job to do, and so do you.

3/26/2008 4:30:27 PM

"Depends how long you were following me"

3/26/2008 5:44:03 PM

Quote :

"the right to remain silent doesn't officially begin until you're under arrest / in custody"

technically when you are being pulled over it is considered you being in custody.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 5:50 PM. Reason : ]

3/26/2008 5:50:30 PM

^Truth.

Receiving a ticket is an "arrest" just not one where you are placed into custody.

3/26/2008 5:51:51 PM

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"Fast Driving Tax"

Agreed

3/26/2008 5:54:06 PM

I'd be inclined to agree, except
- the insurance company would get most of my money, not the govt
- taxes are supposed to be, in theory, an undue burden. And lemme tell ya...I JUST got my monthly premium under $100/mo. That's quite enough already, thank you.

3/26/2008 5:57:44 PM

that's why you fight it in court. it costs you the same amount of money in the short run (and sometimes more), but you keep it off your insurance

and send more of the money to a traffic lawyer than to the state/county

_______________________________

haha, i've had a federal traffic ticket

ticketed twice by Pullen Park Police

tickets for following too closely, illegal right on red, you name it.

did 110 in a 45 and rode a wheelie (nobody else anywhere NEAR me)--got off with a written warning...ditto for smoking tires (twice)

been sobriety tested and breathalyzed several times (of course, i was sober. i've never once driven even close to drunk).

there is a cop in raleigh who's pulled me twice, and a sherriff in durham who's pulled me 3 times.





the one thing i've learned is that what kind of car you drive makes a HUGE HUGE HUGE difference.

3/26/2008 6:18:56 PM

set em up

3/26/2008 6:19:15 PM