OK, lock request, thanks for the (redundant) input

[Exterous]

Wait....so you didn't do anything obvisouly illegal and didn't get pulled over? I am confused as to what the issue is.

I'll bet the cops spidey sense was tingling. 'Man - I just can't get the thought out of my head that this guys is doing something blatently illegal and dangerous to all the other dirvers on the road.'

 

[AstroManLuca]

LOL, OPwned

 

[Bignate603]

Umm, in Soviet Russia, no. In America, yes he does. Citations and charges have been tossed out when it was shown the officer had no probable cause or particularized reason to scrutinize the person. "He was driving a car" is not probable cause.

He doesn't need probable cause to stick behind you a few minutes and run your plates. In reality his actions had no effect on you, he did not pull you over, he did not question you. Your arguement is basically "I'm not doing anything obviously wrong so the cop can't as much as look in my direction".

Also, get your license. Too bad the cop didn't pull you over, you deserved it.

 

[Number1]

OP, it would be fairly easy for anybody to figure out who you are and alert the local authorities.


If that happen, you won't be bragging about anything for a while.

 

[SunnyD]

Cops drive like this all the time. A lot of them have the "I own the road" mentality. Just ignore it.

Plus, he was running you plates.

 

[Bignate603]

Also, since you're driving a car that isn't in your name I hope the owner realizes that if you get pulled over they are at the very least going to tow and impound the car.

 

[Svnla]

OP, do you have a license or you did not have your license with you at that particular time?

Big difference. The former = big no no. The latter = just a ticket or a warning if the cop was nice.

 

[SooperDave]

If you don't have a license you don't have insurance. Get off the road asshole!

 

[sadffffff]

The only real problem with ops thread is that it also doesn’t say "i got fucking lucky because i was guilty of SOMETHING". But, that doesn’t excuse the cop. What he did was wrong, but not at all a-typical. Its silly that everyone is jumping all over op because he was guilty of one thing. Give a cop enough time and he'll find any one of you guilty of something, too. OP just shoudlnt have mentioned it.

Cops are dicks and pull this shit all the time. I used to drive home from a GF's place at like 3am all the time. Cops would ride me like this and follow me for miles, until i got out of their county. They would ride right up on me and shine their brights in my mirrors trying to get me to screw up so they can pull me over for a drunk check. They’re actually trying to get an otherwise safe driver to drive unsafely so they can pull you over with a flimsy excuse.

Or driving on winding Wisconsin roads. Again, going back from the GF's place, got pulled over for driving 40 in a 55. "You were driving awful slowly there. Any reason for that?" being completely sober, i just responded that it’s late and there’s no reason to drive fast with all the deer out. This was my actual reason. Again, no reason for the cop to act, there was no minimum speed limit there. He figured he was catching a drunk guy driving really slow.

3rd one. Walking to the bars, dry sober, the police have driven their car up on the sidewalk and parked it there. I was walking on the sidewalk so i walked around it closely to avoid the wet grass on one side and the busy road on the other. As i get around it, 3 cops approach me; "THAT’S PRIVATE FUCKING PROPERTY YOU JUST MESSED WITH THERE". Told them i didn’t touch it; the next cop speaks up "I FUCKING SAW IT. YOU TOUCHED PRIVATE PROPERTY. DO YOU WANT TO GET ARESTED TONITE?!"; the third cop with his club out; "JUST GO WHERE YOURE FUCKING GOING AND GET OUT OF HERE". Knowing I would lose if I said anything more or did anything, I simply nodded and left. Trying to test a tall person like me to see if i would start a fight if I drunk and rowdy/violent.

Cops are dicks. They’ll use the excuse that they try to get people to break laws to catch them because they would break the laws anyways on their own. That’s not how it works. People will say that this is how they have to be to do their job, but that’s not right. Giving up your rights is never a good idea.

 

[boomhower]

It's a free country, he can drive wherever he wants. If it happens to be behind you, sorry about your luck. He got close to see your plate, again nothing wrong with that. If you were driving the speed limit, then that actually is a bit suspicious in most places. No one drives the speed limit, also a bit over 2-5MPH.

Stop being an idiot and go get a license. Why don't you have one anyways?

 

[AstroManLuca]

It's a free country, he can drive wherever he wants. If it happens to be behind you, sorry about your luck. He got close to see your plate, again nothing wrong with that. If you were driving the speed limit, then that actually is a bit suspicious in most places. No one drives the speed limit, also a bit over 2-5MPH.

Stop being an idiot and go get a license. Why don't you have one anyways?

Following too closely is probably a violation of some sort of rarely-enforced careless driving law. Being a cop, though, he's basically immune to traffic violations.

OP doesn't have a license because he has a medical condition and hasn't gotten it reinstated yet. Yet he drives anyway because he's a jackass.

 

[Krazy4Real]

OP = Fail

 

[brandonb]

1) The cop was running the plates. If there was a previous DUI associated with the owner, the chances of being pulled over is about 100x greater. Luckily, they must not have.

2) The cop is driving recklessly by driving on the dudes bumper. The cop is not allowed to break laws unless they have their lights on. I would have pulled over (the cop would have too). I've been trailed much like the OP and I just pulled over since it was dangerous to have him distract me and cause an unsafe situation. He pulled over with me without even turning on his lights, and took my name/info and said "I match the description of someone in the neighbhorhood who just commited arson."

3) Cops need to have probable cause. They cannot provoke, intimidate, nor pull you over for doing nothing wrong. You have to be suspected of a crime. Driving down a street is not being suspected of a crime. Just driving at night near a bar is not enough, if the OP was making a wide turn (that was used against me before even though they were lying, and I was not drunk) that is enough however.

At any rate, cops are becoming more bold and have become increasingly intimidating and abusive of their powers. I consider just about all cops the enemy at this point. When I pass them I don't think "Oh I feel safe now!", I feel like "I'm being hunted... They are the wolf, and I'm the prey."

Nice isn't it!

 

[jlee]

1) The cop was running the plates. If there was a previous DUI associated with the owner, the chances of being pulled over is about 100x greater. Luckily, they must not have.

2) The cop is driving recklessly by driving on the dudes bumper. The cop is not allowed to break laws unless they have their lights on. I would have pulled over (the cop would have too). I've been trailed much like the OP and I just pulled over since it was dangerous to have him distract me and cause an unsafe situation. He pulled over with me without even turning on his lights, and took my name/info and said "I match the description of someone in the neighbhorhood who just commited arson."

3) Cops need to have probable cause. They cannot provoke, intimidate, nor pull you over for doing nothing wrong. You have to be suspected of a crime. Driving down a street is not being suspected of a crime. Just driving at night near a bar is not enough, if the OP was making a wide turn (that was used against me before even though they were lying, and I was not drunk) that is enough however.

At any rate, cops are becoming more bold and have become increasingly intimidating and abusive of their powers. I consider just about all cops the enemy at this point. When I pass them I don't think "Oh I feel safe now!", I feel like "I'm being hunted... They are the wolf, and I'm the prey."

Nice isn't it!

You're awfully confident, considering you're wrong.

The only real problem with ops thread is that it also doesn’t say "i got fucking lucky because i was guilty of SOMETHING". But, that doesn’t excuse the cop. What he did was wrong, but not at all a-typical. Its silly that everyone is jumping all over op because he was guilty of one thing. Give a cop enough time and he'll find any one of you guilty of something, too. OP just shoudlnt have mentioned it.

Cops are dicks and pull this shit all the time. I used to drive home from a GF's place at like 3am all the time. Cops would ride me like this and follow me for miles, until i got out of their county. They would ride right up on me and shine their brights in my mirrors trying to get me to screw up so they can pull me over for a drunk check. They’re actually trying to get an otherwise safe driver to drive unsafely so they can pull you over with a flimsy excuse.

Or driving on winding Wisconsin roads. Again, going back from the GF's place, got pulled over for driving 40 in a 55. "You were driving awful slowly there. Any reason for that?" being completely sober, i just responded that it’s late and there’s no reason to drive fast with all the deer out. This was my actual reason. Again, no reason for the cop to act, there was no minimum speed limit there. He figured he was catching a drunk guy driving really slow.

3rd one. Walking to the bars, dry sober, the police have driven their car up on the sidewalk and parked it there. I was walking on the sidewalk so i walked around it closely to avoid the wet grass on one side and the busy road on the other. As i get around it, 3 cops approach me; "THAT’S PRIVATE FUCKING PROPERTY YOU JUST MESSED WITH THERE". Told them i didn’t touch it; the next cop speaks up "I FUCKING SAW IT. YOU TOUCHED PRIVATE PROPERTY. DO YOU WANT TO GET ARESTED TONITE?!"; the third cop with his club out; "JUST GO WHERE YOURE FUCKING GOING AND GET OUT OF HERE". Knowing I would lose if I said anything more or did anything, I simply nodded and left. Trying to test a tall person like me to see if i would start a fight if I drunk and rowdy/violent.

Cops are dicks. They’ll use the excuse that they try to get people to break laws to catch them because they would break the laws anyways on their own. That’s not how it works. People will say that this is how they have to be to do their job, but that’s not right. Giving up your rights is never a good idea.

Discount all law enforcement due to your limited (and obviously biased) personal experiences, excuse the OP for a direct admission of a violation of law (a bit more significant than 10mph over), accept the rest of his story as absolute fact...and say it's us with the problem.

Brilliant.

 

[zerocool84]

Automatically pulled for medical reasons. When a doctor diagnoses or treats you in my state for certain medical conditions (e.g. that can result in loss of consciousness or altered mental status), he is legally obligated to report the diagnosis or status to the DMV. I'm in the process of obtaining medical clearance buts its a long fucked-up process.

You're even a bigger douche than your OP showed you are.

 

[pcgeek11]

Automatically pulled for medical reasons. When a doctor diagnoses or treats you in my state for certain medical conditions (e.g. that can result in loss of consciousness or altered mental status), he is legally obligated to report the diagnosis or status to the DMV. I'm in the process of obtaining medical clearance buts its a long fucked-up process.

So you determined that it is OK for you to drive with your " medical " condition and endanger everyone on the road. And then claim the cops are fucked up.

Wow you are tarded.

 

[Aluvus]

OP, do you have a license or you did not have your license with you at that particular time?

Big difference. The former = big no no. The latter = just a ticket or a warning if the cop was nice.

OP does not have a license because he has a medical problem that causes him to randomly lose consciousness. For some reason the state thinks this makes it dangerous for him to drive a car.

 

[rudeguy]

So you determined that it is OK for you to drive with your " medical " condition and endanger everyone on the road. And then claim the cops are fucked up.

Wow you are tarded.

I really hope he is trolling.

There is no way someone would post about [i[NOT[/i] getting pulled over, then admit to not having a license and then admit to having a medical condition that could kill others if he is driving.

Please...someone restore my faith in humanity

 

[JEDIYoda]

Its called BOLO. I was on the OPPOSITE side of the big rig from him, he couldn't have seen me.

watching too much NCIS I see.........

 

[Evadman]

So because you're an unlicensed asshole... the COP is in the wrong?

Damn. Wish he pulled you over... then we wouldn't be wasting our time on this lame rant... as you'd be in jail.

This times a billion.

 

[JDawg1536]

Many cops are good at what they do. If he went with his instincts and pulled you over you would have been screwed. So yeah, the stupid cop was right for "scrutinizing" you.

 

[JDawg1536]

Its called BOLO. I was on the OPPOSITE side of the big rig from him, he couldn't have seen me.

No, an APB is not called a BOLO. If it was, it would be called a BOLO.

 

[allisolm]

I really hope he is trolling.

There is no way someone would post about [i[NOT[/i] getting pulled over, then admit to not having a license and then admit to having a medical condition that could kill others if he is driving.

Please...someone restore my faith in humanity

Sorry, rudeguy - link. Faith in humanity not to be restored today. Look at the date of the thread. Makes the question has he been driving with no license/insurance since then? Scary.

 

[rudeguy]

Many cops are good at what they do. If he went with his instincts and pulled you over you would have been screwed. So yeah, the stupid cop was right for "scrutinizing" you.

no no no...you are looking at it all wrong.

Its not about personal responsibility. Its about being able to transfer his fear of being arrested into anger at the cop for doing his job. The cop is obviously in the wrong. He should have been a school teacher. Or a coal miner. Until the OP crashes his car into a barrier doing 75 MPH and the OP needs help. Then he will be screaming for a cop.

Douchebag OP is douchey

 

[rudeguy]

Sorry, rudeguy - link. Faith in humanity not to be restored today. Look at the date of the thread. Makes the question has he been driving with no license/insurance since then? Scary.

holy S.......

HOLY FREAKING S.........




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