Timjoebillybob
Grandmaster
- Feb 27, 2009
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Don't brake the laws and you never have to get stopped
I notice you wrote, "Never have to get stopped". Not wont be stopped. Here is one experience I have had with an LEO in Portage. A guy that I worked with and myself were leaving work, he was about a block ahead of me. He made the light and I caught it, as soon as he rounds the corner he gets lit up and pulled over. I talked to him the next day and the cop told him he was speeding ( I know that was bs because I was behind him and know how fast he was going). The light turns green and I turn, as soon as I do I see him running to his car, I get pulled over a block or so down the road, he tells me my license plate light was out. It wasn't when I checked it five minutes later. He comes up to my window asks for license and registration, asks where I'm coming from, I tell him work. He asks where, I tell him the same place as the last guy you had pulled over. He then says well I take it you haven't been drinking then. About that time a car comes down the road from the opposite direction, he literally tosses my lic and reg in the window onto my lap, says drive safe and takes off running back to his car where he jumps in pulls a u-turn and immediately hits his lights. I have no idea what excuse he used to pull the last car over, all the lights I saw were working and it didn't appear they were speeding. But it was a Friday night about 12:00.
Here are a couple more, I was pulled over by the IL state police a couple of years ago, I was driving a u-haul going 5mph under the limit to save fuel. I was pulled over because supposedly there were people behind me following to close. No it wasn't for obstructing traffic, but supposedly because other people were following to close. It was a 4 lane divided highway and the left lane was clear. He later said I had drifted over the yellow line, which was bs because I would have heard it with the noise makers. And I know the following too close was bs, because I had people following me and they were several car lengths back. He was checking for drugs and/or guns. That was what all his questions were about.
A couple of others, I was pulled over for speeding. Sat night about 11:30. I know I wasn't speeding because I knew that they sat there and I was watching my speed. Same place and about the same time I was pulled over because I had "snow on my license plate". Yes it's possible but it was a freakin blizzard. Both times they asked where I was going and if I had been drinking and then was let off with a "verbal warning". In the 3 years I was driving through that town I was pulled over about a dozen times. It was almost a running joke with my boss, if I was late he would ask if I was pulled over again. The answer usually was yes. Every time was a fri or sat night on the way to work. Twice were for actually valid reasons.