Pulled over twice in two weeks

[podman]

first was during those back to back snowstorms a few weeks ago in northeast. i'm driving home at around 10pm after work. like a ghosttown outside. i have an old pickup truck in front of me that is having trouble. he is swerving, and i wanted to get home so i tried to get around him with the quattro. i swerved a little as well going around, but the car bit in and i was on my way. wtf out of the blue a cop starts to follow me and then the lights. i can barely pull over b/c of the icy conditions, and the car starts skidding to a halt. i guess when i went around the guy the lane i went into was a turning lane, but i couldn't see that b/c of the snow and sleet. the cop starts to give me a speech about how unsafe my driving was. there was nobody else on the road and the guy looked like he was about to spin out and crash. i felt confident with my driving skills and the car that i could get away from this person and avoid a problem, and the cop wants to give me a lecture. i could have crashed just trying to pullover. luckily i have a card, and i treat po's in my practice, he let me go with a warning. i was happy to not get a ticket, but at the same time mad to get a lecture in the middle of a snowstorm.

second was last week again about 9pm after work. i'm driving thru this little mall again not a soul around where i park my car. i admit i stepped on the gas a little, but in sport mode and chipped the torque does come on very fast. before you know it i'm being tailed by a cop. he follows me for about 2 miles then the lights. he must have been patrolling the mall. he asks for the usual 3. he tells me going a little fast weren't you. i said i didn't think so. he starts to tell me about the specks of my car like he was jealous. he asks me to bring up my window to check my tint. luckily i had it removed from the front before inspection. he starts to tell me the laws for tint in nj. he says don't worry i'm not getting a ticket i just wanted to inspect your identification. wtf. dont get me wrong i sort of dodged 2 bullets i'm happy, but this car lately has had a cloud over it. came from an evo 9. over 3 years and no tickets. had this for 4 months and have been pulled over 3 times.

[b6onboost]

These 2 statements in NO way go together.

'i felt confident with my driving skills and the car that i could get away from this person and avoid a problem'

'i could have crashed just trying to pullover'

[podman]

the conditions of the road where the cop was trying to pull me over was different than where i tried to get around this potential problem. anyway that is not the point of the story.

[tdn]

luckily i have a card, and i treat po's in my practice, he let me go with a warning.

I'm curious, how did you present the card? Did you just hand it over with your license? Did it 'accidentally' fall out into plain view?

[podman]

i told him that i was a doctor and treated po's. he said why should i believe you, everyone says there a doctor and has an emergency, so i showed the card which has surgeon written on it.

[ngng]

lol, you are so full of shit.

[Burtonnboarda]

thats weird, total opposite of me. I still get the glances all day long, but thats probably because of the tint and exhaust but I was so much more likely to get pulled over in my WRX then in the audi. I also drove the WRX in a small town with a ton of cops with nothing to do, and now the audi in a town that has better things to do with its time than write tickets all day though

[tdn]

i told him that i was a doctor and treated po's. he said why should i believe you, everyone says there a doctor and has an emergency, so i showed the card which has surgeon written on it.

Did you just say that randomly?

The reason I'm asking is because I also have a card that lets me get off the hook with some cops. I very rarely get pulled over (twice in the last 6 years, 0 tickets), but sometimes when you just randomly mention something that may get you off, it can piss of the cop. So I've been trying to formulate a plan. I usually have said card in front of my license, so that when I go for my license, there's a good chance the officer may see it.

[earhythmic]

Did you just say that randomly?

The reason I'm asking is because I also have a card that lets me get off the hook with some cops.

Before anyone lectures, yes I've read the articles that it doesn't work anymore. Just a tiny bit more peace of mind, kind of like my shitty Cobra radar detector that doesn't seem to go off until after you've passed the cop. lol

[sakimano]

i told him that i was a doctor and treated po's. he said why should i believe you, everyone says there a doctor and has an emergency, so i showed the card which has surgeon written on it.

doctors have messy handwriting to conceal there(sic) grammatical shortcomings

[podman]

i am a doctor and i do treat a lot of cops in my practice. one of them had gotten the card for me. also my father used to be a cop, so i'm not bashing cops. i was wearing scrubs that day as well. i told the cop why else would i be dressed so ridiculously. u can believe me or not. i told the story to vent and see if others could relate.

[nimski62]

lol, you are so full of shit.

you sir, are correct.

[podman]

doctors also operate on the wrong side of the brain. are u sure that isn't what happened to you. i forgot how many english literature scholars we have around here.

[sakimano]

doctors also operate on the wrong side of the brain. are u sure that isn't what happened to you. i forgot how many english literature scholars we have around here.

don't know...I studied bio-chemistry in university, so wouldn't we operate on the same side of the brain?

anyway, I was just messing with you there.


on topic...

OP: I don't think I'd blame the car for
1. driver passing in a turning lane, during blizzard
2. driver racing through parking lot

[podman]

wow sakimano your just not getting it. i'm not blaming the car for anything. i'm just venting about the two situations so close together, and feeling they were unwarrented stops. btw i wasn't speeding or racing.

[ngng]

wow sakimano your just not getting it. i'm not blaming the car for anything. i'm just venting about the two situations so close together, and feeling they were unwarrented stops. btw i wasn't speeding or racing.

both were warranted.

[podman]

ok. your right. i really appreciate your input. now go post somewhere else.

[sakimano]

with respect to you not blaming the car...???

this car lately has had a cloud over it. came from an evo 9. over 3 years and no tickets. had this for 4 months and have been pulled over 3 times.

[sakimano]

ok. your right. i really appreciate your input. now go post somewhere else.

best part yet...addressed to ngng...check out his signature.

if you're a doctor, you're a REALLY young doctor. i.e. generation-internet-spelling

[...Mark...]

ok. your right. i really appreciate your input. now go post somewhere else.

Why.. He's rather entertaining..

[Randy M]

I'll say that we all should start to be more vigilant in how we drive and more importantly, keeping an eye out for the revenue generating leeches aka THE COPS...!

I've read two articles in the last several days about municipal budget deficits and officials who are looking upon the fuzz to fill their coffers. Given the sad state of the current economy we'll all be exposed to their corruption and overzealous traffic enforcement for the next several years imo.

The town I live in is studying photo radar intersections and I have no doubt they'll be installed in a few months. They say they want to town to be 'safer' but we all know how much of a cash cow these cameras are to both the cities and the companies who install them. If they really wanted these intersections safer all they would have to do is lengthen the yellow light and delay the green light. But they wouldn't make no dinero off of that. The corruption of America disgusts me...

[A4 JooN 2.0T]

i am a doctor and i do treat a lot of cops in my practice. one of them had gotten the card for me. also my father used to be a cop, so i'm not bashing cops. i was wearing scrubs that day as well. i told the cop why else would i be dressed so ridiculously. u can believe me or not. i told the story to vent and see if others could relate.

dont nurses wear scrubs?? doctors wear gowns or w/e you call it correct me if im wrong but when i think of a scrub it reminds me of the phrase "im no superman" LOLOLOL

[SebringSilver]

When I get pulled over, I just tell them I'm the Doctor of Love.

[eneq]

Considering most police officers are men I wonder how that works out for you... Then again maybe it does.

[SebringSilver]

Considering most police officers are men I wonder how that works out for you... Then again maybe it does.

Oh my goodness, you have to come up to Vancouver! There are SOOOOO MANY female cops here! And many are HOT!

[mountainsnbirds]

I was about to post my incident from last week. I am a bartender on the weekends and leave work late, usually around 3:30am. Several coworkers and i usually go to the local diner afterwards. Last Friday sure enough there was a cop who had a guy pulled over for who knows what. so i slow down and go around him. Next thing i know i'm being tailed by an unmarked car. Hmm there go the lights. So i pull over, he comes up and said nothing but "license and registration." I asked him if there was a problem, he hesitated and said that i was having trouble staying between the lines, i laughed to myself. I explain to him i just left work. He continued to ask me three different times if I had anything to drink, i said no. He's like "well then you wouldn't mind taking a sobriety test." I said i would. He went back to the car, came back and told me to drive safely. Never gave me a test. Talk about being bored; nevertheless, I understand the probabilities at that hour, and thanked him for doing his job.

[wankeldude]

Hey Sebring, where in Vancouver do you Live? I'm in North Van. Would love to see how my RS4 does against your AMG!

[drew]

Hey Sebring, where in Vancouver do you Live? I'm in North Van. Would love to see how my RS4 does against your AMG!

straight line? forget about it...LOL

[eneq]

Oh my goodness, you have to come up to Vancouver! There are SOOOOO MANY female cops here! And many are HOT!

Man didnt know that! Yet another reason for speeding :)

/Q

[SebringSilver]

Hey Sebring, where in Vancouver do you Live? I'm in North Van. Would love to see how my RS4 does against your AMG!

I'm just outside of Granville Island. I really like the RS4. We should have a meet once the weather improves. A couple of AZ members have already suggested doing something soon, and the guys over at the AMG club have also been bugging me about setting something up.

Shoot me a PM, and let's meet up!

David

Edit: Oh, sorry for the threadjacking.

[charliemike]

Edit: Oh, sorry for the threadjacking.

Really, it's no problem :)

[SebringSilver]

Really, it's no problem :)

You're too gracious.

Okay, my on-topic contribution to this thread...I too was pulled over twice, but not in two weeks, in ONE NIGHT!

This was in another country when I was working abroad. I was admittedly dueling with a Porsche 911 when I was driving one of my NSXs on a beautiful but clear stretch of highway, when a speed camera goes off. Both of us were definitely over the speed limit, but guess whose license plate was the one to get captured on film? Yup, yours truly's. So at the road block ahead, I duly pulled over and they gave me the ticket and deducted 8 points from my license (8 points = very much over the speed limit).

Naturally, I was fuming a bit because of the two idiots who were so clearly going too fast on a public road, only one idiot got pulled over: ME!

So I go past the stretch of road that has a tunnel on it, and I've got the windows down so that I can listen to the custom Spoon exhaust on the car as I vent my anger a little bit. When I come out of the tunnel, guess what...ANOTHER road block! They said they got me on camera doing some crazy speed inside the tunnel! All this in a span of approximately 10 minutes on basically the same road. Well, they deduct another 5 points from my license, so 13 points deducted on the night plus 3 that were already deducted a month prior and that meant a 3-month driving suspension, just like *that*.

Looking back at it now, I totally deserved it. I was 27 at the time, making too much money and thinking I was really something.

Any of you younger drivers out there with fast Audis (or whatever it is you're driving), exercise some common sense, even though it's hard, and let discretion be the better part of valour (or valor, if you're American).

Have fun, but drive safe.

[wkornfeld]

When I first got my car, within 4 months the same exact thing happened... pulled over for tint/taillights twice. Then a third just because he wanted to see who was driving(he had a ride-a-long) and now... nothin for the last year

[Audi05s4]

cops can suck it i hate them

[sakimano]

speeds?

and what's with these roadblocks? Do you mean a cop standing there telling you to pull over? Or do they have a couple cars actually blocking the roadway with lights flashing. Sounds insane.

You're too gracious.

Okay, my on-topic contribution to this thread...I too was pulled over twice, but not in two weeks, in ONE NIGHT!

This was in another country when I was working abroad. I was admittedly dueling with a Porsche 911 when I was driving one of my NSXs on a beautiful but clear stretch of highway, when a speed camera goes off. Both of us were definitely over the speed limit, but guess whose license plate was the one to get captured on film? Yup, yours truly's. So at the road block ahead, I duly pulled over and they gave me the ticket and deducted 8 points from my license (8 points = very much over the speed limit).

Naturally, I was fuming a bit because of the two idiots who were so clearly going too fast on a public road, only one idiot got pulled over: ME!

So I go past the stretch of road that has a tunnel on it, and I've got the windows down so that I can listen to the custom Spoon exhaust on the car as I vent my anger a little bit. When I come out of the tunnel, guess what...ANOTHER road block! They said they got me on camera doing some crazy speed inside the tunnel! All this in a span of approximately 10 minutes on basically the same road. Well, they deduct another 5 points from my license, so 13 points deducted on the night plus 3 that were already deducted a month prior and that meant a 3-month driving suspension, just like *that*.

Looking back at it now, I totally deserved it. I was 27 at the time, making too much money and thinking I was really something.

Any of you younger drivers out there with fast Audis (or whatever it is you're driving), exercise some common sense, even though it's hard, and let discretion be the better part of valour (or valor, if you're American).

Have fun, but drive safe.

[SebringSilver]

speeds?

and what's with these roadblocks? Do you mean a cop standing there telling you to pull over? Or do they have a couple cars actually blocking the roadway with lights flashing. Sounds insane.

I don't want to post the specific km/h I was driving at when those two incidents happened.

As for the roadblocks, the way they did it in that country was they would set up the speed cameras on a certain spot on a highway, and once they capture the plate number on camera, that gets sent digitally to the road block that they've set up about a mile down the road. The road block consists of several squad cars and about 7 or 8 police officers, lots of flashing lights, pylons, etc. They stop every car, and if yours is the one that's been recorded as having breached the speed limit, you get a good lecturing to and a hefty fine plus (in my case) the points deduction slip as well.

It's quite draconian, but not very effective in actually curbing speeding (as evidenced by the fact that I got another one immediately after the first). Maybe that's not their purpose for being.

[phantom b6]

Aside from getting speeding tickets I actually deserved.. I've only ever been pulled over once unnecessarily.

It wasn't bad at all, I was stopped at a stop sign waiting to take a left and a cop car is like creeping up from my left looking at my car. I knew it was coming so I didn't even go anywhere.

Turned out to be a rookie girl cop with her trainer doing a routine stop.. she still had the hole in her lip from a lip ring . Took her like 5 minutes to swing the cop car around behind me (tight street) and then she said she liked the car, blah blah, my tint looks kinda dark. I rolled up the window and showed her the CarMax inspection sticker and I guess she thought it was a state inspection sticker and let me go

[B7A4Sport]

It's quite draconian, but not very effective in actually curbing speeding (as evidenced by the fact that I got another one immediately after the first). Maybe that's not their purpose for being.

If people stopped speeding, what purpose would they serve?? lol - they WANT you to keep speeding!

To the OP, I sympathize with you to a certain extent, because I hate the fact that cops are almost robotic in their enforcement of road laws. From one standpoint, yes you technically did break a law and went straight through a turn lane. However, from your perspective this was necessary to avoid a potential collision, for which you also would've received a citation for failing to control your vehicle at speed. Cops almost never consider the subjectivity of certain "infractions", and instead just look at if a law was technically broken or not. Part of me, however, can't help but think you got impatient and passed someone in a manner you shouldn't have.

The parking lot incident seems like it was more cut-and-dry; you stomped on the gas, you know you stomped on the gas, and you're trying to dull it down by saying you didn't know how fast your own car was, lol. The cop saw this, and popped ya for it. Fortunately, again, you got a warning, and it isn't the car's fault for being too flashy or fast; it doesn't go anywhere without your expressed consent!


I got the lamest ticket ever a year or so ago, when I made a left turn onto a main street. The speed limit sign I knew to be just around a bend says 35, so I accelerated to that speed. A cop was waiting at the next intersection up, which is exactly where the speed sign was posted. Sometimes, you can just tell a cop is gonna pull you over, and I knew it. He says that I was going 35 in a 25......I'm like wtf, I just passed a sign that says 35 on it.

His reply........"you are not permitted to go 35 mph until AFTER passing through the intersection at which it is posted".....I literally almost flipped out at the guy. Talk about your ticky-tack, coffer-filling scam of a citation. I should've fought it, but couldn't get the time off work to take it to court....had I known about Trial By Declaration (mail-in statements), I would've probably been able to crush this douchebag officer.

Glad to hear you at least got warnings, but it should let you know to be a bit more careful/conservative while driving around!

[covertS4driver]

I don't get pulled over......

[podman]

I appreciate your input b7a4sport but i'm not looking for your sympathy or anyone elses. I posted only to share an experience that I had, and if there was anyone else who had similiar situations. I have gotten my fair share of tickets over the years, and have gotten away with a few as well. This time I felt the cops were trying to make the quota for the month. With all due respect you weren't there so don't say i stomped on the gas. If I "stomped" on the gas I would have surely gotten a whole crap load of tickets especially driving through a mall area. Once you chip the car it does take a little getting used to the different throttle response. Again however you guys want to dissect my original post I am NOT blaming the car. There has been a lot of flaming here which I believe has been unjustified. Please only post if you have something interesting to add.