I got pulled over on Friday
 

So I was leaving a bar with my wife and her friend. I was the DD, so I was 100% sober. This car starts following me, and I'm thinking "this is totally a cop" so I'm driving flawlessly, cruise control locked right under the speed limit, dead center of the road. Didn't even cross the center line around tight curves.

Follows me for 5 minutes and then he pulls me over. I'm thinking "he obviously just wants to check if I'm drunk". Now here's the part where I get pissed. Since I guess he can't just pull me over to ask if I'm drunk he has to lie to me. He says "I saw you cross the fog line" and all 3 of us just go dead silent, because my driving was flawless. I knew it was a cop, and I made 100% sure not to even touch the line.

So here I am, pulled over for a bullshit reason, window down, in freezing cold weather, with the car off so my seat warmers turn off. I have to start freezing my ass off and waste my time while some cop who just accused me of a bunch of bullshit runs my info? This is why I hate cops.

Had he just said "I just wanted to see if you were sober" took 20 seconds of my time, and let me on my way I'd be OK with it. But no, he has to make up some bullshit to justify his pulling me over and then run my info. So far every cop I've ever run into has pissed me off. I got a ticket for speeding when I wasn't, pulled over and BS'd to just to check if I was sober, and there was a cop present at my hit and run who couldn't have given a **** less and went back to his breakfast.

And to top it all off as I'm writing this the darth vader chick at work is breathing so hard I can't hear myself think. If you get so winded that you're panting loud enough to be heard over the general noise of a call center just by sitting in a chair EAT FEWER DONUTS FATTY. And I've had a headache since Friday night that just won't go away. Man I'm in a bad mood.

I totally agree on the cop being upfront about pulling you over, it's not very hard to just say he was checking if you were sober. Trying to make another escuse is just stupid [thumbdown]


Also, LOL about the "Darth Vader" chick [rofl] That must suck.

At least in Michigan, you can't pull someone over to check if they are sober or not. There has to be a reason. The fog line excuse is the most used by far. I've been pulled over twice now for "crossing the fog line" late at night. It's weird that this doesn't happen in broad daylight.

Edit: I didn't get a ticket either time. It was just an excuse for the officer to try to smell alcohol on my breath.

What is a fog line?

i thought all cars have a cam videoing out the front all the time? just check that and see if he was right!

Not that simple. You would need to file a FOIA request and even then you might not get what you want.

fluck pigs!!

The only time Ive been pulled over was when I was merging onto a main street, I got pulled over and the cop was asking me "do you know why I pulled u over?" I said...Umm no not really. He said it was cuz I failed to yield when merging onto the street, I said, no I didnt its a continuous lane and theres no yield sign, and no cars were commin, so what was I to yield for??

He let me go...

That actually sucks..

I actually hate police anyway but they once pulled me over, i too was driving flawlessly due to having a stupid fear about them but he pulled me over and said that my number plates were illegal(irrelevant of what the site said that I had bought them off) and that I was causing danger to other drivers...

TBH, the number plate was only slightly italic you could see the letters and numbers perfectly from any distance, and he said "they were highly illegal as they would distract people and cause them to crash"....

I mean ok, I held my hands up - changed the plates and got standard ones nothing on them just so they couldn't say anything again and accepted the fine etc but seriously number plates causing danger? Shouldn't they be stopping someone who is too drunk to see where they're driving, or someone who has a gun in their car ready to shoot someone?! or is that just me?!

Why cant he pull you over just to check if you're sober?

Surprised he didn't tazer you to death.

Same reason police can't randomly search your house to see if you are running a meth lab.

That makes no sense.. because he IS allowed to make up something and then pull him over?
That's like saying "oh i saw you smoke weed through the window" and then search your house see to see if you are running a meth lab.
Because that's basically what happened when he got pulled over

Welcome to the system.

Police Officers always tell the truth, that's part of their oath when they take their position. They can't lie, right?

Couldn't have said it any better.

Let me just say... while there is a fine line between "probable cause" and the 4th amendment of the Constitution, your understanding of US law needs a bit of work. :p

Welcome to America. I once had a cop pull me out of a block of cars going quicker than me to then spend 10 minutes trying to clarify what he pulled me over for. He initially tried to pin me on having illegal tint, claiming that legal tint had a sticker verifying the amount of tint it is on the window. I respectfully informed him he was correct, although that he was in error as the window that had the sticker was the driver's side (and not the passenger side as he claimed) and that obviously it was not visible since the driver's side window was down. After realizing his error, and thus negating his excuse for why he pulled me over, he then stuck his head in my car window to "look around." He then pulled an obscure reference out of the DMV lawbook refering to having visor strips on cars with no AS1 safety glass line (of course the other officers I've driven by or sat next to in traffic for the past 3 years of owning the car didn't seem to care enough about it pull me over). While I don't want to perpetuate the idea that everything that happens in this world is racially motivated, it makes you wonder why I would get pulled over in the middle of Newberry County, South Carolina by a white officer whilst driving 70 mph surrounded by a block of several cars going nearer to 80 mph.

lol, cops,..

I don´t even want to get started

The one and only time I've been pulled over in U.S.A. was a check were the police stopped everybody. How does that fit in your judicial system? I was innocent and did nothing wrong, so why was I stopped?

Here police stopping cars without a reason, just to check is normal, nobody feels his habeas corpus violated. I thought US is the same...

I am not a lawyer, but I did ask a lawyer that exact question once. The Supreme Court has ruled it "not a violation of the constitution" and just leave it to the state to decide. It is not legal in all of the US.

Ah yeah, checkpoints. They're weird. I've been through two of them. The first time I still had my Indiana license and he said that since I didn't have an Ohio license they couldn't do whatever they were doing and told me to head through. The second was a sobriety checkpoint right before the highway ramps, and walmart, so traffic was horribly backed up since it's the major road. They stopped EVERY CAR and talked to the driver to see if they were drunk. I mean come on.. the drunks would see it coming from a mile away and either turn around or take another road.

I just hate how cops make up bullshit reasons to pull people over. They're useless. I hate cops. Every time I've ever needed a cop they've just blown me off, but when I'm not doing anything wrong they come and piss on my day. I wouldn't really have been all that pissed if he hadn't fed me some BS lie. That is the worst thing a cop can ever do to me... lie to me and say I did something I didn't.