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I've lived in CA my whole life, and never have gotten anything other than a parking ticket from a parking enforcement officer. Granted, I don't tint my windows, but I have no front plate. We don't have those mobile sensing units up here in the Bay Area as far as I know. And i've been down to socal quite a bit but haven't seen one. I have gotten pulled over and state reffed twice before, but that's because I was driving around a slammed 240sx with a body kit. Also got a front plate ticket too. I paid my fines and went my merry way. I'm not trying to say CA is lax on the laws, but these things are really just a slap on the wrist. Once you pay your fine and/or fix the issues your good and it goes away. I've never heard of a car getting towed for non-moving violations unless there is an obvious engine/emissions problem like smoke billowing out the back. Either way, Santa Ana sounds like a horrible place so i'll make sure to stay clear from it. Thanks for the tip!
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dont have photos but i as well have seen a loaded camaro cop car in balch springs in SE dallas. and the photo i posted above was for a dui campaign & was not on patrol. i thought it was a sneaky way to enforce speeding, cause houstonites have their foot to the floor, crazy place to drive. edit found one: |
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& these guys took this vehicle from a huge drug bust. used for public relations events
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The only other place I know that cracks down on no front plates while parked is LAX. |
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Also state troopers in Virginia, in my experience, are not very nice. Although at least they're relatively professional, just not especially congenial. Quote:
I've only ever seen DPS out there on days that there are races at COTA, otherwise its usually empty. I drive that road at least twice a month, so I guess YMMV, maybe I've just lucked out. Oh yeah, I see the NBPD car a lot since they come to the Wednesday car meet in NB. NBPD is really chill though, good people. Not like some of the other agencies around here. Texas drivers are insane though, so I guess I kind of get it to some degree. The worst are the small towns though, most of the city police are chill except in Austin. While they are sneaky (especially during TX2K18 week) in Houston, they're usually pretty decent people and professional if you get stopped. Last edited by Tristor; 05-15-2018 at 01:29 PM. Reason: multi-quote |
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id have assumed they might be wound a little tight with having to put up with all the river tourism and the circus that brings
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Unless you're behind them. Then they slow down to five under the limit until you get a chance to pass, at which point they slam down the accelerator to block you. In Houston, it's not about going fast. It's about "winning" traffic. You don't have to go fast to win. You just have to block the other guy so that he can't go faster than you.
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A very large portion of chp are bike riders and have a soft spot with bikers. They will pull a car over with an Sri but let a biker pass with no mufflers. They also believe that "loud pipes saves lives." Banning lane splitting saves lives too but they turn a blind eye. Quote:
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I have spent multiple weeks in California. I live in Florida and have driven fairly extensively throughout the state. Houston has them all beat for assholes.
Here's a typical Saturday afternoon drive in Houston. This was an argument over merging. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVv9O_j4bFQ[/ame] When local news called the police after this went viral to see if there had been any arrests, they had no idea because nobody had reported it. |
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I've seen NYPD using all sorts of confiscated vehicles as patrol cars. Taxis, minivans, sports cars, limos, you name it. There used to be, I don't know if it's still active, one of the PD garages uptown or in the Bronx that would modify vehicles to be crazy fast compared to what they would have been otherwise. I was on the parkway one night and got passed by a couple of bikes doing well in excess of 125 and hot on their tail was a Chevy Astro, he had one of them pulled over and face down on the ground a few miles later
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