I think my FR-S was "profiled" by a WSP ......

[sgtcarrot]

I drove a Ninja sport bike for 10 years and had no car. Never got pulled over once. I always expected it though.

Then I had a scion tc and got pulled over 3 times:
- 60 in 20 at a highway offramp area, pulled over with another car behind me. As I am talking to the cop the guy behind me gets out of his car and starts walking towards us. Cop tells me to leave, he has to focus all of his attention on the guy behind me.

- 48 in a 25 where the highway joins the city and turns into a surface street ring road. State trooper that was behind me and dark for a while, takes my license and registration and comes back in 2 minutes to tell me that he has a more urgent call and to slow down. He leaves.

- Most recently: A couple of months ago pulled over by a Major who was driving down our local highway at 58 mph and had a huge tail of traffic all bunched up behind him. People were driving like crazy because nobody knew he was at the front. I was on his far right and after about 5 minutes decided to pass him. In MD you can pass on any lane. He gets behind me and pulls me over, pissed and yelling. In 45 years he has never been passed on the highway, he was over the speed limit but I felt he was not going fast enough?! Imagine there are 100 cars all bunched up and in front of this cop car not a car to be seen for half a mile. Yeah, its basically what I was thinking. I calmly respond that I was driving to be safe and not based on the behavior of any other driver, I give him my license and registration. Remember, I was technically doing 59 in a 55.

He comes back after 5 minutes calmer and tells me to just slow down and be safe, follows me for two blocks, no ticket.

I generally try to find what I call a "rabbit": Somebody speeding faster than me, who I can follow at about 5 -10 mph slower. This is the bait for the cops and in 20 years I have never had a cop "stick it to me". There are plenty of truly crazy speeders in the Baltimore DC area. I try to respect them as I recognize how difficult their job is, regardlesss of the fact that I do not generally like cops.

My parents always said to never be the car that everybody notices because of how they are driving. If you do that, you can speed within reason, always a great compromise position to take.

[Packofcrows]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

To be clear, I'm not brown. I'm very white, of Irish and Austrian ancestry.

No worries, its all fun and games on the forums.

[chas3wba0]

Originally Posted by sgtcarrot

I generally try to find what I call a "rabbit": Somebody speeding faster than me, who I can follow at about 5 -10 mph slower. This is the bait for the cops and in 20 years I have never had a cop "stick it to me". There are plenty of truly crazy speeders in the Baltimore DC area. I try to respect them as I recognize how difficult their job is, regardlesss of the fact that I do not generally like cops.

My parents always said to never be the car that everybody notices because of how they are driving. If you do that, you can speed within reason, always a great compromise position to take.

Never be the fastest car in a group. If you're gonna speed, be sure there's another car speeding faster.

[JohnBgon]

In California, you have the right to a trial by written declaration. You can just submit everything by mail. You used to have to pay the bail upfront, but they changed the requirement now.

I received my first speeding ticket in 2008; I completed the online class to get it off my DMV record. In 2009, I got my second one, so I bought an escort 9500ix and educated myself on fighting tickets through the mail. The case was dismissed, and my bail amount was refunded. If the officer doesn't respond, it's dismissed.

I never received another speeding ticket myself since getting that radar detector and driving 100+ times from Bakersfield to Los Angeles (~100 miles). I have since assisted friends and family by beating their speeding tickets. It was even my brother's birthday gift last year. $365 saved and nothing on his record. 81 mph in 65.

Bonus: I did get one for 'following too closely' in 2011. An officer was desperately trying to find someone, driving up and switching highway lanes with his KA band screaming. When I tried to exit the freeway, he slammed on his brakes. I got off at the exit; he then cuts through the exit divider and pulls me over. I knew I wasn't speeding because I was alerted to his KA band before he even got on the freeway. I was dumbfounded when he said I was driving too closely. I had just got into Bakersfield from LA for a weekend away from school. When I asked how could he have made that judgement while being in front of me, he told me because he couldn't see the headlights of my 2003 Accent. I was done at that point. Thanked him for his time; asked if there was anything else I could do for him. When I got home, I wrote up the defense I would use while it was fresh on my mind. A few months later after paying the bail: Case dismissed; officer did not respond.

[weederr33]

It could have been worse. A state trooper pulled me over, gave me a warning about no front plate, and then had the audacity to call my car a hyundai genesis!

[Jake360]

WSP is the worst! There is a trooper that patrols mason county and loves to get his window tint tester out and give tickets for illegal tint.

[Dake]

Speeding in a small sportscar and you get pulled over? Whodda thunk it?

Also, cops have been able to "radar" vehicles while moving for years. My first ever speeding ticket was when I got nailed by a moving cop car (coming the other direction) and that was twenty five years ago.

[jblmr2]

@humfrz, there's no such thing as profiling when your guilty, sorry. But I must offer congratulations for not driving your age. I love it when I find a kindred soul...an old fart who refuses to act like one.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by RandomDeception

Nice.

Out of curiosity, what language was used to communicate there? - A Norwegian coming from Denmark into Sweden.

Are the Scandinavian languages similar enough like Portuguese and Spanish or are most people there fluent in those three particular national languages?

Well, it's like this.
Norwegians understand Danish and Swedish, with little or no difficulties.
Danes understand Norwegian quite well.
Swedes understand Norwegian quite well.
Danes and Swedes do NOT understand each other well, so they often resort to English.

All 3 languages are very similar, there are some words that are different but the grammar and most of the basic vocabulary is very close. The pronunciation can be tricky, some dialects (in all the 3 languages) are practically impossible to understand for other nationalities. That includes my original dialect, so I speak "normalized" Norwegian to Swedes and Danes.

/OT

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Super_Scion_86

It probably doesn't help our case when people like me pass highway patrol cars while going 85 in a 65...

Though he seemed very interested in the car after he gave me the ticket.

Same here in my one incident (I was 10+ over, wrote me up for 15 over, was definitely speeding so I took my lumps and did traffic school) he asked me some questions afterwards, said he was thinking of buying one and wanted to know if I had supercharged it yet...

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by jblmr2

@humfrz, there's no such thing as profiling when your guilty, sorry. But I must offer congratulations for not driving your age. I love it when I find a kindred soul...an old fart who refuses to act like one.

............ ..........


humfrz

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by jblmr2

...an old fart who refuses to act like one.

That's just the kind of old fart I plan to become! Almost there, in fact.

[Rampage]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

Same here in my one incident (I was 10+ over, wrote me up for 15 over,

That is because at 15 over in most states there is a big jump in fines. I have the greatest respect for law enforcement officers but when they falsify just to collect more money then that respect is eroded. My incident was the first time I have ever had one do that to me. I have had a total of 5 tickets in my 46 years of driving. I never argued about any of them until this last one. I was so adamant about being falsely accused that the deputy called two other patrol vehicles for back-up. It still pisses me off!

[fumanchu1]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Thanks, but I do now have a new radar detector ..... it's called mrs humfrz and it goes SQUAWK-SQUAWK-SQUAWK ........ any time I go over the speed limit ..... followed by a reminder of what she could have bought for her granddaughters with the $125.




humfrz

This literally had me laughing my ass off loudly this morning at work, some people thought I was crazy.... they are not wrong