Follow up on ticket for expired inspection

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Elke Mariotti

you can't see them until you get around the bend--too late to get off/back-up...

That's exactly why they choose exit 19N on the Southern State Parkway! I got caught in it once (unfortunately for them nothing was illegal, so they couldn't give me a ticket) and found the waiting around while they check up on me annoying.

Another spot on the Southern State eastbound that the State Troopers like to sit at is where the road goes down from 4 lanes to 3 at Exit 18 and the lane on the far right becomes exit only. If someone is in that lane and tries to get into the next lane too late (after the solid white lane divider line appears) the trooper will pull them over.

Now what I do is if I see ANY COPS DOING CHECKS OR LYING IN WAIT ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY I flash my lights like crazy to warn the oncoming traffic!

[dman72]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

Late at night (after midnight) there are unmarkeds (still recognizable to me) on the LIE in Queens. One of my car service drivers got pulled over with me in the car one night for "not allowing enough space between himself and the car in front of him." Well I disagreed with the cop. There was TRAFFIC. Sometimes you just cannot allow enough car lengths in between! The cop just wanted to give an easy ticket and my driver was a good target.

There is also an exit off the Cross Island where they hang out and look at inspection stickers, etc. If you are going south on the CIP it is exit 24B. If you see a lineup there and you do not have a current sticker, good license, insurance card, etc. DO NOT GET OFF THERE.

In Nassau County going west on the Southern State Parkway, the cops occasionally do the same check as above on the exit ramp to exit 19 Peninsula Blvd.

Ah, following too close on the LIE, eh. Guess what? I got a ticket for that from a big fat Italian guy in an unmarked Dodge Charger who tailgaited me...I mean right on my rear end, then pulled up next to me an very aggressively tried to cut me off...well, traffic in the center lane prevented him from doing this...and then he lights me up and gives me a ticket for following too closely..when he was driving like a lunatic and "pushing" me.

It looks like NYPD highway cops were told to hand out a lot of tailgaiting tickets by their superiors, so instead of getting actual tailgaiters, they baited people or gave them bogus tickets. At court, the judge told me that, in order to believe "my story", he'd have to believe that the cop gave me a ticket for no reason. Cops never lie, right.

Low lives.

<how long before the usual suspect cops come on saying we all deserved it and they are never wrong?>

As for the spot checks, in their defense, they are required by the state to do this, so don't take it so personally.