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Was stopped by an officer under suspicion of DWI once. I was leaving the gym and there was a cool lightning storm off in the distance. I forgot to turn on my headlights and was driving slowly ... apparently that's something drunk people do.
The second one was when I got pulled over for not signaling a left turn. I was nervous because I had not made a left turn. Guess the officers saw a young guy driving a nicer car through a not so good part of town and had to investigate.
I B.S.'d my way out of a ticket if that counts. I was driving my man van with expired tabs, going home and got pulled over. I told him that I just got it running again, and hadn't had the time nor the money to get the tabs replaced. So he let me off with a warning.
Before I transferred to another division, I spent 4 years in the Highway Patrol Division, criers where a rarity. On most stops the violators were either angry, or said absolutely nothing and just handed you their info, or (my favorites) the jovial drivers, who wanted to chat and have a conversation and hang out on the side of the road. Criers on the other hand, maybe two or three times a month, tops. A small number when you factor in our average of about 240 stops a month.
Jovial drivers? That's a surprise. How often do you encounter one of them?
Well-trained professional police officers, armed to the hilt and in possession of space-age privacy-violating technology, spent a disproportionate amount of time enforcing vehicle tax collections and imposing crushing fines on people representing no actual or potential harm to social order or public safety, with gotcha laws and entrapment and enforcement as random as the lottery, all related to automobiles.
No wonder people cry.
"Vehicle tax collections" is a good term.
I read of alleged phony construction zones being set up in one of the mid-Atlantic states. The article did a good job of convincing me it's true. Anyone else hear of this?
I remember my first ticket. I felt like it was the end of the world - like I had been caught robbing a bank and I'm headed to jail. Really though, over time I've realized getting caught means it's only money. Speed limits of 55mph today are a joke. I only go the speed of traffic.
Jovial drivers? That's a surprise. How often do you encounter one of them?
A few times a week, easy.
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