When I was driving the 500 miles back to college one time, I got pulled over an hour into my trip doing over 100 mph. I saw the State Trooper at the last second. He had an awesome hiding spot. I started to pull over before he before he even had a chance to put his car in drive. He walked up to my window and asked, “Do you know how fast you were going?” I laughed, and said, “REALLY fast.” That made him laugh out loud. He asked where I was headed and I said I was an hour into my 10 hour drive back to school. After we chatted for a few minutes he went back to his car, then came back with my ticket. He wrote me up for 57 in a 55 and told me to slow down and have a safe trip. It pays to be normal, cordial and polite.
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@ClassicMom98 wasn’t the poster who got pulled over by the police in a vehicle that might have been mistaken for another. Regardless, its highly unlikely she would then (a) take to twitter to mention it and (b) even more highly unlikely that the “actual criminals” would be reading/following her twitter feed!! 
Thats so ridiculous.
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Glad you didn’t kill anybody going that speed. It pays to not drive 100 mph. It is no laughing matter.
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It was in reference to @mtmind’s complaint of the pretext of his pullover. And cops should not and do not provide info to the public which could impede active law enforcement. Yeah, criminals do monitor scanners, etc to find out where road blocks are set up.
It was in my personal car, but I had the company name, address and phone number on a magnet on the rear quarter panel of my car. I was allowed to park in loading zones, but only for 30 minutes. They paid for the over the limit tickets there too.
I never blocked a bus stop, cross walk, handicap spot, etc. A double parking ticket back in the late 90’s and 2000’s was $40.
Google double parking in Boston. It’s been going on forever. It’s literally a way of life. Sometimes you get caught. Most times you don’t.
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I am still laughing at that completely absurd premise that the criminals might see it on her (or mtmind’s) twitter feed. HAHAHAHA.
For all you know @mtmind could be a drug lord. Paranoia runs both ways.
I’d like to know what kind of vehicle @mtmind was driving when the po-po went rogue?
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Who is being paranoid???
And if @mtmind was a drug lord (fascinating premise) they SURELY wouldn’t be posting about the incident on Twitter!!!
It doesn’t matter if it “has been going on forever”. It doesn’t make it right. Justify it all you want, but $10k in parking tickets does not earn bragging rights. It’s outrageous.
But they aren’t monitoring @mtmind’s Twitter feed!!! That is either the paranoia you refer to or it’s such a ridiculous stretch it could break the cc forum internet!
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Can we leave @GKUnion alone over his parking tickets? I am pretty sure I know what his job was, and basically he had no choice. As he said it was a cost of doing business (and why his company reimbursed him). He could do his job and get tickets or just not do his job.
I try to think the best of people.
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Everyone has a choice to park legally, or not. Didn’t sound like a beer emergency!
Knowing the company will reimburse him for illegal parking seems to only increase its likelihood. It’s hard to put a positive spin on $10k in parking fines. Sorry. (and those were only for the times he was caught).
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I hope everyone from the beginning of the thread is following along, because these sorts of posts give some idea of why it is so difficult to hold LEO accountable.
I was pulled over in a dangerous location under the false pretense of a seatbelt violation. Not the end of the world, but certainly a pretext/lie to pull me over. Instead of just taking note that these things happen, the defenders of LEO go into attack mode.
So now I may be a "drug lord, " or at least must have done something wrong to get pulled over. LEOs don’t make mistakes.
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I think I said LEOs are human and make mistakes. No big deal. Just like you do not assume good motives by them, they wont assume your purity either.
Tl;dr, but based on many flags there seems to be way too many off-topic posts on meter enforcement ans other things as well as sniping at other users. Please return to the topic of the thread.
Please don’t exacerbate the situation by flagging this post as off-topic
Just so I follow, are you saying that because I realize LEO’s sometimes rely on pretexts, you are justified in accusing me of being “a drug lord,” and they would be justified in assuming I must be one?
Why?
It was a vehicle properly equipped with seatbelts, which were in use at the time. Beyond that, what kind of vehicle would have justified making a dangerous stop at a busy interchange purportedly based on an obviously false pretext? How about you list for me such vehicles I’ll tell you if I was driving one of those?
Over 100 mph written up as 57 in a 55? Another fine example of how laws do not apply equally to everyone.
Yeah. Let’s get back to accusing posters of being drug lords, and implying they must have committed some other crimes they didn’t commit. Just because they got pulled over.
LEOs are justified in assuming any situation may become life-threatening and that any traffic stop could be lethal to them. It sometimes is. It would be rational to approach those stopped with caution as anyone stopped could very well be armed and/or dangerous. You know you are not. But they do not know that.
How about you? Is it rational for you to falsely accuse me of possibly being “a drug lord?”
Is it rational for @GKUnion to imply that because I got pulled over I must have done something wrong, and quiz me as to the type of car I was driving?
For that matter, how about falsely accusing me of being paranoid for providing the same advice that any competent criminal attorney would? Is that rational?
I am glad we agree that as things currently exist, LEOs behave like every stop could be life threatening; dangerous; adversarial. What doesn’t make sense is why you insist that the civilians should pretend the situation isn’t adversarial when you are very aware that it is, and that LEOs are treating it as such?
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The “drug lord” reference musta been made tongue-in-cheek – right?
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