Pulled over for....

[DBasher]

So to add to the fastest thread, let's hear the ticket stories.

Pulled over by Wisconsin SP, I saw him in the median and lifted, he clocked me at 114mph. After running my information we talked about the truck for a few minutes and he let me go. It was in my brothers 56 Dodge, turns out his grandpa had one just like it.

I also got a $1400 ticket from WSP in my VW Baja, that was just bad, he was a dick. Gave me the option to park it and call someone or he would write me a ticket. I had been out of town for three months and it was two days before Christmas, I told him to start writing. Best part was the court hearing, he showed up and got a beating from the judge about wasting her, mine and the court systems time. Ticket reduced to no mudflaps and tag light out, two hundred and something instead of $1400


Dan

[geberhard]

Getting a ticket is still lame Getting off the ticket (specially if you are not a hottie) is an art




Pulled over, but getting away with it is priceless

this is the Jeep with fugly removeable mudflaps on (they are on the Jeep)






Yep, by all means the Jeep is lifted, tires stick out, and beadlocks and the Jeep is far from "street legal"......or is it?

The cop was cool and just gave me a Courtesy Citation in Pleasanton, CA Unsafe Vehicle.... I found out that he is actually a Jeeper too after he gave me a major hard time and I was thinking the car was going to get towed away!!

He said the Jeep does not comply to vehicle code safety... Violation remarks on the ticket: Violation Code 24002 "Unsafe Vehicle: Tires stick out, beadlocks, uncovered tires, frame height, beadlocks, headlamp height, etc"

I did not want to be a smart ass, specially with the guy being cool and doing his job, but asked him where I can check the vehicle code mentioning what he has just said, basically to get some guidelines on what I need to do to the rig. He mentioned it would take him an hour to go through it with me.

I searched the CA Vehicle code and safety and basically did not find anything on beadlocks. I most likely suck at searching, but went through the California vehicle code, DOT and NITSA, and did not find anything on beadlocks.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/vc/vc.htm

and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Highway Safety Desk Book:

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/inju...skbk.html#PMVI

Additional info:

Frame and floor height:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24008_5.htm

Fenders and mudguards:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27600.htm

headlamps:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24400.htm

Cornering lamps on fenders:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc25107.htm

on the other hand, he could have cited me for this as my tires are grooved:

[I]27461. No person shall cause or permit the operation of and no driver shall knowingly operate any motor vehicle except a commercial vehicle, on any street or highway, which is equipped with one or more recut or regrooved tires. For purposes of this section a recut or regrooved tire is an unretreaded or unrecapped tire into which new grooves have been cut or burned.

[geberhard]

And remember, they have to catch you first

Disclaimer...hmmm errr profssional driver...closed circuit...hmm yep

[Bucketlist2012]

Back in the 1980's I had just installed my Rebuilt 350 LT-1 and still had the stock Z/28 springs up front and the car sat pretty high in the front...

At the intersection I dropped the clutch and lifted the front wheels off the ground through the Intersection while frying the back tires..

Well I did not see the Cop and he pulled me over and was going crazy..

He wrote me for Impossible and unsafe start...

When I went to court the Judge threw it out because if it was Impossible, how did I do it ?

I was always looking for that Cop after that....He was so mad the vein in his neck was sticking out...

[intocarss]

Where do I start??

[Flash68]

I don't speed as much as I used to (my daily driver no longer has 700 hp so that helps) but I have gotten 7 tickets for various infractions over the past 9 or 10 years.

I have fought and had 6 of those 7 dropped. And my wife thinks she is the lawyer in the family.

[RussMurco]

In 1987 I was test-hooning a new GTA with the 350 in a town I wasn't familiar with. I got on a country road, no salesman with me, floored it and held on. A silver Monte Carlo SS passed me in the opposite direction as I crested a hill, I backed off the gas as I approached a series of sweeping corners, and after about 2 miles he pulled in behind me. Another straight section appeared and I thought he wanted to spar so I floored it again... Then the little blue and red lights came on in the grill and I saw the grin on his face in my mirror. He clocked me at 130+ but only wrote it for 95, still enough to suspend my license for 6 months... Lesson learned, I've never been "ticketed" for more than 20 over again...

[GregWeld]

Got stopped by CHP on I-10 headed east out of Palm Springs == it's 5:30PMish... wife has shoes off and feet up on the dash reading -- I'm in a Beige Buick Lucerne (rental)... stuck in a pack of cars that won't move or change lanes and I'm getting pissed. As soon as I had the chance -- I punch it!
A long sweeping curve and I'm starting to put these bozos in the rearview mirror. Behind me is a BWM and something else. Just then - Boom -- there's a CHP sitting in the median facing us.... I see dirt and dust flying as he's peeling out. You know when you're hammered... so I start moving to the right and by this time you can see he's really moving thru traffic to get up behind me. I pull over -- he walks up to the passenger side and says.... "do you know why I stopped you?" To which the smart ass wife responds "for going 55 in a 65?".... No.... he says -- I clocked you at 104.... the BMW behind you at 101 and (whatever it was) at 99. As I hand him my license and registration..and start telling him that I was "stuck in this cluster and just wanted to break out of the group... had no idea the Buick was that fast! As he walks back to his car --- I'm telling Gwen -- He'll probably arrest me for doing triple digits -- so you'll just have to come bail me out. I just hope he doesn't impound the car.

He then re-appears at her window -- hands me my stuff back and says..... "HEY! Take it easy will ya!"


No ticket - not even a warning.


I'm thinking he was close to getting off for the day -- doesn't want to haul my sorry ass in to the pokey and do all the paperwork required.... OR.... he can't wait to get on the radio and tell his buddies about the "beige buick" he just stopped with two old farts doing 104. Either way --- I was very thankful and didn't punch it again until I hit AriDzona.

[TheJDMan]

1975 small town in Kansas. The city limit ends at a specific street light so it is easy to tell where the county ends and city begins. This was back before I let the tags expire on Dust Off. About 10pm at night I was out on the county roads doing some test runs after some carb tuning. Heading back to town I was traveling well in excess of 100 approching the city limit when I see the street light reflect off the door sign of a city cop car setting on a side street. I immediatelly braked hard and slowed to 35 as I passed the street light. The cop pulled me over knowing he could not do anything to ticket me since I was in the county but he proceeded to give me a hard time verbally asking me what I thought I was doing. I told him very frankly that I had just done some carb tuning changed jets and shooters and was testing the results. I still remember his next comment, he said you think your pretty smart don't you. I said in return, no sir but I am a pretty good engine tunner. At which point he just turned and walked back to his car and drove off. In retrospect that may have been the point at which the city cops started watching for my car because over the next 10 or 12 months I collected 9 speeding tickets before turning the car into a drag race only car.

[IMPALA MAN]

Back in 2005 I had just picked up a new Dodge Charger for R&D work. This was 3 weeks before any were delivered to the dealerships. The guy that had it had major connections. How he got it, I do not know. Anyway, it had a logo tag where the plate would go. I think it said Automotive Playground. He told me that's all I needed as the papers were in the glove box. Anyway, I am driving from Georgia to Indiana and about Tenn. a trooper decided to pull me over.
He said he pulled me over because of the tag. He was cool about it though. His next question...What will it do? His next question....Do you think it will out run that cruiser (his ride)? After everything checked out he gave me a direct order....."when you pull away from here, as long as you keep it under 75, you can do whatever you want" I did, as I knew he wanted to see. I literally roasted the tires and he was grinning the whole time. He passed me in a few miles later grinning from ear to ear. Coolest cop I ever met.