Have you ever been pulled over by a cop - if so what were you doing?

When I was younger and more gorjus than I am now... :LOL: I used to get stopped occasionally for no reason.. or some trumped up reason, late at night, by a single cop and they would just say they saw me go over a line or some rubbish, and then they'd be giving me the old chat-up line..

I had one cop his name was Roy..he really had the hots for me, and everywhere I went he was like a stalker... he'd be there acting like we'd just met by accident coming in different directions etc...
 
I did get "pulled over" by a cop once when neither one of us was in a motor vehicle.

I was standing on a corner in Detroit, preparing to jaywalk against the light. Just as I stepped off, someone grabbed the strap of my shoulder bag and gave it a strong jerk, almost pulling me off my feet.

I whirled around, adrenalin pumping. PURSESNATCHER!!!!! HELP!!!!! Where's the police when you need them?

Oops. It WAS the police..... I got a lecture about jaywalking from Detroit's finest but no ticket.
 

hollydolly said:
When I was younger and more gorjus than I am now... :LOL: I used to get stopped occasionally for no reason.. or some trumped up reason, late at night, by a single cop and they would just say they saw me go over a line or some rubbish, and then they'd be giving me the old chat-up line..

I had one cop his name was Roy..he really had the hots for me, and everywhere I went he was like a stalker... he'd be there acting like we'd just met by accident coming in different directions etc...
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Many years ago a cop pulled my sister-in-law over and tried chatting her up (that's the correct English term, yes?). Well, he picked the wrong young woman and she read him the riot act threatening to notify his superiors. A little professionalism goes a long way, buddy.
 
Kathleen’s Place said:
Once while I was taking the grandkid home. I was just turning the corner of their block when the lights and sirens went off behind me. It as about 99 degrees and humid as all get out. I told the kids to go in the house, got out of the non air conditioned car and started to walk back to the police car to see what the matter be. *LOUD SPEAKER*. “Mam, turn aound and get back in your car NOW!!!” Yikes!!! It’s like 1:30 pm on a residential street. So I hurry back to my car as fast as my old fat body would allow. Sat, sweltering, in there for another 10 minutes or so while they check out my license plate I guess. Policeman finally comes to window for my license and insurance card and explains that I have a tail light out. “Sorry that I had to yell at you, but we never know who could be approaching our car.” I was almost kind of thrilled that they thought an old white haired lady would be a threat to their safety, but guess they are right...you never know 😉
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Thanks @Kathleen’s Place I laughed so hard my sides ached :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
 
Several years ago I got a call from the college where my youngest daughter that she tried to kill herself. The college was several miles away and a state trooper pulled me over for speeding. I tried to get out of the ticket but was cited anyway. After the trooper wrote the ticket I mention the real reason I was speeding. He said if I had told him the truth he would not have written the ticket.
 
Yes I was. My son had beeped me 911. I was merging from the exit of one highway onto another and I was speeding, frantic to get to my son's house. I didn't see the officer's car but he spotted me almost as soon as I merged. I tried to explain that I had gotten an emergency notification from my son who had small children but he wasn't trying to hear it. :sneaky: That taught me a lesson. Not only did I have to pay the ticket, my insurance went up.
And this is funny now but wasn't then. My uncle was the first one to try to teach me to drive. But he had a little MG and it was a stick and I was having trouble managing gears with it. I was driving it up the hill of this narrow two lane street. A cop pulled us over and said "Ok let me see your permit because I know you don't have a license". :ROFLMAO:
 
Marie5656 said:
Speeding a few times. Once for driving with suspended plates due to no insurance. I was not a very responsible younger person. Better now
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My father was fined for speeding aged ninety, shortly before he/we allowed his car MOT and tax to run out, and he stopped driving, (usually on roundabouts, or at other junctions he'd be so slow away, the road that was clear suddenly had someone beeping their car horn at him for being in the way). So I was quite proud of him for getting his foot down slightly, and exceeding the speed limit for the last time, at a place heading out of town, where there was little danger to anyone! :)
 
Speeding eight or ten times spread out over many years. Mostly ten to fifteen over but once I was doing 105 MPH down a lonely stretch of highway and I had this feeling I should slow down. Got it down to 85 mph before the Cop passed my going the other way. I just pulled over and waited for him to come back. He tapped my for just ten over because I waited for him.
 
A friend was pulled over for speeding while taking his pregnant and in-labor wife to the hospital. He tried to talk his way out of the ticket by explaining the situation. The police officer wrote the ticket anyway and told him if he'd slow down he'd have a better chance of getting his wife to the hospital alive.
 
Twice. Once going way too fast in a new car on an clear road. The cop that pulled me over thought she was being ‘punked.’
She reduced my ticket so my car wasn’t towed away. I was young. 🤪

Another time I was coming home from swimming at midnight. While driving home on my motorcycle two cops pulled me over in an undercover cop car. They asked me for my drivers licence. I showed it to them. Then they asked me to take off my helmet to make sure the picture matched so I did. Next they asked me to take off my jacket and I told them to go **** themselves. They laughed & laughed and I took off and fast. I don’t think they were real cops or at least hope they weren’t.
 
speeding. Always a speeding ticket.
I have not been "Convicted" of speeding in the last 35 years.
That's what lawyers are for.
I always use a radar detector but once in a great while I mess up.
 
Okay . . . and on the advice of my attorney I admit nothing . . . but, a long long time ago I couldn't sleep so decided to take a walk to the all-night diner down the street. As I approached a grocery store the alarm started blaring and a few steps on the flashing red lights flew past. My immediate thought was, "They're gonna think I caused it," and sure enough a few more steps along the road a black-and-white pulled into my path. Now, right away I knew they guy was a rookie because the first thing he said was, "Somebody robbed the store!". Then his expression suddenly changed and he asked for my i.d. Luckily, he wasn't a power-mad jerk and let me continue on my way. Whew!
 
Was pulled over once ...he said I was over the speed limit. I was late for an appointment and now he was going to make me even later. He asked for my licence, so I got out of the car, opened the boot and retrieved it from my handbag. Then the lecture started...did I know that is not the best place for one's handbag...anyway I did not get a ticket, but always remembered the lecture :LOL:
 
StarSong said:
A friend was pulled over for speeding while taking his pregnant and in-labor wife to the hospital. He tried to talk his way out of the ticket by explaining the situation. The police officer wrote the ticket anyway and told him if he'd slow down he'd have a better chance of getting his wife to the hospital alive.
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He could have turned on his siren and lights, and cleared the way to the hospital for your friend.
 
OK.
Here's one I can tell you.
Must have been 1997. I was in the middle of nowhere farm country. 40 miles from any interstate coming back from a visit to a local distribution center. I was driving a 1996 chevy Impala SS. That's a cop interceptor that they made in limited release for the public. A cop car with a corvette motor.
Anyway I was on county road and it was FLAT farm country. I was doing about 95 mph when I saw this old farm wagon coming down the other lane in the distance. I kept going. When I passed the vehicle that was coming in the opposite direction I noticed a county sheriff right behind it. Too late as I whizzed by. The sheriff pulled a U turn and turned on his rollers. Expecting this I pulled over and waited for him. He pulled up behind me and he was driving the same car I had. Except his was red.
He asked me if I knew why he pulled me over. I replied I knew EXACTLY why he pulled me over. I think he was expecting some sort of BS story. He took my license to run it.
He came back, gave me my license back. At that time another squad pulled up and he went over to talk to him. Looked like a supervisor. Any way the sheriff asked me if I could drive the speed limit and I said yes. Then he said have nice day and left.
I was doing 95+ in a 55!
 
911 said:
Did any of you that got a ticket try to talk your way out of it in court, or did you just send in the fine? You wouldn’t believe the excuses I heard over the years as to why people were speeding.

I have a roast in the oven and had to run to the store and now I need to get home.
I’m late for an appointment, a meeting, etc.
My son is sick at school and he is crying for me to come and get him.
My tank is on ‘E’ and I need to hurry up and get gas.
Please don’t give me a ticket. I already have 2 on my record and a third one will send me to driving school.
My wife is having a baby and I want to be at the hospital when she delivers .
From a man pulling a trailer with a horse inside. “My horse is sick and I have to get him to the Vet.” (He was going 66 mph in a 45 zone.”
My favorite: “Do you know who I am?”

And a lot more.
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Once with a valid excuse and I proved to the court the excuse was valid. As I remember the ticket stayed on my record but there was no fine. And yes, it involved an ill child
 
Another pregnancy story. The wife went directly into strong labour and it kept getting worse quickly. He was speeding and the police were following him with their lights on. They were ready to wrestle him to the ground when his wife screamed the baby was coming. It was actually a very close call. He told them he thought they were escorting him (yeah, he realized the stupidity of this then.) They told him the next time he should put on his emergency lights.
 
hollydolly said:
When I was younger and more gorjus than I am now... :LOL: I used to get stopped occasionally for no reason.. or some trumped up reason, late at night, by a single cop and they would just say they saw me go over a line or some rubbish, and then they'd be giving me the old chat-up line..

I had one cop his name was Roy..he really had the hots for me, and everywhere I went he was like a stalker... he'd be there acting like we'd just met by accident coming in different directions etc...
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I spoke to Officer Roy last week. I asked him, "Why do you keep trying when ya know Hollydolly ain't interested?"
He said, "You know I slay the babes; just wait 'till she sees me in my new uniform."
 
I forgot about this incident. Driving home from girl friends house after a couple of beers with psychiatric medication in my system when I was pulled over. Cops gave me a sobriety test, walk a straight line, stand on one foot, touch your nose.

When that didn't suffice their intention to arrest me, I was given multiple breath test. The two officers were frustrated and angry I didn't blow numbers. They had to let me go because there was nothing to charge me with.
 
Pinky said:
He could have turned on his siren and lights, and cleared the way to the hospital for your friend.
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Apparently she was in early labor - not an emergency by any means. He was a first time father in a panic. LOL

This reminds me - my brother-in-law got a ticket for excessive noise when repeatedly laying on his horn while driving himself and my sister from the church to the reception when they got married.

LAPD in both cases.
 
Once my husband and I stopped at a red light. It was very late at night so no traffic. The light must have been stuck since we sat there about 10 minutes. Finally, we went anyway. Immediately the red light shows up. The cop said "I realize that light must be broken but you can NEVER run a red light". He did just give my husband (who was driving) a warning but really???
 
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