I got pulled over today.

[LaraMN]

For....get this.... driving without my headlights on in the (light) rain! Plbbbt! I didn't get a ticket or anything, and the officer was very, very nice. I'm such outlaw. :eyes:

[MissMillie]

1. I'm actually very surprised

that all cars don't come w/ daytime running lights these days.

[LaraMN]

3. Yeah. My van's about 15 years old, anyway.

At least I know I don't have any outstanding warrants or anything that I was unaware of.

[Haole Girl]

2. So the headlight police got you, huh?

:eyes:

[LaraMN]

5. Yeah. It's happened to me before.

Once I was pulled over for driving around in the dusk, with my parking lights on. Apparently I have some issues.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. You, missy, are a LAWBREAKER!!!

You endagered thousands of lives with your myopic views on windshield wipers. I hope you are happy with yourself.

[LaraMN]

7. Well, I've ruined my good name now, I might as well go for broke.

From here on out, I will be nothing. but. trouble.
:evilgrin: :bounce:

[Midlodemocrat]

9. No Sex Threads.

:evilgrin:

[LaraMN]

12. What? What's that? I can't read what you're saying...

therefore I can't be held accountable for my own actions...
:evilgrin:

[skygazer]

6. Nice you didn't get a ticket

It is a good habit to flick the lights on in the rain (especially if there's a law to do so like there is now in California). Even light rain - better safe than sorry. The downside of course is that if your vehicle doesn't have a warning signal, you can leave 'em on and run down your battery. I hate that.

But the thing is, even if you can see fine, a lot of times other drivers can't see you. :shrug:

[LaraMN]

10. Yeah- I'd have turned them on if I realized they were off.

I'm way too flighty to remember to check when it's bright outside. I'm quite glad he didn't ticket me!

[jukes]

8. are you sure

it wasn't DWC (driving while cute?) AKA "ring-check"...


:hi:



BTW: "S/O n/t" = "Smilies/Only no/text" have to admit i like being cryptic; imagine i'm a "PinTA" though....





("PinTA"="Pain in THE ASS")

[LaraMN]

17. Ah! Thanks for clearing BOTH of those issues up for me!

He did ask if the car was registered in my name RIGHT off the bat... who knows...
:rofl:

[jukes]

25. roadcops...

i was only in "uniform division" a couple of years, but still remember the "tools....of the TRADE" ("Drowning Mona")



:rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

11. Born to be WIIIIILD!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[LaraMN]

18. I'm so hardcore I even intimidate myself.

:rofl:

[Crazy Dave]

13. Don't you all feel so much safer?

Instead of looking for aggressive or fast drivers, stolen cars, road-rage nuts, etc. we have highly trained and highly paid police officers risking their lives for us by pulling over women with their headlights on in light rain.

[LaraMN]

19. Haha!

SophieMN was pissed at the officer, because she "said 'hi' to him, and he didn't say 'hi' back!"

[DS1]

14. Those weren't the headlights he was looking for

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Oh, no, you didn't.

:hide:

[DS1]

21. Am I the only one seeing right through this cop's intentions?

Can't be

[LaraMN]

24. I don't really think he could see me very well before he pulled me over,

and if he could, he was NOT hot enough to "qualify," anyway. :P

[jukes]

29. no, you got it right

and who cd resist?

[LaraMN]

20. What, drugs?

In a minivan, at ten a.m.?

:rofl:

[DS1]

22. No, he was checking you out

You must have passed him at some point, right?

However, he should've been here in MA to bust me flying up I95 at 80mph in a torrential downpour

[LaraMN]

27. I passed him, yeah. In a MINIVAN, with a KID.

He'd have to be pretty desperate.

[Midlodemocrat]

33. No way. JackMN is adorable.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

49. Men are men. Being attractive is being attractive.

Minivan and kids or not.

I don't get tickets either. And yes, it is sexist and unfair, but I figure the good Lord gave me what he gave me and I'll chock it up to sticking it to the man for everything women have to deal with that's unfair the other way. Am I going to ask to pay the ticket because I think the officer finds me attractive? No!

[LeftyMom]

16. It's a good idea to flip them on when you use your wipers

Actually, it's a legal requirement here now, which is okay with me since I have a low and dark colored car and can use any added visibility.

[LaraMN]

23. Yeah, I'm paranoid about it, after leaving them on and running my battery

out, on several occasions. I was in a hurry, so not particularly attentive. I'm so brain dead.

[LeftyMom]

31. I've done that too.

A friend of mine has a Malibu, and her headlights come on, adjust brightness and shut off automaticly. If it weren't such a dinky car I'd really want one for that feature alone.

[jpgray]

26. I got pulled over four times for speeding in the past month

I didn't get a single ticket. Must have been because I was heading home from work at midnight or thereabouts and looked depressed. Also I offered one officer a tic tac.

[LaraMN]

28. You're a slut.

I know it. "Tic-Tac," my ass!

[jpgray]

32. I only offered that because I didn't have my wallet on me

:P

I got a "I could have given you three tickets tonight..." lecture, but that was it. Oh, and the memories--those I'll have forever. :loveya:

[Richardo]

34. Is that like the Pop Rocks thing?

"Tic tac my ass."

[WCGreen]

30. You must have let him see your ear lobes.....

Cause in your nakid picture, that is by far the best part of your body....

Well that and your knee caps...

If he saw your knee cap, the left one, not the right one, he would be driven wild with passions and desires that dare not be spoken....

In mixed company....

[LaraMN]

38. Lol!

Yeah- my lobes have always given me advantages in life that some people are bitter and envious of...
:rofl:

[huskerlaw]

35. I got pulled over for

a burned-out tail light. As if the LAPD doesn't have bigger things to worry about.

Officer: I pulled you over because your tail light is out.
Me: Oh...it is?
Officer: (looking very annoyed) Yes.
Me: Sorry, I didn't realize that. I'll get it fixed ASAP.
Officer: Yeah, you will, cuz I'm writing you a ticket.
Me: Uhh...ok...

As if I fucking stand behind my car and have someone else tap my brakes to ensure that they work every morning before I drive it. :wtf:

More annoyingly, in order to clear the ticket, I have to make an appointment with a person at the sheriff's office so they can check and make sure the light works, then I have to send proof and money to the court. Or...I have to go to court. Yes, that's right. LA Superior Court for a burnt-out headlight. Complete with a fucking bail hearing.

Seems a bit of overkill, don't you think?

[LaraMN]

39. Wow. Yah, that seems a bit severe.

:wow:

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. That makes more sense to me

than getting popped for no headlights in the daytime, raining or not.

The ticket, that is. Not the bail procedure. That sucks.

[huskerlaw]

61. I'd be fine with a fix-it ticket

In my experience in previous states those act more like a warning ticket...get it fixed within 30 days and don't let us catch you with this problem again, basically. That wouldn't bother me at all.

But no, it's a full on ticket. I have to pay a fine regardless of whether or not it gets fixed within 30 days and if I don't get it checked out at the sheriff's department, pay them to do that, get the correct paperwork filed and pay my fine by the predetermined court date...it turns into a bail hearing.

Re-fucking-diculous.

[Oeditpus Rex]

63. Okay, that blows

I assumed it was an "equipment violation," which in Kollyforniya costs you nothing (except time and the cost of repair) if fixed within 15 days. I can't imagine why they'd consider a taillight a moving violation.

[matcom]

36. Circle Butts is a FELON!

:D

[LaraMN]

43. Yeah. You better watch your back.

NOBODY knows what I'm capable of!:scared:

Circle Butts.

[underpants]

37. Yeah gee wonder why *you* didn't get a ticket

:P

[matcom]

40. he could have got her for...

driving with her boots over her head :bounce:

[underpants]

41. Oh YEAH

[DS1]

42. That is one formidable ASS

:wow:

[billyskank]

44. I'm still pissed at getting an endorsement on my licence

for doing 57mph in a 50...I was caught by an automatic speed trap, which is placed 100 yards after the limit changes from 70 to 50, and I was slowing down! I had every intention of doing 50, I was just a little spaced out that day and killed my speed too slowly!

That's going to take four years for those three points to come off my licence. I was clean until then! :grr:

[LaraMN]

45. That's hardly fair!

x(

We really need a "tantrum" smiley. We really do.

[billyskank]

46. I do feel rather aggrieved

If it had been a real life copper with a speed gun, there is a chance he might have let me off with it. But these automated fuckers give no quarter; they just take your photograph and the letter comes through the post a week later.

:grr:

[Mutley]

50. I've heard they're considering those automated speed traps

for my state. I'm so glad to hear a happy story about them. :P

[billyskank]

53. They're evil

EEEEVIL I tell you!


Why? Because they fucking work!!! :rofl:


We have new-fangled extra-evil ones now. The old kind measure your speed by radar doppler shift at one place and get you that way. The new extra-evil kind read your number plate electronically at one point on the road, and then again a fixed distance down the road. Say, a couple of miles. It times how long it takes you to get from A to B, and if your average speed is over the limit, you're busted!
:scared:

[Mutley]

54. That sucks.

x(

I'm really going to have to start driving within the speed limit soon, aren't I? My damn car doesn't like to go very fast anyway.

[billyskank]

55. Get the libertarians on it

I'm sure they'll find a way to get them declared unconstitutional. :P

[Mutley]

56. Ooo! A use for the libertarians!!

Finally. :P


I'm kidding! PLEASE no one get offended at me. x(

[tjwmason]

60. That's why I hate them

They strip all context and reduce it to simple equations.

Plus they are placed not where they'll have an effect on safety (my village has been trying to get one on that basis for a while, to no avail), but where they'll rake in the most fines. :grr:

[ScreamingMeemie]

47. Don't you hate when they do that? They got MrG once for not having

a working light on his (get this) license plate...Arrrgggh. And he did, it was just dirty. He actually had to take the damned ticket in to the police station and have them come out and see that the light was working before they threw out the ticket. They stopped him on the way to work at 4:30 AM...Must have been a slow shift.

[LaraMN]

57. Aughhh!

That would just tick me off. What a pita!

[sasquatch]

51. Do you need a spanking?

:evilgrin:

[LaraMN]

58. Well the officer didn't say, so...

I'll have to err on the side of public safety, and say,
"Yes. Yes I do."

[Mutley]

52. I was pulled over a few years ago

because the cop "eyeballed me" (his words) at over 55mph. I know I wasn't even going 60, fer crying out loud, but the cop insisted I must've been doing at least 65-70. I didn't get a ticket because he didn't actully clock me, but he was a real jerk about it.

[LaraMN]

59. "Eyeballed" you?

:rofl:
I'll have to remember that one. I could "eyeball" lots of people doing things I could blackmail them with!

[Mutley]

62. Hmmm, me too!

:rofl: