SilverSleeper
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The officer is no longer an issue. Those tickets happened back in 2001.
And it does happen around here more than you think. My friend used to own a 86 Lincoln MKVI back in high school. He bought it dirt cheap and fixed it up. But everytime the cops saw an 18 year old driving a "nice" car, they BS'd their way into stopping him (got reports of a car matching your description doing...whatever) and used that opportunity to seach his car for anything illegal. They once tore his entire car apart in the local gas station lot.
They pulled him over once for loud muffler, then wrote him a ticket. A few miles down the road, another trooper pulls him over. Loud exhaust, writes him a ticket. another 10 miles down the road, same thing. They just wanted to mess with him.
I was followed once late at night 8-9pm, there was a car right on my tail and it wouldnt pass, for probably 10 miles. I ended up pulling off the road into a turnaround, and he pulled right in behind me. Im like wtf? So I get out of my car to turn around and look to see what the problem is and an officer gets out of an umarked car and draws his gun on me. Goes through my whole car, I had just bought some iced tea and he also thought that was beer or something. Only explaination he came up with was (there was a report of a car matching your description blah blah blah) BS.
You have to realize, up here, town populations are in the single digit thousands. My high school class graduated 40 students. If an officer decides he doesnt like you, or wants to pick on you, they do. My friend keeps selling his cars and getting a different one just so they dont follow him around. Thats what its like around here. But Im not gonna just pick up an move because someone decides they dont like me. Thats part of the reason I bought the Escort I have. Theres 3 more in the same color just on my street! They leave you alone if you drive a non-descript car like that. But if you actually own something nice, like my friends black SRT4, you get targeted. Even the officer that wrote me a ticket while I was in my PT said, you drive a nice car, you can afford a ticket like this.
Im not saying everyone is like this. There are a lot of nice officers around. When I wrecked my electra, the guy was real nice, helped out a lot. Judges too, the judge in my original speeding case was very helpful. Theres a female officer in town here that used to come into my old store a lot, she stopped my buddy while we were in his SRT4 with his daughter, we were going a little bit too fast (because she had to use the bathroom) but the officer was real nice and understanding. So, like I said, its a matter of who knows who in these small towns. There arent enough people to blend in.
And it does happen around here more than you think. My friend used to own a 86 Lincoln MKVI back in high school. He bought it dirt cheap and fixed it up. But everytime the cops saw an 18 year old driving a "nice" car, they BS'd their way into stopping him (got reports of a car matching your description doing...whatever) and used that opportunity to seach his car for anything illegal. They once tore his entire car apart in the local gas station lot.
They pulled him over once for loud muffler, then wrote him a ticket. A few miles down the road, another trooper pulls him over. Loud exhaust, writes him a ticket. another 10 miles down the road, same thing. They just wanted to mess with him.
I was followed once late at night 8-9pm, there was a car right on my tail and it wouldnt pass, for probably 10 miles. I ended up pulling off the road into a turnaround, and he pulled right in behind me. Im like wtf? So I get out of my car to turn around and look to see what the problem is and an officer gets out of an umarked car and draws his gun on me. Goes through my whole car, I had just bought some iced tea and he also thought that was beer or something. Only explaination he came up with was (there was a report of a car matching your description blah blah blah) BS.
You have to realize, up here, town populations are in the single digit thousands. My high school class graduated 40 students. If an officer decides he doesnt like you, or wants to pick on you, they do. My friend keeps selling his cars and getting a different one just so they dont follow him around. Thats what its like around here. But Im not gonna just pick up an move because someone decides they dont like me. Thats part of the reason I bought the Escort I have. Theres 3 more in the same color just on my street! They leave you alone if you drive a non-descript car like that. But if you actually own something nice, like my friends black SRT4, you get targeted. Even the officer that wrote me a ticket while I was in my PT said, you drive a nice car, you can afford a ticket like this.
Im not saying everyone is like this. There are a lot of nice officers around. When I wrecked my electra, the guy was real nice, helped out a lot. Judges too, the judge in my original speeding case was very helpful. Theres a female officer in town here that used to come into my old store a lot, she stopped my buddy while we were in his SRT4 with his daughter, we were going a little bit too fast (because she had to use the bathroom) but the officer was real nice and understanding. So, like I said, its a matter of who knows who in these small towns. There arent enough people to blend in.
