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Jan 16, 07
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Just got the weirdest speeding ticket
I'm heading Northbound to get on the Lion's Gate Bridge and I pass a police car that wasn't turned on at the South end of the bridge. I was going 100kph in a 50 zone. :(
I'm almost to the other end of the bridge and this car comes zooming up behind me and the flashers get turned on so I pull over. Cop: "Didn't you see me?" Me: "Yes I did" Cop: "How come you didn't slow down then? I got pretty upset that you didn't at least try to slow down" Me: "Well I didn't think you were going to bother. I thought you would have nailed me before I almost got off the bridge if you wanted to pull me over." Cop: "Really?" Me: "Yes" Cop: "Well instead of giving you a $186 ticket for excessive speeding I'm reducing it to the minimum fine of $138." I'm like WTF?  Must be my charm or something. 
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Honesty.
Cops (for the most part) are looking for people who are speeding who are impared or cannot control the vehicle at higher speeds. So, if you were aware of your speed (as you stated to him you were) then its not as bad as if you had said "OMG LIKE IM LATE FOR WORK!". You showed that you knew what you were doing, and you were honest about it. And you were nice, and polite.
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Thanks man... that was funny.
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Nice one! It always pays to be courteous to the Law. Sometimes they are actually nice and give you a break like that.
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Yeah , sometimes you melt a little butter on their asses and they can relent a bit....
In my unfortunate circumstance.... ....im 15 years old walking around a main intersection in toronto around 10pm....Cop stops me in my tracks.... Officer: " Kinda late for you to be out?? Where you going? " (its a fuckin saturday night ... c'mon) Me: " just heading to a friends house sir , have a good night.." ( I proceed to walk away ) Officer: " hey hey , wait , whats in that big bag you have??? Come back here for a sec..." (I had a knapsac on me with about almost a lb of herb on me...Busted. ) Me: "Okay , you know what..Im just gonna give you this bag..we both already know whats in it..Im just gonna give it to you w/ no problems..walk away and we'll forget this happened " Officer: " haha ... uuuuhh no , that'll happen when pigs fly.." Me: " You fuckers have choppers dont you? " (insert arrest here...) Yeah.... sometimes being polite doesnt work. But it was a good laugh afterwards! : D My mother's dodged well over 20 parking/speeding tickets and all kindsa other lame roadside shit.
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Ive always been polite and apoligetic... always gotten the lowest rate or a second chance. I dont understand why anyone would give a cop a abd time... your only going to make it worse in most cases. Although I do find that weird that you admited to speeding so he gave you a break? I would of thought using an excuse like you where running late for something or having a bad day would work better??? Im starting to question the physcology of the justice system :?
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It depends on a few things.
- if the cop is having a bad day or not - if he hasnt hit his "quota" for the day - a personal judgement of wether the thinks the situation was uncontrollable , not really a danger to the public *(or anyone on the road)* or if he would do it himself.
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did he clock you on radar? Because if it was a drive by turn around to pull you over, then it's under the assumption you were speeding and they will ask you questions for you to basicaly tell them your guilty so they will write you a ticket. They can't give you a big one, but a ticket none the less. If you would of played dumb then you woulden't of got one at all! :)
"Do you know how fast you were going?" "No!" "Ok, bye."
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And thank God I did spend all the money on that equipment or I wouldn't be driving due to all the other speeding tickets I would already have.
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The one time I got busted in Canada was because my Ex had unplugged it to charge her Phone and forgot to re-plug it back in. :032:
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Jan 16, 07
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The laser countermeasures I have saved me from 7 speeding tickets already.
The only time other than this that I got a ticket was in Oregon when I can shadowed by a Trooper in a unmarked Camaro for about 3 minutes on the I-5.
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