Biggest break you ever got from a cop...

MaggieD said:

Mine was yesterday. Got stopped for having expired license plates.

Me: "OMG! I must've forgotten to put the little sticker on.

LEO: Uhhh, yeah, I checked that. You haven't paid. Your sticker expired 1/31/2016."

Me: "OMG!"

He checked my license, came back and gave me a warning. Pointed me to the currency exchange a half-mile up the road.

Can you imagine! A whole year I've driven with expired plates? Wellllll, they aren't expired any more.....

How about you?

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You probably used your feminine wilds. Who could write you a ticket Maggie?

But to answer the question..... hmmmm..........

Call me boring but I have never been on the bad side of the law.

I have been driving legally 45 years. Once, a long time ago, a state trooper let me slide doing 79 in a 65 and also because I could not find my insurance card in my big pile of mess.

I promised him that I would do my very best, for as long as I drive, to always focus and obey all laws of the road. And, to this day, I have kept that promise.

Seriously, I drive so good it will piss you off, riding with me. Full stops. (1001, 1002, 1003... go.) Cruise control on the speed limit.

The Trooper did me a solid. And I kept my word.

Win-win.

Captain America said:

You probably used your feminine wilds. Who could write you a ticket Maggie?

But to answer the question..... hmmmm..........

Call me boring but I have never been on the bad side of the law.

I have been driving legally 45 years. Once, a long time ago, a state trooper let me slide doing 79 in a 65 and also because I could not find my insurance card in my big pile of mess.

I promised him that I would do my very best, for as long as I drive, to always focus and obey all laws of the road. And, to this day, I have kept that promise.

Seriously, I drive so good it will piss you off, riding with me. Full stops. (1001, 1002, 1003... go.) Cruise control on the speed limit.

The Trooper did me a solid. And I kept my word.

Win-win.

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Love this story!

MaggieD said:

Love this story!

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You know that "bad boy," kinda guy that is somewhat mysterious, lone-wolf, different drummer, "chick magnet" dude that get's lucky with all the lady's?

Well, that ain't me. :3oops:

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1974, stationed in GTMO, Cuba, I bought a 74 Dart through the Navy Exchange, plan was to take delivery in Norfolk, VA since I had a set of orders transferring me there. I joined the Navy in Texas where they let you use your drivers license past expiration date until you leave the military. Cardboard plates and temporary registration, issued in Cuba via Navy Exchange. Insurance was issued from New York, a policy number written on letterhead from Geico, thanks to an agent who was slow getting paperwork done so a much higher up employee took over.
So, expired Texas drivers license, Cuba plates, pending registration from Norfolk, insurance from NY, transfer orders to Norfolk with interim orders to California to attend Crypto School. We were on our way to Idaho to drop off the family while I went to school. Driving in Colorado I was coasting down a hill and exceeded 55 in a speed trap.

Cop stopped me....
Ask yourself, if you were the cop, would you willingly accept the challenge? He waved me on down the road...

Not many breaks. But I have been fortunate TONS of times.

I can tell one time where the cop may have given me a ticket because of a football game.

I was driving through Wyoming in a car with Iowa plates on it on the very might that the Iowa Hawkeyes beat the Wyoming Cowboys in the Holiday Bowl. It was really snowing like mad, but this trooper pulled me over at about 2 or 3 a.m. (just after the game).
As I sat in his car, he wrote up some ticket for something I thought was Mickey Mouse (cannot remember what).
WHen he was done and handed me the ticket, he said 'did you hear the Holiday Bowl?' I said 'Yeah'. Then he looked at my car in front of us and said 'your from Iowa. huh' and gave me a weird, smart ass smile and then handed me the ticket.
I swear, the ONLY reason he gave me that ticket were my Iowa plates and the football game that night (BTW - I am ALWAYS polite to cops).
What are the odds?
True story.

I don't like troopers...overzealous bunch. Normal cops I like though - generally (I almost married a cop's daughter).

Maybe I can think of one time I got a break.

I was driving home from a bar with a buddy of mine in my Z/28 - doing about 100 mph. I had a REALLY cheap radar detector which suddenly lit up like a Christmas stree, so I immediately slammed on my brakes and got down to the legal limit (50 mph).
SUddenly a cop was on my tail and pulled us over. He searched through my car for the radar detector (illegal where I was), but I had slipped it in a boot (it was winter) and even though he picked up the boot - he did not see it inside.
I then went to his car and he said that he knew I had a radar detector because he clocked he doing 100 mph but before it locked, the measured speed shot down to 65 mph (looks like the detector worked after all). But that's not the break he gave me.
They had just come out with portable breathalyzers and asked me if I wanted to try it as they were just trying them out for the public to get used to them. I knew I was over (but apparently I don't act drunk unless I am REALLY drunk) so I declined. But he said, don't worry, it won't count. After getting reassurance from him for a few seconds, I agreed. He said he was sure I would not blow over.
Well, sure enough, I blew over (not by miles, but enough).
He looked very surprised. he gave me a ticket for speeding and said 'just drive straight home, okay'. I obviously agreed, thanked him and considered myself EXTREMELY fortunate.

The wife and I were on a bus, leaving TX. The bus was stopped by border patrol. At the time my wife had overstayed her visa. She is from Canada. And I happened to have about a 1/2 oz of pot on me as well. And of course they had a drug dog with them. I was sitting next to a stranger, when I saw the dog. I asked him if that was the drug dog there, and he replies looks like it. The next thing he knows I'm eating a bag of pot. And telling my wife to sound like she's from Minnesota.

Well of course as we are getting off the bus, the guy who watched me eat all the pot informed the officers that I ate a bunch of pot. Which prompted vigorous searches and checks of ID. They had nothing on me, but they did discover my wife was Canadian. And had overstayed. This is when I discovered that Border Patrol gives not to ****s about Canadian overstays. They asked us if she was going back anytime soon, and I said yes. And then they gave me a lecture about transporting drugs across state lines, but seeing as how I looked like a nice kid they wouldn't arrest me.

I got back on the bus, and I made sure I sat next to the snitch. I just stared at him the entire 8 hour ride. Thank god for white privilege.

UtahBill said:

1974, stationed in GTMO, Cuba, I bought a 74 Dart through the Navy Exchange, plan was to take delivery in Norfolk, VA since I had a set of orders transferring me there. I joined the Navy in Texas where they let you use your drivers license past expiration date until you leave the military. Cardboard plates and temporary registration, issued in Cuba via Navy Exchange. Insurance was issued from New York, a policy number written on letterhead from Geico, thanks to an agent who was slow getting paperwork done so a much higher up employee took over.
So, expired Texas drivers license, Cuba plates, pending registration from Norfolk, insurance from NY, transfer orders to Norfolk with interim orders to California to attend Crypto School. We were on our way to Idaho to drop off the family while I went to school. Driving in Colorado I was coasting down a hill and exceeded 55 in a speed trap.

Cop stopped me....
Ask yourself, if you were the cop, would you willingly accept the challenge? He waved me on down the road...

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:lamo

That's a great story!