Posted on 09/19/2010 5:47:12 PM PDT by Redcitizen
In what he calls an "educational video" that's widely circulated on YouTube, comedian Chris Rock offers advice on what to do when you get pulled over for a traffic violation.
"Obey the law" he says. "Stop immediately" and "stay in your car with your hands on the wheel." Finally, "if your woman is mad at you, leave her at home. There's nothing she'd like to see more than you getting your [you-know-what] kicked."
It's a dead-on spoof of a hard truth: Respect authority. If you don't, you increase the odds of a pricey ticket.
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A Wyoming State Trooper pulled me over while I was on a long drive home from Peterson AFB. He asked me if I knew how fast I was going. I apologized and I said I didn't know how fast I was going, but I had realized I was speeding when I saw him on the side of the road. He asked me twice more before and after checking my documents. Again I said I didn't know my exact speed.
My best guess is either he wanted to see if I would lie or he had a problem with his radar gun. He let me off with a warning.
“I think it is none of their business and also think their being informed that you have a permit is a despicable practice.”
In some states, it’s a pretty serious crime not to inform an officer if you are carrying. Also, if you are drving a car titled in your name, they will know you have a permit anyway when they run your plates.
Got into a nasty wreck once in OH. Although shaken up, I immediately informed the officer who showed up that I had a CCW permit and there was a firearm in the wreck that used to be my car. I then asked him what he would like me to do: Get it and give it to him, leave it, or give him my keys so he could get it. He calmly requested that I get it, I did (maintaining a safe hold on the holster), and gave it to him. No problems. He even ended up giving me a lift home afterward, and then returned my firearm to me.
Then again, when stopped while walking in another small town in OH (case of mistaken identity), I almost had a female cop draw down on me when she ran my license. I wasn’t carrying, but she all but wigged. Unsnapped the catch on her sidearm, put her hand on the gun, and shifter her feet. Fortunately, I immediately informed her partner that while I had a CCW permit, I wasn’t carrying. Offered them to search me. He calmly verified that I wasn’t the person they were looking for and let me walk away.
Not sure if those experiences have any meaning re: tell or not tell (unless your state requires you to), but thought I’d offer them up for consideration.
PS Forgot about that female cop and her partner in my 4/1 good/bad cop count above. Guess it’s 5/2...
I don’t really care what cops make up about concealed rights and laws. I care about obeying the law.
Agree.
Many years ago, I was driving around the tiny town of Clayhatchee. I was driving a plain unmarked Datsun with only a concealed radio. I was a Federal LEO.
I noticed the local cop eying me as I guess he was curious who I was. Finally he pulled me over and I knew I was not breaking any laws. When he asked for id instead of license, I knew I had him. I pulled out my pocket commission with our agency seal and badge. His reply was “Oh sh**” He then apologized and I just let it go even tho I could have gotten him into a little trouble if I had wanted to. No, I didn’t tell him I was carrying.
Well, with a fed agency badge, you could have been doing something wrong, and he probably still wouldn’t have touched you. As a fed, you are (were?) nearly untouchable.
Us little people don’t have that protection. We’re a LOT more “touchable.”
Nothing against you, but it shouldn’t be that way. Sigh. Then again, “should” is like “fair”: nice in the story books, but not part of real life...
“In some states, it’s a pretty serious crime not to inform an officer if you are carrying. “
Gotta know the state laws. In AZ, you are NOT required to volunteer the info, but will be in serious trouble if you lie about it. And in AZ, there in no linkage between you driver’s license and CCW permit...which isn’t much of a requirement anymore.
But if I go out of state and carry, I’d read all the details of their laws first.
Oh...and the instructor of the CCW class I took recommended NOT volunteering the info, after he did and got a face full of .40 Glock, finger on the trigger, with the officer shouting, “Don’t move! Hand it over!” He figured he was about 5-6 lbs away from dying...which is also what I think happened to the Spokane pastor who was shot. An angry cop with his finger on a Glock trigger is an accidental shooting waiting to happen...
I'm armed and have 2 bodies in the trunk.
LOL! Best story I’ve heard all year.
The mistaken identity always has me spooked - so I’m always real careful. A brother of a gal I knew back in college got in a LOT of trouble with a buddy. They were pulled over and the cops thought they were killers, theives or something pretty bad.
The cops had them out of the car - roughing them up to get their hands on the trunk, etc. The one kid was resisting - probably out of confusion and such. The cop started hitting him with his baton pretty bad.
That is when the other kid got the gun out of the holster of the other cop and held it on them to get him to stop beating his buddy. But about the same time the backup came. The kid dropped the gun, and the other kid calmed down.
I don’t remember all of the details, but they spent some time in jail - but not as much as I thought they would have for pulling a gun on a cop. Although I think the dad of the kid was a judge in another state and thought that might have played a part.
In Texas, you have to disclose. But Texas cops tend to be like, “yeah, whatever, it’s Texas,” even the thugcops in :deleted:.
So, yep, Mike decided to take it to the next level... illegally passing the offending driver on the right... then to pacing the guy, trying to make eye contact as he yelled obscenities out the window.
Well, the other driver looked over and right when Mike just started to extend his middle finger at the guy... the other driver simultaneously pulls out a sign that said "NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE - OFFICIAL BUSINESS" and pointed angrily at the side of the road for Mike to pull over. Talk about a "D'oh!" moment! Mike slowly retracted his extended middle finger and carefully brought his extended arm back inside his vehicle... all in slow motion like he was trying to defuse a bomb.
Well, while completely tearing into Mike on the side of the road, a whole fleet of NJSP cars shows up as backup (incident happened about 2 miles from a NJSP barracks that was, at this point, unmanned). After ripping Mike apart, the other driver goes back to talk to the responding Troopers... then rushes back to his car and pulls off (NJSP OFFICIAL BUSINESS, no doubt), leaving Mike in the care of the five or six State Troopers.
One of the Troopers walked up to Mike, laughing, and said, "You picked the wrong guy to pull that stunt with! Do you have any idea who that was?!?".
Mike sheepishly replied, "Uh.... No?"
"Dude, that was Colonel Clinton L. Pagano... the HEAD of the New Jersey State Police! Wait here.", the Trooper said as he walked away shaking his head in disbelief.
I only wish I could do the whole story justice... whenever Mike tells the story, it's EPIC and everyone listening is rolling on the floor laughing, regardless of how many times they have heard him tell the story before. Seriously, the story, like most of Mike's tales from his youth, needs to be recorded as part of legend/folklore/oral history.
My first run in with that issue was pretty scary, too: The Latern at Ohio State ran a picture of a campus area rapist. A friend joked that it looked like me. I didn’t think it was so funny. The saving fact was he was 5’8”, while I was 6’2”. Still a couple nervous days til he caught caught...
“I haven’t had a night all drink!”
Um, Lantern at Ohio State...
“On the occasions I have been pulled over, I have noticed that the police say: “Do you know why I stopped you?”
The correct answer to this question without admitting guilt is:
“It is your part of your responsibilities as a law enforcement officer.”
go get yourself another donut and get out of my way.
I don’t know about what not to say......but I do know what not to do when taking your driving test for your license. This is what I did that prevented me from getting my license on my 16th birthday back in 1975.
1. (not a violation) I had to sit on a cushion to drive my Dad’s 70 Buick LeSabre.
2. Forgot to use my signal when changing lanes.
3. Had to perform a three-point-turn - in the aforementioned “boat” - bumped over the curb with both front and rear wheels.
4. Speeding - doing 40 MPH halfway between the 35 and 45 signs.
5. Driving on the wrong side of the road, by turning short in the crossover of a divided highway when turning back into the test facility.
6. Bumped the crub again when parking.
Took my five tries to get my license.
My uncle and primary care taker is a Sherrif’s Deputy. He says that yes sirs and no ma’ams handle most things. keep your hands on the wheel till you are instructed. Keeps the good cops good and safe.
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