https://defundpolice.org/
Posted on 09/03/2025 12:02:30 PM PDT by algore
The Dodge Charger EV does not have an exhaust; it is an electric car.
It may sometimes make noises like it does, but it doesn’t, and that can make it awkward when a police officer pulls you over for allegedly creating a public nuisance with a “super loud” muffler—just as one state trooper did to a Charger EV owner named Mike earlier this summer in Minnesota.
We got in touch with Mike
He was stopped at an intersection, “about eight cars deep,” and when the light turned green, he said the lead car “peeled away loud as hell.”
“I was left at the stoplight with a red light,” Mike told The Drive. “I looked to my left, and there was a state trooper across the street from me.
He passed me and whipped a U-turn. Came up behind me as the light turned green and followed me into a gas station and lit me up. Initiated a traffic stop.”
“The trooper stepped up and immediately told me my car’s exhaust was way too loud and was disturbing the peace,” Mike continued.
“I tried telling him it’s an EV and doesn’t have an exhaust or an engine, and he stated he’s not gonna argue with me.”
Eventually, the cop serves Mike a ticket, seen by The Drive, that lists three offenses: “loud muffler/loud exhaust,” “front and rear license plates required,” and “public nuisance—annoy/injure/endanger safety.”
As he’s verbally listing these in the video, he says that Mike’s “been warned for [his] muffler in the past,” to which Mike tells him that the prior instance involved a gas car, not the Charger. “I’m not going to argue with you,” the officer responds.
As for the public nuisance charge, the officer tells Mike he was “super loud back there,”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
Video of incident: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN4fMYLjG5H/
IIRC dodge was going to have a mimic sound system on the charger EVs so it could sound and feel like a Hemi. Was this one of those?
yes it had that, but it was off.
Even if it was not off, it is 50 state noise compliant
Where’s all the boot lickers in this group dutifully defending the copper? eerily quiet. Strange.
What an asswipe...
https://defundpolice.org/
You know there really are a lot of bad cops and they need to be called out. Just because you are against one cop does not make you a defund the police a$$hole...
Nope. nice try though. haha.
A lot of those little green figures on that sticker look like aliens, except for the third humaniod from the left, which resembles a small Bigfoot.
The figure in the middle looks like an elongated Grey, a.k.a “E.T.”, from the movie of the same name.
Support all cops no matter what is as bad as not supporting the cops.
“Even if it was not off, it is 50 state noise compliant”
I am not versed in the regs but I know that my exhaust is only “legal” in one mode.
“You know there really are a lot of bad cops and they need to be called out. Just because you are against one cop does not make you a defund the police a$$hole...”
He didn’t call out the cop.
He called out the people here on FR who defund the police no matter what they do. But you already knew that...
Molehill meets mountain. Cop mistook which vehicle made noise. Ticket will go away by showing vehicle doesn’t have a muffler, nor an exhaust. Whether fake exhaust sound was on will be recorded in the car’s computer. Fake exhaust sound should be under decibel limits. If not, manufacturer could get sued.
What’s that old saying? Back the blue, till it happens to you. I don’t do the blue.
“Where’s all the boot lickers in this group dutifully defending the copper?”
Where’s all the criminal cop haters?
Oh wait...
How’s that Waco motorcycle thing going?
“He called out the people here on FR who defund the police no matter what they do. “
He did not.
They will be here. It is only the fourth comment.
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