Being tailgated by a cop for going the speed limit

April 12, 2024

[Steely Tom]

That’s creepy, no lie.

[tired&retired]

Slam on your brakes and say Hello to him. 😁

[sit-rep]

for 20 years, it still amazes me threads like this get any attention at all...

[Hot Tabasco]

I was pulled over by a cop once and he asked me why I was driving so fast.

I told him my ex-girlfriend had left me for a cop and I thought it was him trying to bring her back.

[MayflowerMadam]

Good one.

[Menes]

That sounds like an episode from the Twilight Zone…horrible.

So glad that you were ultimately not harmed🙂

[Menes]

If that police officer had been me, I would have been ROTFL, like Pee Wee Herman at the beginning of the sketch with the stolen bicycle😀

[Menes]

If that police officer had been me, I would have been ROTFL, like Pee Wee Herman at the beginning of the sketch with the stolen bicycle😀

Oh, and no ticket for Mr/Mrs Hot Tabasco, of course🙂

[Sirius Lee]

I always drive ten over the limit unless there's a cop behind me. Then I slow down to five over the limit. Every cop I know tells me that someone driving the posted limit is practically probable cause. Dopes with drugs or felons with illegal guns - unless they're driving Honda Crvs or Rav4s or ford escapes - those are just women who are annoying and slow.

The Ducati is a whole other story.

[Justa]

Cruise control is your friend.

[cyclotic]

I had one tailgate me for miles for no apparent reason. I recognized her as the deputy who hated men. Of course when she pulled me over she wouldn’t tell me why. I was younger then and not hip to their games.

She finally came back and in an annoyed voice I asked if she was now going to tell me why she pulled me over?

She claimed that my license plate tab was peeling off and she couldn’t tell if it was this year or last year.

I looked at her and said “Oh, were last years green too?”

With a Huff, she turned and stomped off.

This same deputy came up to a friend of mine and grabbed him around the neck without identifying herself. Within seconds she was on her back with his boot on her chest.

He didn;t get in any trouble for that one. She was wrong.

[Delta 21]

The cop knows who’s car it is, and if everything is current before he pulls you over. The plate scanning cameras and software have become a constant super fast computerized monitor of the public.

[RandallFlagg]

When I read this thread...

I'm reminded of this scene...

[TChad]

“Oh, were last years green too?”

You "won," but she could have turned that into an expensive victory by "finding" a little bag in your car with cocaine in it.

[cyclotic]

Sh had no probable cause to pull me over let alone search my car.

[Gaffer]

It’s the ‘easy revenue and quota’ mode all wrapped up in a quick hit. The thing you really have to watch out for is if one of these moogs has arm tats all over both arms.

[TChad]

She had no probable cause to pull me over let alone search my car.

She was a bad cop. Who knows if a bad cop will care about probable cause?

If I had my tailgating cop episode to do over, I would have tried to wait until I could pull off in a lighted area with people to observe my bad cop's actions.

[cyclotic]

Better idea. Always record every interaction.

[TChad]

Better idea. Always record every interaction.

If possible, yes.

[cyclotic]

How is it not possible?