[BrooklynGOP]

Cops can pull you over and give you a ticket for *anything* they want. They were pulling over cars 3-4 at a time last week. I got pulled over as well, the cop claimed that I was driving on the "zebra" lines (shoulder, basically) which was a lie. I had a passenger in my car, so I am fighting it.

[newwahoo]

It might be a hard fight. We'll pull over people in groups in spots like that just because the locations are marked clearly, making testimony in court easier.

You may get lucky though if the cop is a new guy like me. The testimony we have to present is like a little complicated dance ("I was approx. 50 feet from the corner, traffic was moderate heading southbound, the traffic control devices were functioning and hanging approx. 30 ft. from the ground, etc."), and we're not as good at doing it as the more experienced officers. If the cop is from the Highway unit you're really in trouble. I saw one of them beat 6 guys in a row at court a while ago.

[Gerish]

You should fight it! My husband got stopped once because the officer thought he didn't have his seatbelt on. After trying to get him to admit it, he wrote him up for "failure to keep right." He fought it and won (cop did not show up to court).

Regardless, it really makes the average Joe angry when police officers want respect from people and run around writing up bogus tickets to fill their quota for the month.

[Spirited]

"Cops can pull you over and give you a ticket for *anything* they want."

You mean whatever they imagine.