Tell us your Funniest excuse to get out of a ticket.

[Beegs]

Here's mine:

I moved about two years ago. I was using my pickup along with a BIG deckover trailer, deck sits about 3 feet high. My brother and I were almost done moving my stuff, all I had left was a Z50 Honda mini-bike and few odds and ends. We put the little crap in the bed of my truck and we came up with a brilliant idea: We would put my brother on the mini-bike on the middle of the trailer and I would drive us through town. As we got rolling along I was laughing so hard I could barely drive. My brother sitting up there with his shades, sitting on this tiny bike! Here comes the first cop: He looks up, my bro gives him a big thumbs up and the cop starts laughing and drives on. whew

Cop number two initially found no humor in what we were doing and pulled us over. He walks up to my door (whole time my bro is still sitting on the mini-bike) screaming: "I've been doing this a long time and I have never seen anything this stupid, you think this is funny huh?" "What the hell do you exactly think you are doing?"
Me: "We are reenacting our favorite Chips episode."
It worked, him and I started to laugh like hell, he said: "put the bike in the back of the truck and get outa here!"

[JoshStratton]

I fluff up my tah-tahs and play the innocent cheerleader routine. Works everytime.

[dhardison]

I fluff up my tah-tahs and play the innocent cheerleader routine. Works everytime.Looks like you might need to do a little more fluffing...... :scared:

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[Beegs]

I fluff up my tah-tahs and play the innocent cheerleader routine. Works everytime.

LOL I guess the hair on your tah-tahs didn't scare him off?

[6'9"Witha69]

Looks like you might need to do a little more fluffing...... :scared:

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Good catch Dan!!

[JoshStratton]

I dont know who that is.:hammer:

[Bow Tie 67]

Good one, my story is not so funny, more stupid. When asked why I was driving so fast, ( 105 in a 55 ) at 3 a.m. I replied " I'm very tired and want to get to bed asap. " He arrested me.

[Beegs]

Good one, my story is not so funny, more stupid. When asked why I was driving so fast, ( 105 in a 55 ) at 3 a.m. I replied " I'm very tired and want to get to bed asap. " He arrested me.

LOL :hammer:

[Cobra Vic]

I got pulled over doing 45 in a 35 the Sheriff asks " do you have any idea how fast you where going"
to which I reply "well my GPS said I was doing 37 mph"
he says "GPS what's GPS?" so after spending 20 minutes showing how a gps works he says "you know I think I heard about this on Jeopardy one time" and let me go.

[chet]

I got pulled over doing 100km in a 70 zone. When the cop asked me if I knew how fast I was going I said obviously fast enough to get pulled over. He chuckled then asked me if I knew anyone looking to buy an IROC camaro he had for sale? I said maybe but only if I don't get a ticket! He agreed and I gave him the name of a friend that just came to mind. As soon as I drove off I called my buddy and told him to sound interested if a guy called with a car for sale!

[Damn True]

I'm a guy. Therefore, I've never gotten out of a ticket.

[6'9"Witha69]

It was 3 am, and we were Changings heads in my buddies '76 Hurst T/A. We were on the way back from the 24 hour auto parts store and decided to do some brodies in the park (we were very young and stupid, I know). It had been raining very heavily and my '84 Mustang GT got stuck in the grass. Just as we were getting ready to get out and try to push, a Sergeant pulls up and asks "what the hell are you doing in my park!!". We stated we were trying to get to the top of the hill to pray for his car before we returned to my other buddies shop and that on the way up the service road we spun of the path. The officer actually called AAA for us and once we were out, he left. Not another word. The rookie who pulled up during the whole thing said he had never seen him go soft on anyone. Ever.

[shmoov69]

Well, I did not get out of it, but the cops were pretty humored by the fact that me and a buddy did a little "street racing" one night from a stop light with the cops sitting right behind us the whole time. Needless to say, we did not see them! They came up to me laughing at me that I got my @ss handed to me by a "little Eclipse"! This was before the turbo's on my car and my buddies AWD Talon was hopped quite well! I did get a speeding ticket instead of a CNI or Drag Racing ticket though. My buddy did drive off though (after they got his license #, stoopid!) and showed up at his house at about 3 AM!

[Bill Howell]

Someone sent me a joke yesterday about this very subject.
A guy gets pulled over, in a known speed trap area and the cop starts giving him a ration. The cop says," Yep, son, I have been waiting on you all day."
The kid replies, " Sorry about that, I have been busy all day, but I did get here as fast as I could!"
Cop sees the humor and lets the guy go....

I have never seemed to have the charm to get out of a ticket on the spot but have both made phone calls to other officers to get them to get it torn up, and also, done some "innovative repair work orders" to explain why the speedo was off so much. That one really works, done it more than once. Paid the ticket fee, but no points both times.

[Mike Holleman]

Wasn't anything I said that got me out of a ticket, but it's a true story. Back in 1970 I was leaving work one afternoon in my 427 66 Chevelle. A buddy(that happened to be black) that worked at the Auto Shop next door saw me pulling out and pulled a shop rag out of his pocket and flagged me off. Needless to say I left in a cloud of tire smoke. Just as the smoke cleared I see a NC Highway Patrol car right on my bumper. Turned out that it was two troopers and they just happened to be a Major and a Capt. They put me in the back seat and explained what I had just done was careless and reckless and they could lock me up and impound my car. I'm sweating blood and the Major leans over the seat and says " Son ,If we hadn't seen the N----r with the shop rag you would be going to jail right now, now get out of here and slow the F--k down."
Whew!!! I was still shaking an hour later. If they had called in my drivers license number they would have seen that I had only had my license back for a week and that was the third suspension in three years. I was 19.
Haven't had a ticket since.
Mike

[mpozzi]

This is going back a few (gazillion) years but I'm sure the guy that ended up practicing his signature hasn't forgotten it!! I was late meeting my hubby (not Dave but his predecessor) and was trying to make up time flying up the interstate in my 240Z. Now this Z was almost ready to be taken off the street for a full-time career in autocrossing so the body was lightened, the car very quick, had +1 wheels and tires before this was the hot thing to do, and it handled and stopped real good.

It was getting dusk and this Z was "anti-glare" grey, aka primer, so didn't attract too much attention. Now this was back when the speed limit was 55 MPH everywhere and I was probably doing about 90!! It felt good . . . threading my way through other cars that resembled moving pylons, taking advantage of clear spaces to haul butt, and really trying to get from Point A to Point B in the least amount of time.

Well . . . I looked back and saw something black with a white top and a bubble-rack moving at about the same speed as me about a half-mile back and I thought "I can make it to the overpass and get a good head start on this guy" knowing that if you get 30 seconds and 2 turns on them, it's a good bet you can beat Motorola.

Downshifted from fifth gear to third, stood on it, heard the triple-Webers grab air for all they were worth, shifted to fourth at about 110, was contemplating fifth gear again when I saw the bubbles light up like Christmas. Damn CHP was getting with it and as I came to the top of the overpass I knew there was too much real estate between me and the next offramp. The 30-second rule was out the window, it was going to be ugly, and a definite "Oh S**T" moment flashed in my mind.

Now remember, it's almost dusk. The overpass has taken my car out of the line of sight of the cop. And plodding along in the slow lane at the end of the overpass is a silver 280Z. Still out of sight, I brake and downshift like mad. I move over in front of the 280Z at about 60 MPH and this guy now grows a very fine set of balls and decides to show me just how quick his car is. The guy changes lanes and gets that loud pedal going like he's been hit with a cattle prod, and starts past me just as the CHP flew down the overpass.

Now there's two Z's, one old and the other newer, both grey, one being driven by a very innocent looking female with a firmly etched poker face and the other by a Mario Andretti wanna-be who's just applied the brakes trying to get slowed down again in a hurry. The 280Z makes tracks back into the slow lane and the CHP flanks us for another mile before deciding which one of us was going to get a "time-out" on the side of the road.

The CHP decided on the 280Z and I continued up the freeway at 55 MPH, driving sedately, and met hubby. And he didn't even question why I let HIM drive from there . . .

Mary Pozzi

[69Nova]

Now thats funny. Talk about being lucky to see another Z.

[DeepBlue68]

I'm a guy. Therefore, I've never gotten out of a ticket.
I'll second that one. I almost never get out of a ticket. It's happened one time, and that was because I got pulled over for 2 different violations, and he only gave me one.

[Beegs]

Well, I did not get out of it, but the cops were pretty humored by the fact that me and a buddy did a little "street racing" one night from a stop light with the cops sitting right behind us the whole time. Needless to say, we did not see them! They came up to me laughing at me that I got my @ss handed to me by a "little Eclipse"! This was before the turbo's on my car and my buddies AWD Talon was hopped quite well! I did get a speeding ticket instead of a CNI or Drag Racing ticket though. My buddy did drive off though (after they got his license #, stoopid!) and showed up at his house at about 3 AM!

Too funny!

[vanzuuk1]

I used to get out of a lot of tickets, there are a lot of tricks but they dont always work. Keep it short and somewhat honest. Never deny or admit anything, just keep the conversation going in a pleasant direction.

On the way back from daytona a few years back my buddy was in the back of the van with a broken back.(ama races) I was hauling ass to get home to new york and we got stopped three times. My buddy was laughing because each time I tried to talk my way out of it the cop shut me down and wrote the ticket. The last time the tropper looked the van and the bikes over, talked to the guy with the broken back and wrote the ticket anyway... he said "maybe you guys should split it." and walked away.

You can always tell the cop you have more horsepower than brainpower, that usually gets a chuckle.

[Jim Nilsen]

My brother who was a city cop for some years told me to tell the officer when he asked what I was doing ?

Well officer, I was driving with an ARI, when asked what an ARI is? Tell them, Anal Rectal Insertion, Basically driving with my head up my a$$.

He said if that doesn't work either they have heard it before or don't have a sense of humor, but he said they do love to hear a new one and a good laugh will sometimes get you off.

Jim Nilsen

[BADVELLE]

Unless you let me out of here, you and I are going to have a mess on our hands!! Works everytime!!

[boodlefoof]

Officer: "Do you know how fast you were going?"

Response: "I don't know officer, my speedometer stops at 120." (only works if you are wearing a tuxedo on a Saturday morning).

[go-fish]

Oct. 31. 5 or 6 years ago. My buddy's 16 year old sister had been talking up her Halloween trip to the graveyard with her boyfriend and some other kids. So what does an overprotective brother and his impressionable goons do? We set out to lay and wait for our prey, mainly to embarass the boyfriend. We go to the cemetery, pile out of the Duster and march on in to the dark graveyard.
We got to about the middle and there is a maglight in a running hand. It's a cop yelling at us to get down. It scared the begeesus out of us and the fight or flight syndrome was definately flashing FLIGHT, FLIGHT, FLIGHT! We easily outran the fat cop in the graveyard and were even poking fun at each other as we jumped back in the car because none of us were expecting to be scared out of our wits. I slammed the gas pedal and squealed the tires. Right at that moment the cherries and bluebearies lit up behind us. My buddies screamed for me to get out of there but they had false ideas of my car being super fast or something. I quickly came to the conclusion that the Duster was going to come to a halt. As soon as I stopped Two sets of headlight lit up in both lanes ahead and the chaser was blinding us with spotlights. Within seconds there was a whole brigade of cops drawing down on us. We were taken out of the car and were listening to each cop come up and tell us that we were going to jail, the car is getting impounded, and big tickets were coming.
The superior officer was the last to talk to us and he told me that I saved all of our butts from going to jail and nothing was going to happen because I stopped before I knew there was a roadblock and it showed that I was going to do the right thing anyway. All the cops started crackin up because we were all scared Shi*less! Then they said they would've tried the same thing if thier little sisters were going to a graveyard on halloween with her boyfriend.
The next day my buddy asked his sister if she ever made it out to the cemetery. She said, "No way, we heard there were alot of cops at cemeteries last night."

[Beegs]

Oct. 31. 5 or 6 years ago. My buddy's 16 year old sister had been talking up her Halloween trip to the graveyard with her boyfriend and some other kids. So what does an overprotective brother and his impressionable goons do? We set out to lay and wait for our prey, mainly to embarass the boyfriend. We go to the cemetery, pile out of the Duster and march on in to the dark graveyard.
We got to about the middle and there is a maglight in a running hand. It's a cop yelling at us to get down. It scared the begeesus out of us and the fight or flight syndrome was definately flashing FLIGHT, FLIGHT, FLIGHT! We easily outran the fat cop in the graveyard and were even poking fun at each other as we jumped back in the car because none of us were expecting to be scared out of our wits. I slammed the gas pedal and squealed the tires. Right at that moment the cherries and bluebearies lit up behind us. My buddies screamed for me to get out of there but they had false ideas of my car being super fast or something. I quickly came to the conclusion that the Duster was going to come to a halt. As soon as I stopped Two sets of headlight lit up in both lanes ahead and the chaser was blinding us with spotlights. Within seconds there was a whole brigade of cops drawing down on us. We were taken out of the car and were listening to each cop come up and tell us that we were going to jail, the car is getting impounded, and big tickets were coming.
The superior officer was the last to talk to us and he told me that I saved all of our butts from going to jail and nothing was going to happen because I stopped before I knew there was a roadblock and it showed that I was going to do the right thing anyway. All the cops started crackin up because we were all scared Shi*less! Then they said they would've tried the same thing if thier little sisters were going to a graveyard on halloween with her boyfriend.
The next day my buddy asked his sister if she ever made it out to the cemetery. She said, "No way, we heard there were alot of cops at cemeteries last night."

:lmao:

[BonzoHansen]

I don't have a good get out of a ticket story, at least that I remember. But I do remember the funniest statement (to me at least) a cop made to me: 'Where is your hood, son?'

[the_dude]

Cop: "do you know how fast you were going?"

Me: "lemme check"(then i rummaged through the box in the back seat and pulled out the guage cluster)"nope sir doesnt say!"(fully expected to get a ticket)

He laughed out loud "promise me you wont drive this POS untill its well and ready"

I had JUST bought the car and was on the way home.

really weirded me out he knew who I was and knew stories about me, I had never met this guy, turns out it was one of my employee's dads. GOOD thing she liked me!

[jb@ridetech]

i was pulled over on 465 in Indy going 85 in a 55, when the cop asked me why i was going so fast i told him to give me the ticket cause you would never believe me. well he had to know now, i told him ok its Sunday morning around 7:45 am and i am all dressed up. were do you think i am going? he said church, bingo and i am on my way to pick up my grandmother and only had 15 minutes to get there and it a 25 minute drive. he laughed and said well if your grandmother is anything like mine you better hurry and let me go.

[my72vette454]

Heres my story. Years ago when the speed limit was 55 on the freeways, me and a couple of friends were cruising into town, was just about dusk. We were the only car in the southbound lane and were cruising along about 75 or so. A state trooper passed us going north and turned his lights on but he had to go aways up the road to a turnaround to get on our side. I just kept going and watched him in the rear view mirror. As I was glancing back I came to a slight curve in the road and he disappeared from view for a second and there happened to be an off ramp just ahead so we shot off the ramp and parked under the overpass. A minute later we heard him coming and watched his lights reflecting off things as he went over top of us. We waited a minute and continued on the side road we were on and went on into town, lucked out that time. :smoke:

[rocketman]

I was coming from a cruise night,when going threw this little town speed limit was 25<i was running 25 but the motor lopin better hard and buckin around,well this officer was stopped alongside the road,cruised by nice and slow,went acouple 100 yrds,here he come's,I stop,He walks up you have mufflers I said yeah 2 of them,he said well this car is not legal it's to loud,I said you have a descible tester in your pocket, he said I just know,I said well when you find one,come let me,
know because you can't prove anything,he went to write the ticket,I said know is the Judge going to like you wasting his time when I tell him you have no proof,he let me go.

[LowBuckX]

3 years ago a buddy and me where heading to PA to race our RC Trucks.
We where heading down a 55 MPH zone doing 90+ A PA state trooper pulls us over. He walks up to the car and says "Sir can you step out of the car" My Buddy says "Nope"
The cop was sorta taken back at the reply and says "Sir if you dont step out of the car Im going to pepper spray you and drag you out" TO which my Buddy replys "Ok but will you please drag my wheelchair out too"
The wheelchair was clearly sitting in the drivers side rear seat disassembled but you could cleary see the chair and handicap plates.
He let us go no other questions asked.


In my early years We had a safe spot to street race.
One night I was racing a buddy in his 80 Camaro. We where neck and neck when we see the lights coming at us on the other side of the freeway.
When the cop got to about where we where he made a sharp turn to go across the median after us but all we saw in our rear views was dust and sod hitting the road but no car.
We got out of there and grabbed a differant car and went back to see what had happened.
The cop tried for the median U turn but when his car hit the gravel he over shot it and bit it into the ditch.

[Beegs]

3 years ago a buddy and me where heading to PA to race our RC Trucks.
We where heading down a 55 MPH zone doing 90+ A PA state trooper pulls us over. He walks up to the car and says "Sir can you step out of the car" My Buddy says "Nope"
The cop was sorta taken back at the reply and says "Sir if you dont step out of the car Im going to pepper spray you and drag you out" TO which my Buddy replys "Ok but will you please drag my wheelchair out too"
The wheelchair was clearly sitting in the drivers side rear seat disassembled but you could cleary see the chair and handicap plates.
He let us go no other questions asked.




LMAO!

[Vegas69]

I was about 18 and saw a bunch of friends hanging out in a parking lot. I had a 68 camaro that was yellow with black stripes at the time. I decided to punch it right in the middle of town to show off. I thought I was hot **** until I looked in my rear view mirror and had a state trooper on my ass. He pulled up beside me and gave me the thumbs up and drove on. Couldn't believe it.

[TonyHuntimer]

Great experiences!

When I was 18 I was driving my 55 oval window (VW Bug for those who don't know) home close to my curfew. I was preoccupied with my time and wasn't paying much attention to my surroundings. My stinger exhaust and I were blazing along pretty good through some corners at about 45MPH in a 25MPH residential area when all the sudden night turned red and blue. I pulled over right away. The officer asked, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" "Speeding?", I asked honestly. After a few awkward moments of silence he replied, "No. Your taillight is out." Then he added, "Have a good night."

The next day I checked the lights. One was out, but I know that honesty paid off.

Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

[nbecker]

Me and my friend were coming back from vegas last newyear keeping up with traffic at 85 in a 65, start to gain speed down a hill in 6th gear chp in the middle of the highway clock us at 95 pulled us over, "have you got a ticket in this yet?" "not yet". "this car doesnt sound stock,what have you done to it" so i tell him the mods.Then he tells me how much he likes 02 SS better than his 96 SS. Half hour later on my way ticketless.
I LIKE CAR GUY COPS ALOT BETTER THAN THE OTHER ONES!:twothumbs

[DeepBlue68]

I had a friend in high school whose dad owns a shop and races in the SCCA World Challenge. He was driving to Houston from Dallas in his daily driver Corvette (which they brought to showcase their Vette parts next to their trailer in the paddocks) on his way to the Houston Grand Prix and got pulled over. Apparently, the cop was a car guy and actually knew about the Trans Am series (which he was racing in at the time), and told him that he'd let him go under one condition: that he did a burnout when he took off. I wish my luck was that good

[WS6]

haha Deep Blue unless I am completely wrong I think you can mention the name. I mean how many Corvette World challenge shop owner/drivers are there in Texas?

[DeepBlue68]

haha Deep Blue unless I am completely wrong I think you can mention the name. I mean how many Corvette World challenge shop owner/drivers are there in Texas?
Yea, IIRC Lou's the only person in World Challenge (or Trans Am for that matter) out of Texas. L.G. Motorsports is the name of their shop in Wylie, TX. They do some sweet stuff out there. I wish I knew 10% of what Lou and his son know about cars, racing, suspension, chassis setup, etc.

[toofun]

Well I live in Massachusetts and it is pretty tough to get out of a ticket but heres a funny story.. I was driving a Toyota Supra turbo (1988) and was traveling down route one about 2:00 in the morning. 50 MILE AN HOUR speed limit I was doing 65.. All of a sudden I look in my rear view and I see this arsehole tailgating me!! I punched it and took off but the damn car was still right on my arse!! 85,95,100,105,110,120 I hit 125 and made a three lane change and ON WENT THE LIGHTS!!!! I NEARLY PISSED MY PANTS!! State trooper pulled me over asked me for my license and registration. I gave it to him fully expecting to be arrested and have the car impounded but he came back gave me the license and registration and said have a good night!! I could not believe it, no screaming, no yelling, no reaming or reading me the riot act. He was riding in an unmarked Mustang. Only thing I could reckon was he wanted to see how fast the jap car was so he gave it a whirl. My buddy later told me that he could have been screwed royally for not putting the lights on sooner so I have to assume thats the only reason he let me go!!!

Mark
TOOFUN

[CraigMorrison]

Told the cop that I did, that I was showing off to a friend and being really, really stupid.

Got a verbal warning for 95 in a 35. (road was 5 lanes - 2 either direction w turn lane & empty when I was going to work at 5am)

I'll give the full story sometime.....

[Black-Jacket]

ive gotten a ticket severely dropped, got clocked doing 137km in a 90,
two rookie cops walk up either side of my truck.

"where you heading so fast"

I give them an excuse im heading up to the mine, there have a been a major mechanical failure on one of the brand new trucks, my boss is pissed and the customer pissed. they walk away, im sitting there for like 15 minutes, then the your girl cop walks back

"its your lucky day buddy, we dropped in to 100km in a 90, because weve both been in your spot before"

I was like thanks but I thought you were giving me your number when you said lucky, she smiled and walked away, 50 bucks and no points apposed to 450 and 4 points!!

[Dr.Olds]

I was with my buddy who graduated a few years ago in his less than a month old Mitsubishi Evo at the time and some guy was tailgating him really bad. He got pissed, punched it and the guy stayed with him more or less, so my buddy decides to brake check the guy at like 100mph, lights go on...I think he crapped his pants and I wasn't too happy myself. By the time we got stopped in a nearby parking lot the guy had us pulled over and 3 other cop cars showed up. He got reamed out by everyone for about 15 minutes, then a tow truck showed up. Ends up he was just turning around but my buddy almost passed out. In the end the guy that pulled us over said he was off duty and didn't feel like doing the paper work, so just as fast as they all showed up, they were gone, and we were sitting there with the Evo, saying Holy Crap, without a warning, ticket or anything!

[ProTouring442]

A friend of mine gets a new Mustang Cobra, not sure of what year, but it was the one you could get the lift off hard-top. Anyway, he picks up his girl and heads out on the main road. He quickly floors it, slamming second gear just in time for a cop to pull him over. The cop walks up to the car and the following conversation takes place;

Cop: "new car"

Tony: "Yes sir"

Cop: "Wanted to see how fast it was?"

Tony: "Yes sir"

Cop: "Pretty fast isn't it"

Tony: "Yes sir"

Cop: "Not going to do that again, right?"

Tony: "No sir"

Cop: "Good, now have a nice day."

Tony: "Yes sir!"

Some guys have all the luck!

Shiny Side Up!
Bill
'72 442 "Inamorata"
www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442 (http://www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442)

[Beegs]

A fiend of mine gets a new Mustang Cobra, not sure of what year, but it was the one you could get the lift off hard-top. Anyway, he picks up his girl and heads out on the main road. He quickly floors it, slamming second gear just in time for a cop to pull him over. The cop walks up to the car and the following conversation takes place;

Cop: "new car"

Tony: "Yes sir"

Cop: "Wanted to see how fast it was?"

Tony: "Yes sir"

Cop: "Pretty fast isn't it"

Tony: "Yes sir"

Cop: "Not going to do that again, right?"

Tony: No sir"

Cop: "Good, now have a nice day."

Tony: "Yes sir!"

Some guys have all the luck!

Shiny Side Up!
Bill
'72 442 "Inamorata"
www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442 (http://www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442)

lol :lmao:

[Beegs]

Back when my brother was 16 or 17 (he's 34 now) he got pulled over:

Cop: "Do you know you were going 65 and the limit is 35?"

Brother: "That sounds about right."

He got a ticket on that one! LOL

[mac71ss]

One of the nurses in the endoscopy dept at my hospital got me with this one. She tells me that she was on her way to the work and got pulled over by the police for speeding and said the conversation went like this.

cop: Late for work?

Nurse: Yes, I have a very inportant job at the hospital and patients can't afford for me to be late.

Cop: What do you do?

Nurse: I'm a rectom stretcher.

Cop: A rectom stretcher???

Nurse: Yes a rectom stretcher! I Message the rectom in our endoscopy dept till it is six foot in circumference.

Cop: What would you do with a six foot A-hole.

Nurse: You give him a badge, a gun, and put him on the side of the road shooting radar!

Great joked my chest hurt from laughing when she told me this!

[Scott Parkhurst]

I have...a 'few' stories about getting pulled over.

Two of my favorites:

First, it's like 1998-ish. I'm driving the "mad mod Mustang" PHR giveaway car....4.6 w/ a centrifugal, big brakes, 18s, etc. It was a late-model PT before PT had a name.

Anyway-

I'm driving like me - too damn fast...and a cop pulls out and pulls me over.

Cop: "I heard you from like two blocks away..."

Me: "Ya, well...I got new exhaust under this thing."

Cop: "You were going really fast. I didn't clock you, but I saw you...after I heard you."

Me: " Sorry about that. I was working."

Cop: "Working?"

Me: "Yes. I'm the Tech Editor at Popular Hot Rodding magazine. I'm testing this new supercharger. It's just research." I then produce a business card in addition to the license, and the registration shows the publishing company as being the registered owner.

Cop (smiling): "Oh, really? Can you do me a favor?"

Me: "Sure"

Cop: "how about NOT doing research in my town anymore, okay?"

Me: "No problem..."

heh heh heh

There was another time... maybe even funnier.

I had John Schneider's personal '69 Charger, which is all decked out in the General Lee trim (naturally). John was needing some better brakes/suspension and I was helping him with it. Anyway - I'm driving the General Lee down PCH in Huntington Beach, and I get pulled over. The cops make it clear I've violated no laws, but they're big fans of the car. When they ran the plate and it came back as being registered to John Schnieder, they got all geeked out and had to pull me over. (?)

So, they realize I'm not John, and they want to check out the car. They call their buddies on the radio to come over and check out the car. They want a picture, but have no camera, so they call in the crime scene photographer to bring his camera out and check out the car.

This all takes time. I'm in no rush, so it's cool, but now there's 4 or 5 cop cars behind the General Lee, on Pacific Coast Highway, with their lights on. People driving by are looking at me like I just robbed a bank or something...yet, I'm laughing and joking with all the cops. It was kind of surreal.

So, the crime scene photographer shows up, all the cops get their pics with the car, and everyone is happy. It's my time to fly, and I ask if I can do a burnout. They all enthusiastically encourage me, and then they stop traffic (!!!) to give me plenty of room.

The look on the face of the woman who was first in line to be 'stopped' was just about priceless. I hopped in, did a big, gnarly smoky...and the cops cheered as the street filled with smoke...which was illuminated by their red and blue lights and the flashing headlights.

It was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before. The cops that'd pulled me over gave me thier cards and asked me to call them personally if I ever had trouble.

Wow.

It was an evening I'll never, ever forget.

~SP~

[glock73110]

That is a great story Scott mine isn't that cool but one night my tour bus was just leaving a truck stop and we got pulled over the cop made everyone get out seems some Young girl left out of there just before we did and they pulled her over she said we were making sexual suggestions to her and she feared for her life and that is why she left in such a hurry the cops let her go and harassed us they even went inside the truck stop to ask for witnesses before letting us go I guess really that was her best getting out of ticket story

[71dusterdan]

Parkhurst, you suck!!!!!! But i love your work so i will not hold your good luck with cops against you. I wonder if MOPORK would have let you off, oh wait he wouldv'e been at the donut shop. hahaha

[Beegs]

Scott P. That is WILD!

[mopork]

Well when parkhurst was in the rustang I would definitely gave him a ticket but in the general lee i would of held traffic while he did a burnout too :cool: while eating my donuts and coffee

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[71dusterdan]

Okay I drive a truck and deliver steel on the same route everyday. Last year i'm flying to make my mill pickup, 80 mph in a 65 in a semi. Get picked up by an Iowa trooper, just happens to be a car guy, drag racer. So here i am in the front seat of his cruiser and we are bull****ting, and laughing, having a great time. he gives me the full truck inspection, paperwork inspection and lic. insurance etc. I got lazy a week before and stopped filling out my logbook "for good". He writes me a log ticket nonmover, no points, company paid it. Unfortuneatly i am shutdown for 10 hours, he had to. So my buddy drives his car over gets in my truck and i drive the car back to Illinios, then we switch and go home. Anyways this cop pulls me over 3 more times in 2 months, in fact i got pulled over 12 times last year. Only that one ticket. Every time that cop nabbed me , we sat in his car for a 1/2 hr ,bsing about racing and family, hell i knew the names and ages of his 5 kids and what and when they were gonna race. I guess it payed off.

[shmoov69]

Scott, you win!!! Too cool!!

[Scott Parkhurst]

i will not hold your good luck with cops against you.


Oh - Don't get me wrong. Those are like the ONLY two times I've ever been let off...without a girl in the car to help me, anyway.

Umm..wait a sec.

There was this one other time...it involves a Saleen Mustang and a Porsche with a Targa top...


...and the Saleen IS the cop car.

But maybe that's a story for another time...?

~SP~

[Rolling_Thunder]

got pulled over doing 107 in a 45.... had four girls in the car and it was 11:51pm.... officer asked "What's the hurry?" so my response was "blah blah blah.... if i dont get this girl home by midnight her dad will kill me... honestly kill me"... officer tells me to get out of the car.... i get out and start to get a lecture about why i shouldnt drive that fast and blah blah blah.... then the officer says "ohhh look at that... its 12:01am... I guess i'll let her dad take care of you." cop then left without giving me a ticket....

and no... she had to be home by 2:00am

[ixfn]

My Quickies:

Incident A: Did a monster set of donuts in a Fred Meyer parking lot, got pulled over for a light out on the street – when asked if I knew why I was being pulled over my response was “Doing cookies in Freddy’s parking lot?” – Officer’s response; “you what!?”

Incident B: Did two hairy burnouts on the street with a Sheriff BEHIND me (by mistake) – when pulled over the officer looks at me in silence and finally says loudly “what are you doing!?”

Incident C: After getting an average speeding ticket from the same trooper, he nailed me again soon after, same area, same speed, same ticket, and remarked “I thought you’d learn”.

Incident D: 18 years old, night before high school graduation - After being arrested for reckless driving by a female state trooper and having my car towed away late night I said “Ok, there goes my car, now what...” – She says “Well, now you go to jail” – my response “aaaah man, I gotta graduate in the morning!” – she says “dang it... I’ll have your parents come get you”. I drove from the impound lot to my graduation ceremony in cap and gown.

Best part of that story was both parents were pissed at the time: my mother was “concerned about my safety” and my father exclaimed “didn’t you have your radar detector on?!”

Incident E: Pulled over; cop walked up and said “let me guess; healthy 400 small block, headers, Flowmaster 40’s with no tail pipes...” – he was good, damn good. No ticket though, just said “don’t use my town as your racetrack, damn it!”

[wantahertzdonut]

Now thats funny. Talk about being lucky to see another Z.

Seriously! That all reminds me of the car wash scene at the end of Gone In 60 Seconds.

[wedgehead]

I was leaving a park here in town in a 78 T/A small block with N20 and decided to show off to everyone in the park. Well i did not see or maybe just didn't look but a cop was behind me when I pulled onto the street and let everything loose. Well he pulled me over and wanted to know what the hell I was doing and how in the world did my car do that. It turns out he was a closet car guy and we talked about the car for a while he said he had a Nove at home he was working on. The he said stand here while i pretend to write you a ticket so everyone in the park would think he was doing his job. The

[wedgehead]

this happened when I was about 19 I was leaving a park here in town in a 78 T/A small block with N20 and decided to show off to everyone in the park. Well i did not see or maybe just didn't look but a cop was behind me when I pulled onto the street and let everything loose. Well he pulled me over and wanted to know what the hell I was doing and how in the world did my car do that. It turns out he was a closet car guy and we talked about the car for a while he said he had a Nova at home he was working on. The he said stand here while i pretend to write you a ticket so everyone in the park would think he was doing his job. The second story wasn't me but one of our customers at my shop. We have a stall in back of our shop and the customer knew about it. he came flying into the stall one day and slammed the door shut to the stall. We all came out of the shop saying what the heck are you doing and about that time comes a highway patrol car screaming down the freeway lights ablaze siren screaming. He said I passed him on the other side of the freeway going about 110 in his hemi cuda on his way to the shop to check on another car of his and he said well he has to turn around and get me and I think I can lose him. Well I guess he did. He also left the car there that day and called his wife to come get him.