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Best encounter you've had with a cop
Posted on 3/21/15 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 4:42 pm
I was driving home for spring break and I was pulled over by a state trooper in Mexia (hour south of Dallas) while heading towards 45. Im ok with city cops but I hate troopers so I was already pissed. He walked to the car and asked for my license and registration then told me I was speeding (78in a 65). I told him I was driving from college station and wanted to make it home in time to go to out with some friends. He laughed and said "You kids are always rushing. Slow down son. You'll live a little longer". I turned my car back on and my fuel light blinked which he noticed. He told me I could follow him to a gas station and fill up. We drove for a few minutes and I filled up at the nearest station. He comes out of the gas station then tells me he lost his daughter in a wreck after she was driving home from school in Waco and that he wished she lived a little longer. You could tell he was from east Texas so I was nervous at first. In the end I realized there are actually good cops out there that are just as human as we are.
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Posted on 3/21/15 at 4:44 pm to knight_ryder
I banged a female cop who pulled me over once.
- she might say twice
- she might say twice
This post was edited on 3/21/15 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 4:53 pm to knight_ryder
When one offered me beer and weed at Jazz Fest.
My personal favorite, though was after the LSU vs Alabama game in 2012. I was driving from Baton Rouge to Birmingham for a job interview the Sunday after the game. I'm running late, so I'm speeding through some of the less populated regions of Mississippi, following about half a mile behind a speeding red sports car, thinking if there's a cop, he'll get the sports car and I'll have enough warning to slow down and not get caught.
Around Picayune, a cop pops out and pulls me over. He comes over to the car, asks more my license and registration, gets back in his car, and takes off after the other car. He then pulls the other car to the side of the road right in front of mine, gets his info, comes back to my car to give me the ticket, and then lets me go on my way. I was impressed to say the least.
My personal favorite, though was after the LSU vs Alabama game in 2012. I was driving from Baton Rouge to Birmingham for a job interview the Sunday after the game. I'm running late, so I'm speeding through some of the less populated regions of Mississippi, following about half a mile behind a speeding red sports car, thinking if there's a cop, he'll get the sports car and I'll have enough warning to slow down and not get caught.
Around Picayune, a cop pops out and pulls me over. He comes over to the car, asks more my license and registration, gets back in his car, and takes off after the other car. He then pulls the other car to the side of the road right in front of mine, gets his info, comes back to my car to give me the ticket, and then lets me go on my way. I was impressed to say the least.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 4:53 pm to knight_ryder
One helped me find a bottle of Scotch at Green's liquor store about 20 minutes ago.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 5:02 pm to knight_ryder
one didnt shoot my dog once
Posted on 3/21/15 at 5:07 pm to knight_ryder
I've never had a bad one. I get pulled over about once a year and I've only received one ticket (SC Highway Patrol) and I definitely deserved it but the trooper wrote me up as going a good bit slower than I actually was so it was cool.
The only LEOs I've had less than pleasant experiences with were from Wisconsin DNR.
The only LEOs I've had less than pleasant experiences with were from Wisconsin DNR.
This post was edited on 3/21/15 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 3/21/15 at 5:19 pm to knight_ryder
I had a raced a cop on Highway 130 (fastest road in US) that's about the only good experience I had with a cop
Posted on 3/21/15 at 6:09 pm to knight_ryder
Most have been good. My best one was one where I did get a ticket actually.
It was my first week in a job and it was the week before school started. I was looking for the Admin Building of the school on the right side of the road.
Apparently there was a private school that started a week early on the left side and I sped through there @ 60 (the posted limit when the light wasn't flashing)in a 35. School zone. They guy came up pretty angry at me and I explained I really just missed it. He went back to his car and took a while. When he came back he ran my record and saw I hadn't got a ticket in 10 years and said that he felt really bad. He said there was no way he couldn't give me a ticket because of the school zone but he dropped my speed on the ticket to 44 and gave me a guide to the building I was looking for.
It was my first week in a job and it was the week before school started. I was looking for the Admin Building of the school on the right side of the road.
Apparently there was a private school that started a week early on the left side and I sped through there @ 60 (the posted limit when the light wasn't flashing)in a 35. School zone. They guy came up pretty angry at me and I explained I really just missed it. He went back to his car and took a while. When he came back he ran my record and saw I hadn't got a ticket in 10 years and said that he felt really bad. He said there was no way he couldn't give me a ticket because of the school zone but he dropped my speed on the ticket to 44 and gave me a guide to the building I was looking for.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 6:38 pm to knight_ryder
I've never had a bad one. Generally, if you respect the officer as a human and don't act like a count, you won't have problems. I say this as a person that doesn't like the idea of large police forces or sometimes cops in general. I normally don't break the law, and in the few times I've been pulled over, a ticket could have been warranted each time but I only got one when I was 16.
Most people are mad when they get caught, personal accountability is lost in this world.
Most people are mad when they get caught, personal accountability is lost in this world.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 6:46 pm to knight_ryder
None I hate the police. They give out fricking MIPs for having an empty beer can. Pigs. FTP
Posted on 3/21/15 at 7:04 pm to knight_ryder
Yep sounds like Ralph. He's a real nice guy one of the very few cops I like
Posted on 3/21/15 at 7:06 pm to knight_ryder
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You could tell he was from east Texas so I was nervous at first.
What is this supposed to mean?
And ftr, Mexia is not east tx.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 7:38 pm to knight_ryder
Grew up in rural SW GA. Trooper stopped me at night beside a pecan orchard with absolutely no traffic on the road. The Trooper knew my dad real well. They had just been issued 45s. He cocked his hat back on his head and handed his 45 to me and told me to try it out. Kinda freaked me out. I kept pointing it in the ditch but never shot it because I was apprehensive. He kept saying "try it, try it" and I just kept pointing it. I wasn't 100 percent sure then that he meant shoot it,'but I'm positive now that he was meaning to shoot it. Anyway, that's not your every day roadside encounter with a Trooper. That was circa 1990.
The cops in my hometown in the 80s we're generally cool. Call your parents at worst; never take you to jail.
The cops in my hometown in the 80s we're generally cool. Call your parents at worst; never take you to jail.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 8:18 pm to knight_ryder
I've been let off easy so many times just for being polite and genuine with cops.
For all the bad stuff that gets publicized, you rarely hear about the everyday good stuff those folks do every day.
For all the bad stuff that gets publicized, you rarely hear about the everyday good stuff those folks do every day.
Posted on 3/21/15 at 8:46 pm to knight_ryder
i ran out of gas about 150-200 yards shy of the gas station once. my passenger was a much larger mammal than i, but it was my car so i pushed. a pig in his mid 50's pulled up and helped me push the rest of the way. i wasn't making it up that incline on my own. i bought the guy a gatorade and offered him a food item of his choosing, but he declined that.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 2:27 pm to knight_ryder
I had a cop not write me a ticket because he appreciated how polite I was. I thought that was pretty cool of him.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 2:29 pm to knight_ryder
Got pulled over around 2am couple months ago, taillight was out and had been drinking. Wasn't hammered but shouldn't have been driving. Cop asks if I had been drinking, tell him no. Asks to breathalyze me I say I don't consent then asks if I consent to a field sobriety. Say yes and I guess I passed it to his standard. Says he doesn't appreciate me lying to him that I hadn't drank that he can tell I'm impaired but that he felt I wasn't a harm to others on the road. Told me to go to the Waffle House across the street and order a waffle and some toast and water. Gave me 6$ and said its on me have a good night.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 4:16 pm to knight_ryder
I got pulled over by College Station once when I was 19 and FUBAR on alcohol. My buddy and I were both toasted and I knew the cop knew it from the start. After giving me back my license and insurance card through the driver's window he asked, "So is there anything in here I should know about?" Off the top of my [drunken] head I quipped, "No, sir. No guns, no drugs, no missing persons." He busted into a laugh that made him spit. I'd probably slurred the line. I don't know. I actually was about 4 minutes from my buddy's apartment and the plan really was to stay there once we got there. I told him this and he let us go.
I used the "No guns, no drugs, no missing persons" thing on 3 other cops over the next 4 years. Only one of them didn't laugh. And he made me open my trunk.
I used the "No guns, no drugs, no missing persons" thing on 3 other cops over the next 4 years. Only one of them didn't laugh. And he made me open my trunk.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 5:05 pm to knight_ryder
I was driving some friends one Saturday night around 11:45. I had nothing to drink. I had a brake light out and I was speeding like 8mph over. Cop pulled me over. At first he didn't believe that I was 100% sober cause I was a college kid driving around some drunk friends. I told him I'd blow into a breathalyzer so he went back and got it and I blew 0's of course. Well, I forgot my license and I couldn't find my insurance in my glove box. He said since I was being responsible and driving sober that he wouldn't write me up for anything. He let me on my way. Great police officer.
Posted on 3/22/15 at 5:49 pm to knight_ryder
When my friend and I turned 18 we were in a park trying to smoke cigars that I brought back from a cruise. We'd never smoked a cigar and had no idea how. This cop pulls up because he got a call that kids were smoking weed in a park. He walks up, starts laughing and then tells us to come over to the squad car. He pulls out a cigar, cuts off the tip, lights it up and starts smoking. He says "that's how you smoke a cigar". Then he pulled out 2 more, cut off the tips, handed them to us and lit them up. Then we all smoked them together.
And that's the day a cop taught me how to smoke a cigar.
And that's the day a cop taught me how to smoke a cigar.
This post was edited on 3/22/15 at 5:50 pm
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