What's the lamest reason you've been pulled over?

[kneedownnate]

Seriously, tonight on the way home they pulled me over because one of my taillights "looked broken".  It's just a little faded but is very obviously visible, I check that regularly!  I know he pulled me over cause I got on it a little taking off and it's loud, but don't follow me for 3 miles, keep pulling up on my ass then backing off, then tell me it's cause you *thought* my lense was broken    As soon as he walked behind the truck he knew it wasn't, but he still pretended I needed to turn on the light for him, then sat there looking at it for like 5 minutes. 

What's the lamest excuse a leo has given you for pulling you over?

[lilbuddy]

Getting a mudflap ticket for having big ass mudflaps

EDIT: I didnt get a ticket for it. I got a ticket yet i had flaps on.

[boggerunner]

my buddy got pulled over for slipping tires in a blizzard, cop threatened him with an exhibition of speed ticket, then saw the military plates and cdl drivers liscence, and let him off with a warning

[kneedownnate]

Getting a mudflap ticket for having big ass mudflaps

  some cops just have nothing better to do 

[86bobbedtoy]

5 mph over

chico pd pulled me over in a ford escort and said he saw me spin the rear end sideways
long story short I was calling him names he aint never heard before

"I thought your head light flicker"

"I thought your tire was bald"

"your exhaust is to loud" It was stock

"it looked like you were speeding"


Man I can go on for ever,  all within 2 years,
I was always getting in trouble so they would just harrass me all the time.
my fault but still lame.

[Ghtoyrunner]

haaha i go one for you. i cop pulled me over for not turning my high beams off when i saw him. he siad the reason he pulled me over was because most drunk drivers dont turn threre high beams off. once he saw i wasnt drinking he just gave me a verbral warning and said he could give me a huge fine for not turning my high beams off.

[Steve_925]

i got pulled off for not having a front licence plate. thats not super lame, but the only reason ihe pulled me over was because i was in my bagged truck in wyoming.

my friend accually got a ticket for doing 48 in a 45

[bigarms23]

i got pulled over because the chp wanted me to extend my stock mud flap by 1/4inch longer

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

i got pulled over because the chp wanted me to extend my stock mud flap by 1/4inch longer

thats BS right there!

[BLACKDOG]

pulled over for crossing the yellow line (by a foot) in a residential neighborhood due to the road being narrow and cars being parked on the right. 

Real reason?  I was in RUGERS truck which is fully exo'd and was running 35x15.5x15 SXs at the time.


Showed up in court with pictures of the road, and the vehicle code, which essentially stated "do not cross the double yellow except for reasonable cause.  Just had to pay court fees, which was still :bull crap: but oh well

[abnormaltoy]

Because mine looked like a car that was evading police on LBJ. I beat the charge because the officer lost site of the offending vehicle and never got close enough to see the plate clearly.

[brainlessfool]

for driving a little slow and looking like I was lost.


I WAS!

was trying to find a place to eat. in Ventura. realy, that's all. on come the lights, I pull over. she asks why ya here. I tell her looking for some where to eat. she runs my plates and god knows what elas. took 20 mins.
We had just left the state lottery office 10 mins before meeting her. so I went back to see whats taking so d#$ long and was told not to come any closer. I told her this was just to long if there's no reason. she said she did not belive I was "just looking for some where to eat" as far as why I was in town...... ok your right.Yeah? so WHY ARE YOU HERE?!? I pull out the lottery receat and told her we had just hit the jack pot (a lie just 5 out of 6) and now on monday I'll be quitting my job, I'm going to need a hobbey. I'm thinking about becomeing a voice of wastful use of puplic fonds by angcies. so do you want to be my new hobbey? I'll have LOTS of $$ for lawers now.    and what do ya know all her checking was done and you can go now.  HONEST!

[84xcab]

Never been, but probably jinxed myself by saying this

[Cheesemaker]

~I was given a ticket for doing 80 in a 55.  But I was between two friends that was doing 55, and it got thrown out.  (this cop had it out for me, more on this later)
~Got pulled over cause Mark was wanting to talk to Travis.  I bought the truck from Travis.  Luckily we were all classmates. 
~Ticket for excessive noise past a cops house.  But he pulled me over 3 days later to give me the ticket.  I would drive by his house at 3am, and the dual pipes would just sing past his house going down the long steep road.     Got it thrown out too!  Since there is no street light to see what color of El Camino was doing it, since there were 3 of them on that road besides mine!  IDIOT!!  (same cop that was after me)
~Cop tried to give me an excessive noise ticket for my BOOMING system.  When I didn't have a stereo in the rig. 
~No seat belt tickets, when I had a truck that only had lap belts.
~Cop tried to tell me I was up to no good, he saw me pull out of work and I didn't even get to grab 3rd gear when he lit me up. (same cop)
~Was pulled over 6 times, because a bank robbery had happened and the same rig as mine was used as the getaway car.  Took me 2 hours just to get 10 miles.  I spendt alot of that at gun point and in cuffs. 

[Tice]

I got a  couple!!!!!

Got pulled over because ONE of my TWO lisence plate lights was out!!!!!!!!!!!!


Use to get pulled over bout once a week in my Blazer for no mud flaps.  Az law says "vehicles known as pick-up trucks with an altered bumper height has to have them", Blazers are two door station wagons!!! Never once got a ticket when the realized it was a blazer.


Got pulled over for having a Blue windsheild sticker!! Went to court over that!!  And won!!


Took a corner too fast in my Camaro (intercection, doing 45 in 55)


Not having mudflaps on my buggy, it was still registered as an 85 pick-up, cop never said anything about the speeding, not using a turn signal when I pulled over for him, no seat belt, and Lexan for a windshield!!!  He said the law says I need them to keep rocks from hitting other cars, when in fact it does not. I called him on that . He got pissed when I asked for his book to show him. He didn't have it on him and let me go with a warning.

[4RunnerChevy]

In 2004 I got pulled over on HWY 17, by CHP, for loud exhaust comming back from the rubicon.  I told him "it got f'd up on the con" and he said "cool", no ticket 

[Cheesemaker]

Got pulled over because ONE of my TWO lisence plate lights was out!!!!!!!!!!!!

X's 2!!

[Steve_925]

i got a ticket for doing 99 in a 65. i got clocked by a plane and the CHP was waiting at the next off ramp. i never thought they accually patroled with planes.................they do

i got hit by a car on my CRF50, broke my femure, they impounded my 50. and 2 days later after surgery the cop came to my house and gave me 2 tickets while i was in bed.
i thnk 1 was for no registration and the other for no insurance. i took it to court and pretty much confused the judge so bad he threw the tickets out. still had to pay $600 to get the bike out of impound

[kneedownnate]

Took a corner too fast in my Camaro (intercection, doing 45 in 55)

I got a similar one too, leaving work.  Going up the hill leaving work I'd usually get on it pretty good on the bike, and as I was leaned into the corner a chp car was coming down the hill.  I just continued on, got on the freeway and kept an eye on the mirror, saw a chp car coming at a high rate of speed quite a ways back.  I signaled way early for the first exit ramp and very slowly came to a stop.  When he came up to me he said I tried to run, and I politely said "I think we both know I didn't try and run from you", to which he said I was taking the exit so I could hit the backroads.  I said "well, I put my signal on a half mile before the exit so you could see it, then put up my hand so signal I was turning, then very gradually came to a stop, just to make it very obvious I was stopping for you".  That ended that conversation before my big mouth said something like "come on, I'm on a sport bike and you saw me nearly dragging knee on cold tires, do you really think you'd keep up if I decided to run?"    He lectured me on how this wasn't lemans, and nobody would peel me up off the hot pavement when I was laying there bleeding  :blahblah:  After all that he said he'd let me go with a warning, turned to walk away then asked "why don't you get a real bike?", to which I replied "what do you consider to be a real bike?", and he said "I ride a bmw".  I says "oh yea, maybe I'll get one when I'm old, but I prefer bikes that handle corners well", then he says "my bike handles corners very well", "I'm sure it does, but I think it'd be pretty hard to drag me knee on one around thunderhill".  It pretty much ended there.

[86bobbedtoy]

haha yeah nate the crown vics have nothin on a bike, I know

[SLIVER]

I got pulled over once "Dragging Main", I needed to flip around to "Drag" back the other way and I drove through a buisness parking lot and then made a right hand turn out of the parking lot to get back on the roadway. The cop wrote me for " Driving through a buisness parking lot, with out patroning the buisness. This is at like 11 pm. The buisness closed at 6 pm.

That was a 50 dollar bill that I would have rather sent Marlin's way.

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[boggerunner]

a ticket for driving through a businesses parking lot, huh?  is that some stupid utard law?

[SLIVER]

I guess it was, keep in mind that it was back in 99, in the great city of Spanish Fork, UT.

))--SLIVER-->

[46&2]

I've been pulled over 4 times for having license plate lights that were either A) Not bright enough or B) Didn't work. All 4 times they worked fine and I was never given a ticket. Just harassed, asked if I had been drinking, smoking pot, crack, etc then asking if they can search my car for no reason.   

[Tallchevy]

i got pulled off for not having a front licence plate. thats not super lame, but the only reason ihe pulled me over was because i was in my bagged truck in wyoming.

I got pulled over in my 1st gen 4x4 for the same reason in the same state.

I was driving to drop off my buddy & got pulled over for no rear bumper on my 4Runner. Real reason, racial profiling, 2 Mexicans in a 4x4 in a mostly white neighborhood. He wanted to know what we were doing in his town. As soon as he found out that my buddy lived there he let us go.

When I had my lowered Toyota I got pulled over for being too low (which I was) but they would pull the book out & write me up for everything, front x-member too low, head lights too low , exhaust too low, rear lic plate too low , frame too low. I don't know if some of these were even in the book?

[THK Matt]

-I have been pulled over for having one of two lisence plate lights out.... 4 times.

-having the rear lisence plate in the rear window..... he said he couldnt see it, it needed to be on the rear of the bed

-got pulled over when I had my 1/4 doors on.... just so he could check my truck out cool cop.. but made me late to a date.

-got pulled over for stopping at a blinking yellow light on a friday night downtown... cause "I was a hazard to other traffic" its one way traffic through town.. 20mph tops, and it was just after a 90* turn. NO TRAFFIC ANYWHERE AT 11.29pm!! I was pissed

-for burning the tires off on a 99 neon ina beach parking lot. "officer, the auto trans slips sometimes and doesnt grab right away" got out with a warning.

-for doing 27mph in a 25mph.... and to think I was one of the slower vehicles in traffic.

-got pulled over by ISP cause he had seen my 87 (on 35s, roll bar, and blacked out wheels) for 3 weeks and he wanted to check it out.. he wanted a toyota and wanted to know how I got 35s to tuck on it.

I have been pulled over so many more times for the dumbest crap. I will be glad to have a new vehicle that I am not tagged in.

[germ]

I can't even remember all the dumb s**t I used to get pulled over for. My very first ticket was for "driving without my headlights" as I pulled out of a fast food place. I had a posi rear end, and the inside tire squeeked, and he also got me for exhibition of speed (even though I never made it above 15mph).

I once got nailed by the same cop, on the same street for doing the same speed on 2 different days about a week apart. Got a ticket the first time, and talked my way out of it the second. Not quite sure how I pulled that one off.

I usually deserve it when I get pulled over, and even if I don't, I deserve it for all the times I've done illegal s**t and gotten away with it, but I still do my best to talk my way out of it. Didn't work well when I was younger, but now I get away with it most of the time. On average, I'm prolly running about 50/50.

Erik

[germ]

Prolly the best one, now that I think about it, is when I got a ticket for parking dangerously, when I stopped my car (El Camino) in the middle of the road to block a motorcycle accident. I had just spent 15-20 minutes trying to save a young lady who fell off the back of the bike and caused the driver to loose control and dump it. (she died unfortunately). I'm standing there in the middle of the road, covered in blood, arguing with this fat-ass cop that I was trying to protect the accident scene and the victims by stopping my car in a way that no one else would crash into them. He didn't buy it, but the judge did, and reamed the guy for writing me up when I was being a good Samaritan.

Erik

[Prismo]

When I was in my 20's and lived in Chicago area I had a 68 GTO and street raced it on Friday & Saturday nights. (Yes, we were stupid in the 70's too).We always raced out in the country and the police could never catch us although they knew what we were doing. I got pulled over every Friday and Saturday night like clockwork. Faulty tail light, faulty license plate light, non-working signal etc., all which magically worked when I walked back with the cop to check them. Foggy back window was another good one. We knew the cops by name and they us. Now I only get pulled over when I am on vacation and the cop wants to know about my truck because he has a Toyota. 

[WHITE_TRASH]

You name it I've probably been pulled over for it...

I was driving home one night in high school stone cold sober and saw a car pull off teh road and stop, as soon as I passed it I saw it was a city po po headed to work, well we were still in the county so he was out of jurisdiction and he gave me a chicken reason that he saw my license plate was out (it was not) so he pulled me over...  I mentioned that was BS, how could he see it from the front and that he was out of jurisdiction in the first place.  He was not amused but he didn't have a leg to stand on so he let me go.

Another good one was my old courier with smoked rings.  It had a hole in the tailpipe eight before the rear axle and it burned about a quart a day in the cheapest oil I could find.  I was idling talking so a buddy before school and the smoke cloud started to get big so I drove off to park.  A cop pulled up behind me and lit me up.  He asked why I was burning the tires like that.  I laughed and told him about the oil burning, he didn't believe me until I started it.  He coughed and told me to have a good day.