"I'm sorry officer, I [insert excuse here]"
by I'm heading home for lunch today and I turn this corner. Bam! There's a cop right there and I know he was checking out that rather large 9 on my inspection sticker. I look in my mirror and notice he's turning around in the middle of the road. I quickly yank the ear phones from my head (no stereo in this ghetto ride) and shove them in my pocket. Sure enough he pulls me over and asks for my stuff. I ask him what the problem is (duh!) and he points out my inspection is bad. I quickly say, "yeah, I know, my window is cracked and I know I'll fail. I plan on buying a new car but I've just been unable to just yet. I plan on getting rid of this car in a few weeks." I go on and tell him I don't want to dump money into fixing the car to pass inspection. He tells me inspection is free and I should atleast go through and get the rejected sticker so I'm not breaking the law. I'm thinking man, I'm getting a ticket, I don't want a ticket. After all, when is the last time an Edison cop let anyone off? So the guy takes my stuff and runs everything. I guess he sees I have a clean record and he just comes back and hands me my stuff and tells me to get inspected. THANK YOU OFFICER!
So it's got me thinking, how many times have I talked my way out of a ticket?
I've rear ended someone (totally my fault) and got out of it. But I had a card that time to show the cop.
I've used the excuse that I couldn't get my insurance card out of my glove compartment because my TV in the passanger seat was blocking it, I'd have to get out of the car to get it. This is all the while knowing I have no insurance on the car. (I was a bad kid) The cop didn't make me do that and gave me a ticket for hazardous tire condition (you could see the steel wrapping) instead of speeding (no points!).
I've used the excuse that I just got kicked out of my house and my life is falling apart. PA Trooper let me go there.
I've used the excuse that my wife just left me and my life was falling apart to get out of a ticket in Metuchen. The guy actually followed me to the Kingdom Hall on that one, talk about embarrasing. The car wasn't even registered, he totally could have impounded it.
And I got out of a ticket by a NY Trooper, but that was because I pulled over before he even turned his lights on. I knew I was speeding and I was very nice to him when he came up. He let me go. That was coming home from the Farm in Walkill too, I felt bad about that one.
So keep that in mind, cops seem to be suckers for sob stories. As long as their truthful you're cool!
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what are you talking about edison cops? edison cops on the news last year as being the most corrupt police force in the entire nation.
I know, aren't they the coolest!
what about LAPD?
Sure, if I want to get nearly beat to death!
Oh wait, that's NYPD.
i think they're in competition as the worst...LOL
i've always wanted to say to a cop, "you're not gonna look in the trunk, are you?"
hahhaa, that would be sooo great!
andrew has gotten out of tickets by pulling himself over when he knows he's been speeding past a cop. i just duck down the nearest side street and weave through the neighborhood like crazy.
Yeah and one of these times your going to get busted and hauled in and sent down the river. :-P
Then again it's you so you'd probably figure out a way out of that one as well. You're family seems to be pretty good at getting out of tickets.
One time...i was with my friend...who shall remain nameless, at a Vertical Horizon concert. and we left. his brand new mustang - on a 25 MPH road. We passed cars over the double yellow, right along the beach, windows open. He broke 100 MPH, then pulled over and stopped for a full TWO MINUTES and waited for a cop before we saw headlights about a mile back.
he got off with the line "this is my friend from england - they only have small, underpowered cars there, so I'm showing him mine. Can you let us go? We're done now."
He got off.
As the cop was leaving ... my friend said... "Sir, can i shake your hand?"
i can't believe i'm still alive, actually.
he should have made you prove that you have a british accent...but you don't
Now that's just stupid, but I've done similar things. It's more fun on a bike. Did I just say that?
Is it a black mustang?
One time i was speeding like 123 in a 45 and the cop said " Hey do you know how fast you were going "... and i said " have you ever seen another mans nipple? " ... so i flashed him ... he of course fell in love. and gave me two tickets.. tickets to a MOVIE !
Nice, that's funny!
i'm underappreciated. like sean penn
Wasn't that the dude that married Madonna?
WOW, a 10 for originality!
One time on the way to Florida I got pulled over, and it was my first time EVER to get pulled over, and I said, "I'm so sorry this is my friends car i didn't realize how fast it goes." DOH! So stupid. Got a ticket. But it was out of state so no points.
Also one time a couple years ago, I was living in PA but i had to go back to NJ to straighten out something with stupid gay unemployment and I got pulled over going I think 88 in a 65. And I actually said to the cop that I'm on my way to Nj to unemployment because I have NO JOB and NO MONEY but.... Um... I still got a ticket. Again it was out of state so no points. hehe.
One time i got out of a speeding ticket saying i was just really tired and really wanted to get home.
but um... yeah that sucks.
I just got a ticket a couple weeks ago for speeding on the parkway, SO GAY i probably wans't even REALLY speeding in my stupid 1990 old geezer car. Anyway I work for lawyers so they'll take care of it so its... no points.
When I was 18 I had 13 points on my license. I think it was only 13. But I had to go to a drivers ed class so I didn't lose my license. I walk in there and it was like a high school reunion. I knew like 8 people there.
remember when i got pulled over in S. Carolina? and you were all "whats wrong with your face" hahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
haha
hah
"shh i'm trying to cry!!" (i don't know if you said that but it woulda been funny)
haha
yo yo yo i definitely need to find the tapes from that trip and we gotta watch them one of these days. Haha. So funny
hahahahahaha! thats relaly what i was trying to do, b/c i was laughing, but trying to look like i was crying, and youre like .,... EW whats wrong with your face! ahaha oh man we gotta find that video! that was def good times!! do i have it?
dude, speeding on bald tires isn't cool at all. this is the kind of thing that makes me really upset. you could have killed anyone.
I was a stupid 18 year old, what did you expect? I had a fast sports car and I did donuts ALL THE TIME! It wasn't totally bald, just part of the tire. And I didn't have the $200+ per tire to replace them.
you're such an outlaw! LOL
Seriously I've gotten out of a few. I am somewhat impatient so i tend to drive a little faster than usual....so i've been stopped quite a few times. BUT I haven't had to give stories, I either throw a policemans name that i know and tell them where they're located etc. One good one was one cop was so impressed when he saw my hockey gear in my car we started talking hockey and he let me go - WHEW....lol
Girls always have the advantage!
I lied I did have to give a story one time, i was in hawaii though. I was driving like 80 in their 45MPH fwy and I told the cop I had jsut flown in from LA blah blah blah where our speed limits are 70 and he's like "ok, just remember the speed limit here...."
See, girls always get off.
short skirts work wonders hahahahaha
I was actually going to say you would just show a little leg and get out of it but I knew someone else would bring it up so I didn't have to. I know you all to well.
well if i happen to get pulled over while wearing a skirt and it accidentally rode up a little and i didn't notice...dont' hate. nobody is stopping you from trying it
Doh. Now there is a scary thought.
AMEN SISTAH! doesn't hurt to give a smile and flip of the hair...LOL
It's just not fair. :(
guys can show something too, you jsut never know now-a-days which way the officer swings....lol
Exactly, that's why I got that safety bright rainbow sticker on my car!
see you're on your way....lol
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. No way. Bad mental pictures. Must run away screaming and yelling. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Mike's a homophobe.
At least I don't pretend like I'm gay like some people I know.
I know, you need to tell Eddie to be careful. He's cute and some guys might just come on to him.