Remembered my first run in with the law while driving

"Funktheduck" (funktheduck) 01/27/2015 at 09:46 • Filed to: None

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I was 17 or almost 17. I was driving home from my girlfriend's at the time. It had rained but was no longer raining. It was around 10 at night on a weekday so that meant there were about 2 cars on the road in the whole city. That's not much of an exaggeration. Everything closed around 9 during the week so there was no reason to be out much past 9.

I was turning on to my street which was a 90 degree angle to the street I was turning from. I could see a good bit down my road so I knew no one was coming. I slowed down to an appropriate speed and started to turn. I gave it a little gas just to spin the tires a little. Old truck+wet roads=sideways easily. I didn't get sideways but the tires did spin as I had planned.

What I didn't have planned was there to be 2 police cars 2 doors down from my house. My heart started racing but I was hopeful the police weren't around their cars, hopefully inside the house. They were not. One flagged me down. I slowly rolled up and rolled down my window. He said "you like spinnin your tires, son?" I stammered "no, sir. I just came in a little too fast and wet roads and ...." I trailed off a little when he stopped me and asked for my license.

He went to the back of my truck and ran my tag. While he did that I ran through my head all the possible tickets I was about to get. I looked to my right at the cop car and there was my neighbor handcuffed in the back seat. It was a scene from cops. He had a mullet, no shirt, tattoos, looked super drunk, and was wet/sweaty. His eyes met mine and I immediately looked away. I figured his situation was worse than mine and he didn't need a teen gawking at him.

The officer came back from running my tag, my license still in his hands and he asks "where ya headin?" At that point I said "right there" and pointed to my house. He then asks, my license in hand and tag run, "are you heading home or to a feiend's house?" My mind said "are you an idiot?" My mouth said "my house, sir". He told me to slow it down and drive carefully, handed me my license and I creeped into my driveway.

What was your first run in with the law while driving?

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Funktheduck 01/27/2015 at 09:53

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Pulled over for being under 60 on NYE. I was the designated driver driving a friend home, and was pulled over for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign in his completely empty neighborhood. Got pulled over by a cop hiding down the block who assumed that I was drunk and went through great lengths to try to prove it. Ended up with a massive ticket because I was responsible enough to stay sober and make sure my friends got home safe and he had nothing better to do with his night. I mean, I wasn't surprised to get pulled over. It's NYE, so they're looking for every excuse since the road's full of drunks, but when it was apparent that I was driving sober, safely, and being responsible, the guy could have just given me a warning. This was before I decided that there's no such thing as a good cop, so I was at least being respectful and friendly.

jariten1781 > Funktheduck 01/27/2015 at 10:15

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First interaction was after I was rear ended by a girl in a 3 day old brand new 3 series just outside the high school. Cop was nice to me even though the chick was off the wall screaming that I'd brake checked her in my POS (I had not even braked hard, just normal slowing, she was correct though...my Cavalier was a horrible unmitigated POS). She hit me at about 40 mph while I was rolling at about 5. Shoved me underneath an XJ in front of me. Her dad showed up and was threatening to sue me and all sorts of fun stuff which nothing ever came of. Totaled the BMW and she showed up driving a beat to shit 740 a few weeks later. Good times.

First time pulled over was a massive pile of bullshit. Going to work (or coming home...don't remember) at around 1-2am (worked over night in a call center during high school). Just cruising down I35 at about 60 mph in the right lane. I didn't speed at all on the interstate because there were tons of cops trying to police the drug traffic that ran up from Mexico in the middle of the night. In the far left lane a white C4 vette blasts by at well over 100. I'm driving a white 3rd gen Prelude which apparently looks the same to the cops in the middle of the night on the unlit interstate. Moments later I'm lit up. Pull over confused. Just sit there for 10-15 minutes until 4 or so other cruisers pull up and they box me (two behind, one to my left in the travel lane, and one in front). They get me out at gun point handcuff me and accuse me of leading the one on a chase for 40-50 miles at 100+. Tear up my car (door cards pulled, trunk carpet ripped out, glove box ripped off, etc). Eventually after checking a gas receipt I had just gotten (less than 5 miles away, timestamped so there was no way I was on a 40 mile chase) and talking to my boss they realize they'd fucked up. Gave me a ticket for not signalling when I pulled to the shoulder (da fuq?) and left me there with my door cards and stuff just sitting in the grass with nary and apology. Also good times.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > jariten1781 01/27/2015 at 10:31

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Yay cops! Always above the law. I've been thinking about getting a dashcam just as a defense against lying cops.

jariten1781 > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 01/27/2015 at 10:49

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Probably a good idea. I've thought about doing the same but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

That said, once I grew up and stopped looking and acting like a jackass I've had nothing but exceptional interactions with the police. Multiple have gone above and beyond to assist me when it wasn't necessary. I'm not as jaded as you might think.

Funktheduck > jariten1781 01/27/2015 at 11:36

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That sucks. I've heard a couple stories about cops tearing apart cars, finding nothing, and then writing bs tickets to justify the stop.

Funktheduck > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 01/27/2015 at 11:37

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I have one. Mines for protection from other drivers

uofime > Funktheduck 01/27/2015 at 11:40

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This same sort of thing happened to me several times, I'm pretty sure this wasn't the first time, but it was the best (worst):

In my youth (15 I think at the time of this event) most days after school I would ride my 4-wheeler, I lived on a farm about a quarter mile from a main road, adjacent to the main road was a trail that was once a rail road line, but had since had the rails and ties removed where I usually rode it.

During months when there were no crops planted I could ride in the field that my family owns from our house to the main road, this however was the late summer, which meant there was tall corn, so I would take the road, which is a no line, tar and chip, back road.

Anyway I'm guessing that the LEO must have been driving down the main road because apparently he spotted me crossing it. I initially didn't see him and proceeded on down the trail to one of the circuits my friends and I had cut along it. As I was racing around the circuit, jumping the track I happened to notice the police car maybe a quarter mile away at the side road where I enter from turned sideways looking down the trail.

Fuck.

I pretend to not see him and proceed to leave the circuit and race further down the trail, away from the LEO, towards the next town. Near the next town there is another circuit my friends and I made, which I start racing around like I had seen nothing. Pretty soon LEO shows up at the cross road nearest this circuit.

Double fuck.

To be clear, he at no point turned on his lights and it was to bright for his spot light to have had any effect so basically I felt safe claiming I had not seen him... Therefore I decided the best course of action was to stealthily on a trail parallel to the main tracks race back down the other way, and high tail it for home as quickly as possible. I race home at top speed ~55mph, blast up the drive way and park in the rear facing shed as quickly as possible, shut the door, whip off my gear and walk out the front of the shed like nothing happened. It was all going great up until that last bit where I walk out and the police car in sitting in my drive way.

Triple fuck.

The jig is up at this point I believe my heart was actually leaving my chest it was beating so hard, he steps out and proceeds to question me about why I didn't stop and was running, I stick to my guns about never seeing him. Like I said he never really signaled so this is plausible. He still bitches me out for a while about driving an unregistered, uninsured vehicle on public roads, making threats of tickets if I'm caught again, lecturing me on the importance of keeping a clean record. I do my best to be respect full, lots of "yes sirs" " it won't happen again sir." Eventually he feels that he as scolded me enough and leaves. Whew, I rush inside and thank my lucky stars I've gotten away with it, again.

Similar incidents happened several times though this is the only time they chased my to my house. I never did get a ticket for doing that, or anything else for that matter.

I am lucky.

Funktheduck > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 01/27/2015 at 11:42

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All but a couple interactions with police have been positive. I think a lot has to do with where you live

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Funktheduck 01/27/2015 at 11:49

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South Florida. They target people under 40 here. Up north doesn't seem to be as bad as long as you're white, but in Florida, you're just a customer to them until you get your AARP card.

Funktheduck > uofime 01/27/2015 at 11:51

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Impressive.

Funktheduck > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 01/27/2015 at 11:54

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Sounds about right.

Politicians don't want police hassling their base voters.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 01/27/2015 at 12:50

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Not really a "run in" per se but I driving South on I-481 towards Syracuse and I was in the right lane and the car in front of me was slowing down, and this was right next to an exit so I thought they were getting off, so I move over to pass them. I quickly glance in my rear view to notice an Oswego County Sheriff's car with lights on behind me. So I quickly finish the pass and thought "Oh shit, what did I do?" He ends up blowing past me soon followed by a NYS Environmental Police. So I accidently blocked a Sheriff on his way to a call. I kinda felt like shit for it but it was a mistake.

Funktheduck > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 01/27/2015 at 12:57

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Coulda been worse at least you didn't get a ticket.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Funktheduck 01/27/2015 at 12:57

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Yeah, I'm glad for that.