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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 18, 2017 - 03:42am PT
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My wallet was at the bottom of a gear box full of beer cans. They glossed over that fact and let me go. I had done a U turn in a 2 horse town.
Following a truck full of rednecks into town. Going the same speed as them, I got pulled over. What's your hurry. (the town is only 75 yards long)
Got nailed for speeding once. I saw them before they saw me so I slowed down to 55. They ticketed me for going 55 in a 45. BS. But I was going 80+ before they spotted me.
On the other hand. Good cop in Santa Barbara pulls my idiot friend out of the sand. Thank you!.
My car flips a fan belt. So I'm weaving onto the emergency lane. Cop pulls behind and I explain the problem. He then goes to drive off. Wait, are you just going to leave me here. He was. Just give me a ride to the next service station please. So he puts me into the back seat criminal cage and when he lets me out at the service station, people are backing away. Not the end of the story but enough for now.
Pulled over for no reason, well maybe cause it's a 57 Chevy with 4 males going down XXX blvd at 3am. That's not probable cause is it.
Any way what are your cop stories. Please focus on the good cop ones.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 18, 2017 - 05:08am PT
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I gnew a 'cop' once, who only collected change from parking meters and gave out $2 dollar
Parking tickets, A street ranger. Like Robin Hood, if you wanted to avoid a ticket, you could 'tip' him - the money was used to feed the street people.
Oh, wait - that was me.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:01am PT
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. . and we parted company with smiles on our faces!
eKat makes the world a much better place!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:05am PT
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^^ She's beautifully cracked that way!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:22am PT
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Gary, I was thinking the same!
eKatBeautifullyCrackedWanderer
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Kauait
Big Wall climber
salt lake city
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:26am PT
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Another beatiful day in paridise until i get pulled over going from work to surf and she walks up and says do you know your the wrong color! (Long awkward pause), again she says you know your the wrong color! (Even longer pause), I then reply I know I'm hoale.. she then gets a satisfied look and replies no no your registration sticker is expired. And then says have a nice day cuz and leaves without bringing up the copious amounts of empties scattered throughout and the pungent smell of the kronic in my truck!
Thanks KPD.
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jonnyrig
climber
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:42am PT
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I got pulled over by a brand new cop in a one horse town for having no rear view mirrors (I'm sure the overall condition of the beat up old $25 Travelall didn't help). Says the young man with the badge "I don't think you can see behind you with no door mirrors."
"Yes I can, I saw your lights in the rear view mirror on the windshield."
Says nervous young cop "Not through all that mud on the rear glass!"
He then proceeds to test my ability to see through the mud with my rear view mirror by going back behind my truck and holding up any random number of fingers for me to count and inform him of what I see.
"Here comes a ticket" I think desparagingly. I can't see a goddamn thing.
Lo and behold, his spotlight is playing shadow puppet through the mud on the back glass, and he sends me off with an "I don't know how you can see through that; but I guess you can. Have a good night" and a stupid ass grin on my face.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:52am PT
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Ekat...Only a j-word would drive an old car like that...I use to see that rig in old Mammoth before i knew you...I loved the x-country skiers painted on the side...J-werd...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 18, 2017 - 07:15am PT
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When I was a pullover, I was wearing a cardigan.
The cop was with the fashion police, and he gave me a ticket for raveling too fast.
He was wearing a f*#king bow tie with collar studs on his khaki uniform shirt, and HE gave ME a ticket?
I never bothered paying it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 18, 2017 - 08:40am PT
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Tadzhik speed trap. They just point at you and you WILL pull over, if you know what's good
for you. A tooling there is in another league. Fast and furious won't cut it cause this road
heads up to 11,000' and they'll just call ahead to their homies, or pull out their Kalashnikovs
right there. We were cool, our driver had already donated to the Benevolence Fund I think.
And 'gai' isn't pronounced 'gay'.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Jan 18, 2017 - 09:58am PT
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I've been pulled over for speeding about 30 times. Only once did I get let off with a warning. Many of those were for less than 80 in a 65 zone. I just about always get the ticket no matter if I am nice or naughty. I don't really like traffic cops much. Maybe they can smell the fear on me...
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jan 18, 2017 - 10:24am PT
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I haven't been pulled over for a real violation since the summer of 1993. I was on the verge of losing my license with 2 more moving violation points tacked onto my record. Then I got rid of my radar detector. No problems since.
Got pulled over in a rental car in Nashville this past summer (2016) because the cop saw the car's Florida tag and ran it and couldn't find any record of the vehicle. I showed him my Avis paperwork and things were all good; and I probably had four really good micro-beers (Iron Abbey) running through my system at the time after climbing at one of the Nashville rock gyms (east or west?).
Now I drive a Prius and cops actively ignore me.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Jan 18, 2017 - 02:26pm PT
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I was a new mom back at work and pumping breast milk.
At lunch I went to deliver some fresh breast milk and see my boy.
I made a left turn during the hours I wasn't supposed to.
A darling young cop pulls me over and begins the talk.
I showed him my jar of breast milk I needed to get to my baby and he was "oh oh, oh, uh uh uh". And said just a warning. Poor kid was so flummoxed!
Driving into Moab on a road trip with a bunch of MTBs on top. Had to speed up a little to get around a truck as the passing lane was ending. Siren, and pulled over. Ca plates and MTBs....surely a great bust. I think he was a little disappointed that all there were was a bunch of 50 somethings, probably closer to 60. He reduced my fine considerably.
When using the dinghy in the Oakland Estuary I've had the bull horn come on from Coast Guard Island that I was too close to float rings that edge the cutters. When you're just tooling along and that bull horn yells out at you it's a heart stopper. Homeland Secruity!
Susan
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Jan 18, 2017 - 03:17pm PT
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The only time in the last 10 years that I've been pulled over was on a bicycle for riding through a crosswalk. I was on downtown Market St about 10am and jumped onto the sidewalk as I thought the police cruiser, with blaring siren, was en route to a bank robbery. Turns out he was just trying to catch up to me. He admonished me with a "Do you know how dangerous that was?". I figured his high speed driving was much riskier for any jaywalking pedestrians, but held my tongue and got a $173 ticket.
Now what really annoys me are the numerous double parking TNCs, like Lyft and Uber who tie up busy streets. Too bad they mostly get warnings:
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jan 18, 2017 - 04:33pm PT
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Hmmm, which time? Crikey, then I'd have to delineate between the times I ended up in jail and those I didn't. Sigh.
I don't have the poster any more which shows a view from a city rooftop looking down on an intersection with a guy standing outside his car in the middle of it with his hands up surrounded by cop cars, spot lights and guns drawn, but the caption on the bottom of it said this:
"Hang loose, stay calm, admit nothing"
Sage advice to go along with:
'Keep your hands visible'
'Yes and no sir'
'Don't try to act all lily-white innocent like nothing happened'.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:01pm PT
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Loved the scene in Hidden Figures where the cop gives the NASA employees an escort to their job. I love that it's like that for black women in the movies!
The good ones are the ones who give us a ticket or not depending on whether you deserve it, not because they drink the same beer we do.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 18, 2017 - 06:40pm PT
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Ekat...I did the 79 marathon but don't recall the t-shirt...Per Fosfedt was running the ski center.... Chuck Cochran taught skiing there in 1980..rj-werd
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Jan 19, 2017 - 06:30am PT
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Headed north on the I 5 for Mt. Lassen park for a very late fall hiking trip. New-to-me VW '78 pop-up Westy. I was headed out of town earlier and stopped at the DMV to finish the reg. When I got there, I had somehow left the bill of sale at home. So I paid all the fees--the rig was also smogged--and saved all the paper work. It was all set to go but for the bill of sale. So, rollin' north and CHP pulls me over. No problemo. I got this. I pull out the paper work and show him that it's all done but the one detail. The damn cop decides to write me a ticket to "make sure I finish the process"! And why, after doing everything else, spending all the money, getting it smogged, would I NOT finish it? Damn cop. When the ticket comes in the mail, its about $200! That's a lot of scratch for a dirt-poor college student in the '80's.
It turns out you can fight these kinds of tickets via mail--at least back then--if you lived far enough from the site of the ticket. I lived in Santa Rosa, so game on. I made copies of all the docs, marked all key info., explained the situation, and sent off the packet--and beat the ticket! I still get excited about that little victory.
BAd
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 19, 2017 - 06:37am PT
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ekat...I'm sure Per is out by now...Ha...Last i heard he was taking up boxing ...He had a condo at snow creek that Audun stayed at when he'd come to do the marathon...Those 2 guys were in the Norwegian army and skied on border patrol...rough job...
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 19, 2017 - 07:05am PT
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Going thru Flagstaff Arizona I get pulled over by several cop cars with guns drawn.
They said I fit the description of the Bank robbery suspect.
They checked me out and searched my vehicle and found ropes, climbing and camping gear.
They now knew I rappelled into the bank and was going to hide out in dead man's gulch with the loot.
Rolls eyes .... they let me go cause they knew I was the wrong guy of course ....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 09:10am PT
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Anybody else get two speedos in three hours? My excuse of trying to get away from the
Mt St Helens eruption didn't cut it. Of course, technically, I got the first one while headed
towards the eruption BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT and the phuktard cop didn't tell us.
So much for "To Serve and Protect". I guess he was just bent from seeing me drifting out
of the curve as he went into it. BFD, I was in my lane! At least those dirtbags in the back
got the car aired out before I pulled over.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 20, 2017 - 10:42am PT
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My wife likes fast sports cars. She also likes it when I drive. So there we were going up CA14 between Landcancer and Mojave. The road was empty, we were talking, and I was paying zero attention to the speedometer, which is not exactly the most prominent gauge on the Porsche dashboard. Then I saw the CHP go by in the opposite direction. I took my foot off the gas and glanced in the mirror to see him pulling a fast u-turn across the median. I also saw some sort of Toyota sedan thing gaining on me and then passing me at high speed. Whew.
The cop came beside us, no flashing lights, looked at me and signaled with a hand gesture "PULL OVER". Then he hit the lights, jammed ahead and pulled over the other guy. There we were, Toyota in front, cop in the middle, and us in back. The cop went up and talked to the other guy first. Then he came back to us.
"I pulled you over for speeding, do you know how fast you were going?"
"No sir, I wasn't paying attention until I saw you. I realized I was going too fast and I slowed down." Magic words.
The cop went up, used his trunk lid for a desk, wrote the other guy a ticket and gave it to him. Now it was just him and us.
"You really don't know how fast you were going?"
"I'm sorry officer, we were talking, I wasn't watching my speed but when I saw you I slowed down."
"I had you at 97 coming over the rise." I was surprised. He continued, "Okay, you sound fair enough. The other guy insisted he was doing 75, and he passed you." He bent down to take a closer look at us. "I don't suppose you see a lot of dead people in your line of work?" He didn't wait for an answer. "You know, I really hate when I have to watch what's left of a nice looking couple like you get scraped up out of the sand after your car went end over end across the desert because some tweaker cut you off!"
He continued his lecture as we sat in stunned silence. He pointed out that we weren't on a freeway. Despite the traffic lanes being separated by a median, dirt roads intersect with the highway at regular intervals. "You see those trailers out there? Every so often one of those damn tweakers decides to drive out and get on the highway... Your car handles pretty well I bet."
"Yes Sir."
"Well it won't handle so well going end over end across the desert after some tweaker pulls out right in front of you."
Once satisfied that he had made his point he ended up giving me a warning. To this day I never do more than five over on that stretch of road.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 10:55am PT
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^^^^ What they really hate is all the paperwork.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 01:25pm PT
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^^^^^ Was driving through a remote stretch of southern Idaho just north of
the Utah border in a Pontiac LeMans. I came over a crest with one of those
huge valleys spread before me with the road going straight as an arrow.
I put the hammer down on the Hemi and had a nice easy 110 going when I saw
four cars come over the crest towards me from about 4 miles away. My inner
radar detector alerted although the real one didn't. I backed off to 95.
My 20/15 still couldn't pick out a tool ride when we got down to a mile so
I held my speed. Hey, I was only doing 25 or 30 over! When we got down to
a half mile I got suspicious about the third car in the file. When we got
within 300 yards I saw the bumper pads for pushing cars off the road and
locked 'em up at the exact split second my detector went off. He was otherwise
unmarked. Smoke billowed from the wheel wells and I was down to the limit
in a second. As he went by I saw him look down. I figured I was toast
but he didn't do a U turn. He must have pulled the trigger when he picked
it up but before he got it aimed at me which was enough for my top-of-the-line
detector. When I hit the crest leaving the valley and got into a big
curve I ran her back up to the ton++ mark and made for the Utah border.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 20, 2017 - 06:52pm PT
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Left the Great Ski Race in a US government truck driven by a friend who always drove fast and was blind as a bat...This was when they still had kegs at the finish line...We were sh#t-faced but not enough to hamper our driving skills....WE were going 85mph down I-80 when we blew by a NHP who immeadiately pulled out and chased us down...I thought we were going to jail and told my friend that i was going to get out and run for it if the NHP got squirrely....The NHP guy was cool and couldn't have been over 25...He gave my friend a $15.00 waste of resource ticket and let us off...As he started to walk away my friend told him that i was planning on running for it if he got squirrely...The cop smiled and said have a nice day...He had to have smelled the apple bong..
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2017 - 08:07pm PT
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I got pulled over in Manila, well actually my driver did. The traffic is so slow that the cops just walk between the cars and cite people for doing what ever you could possibly do going 1.5 mph. Anyway I think my driver got busted for being stuck in an intersection while the light was red. Not that you'd know since the traffic lights are single led bulbs behind some colored plastic.
In any case my driver was bummed because it takes a long time to take care of a simple ticket. No mailing it in, he'd have to spend a whole day in court not counting the commute time. He lived about 4hrs away.
Anyway he slipped the cop 200 pesos (about $4.00 and we were good to go.
Another time the same driver went through an uncontrolled intersection without looking and we got T Boned by a Jeepney. The driver lost his job.
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