Stupidest reason you've been pulled over for

[Wheaty214]

So a disclaimer, this story happened during the three weeks that I owned this vehicle, which I bought to learn how to drive stick.View attachment 652195

I went over to this girl's house for the first time, my GPS fucked up and brought me a little too far down the street so I just parked my car in front of a random house two houses down. I wasn't worried about anyone stealing anything, so I didn't bother locking the car.

Fast forward 3 hours, to about 11pm, I start leaving and walk out of her house to find two police cars with their lights flashing, parked right next to my car. Confused as fuck, I walk up to the police cars to find that no one is inside of them.

At this point I had no idea what the fuck to do, so I just got in my car, fired it up, and started driving away. It was a dead end, so I pulled a Uey and started driving back. As I was driving by the cop cars, I saw an officer running after me flashing his flashlight at me. I quickly stopped, cranked my window down, and he asked me to step out of the car.

I asked him what was going on as another police officer joined us and a K9 unit pulled up to the scene. They asked me what I had been doing and why my car was parked where it was. I told them that I was at so-and-so's house down the street just hanging out and that I just parked it randomly.

They told me that the house I parked in front of got robbed, and because I had such a shitty car in a really nice neighborhood, with the doors unlocked and the lights left on, it made me look very guilty.

They went down to the house to check to make sure my story was true, and then they came back and laughed about it. I finally got to go home after 30 minutes of talking to them.

 

[skeedle]

i got pulled over last night as i was going to pick up my boyfriend because apparently i was drunk driving (i had been sitting at home in my sweatpants and i don't even know the last time i had a drink} and then the officer told me that i threw a cigarette butt out the window (i don't smoke, and i haven't smoked a cigarette in like, 4 years) and then he told me that i had thrown something out the window (my windows were done up and my heat was blasting because i was freezing....) i wasn't even speeding, i was going like 4 over the limit....

he let me go and was like "okay, next time just drive more carefully...."

:|

 

[caucasian_chad]

Very legal unless you happen to pass through Virginia or Washington DC (or Canada?),

http://www.rdforum.org/wiki/index.php?title=RDF_Geographical_Survey

Doesn't mean they won't treat you differently for having it. However I paid my dues with one sitting on my windshield, but I was also going 30 over and he still knocked it down by 10 mph on the ticket. Didn't even mention the dar.

Yeah, but I didn't even have one to begin with. His tail lights and randomly pulling over for no reason were dead giveaways, lol. I don't know how he didn't realize that.

 

[ohmyglob8]

Cops pulls me over in VT, I am an NH resident...

Cop: "License, registration, and proof of insurance"

Me: "Here's my license and registration, I don't have insurance because I live in NH and it is not required"

Cop: "Well it is required in VT. And it's also illegal to have air freshners hanging from your rear view mirror"

Me: (takes down air freshener) "Sorry officer I had no idea (who the fuck would?)"

Then I get the whole ordeal about how he smeels alcohol on me and my friends, asked to step out of the vehicle, and made to take a breathalizer (which I pass). Then Im asked to find someone else to drive me home, which I refuse, and am sent back to my car where I wait for over 30 minutes. Finally...

Cop: "Ok so I pulled you over for an obstructed license plate (clear cover with SLIGHT dirt on it) and the air freshener".

(Hands me $500 in tickets)

Cop: "So sorry to let you leave early (the fucking nerve on this guy) but I have another call."

Me: "Thank you sir. May I get your name?"

(Gives name. I shake his hand)

(Guy pieces it).

Worst experience I've ever had with a cop and worst reason to ever be pulled over. I have the story posted in some other thread floating around here.

did that happen to be in the town of chester vt? or ludlow? cause I used to live there and those cops will try and bust u for just about anything and everything. and the air fresheners isn't true, I've had my goggles hanging from there and I know other people who've had other stuff as well. but yeah the insurance thing is one of the things vt cops love to get people for.

 

[.Hugo.]

did that happen to be in the town of chester vt? or ludlow? cause I used to live there and those cops will try and bust u for just about anything and everything. and the air fresheners isn't true, I've had my goggles hanging from there and I know other people who've had other stuff as well. but yeah the insurance thing is one of the things vt cops love to get people for.

no the air freshener thing is true. you cant have anything hanging from your rear view mirror, including fuzzy dice

 

[.Hugo.]

no the air freshener thing is true. you cant have anything hanging from your rear view mirror, including fuzzy dice

unless it varies by state i guess, idk

 

[Abu_Hajaar]

It looked like I might have been texting

 

[no_steeze]

I made a left turn in an empty grocery store parking lot where there was a no left turn sign so I wouldn't have to drive all the way around the lot to get to a point 20 feet to my left. The cop was evidently waiting just out of sight for somebody to do that, but he said he couldn't legally give me a ticket for it since it wasn't actually on a road. Idiot just wasted like 20 minutes of my time over a bullshit sign while somebody somewhere was getting raped

 

[jabroni.]

smoking pot while driving

wtf bruh?

i thought this was america

 

[SFB]

going 20 over in a 30mph, stupid fucking cops i kno my rites. he tried to pull me over but i kept yelling at him AM I BEING DETAINED, AM I BEING DETAINED? dumb buttfuker cops i only have to follow laws if i feel like it.

 

[Squirrel_Murphy]

Littering and...

 

[Huck_Norris]

I got pulled over for honking. Cop looked pissed and and told me how he hated honking. I just responded that I was honking at another driver and wanted the other driver to hear me. The cop went on to lecture me about how he wasn't the only person that hates honking and how I better not honk in a big city or risk getting shot. After his lecture he just walked back to his car and drove away. He never accused me of any sort of violation or anything.

Should've honked and waved goodbye

 

[~~~~~~~~]

Littering and...

littering and...

 

[connecticunt]

Is there actually a law for that in your state?

Apparently so, I tried to tell him that I wasn't aware you had to have shoes on while you drive and he said, "you must not have been listening during your driver's ed class." To which I responded, "driver's ed isn't mandatory and I didn't take it." And he just laughed, handed me my ticket, and walked away.

Forgot about this story, not necessarily pulled over but same idea.

My friend and I are 16 and we snuck out and took her dad's car to go to a party in another town (badass I know) but we get totally lost so we pull into the parking lot of a closed McDonalds. We were just chillin there with one of the lights on inside the car and out of nowhere there are 4 cop cars blocking us into our parking space. The cops make us all get out of the car and sit on the curb while its absolutely freezing while they shine flashlights in our faces and interrogate us on why we are out past curfew. They then scream at my friend until she breaks down and they call her dad to come pick us up.

All this went down in Westport and anyone who knows anything about Westport knows that the cops there are the biggest ass wads.

 

[act.resist]

i got pulled over for literally no reason at all, she told me that i didn't turn on my blinker but i did.

i also got pulled over AND got a ticket for going 40 in a 25. I get it, it's 15 mph over, but lets count how many other people go a lot faster than that at any given time in any 25 mph zone. This guy was just being a dick and i did NOT have the means to pay that ticket at that time.

 

[snapped]

going 20 over in a 30mph, stupid fucking cops i kno my rites. he tried to pull me over but i kept yelling at him AM I BEING DETAINED, AM I BEING DETAINED? dumb buttfuker cops i only have to follow laws if i feel like it.

This would be funny if people weren't actually retarded enough to do it...

 

[OP_has_Aids]

I got pulled over for going 25 on a moped in a 15.

 

[theabortionator]

Apparently so, I tried to tell him that I wasn't aware you had to have shoes on while you drive and he said, "you must not have been listening during your driver's ed class." To which I responded, "driver's ed isn't mandatory and I didn't take it." And he just laughed, handed me my ticket, and walked away.

Just because you got a ticket doesn't mean there's a law though. Technically it should but it doesn't necessarily.

 

[iH8pow]

I've been pulled over 75-100 times (I drive 35-40k a year, and always speed). I'd say the dumbest reason is obviously just for the sake of being on the road at 1-2AM. Understandable, they are just going for DUI's but that is the dumbest.

Except for when I got my DUI. I quit drinking hours before because I was driving (too late apparently). Anyways, I gave one kid a ride home. Came back downtown around bar close to get the rest of my friends, they were hanging out with some black dude I never met. This black dude was getting in an argument with somebody as my friends were getting into my car. I told him to get in because I had no idea who he was and if he didn't I was gonna leave him. He got in and I got pulled over a block or two down. Cop says his reason to stop me was to see what the confrontation was all about, but he didn't even talk to the guy his focus was all on me. I was drunk, whatever, but I asked him why he pulled me over and that was the reason. No speeding, swerving, blown stops or anything, so I call RACISM!

 

[OP_has_Aids]

I've been pulled over 75-100 times (I drive 35-40k a year, and always speed). I'd say the dumbest reason is obviously just for the sake of being on the road at 1-2AM. Understandable, they are just going for DUI's but that is the dumbest.

Except for when I got my DUI. I quit drinking hours before because I was driving (too late apparently). Anyways, I gave one kid a ride home. Came back downtown around bar close to get the rest of my friends, they were hanging out with some black dude I never met. This black dude was getting in an argument with somebody as my friends were getting into my car. I told him to get in because I had no idea who he was and if he didn't I was gonna leave him. He got in and I got pulled over a block or two down. Cop says his reason to stop me was to see what the confrontation was all about, but he didn't even talk to the guy his focus was all on me. I was drunk, whatever, but I asked him why he pulled me over and that was the reason. No speeding, swerving, blown stops or anything, so I call RACISM!

I don't see the racism in here....

 

[Steezy_Peazy]

Havent been pulled over yet. Close call: Was racing a little bit on the freeway, late to school, doing like 80-85, and some tahoe starts tailgating me, so I pull into the right lane, and a statie pulls up beside me, matches speed, and just looks at me. He then punched it and took off. Mind you I was still doing about 80. Happened just this morning.

 

[corona]

Havent been pulled over yet. Close call: Was racing a little bit on the freeway, late to school, doing like 80-85, and some tahoe starts tailgating me, so I pull into the right lane, and a statie pulls up beside me, matches speed, and just looks at me. He then punched it and took off. Mind you I was still doing about 80. Happened just this morning.

he clearly wanted to race

 

[Squirrel_Murphy]

littering and...

...littering and...

 

[snapped]

i also got pulled over AND got a ticket for going 40 in a 25. I get it, it's 15 mph over, but lets count how many other people go a lot faster than that at any given time in any 25 mph zone. This guy was just being a dick and i did NOT have the means to pay that ticket at that time.

how does that justify it? Most of these reasons are pretty far fetched, but you chose to drive too fast then you must be prepared to pay the ticket if you get caught, by your logic I can go shoplift because there are so many people doing it.. I sucks that it happened when you couldn't pay it, but that's not really the cops fault

 

[SFB]

i got pulled over for literally no reason at all, she told me that i didn't turn on my blinker but i did.

i also got pulled over AND got a ticket for going 40 in a 25. I get it, it's 15 mph over, but lets count how many other people go a lot faster than that at any given time in any 25 mph zone. This guy was just being a dick and i did NOT have the means to pay that ticket at that time.

yep the police should let you out of a ticket for going way over the speed limit because you cant afford it.

 

[.Hugo.]

Just because you got a ticket doesn't mean there's a law though. Technically it should but it doesn't necessarily.

You are required to wear shoes when you drive actually. Its a law in all states

 

[theabortionator]

You are required to wear shoes when you drive actually. Its a law in all states

Pretty sure that's a myth but open to being proven wrong

 

[PeppermillReno]

In Utah they pulled me over merely for driving in the left lane (was told I had to be passing someone to be in it.)

 

[no_steeze]

In Utah they pulled me over merely for driving in the left lane (was told I had to be passing someone to be in it.)

They should keep aggressively enforcing this so morons stop sitting in the left lane going 65

 

[act.resist]

yep the police should let you out of a ticket for going way over the speed limit because you cant afford it.

it was stupid thats why i shouldn't have gotten it. i dont know anyone who goes the actual "25" in a 25. ever. thats way too slow and going 40 isnt going to hurt anyone.

 

[act.resist]

how does that justify it? Most of these reasons are pretty far fetched, but you chose to drive too fast then you must be prepared to pay the ticket if you get caught, by your logic I can go shoplift because there are so many people doing it.. I sucks that it happened when you couldn't pay it, but that's not really the cops fault

1. it was stupid

2. everyone goes over 25 in a 25

3. dont lie and tell me you go 25 in a 25

4. the guy was a dick. if you met him you would think he was a dick. fact.

 

[act.resist]

tell me the name of someone you know whos gotten a ticket for doing that.

 

[mseward]

"my Sergeant saw you texting and told me to pull you over"

i was SO mad. but i happened to have forgot my wallet that day and he was nice about not giving me a driving without a licence ticket so i couldn't argue.

court date this summer tho

 

[Charlie_Kelly]

did that happen to be in the town of chester vt? or ludlow? cause I used to live there and those cops will try and bust u for just about anything and everything. and the air fresheners isn't true, I've had my goggles hanging from there and I know other people who've had other stuff as well. but yeah the insurance thing is one of the things vt cops love to get people for.

Nah Vergennes, VT.

no the air freshener thing is true. you cant have anything hanging from your rear view mirror, including fuzzy dice

No such law in NH. We're badass I guess.

 

[Davin]

Nah Vergennes, VT.

No such law in NH. We're badass I guess.

Vergennes cops are fucking assholes. My mom was doing 50 in a 45 and got a ticket for it. She hadn't gotten a ticket since she was 17.... Like really?

 

[Charlie_Kelly]

Vergennes cops are fucking assholes. My mom was doing 50 in a 45 and got a ticket for it. She hadn't gotten a ticket since she was 17.... Like really?

The worst. Everyone from the area that I've talked to says they are the worst in the Champlain valley.

 

[Lé.Skiing]

A cop told me he smelled some weed coming from my car. It was like midnight I just bought the new COD at the time(I think it was black ops). The thing was he was in a car with the windows rolled up pretty sure he just profiled me or pulled me over for no reason until he got to my car and made up a reason. so, I gave him the little bag of weed because I was like fuck it whatever not like he can do anything it was only a gram might have even been under. He probably could smell it in my car and there was only a gram so it didn't even bother me. I had more weed at home. haha

One thing still makes me angry was when he held it up and he was like "oh yah, about 3 grams" I thought that was bullshit, but whatever he probably just wanted to get high. I told him I had work early in the morning, and I just wanted to go home because I got a new game. Cop let me off and just took my weed. Mainly pissed me off that he pulled me over for a bullshit reason. I could have fought it, but I just wanted to go home blaze and play some games before going to bed. I didn't even get a ticket or anything.

 

[Daski]

going 40 isnt going to hurt anyone.

Do you think they just pull the speed limits out of their asses?

 

[SFB]

tell me the name of someone you know whos gotten a ticket for doing that.

seriously, you think going 15 over in a 25 is normal and shouldnt be illeagle? i myself have gotten a ticket for that so.

 

[SFB]

r. thats way too slow and going 40 isnt going to hurt anyone.

its that slow for a reason. and going 15 over in a zone that purposely has that low of a speed limit definitely will hurt hurt that kid trying to cross the street.

 

[snapped]

1. it was stupid

2. everyone goes over 25 in a 25

3. dont lie and tell me you go 25 in a 25

4. the guy was a dick. if you met him you would think he was a dick. fact.

again, how does that justify it? you still knew you were going almost double the speed limit... That cop might have been a dick but he was still right

 

[act.resist]

again, how does that justify it? you still knew you were going almost double the speed limit... That cop might have been a dick but he was still right

i never said anything about justification. you're trying my patience. it was a stupid ticket and that's a fact. the guy was just looking for a reason to give someone a ticket

 

[act.resist]

Do you think they just pull the speed limits out of their asses?

40 mph is nothing eat my dick forever all of you.

 

[theabortionator]

In Utah they pulled me over merely for driving in the left lane (was told I had to be passing someone to be in it.)

Good. Learn to fucking drive. IF you aren't passing people stay to the right. People driving in the left lane are what causes all kinds of traffic jams. Nothing like being in the right lane of 4 lanes and going faster than everyone in the left 3 lanes because they're all fucking morons and piled into the left to.

Pull the fuck over.

Really don't see this enforced even close to enough. Glad to here you got stopped for it.

 

[theabortionator]

Do you think they just pull the speed limits out of their asses?

I do. A lot of places they don't match the traffic patterns. Most are too low, some are too high.

Especially on freeways. It makes no sense to have a road that isn't crowded, 2 lanes each direction, straight as fuck, 55.

I don't really speed. Def don't speed in the slower zones. I don't get people that go 40-45 through towns with all kind of shit going on, people crossing the street etc. That's where you'll get a ticket as well.

Idk. I wished they focused more on idiot driver than speeders but it's about the easy $ not about safety. Same with drugs. Why solve real crimes when you can bust people for drugs?

 

[Lonely]

Got pulled over for driving 35 in a 25...or what was a 25 a quarter mile ago. Listen to long lecture, point out I am in 35. Then issue becomes driving with one hand. Aparently that is completely reckless and could be ticketed but good guy Greg the officer says he let me off the hook, for something that doesn't exist.

Thanks obama

 

[SFB]

40 mph is nothing eat my dick forever all of you.

40 in a 25 is way over the speed limit, you deserved every bit of that ticket.

 

[Dirty.Harry.]

Been pulled over 6 times. All warnings.

1. Speeding (school zone)

2. No reason (he said suspicious driving)

3. No inspection sticker (bought the truck a week ago)

4. Speeding

5. Speeding

6. Expired inspection (4 months overdue)

It helps to be a local volunteer EMT/Ambulance driver.

 

[soulskier]

Been pulled over 6 times. All warnings.

1. Speeding (school zone)

2. No reason (he said suspicious driving)

3. No inspection sticker (bought the truck a week ago)

4. Speeding

5. Speeding

6. Expired inspection (4 months overdue)

It helps to be a local volunteer EMT/Ambulance driver.

How does one subtly bring that up?

 

[act.resist]

40 in a 25 is way over the speed limit, you deserved every bit of that ticket.

eat my dick forever