Andrew represented me about 9 years ago with a traffic charge in VA, got in a fender bender in a construction area. He got the charges dismissed, did an awesome job. So here I am watching RUclips, and he pops up in my recommended feed! I was like hey I know this guy! So, not only did he save my ass back then, now he's teaching me all sorts of useful stuff. Great job Andrew.
@@EmilyTienne I'm not sure what his age was exactly, but considering he would have had to finish law school, pass his bar exam, and also the fact he was already practicing for a while based on his reviews, I think 20 is unlikely. Unless of course he's one of those overachieving geniuses. Regardless, I was just transiting Virginia at the time and actually lived in NY, so our interactions were over the phone. He was awesome in every way, courteous, professional, prompt, and did a great job in court on my behalf.
I worked with a guy that had been LEO in Colorado somewhere. Well, one of his co-workers was a stutterer. So, one day, this co-worker pulls over a young man for something or another, and...you guessed it, the perp was a stutterer as well. My friend says hilarity ensued, with each one thinking the other was mocking them....apparently this went on for several minutes, and the perp demanded to see the cop's supervisor, then , and only then, did it get straightened out. But, where the two stutterer's were mad as hell at each other for 'mocking' the other, all the other cops that got involved couldn't help but laugh their rear ends off!
Many years ago I lived across the street from an Iowa State Trooper. We'd been friends and neighbors for about 5 years. One day during a snowstorm I looked out and saw my Trooper neighbor with his patrol car stuck in the snow in his driveway. I got my coat and boots and took my small tractor to his house and cleared his drive so he could go to work. He tried to pay me but I refused and said that's what neighbors do. Not two days later I was coming home from work and going about 10mph over when a state trooper car popped over the hill. The lights came on and flashed about twice then stopped. As he passed by it was my neighbor smiling and giving me the "slow down" sign. I guess he paid me for the snow clearing after all!
I was stuck behind a driver on old Rt 40 from MD into PA who would slow down more than 15 mph below the speed limit when it wasn't legal to pass. Once a passing zone came up, he (she) would speed up to the posted limit. After entering PA, and 20 miles of this yo-yo, I had enough and blew past him on an uphill grade in the left of two lanes. I knew that beyond that point that passing zones and two-lanes were not going to be an option for the next 40+ miles. As soon as I was completing the pass and cresting the hilltop, there was a PA trooper facing my direction. I didn't even wait for him to pull out, and pulled over. I had my papers ready and explained what had occurred up until he saw me. He checked my info and told me to have a safe trip, not even a warning for speeding, which I was absolutely guilty of. Sometimes, being honest and respectful can go a long way in the outcome.
A former roommate of mine once said that he could do anything he wanted and not get a ticket. Of course, I called BS. So we got in his car and headed toward the sheriff's department in search of an officer. We found one pulling out of the road beside the department, and he ended up behind us. So my friend - never speeding, just driving otherwise normal - ran a stop sign, stopped at the next intersection, which didn't have a stop sign, and then ran the next stop sign. The officer pulled us over and went through the usual routine: license, proof of insurance, etc. Then came the inevitable question: What the heck is going on? My friend's story was that he bent down to get the cigarette lighter and light his smoke, causing him to miss the first stop sign. He then dropped it, and stopped briefly at the next intersection to carefully pick it up before he burned himself or caught the car on fire. Finally, he missed the second stop sign because he was nervous about the officer behind him and was looking more in the rear view and simply missed it. The cop never even bothered to check the lighter or anything else, just asked "well, that's a hell of a story, but what would you do in my position?" My friend said "honestly, I'd probably write me a ticket." The officer just told him to be more careful and sent us on about our way. I'm not saying that this guy was really immune to legal consequences - but then again, dude did predict exactly what would happen in that insane situation ...
30+ years ago, as a 16ish year old, in Highland Village TX, I was pulled over for driving the normal speed limit in a school zone (20mph). I had to explain to the cop that there was no school that day, had there been, I'd have been in school. He came back and told me to slow it down and he had to go for a more important call. He couldn't admit he was wrong.
don't know about that area, but here in Arkansas those signs have another little sign at the bottom (or maybe it's the top, I can't recall at the moment) that says "when children are present," rendering the reduced speed limit meaningless unless kids are around. Fair warning though, it doesn't say "when school is in session," so if there's a kid at the playground on a Saturday, you might be in trouble lol
@@JamesFite I've never understood the intended scope of that damned "when children are present" qualification. It seems obvious to me that kids walking on the sidewalk before, during, or after normal school hours qualify, but is that all? Present where exactly? Anywhere on school grounds (including inside)? Outside but two blocks away? Playing in their yard unrelated to the school? How close to the street?
He spent four months in jail for the crime of being deaf? Okay. That cop, prosecutor, and Judge all need to lose their jobs AND spend four months in jail for the crime of being idiots.
He was punished for the crime of being disabled to a cop. Every time someone has a medical crisis or disability, the cops make sure to mete out justice for that.
About 16 yrs ago I was in an a capella quartet which had a performance on a Friday night at a church in Naples, Fl. I live in Weston on the east coast. I had worked a bit late and was in a rush to get there by 7pm and was driving about 90-95mph and was within sight of the west toll booth when I saw a state trooper coming the other way turn on his lights. Knew I was busted so just pulled over and had my docs ready for him. He made a u turn and after parking behind me walked up and said he clocked me at 83. I said he needs to recalibrate his radar because I know I was going faster than that. The look on his face was priceless. He asked where I was headed and said "That's my church!" He said he could either give me a very expensive speeding ticket or I may have been going so fast that he couldn't tell whether or not I was wearing a seatbelt. I thanked him and waited for him to write up the ticket, which was a non-moving violation at the time. Then he asked about my directions to the church and gave me a shortcut. When I showed up I presented the ticket to our lead who handled the finances and said it was a quartet expense and told them the story which they didn't really believe. After the performance the trooper came up to us and validated the story. He had brought his family to see us. Score one for honesty.
We once got lost in the middle of nowhere going back to Vegas from Phoenix. (Low on gas and long before GPS.) I saw a State Trooper and raced up beside him and pulled him over (curbed him.) He wasn't very happy about getting pulled over by three people in the middle of nowhere, but after explaining the dire situation and running all our info, he kinda found the humor in it. And, he escorted us to the proper turn off.
@@Andrewflusche I got one; Was in New Orleans for a concert, when the show was over, and we loaded up to go home 2.5 hours away. I noticed my battery light was on. Which indicates a charging system failure. So I was driving on borrowed time(before the lights and ignition system would drain the battery and the engine would die.). I stopped two different officers, to ask if I could borrow a moment of their time, to act as a charging circuit for my dying battery. A Kenner officer straight up told me "No." And a state police, who was parked with lights to protect construction, declined as neither of us had cables. But he was atleast willing.
I drove without a helmet only 1mile to the gas station to grab something. Worst mistake ever. Had an accident involving a deer. My left temple hit the gravel road. I suffered from aphasia. When I woke up from a coma, I tried to speak, but baby talk came out of my mouth. If you ride a motorcycle, where a damn helmet!
Not being able to communicate can be dangerous, and then, some cops can be real butt - holes with it. There is video on you tube of cops trying to get an 80 year old lady that doesn't speak English to put a lousy knife down and almost end up killing her with tazing.
@@Andrewflusche fear is a control tactic free speech should apply to everywhere, and noncompliance/disobedience to tyrannical authoritarian subjugation suppression of freewill is key speak truth only cops should be equivalent to community militia that is made up of people of an area who know each other and do other things, all looking out for and ready to protect each other if others come to do them harm, as individuals we cooperate, not police each other by any means, but stand together against those who would take from people's life
One Deputy was sitting for, nearly, his entire shift at a speed-trap without many speeders. With, only, minutes to go he decides to wright a ticket for 3 mph over the limit. He pulled-out turned on his lights and the driver sped-up. The closer the Deputy came, the more desperate the eluding became. After it became clear that there was no getting-away, the vehicle pulled-over. Upon arriving at the driver's window he asked, incredulously, do you know how fast you were going? The driver responded, "well, yes sir but, I can explain. Again, incredulously, the Deputy stated, " you can explain driving at over 3 times the posted speed limit?" The driver said, " well, I'd like to explain, sir." Incredulously- as before- the Deputy stated, "O.K. I-tell-you-what, if you can give me a good reason for driving the way you were, I'll let you off with, just, a warning! "Well, sir, the driver began. It was about 3 months-ago that my ex ran-off with a Police Officer. I've, never, even, heard of someone being pulled-over for less-than 5 mph over the limit so, I thought that you were him trying to bring-her-back.
Not a crazy excuse but I did get out of a "fix-it" ticket for having a headlight out. I was getting ready to go somewhere just after dark when I realized one headlight wasn't working. When the cop stopped me, I'd just been to the auto parts store and had the replacement light on the passenger seat. I showed him the light, the receipt (to prove I hadn't been driving around and just hadn't put the new light in)
In 1998 I was driving home after attending Oz Fest with a buddy. I was about 50 miles from home at 2am when I got pulled over. The cop asked all the usual questions and after I'd told him we'd been at Oz Fest he asked me if I'd been drinking, I said no because I had not been drinking. He obviously wasn't convinced and made up an excuse about my license not showing up in the system to get me out of the car. I passed the breathalyzer and we went and sat in his car while he was waiting on a radio call. He got out to talk to my buddy who had gotten out to smoke. I knew he was going to ask my buddy if I'd been drinking. About 9 months before this my buddy had been hit while walking by a drunk driver. It broke his leg and took out a chunk of meat. He was only 2 months out of cast at this time and still had some trouble walking. I saw my buddy point at his leg and tell the cop the story. The cop came back to his car, handed me my license and said "you're good, just slow down."
My box truck is a *cop magnet*. I get pulled over every time I drive it out of state. (It is under 10,000gvwr) They want so much to open the back, desperate to seize (civil asset forfeiture) anything of value, convinced they've caught the world's largest drug runner. So I speak to them in mandarin Chinese. Drives them absolutely frothy.
was working for a construction company and got pulled for speeding. Told him that my company was building their new training center and was delivering some supplies, true story. He checked ,came back let me go. Pulled over another time, tried the same story. However, the officer told me that is metro division, and we are peel division ... 800 dollars in fines later. lol
I knew an ex small town cop. Both his parents were deaf, so he could communicate very well with sign language. He stopped a car for speeding and as he walked up, he could see the two people in the car "signing" back and forth... So he didn't say anything, just started signing to the couple in the car. They were flabbergasted that a cop was doing this... and actually asked "Are they hiring deaf cops now?". He chatted a while, realizing that this was the first time they had been stopped ever and just warned them to slow down.
When I was 19, I was driving back to campus after a weekend home from college. Came upon a 280Z that wanted to race. I slapped my mighty Dodge V-8 down into second and shot around the gimmicky Nissan. Point made! Except there was a very friendly county deputy waiting in the roadside hedges...77 in a 55! The cop invited me into the squad car, which was my only time to sit in a police cruiser. Sitting, sweating, I was beside the cop as he composed the citation (my first ever ticket). He said, "That pick-up's a beauty; will she run?" Surprised by his conversation style I coughed out, "I think that 77 is as fast at that 5/8th ton will haul." He snickered, tore the ticket off the pad, handed it to me, and I quietly exited. (Never went home that way again...)
Re: the first story, police gun holsters should lock shut once the gun is removed such that a supervisor has to re-holster it. Probably the only way to guarantee a Use of Force report gets filed every time.
Once we were test driving a fast car and when the cop went to stop us for speeding I told my cousin to speed up a little more and then pull into the median turn and shut it off and pop the hood. I jumped out and was looking saying there's a problem with the throttle sticking and it worked!
Lucky. but srsly speeding up once them lights flick on is NOT a good Idea, legally speaking. You end up in the territory of 'pursuit & evasion' etc Glad that work'd tho. quick thinking. I've actually had a couple cars with sticky throttles tho, it's scary especially when *Driving a Car* (as opposed to 'operating a motor vehicle). Too bad such things can't be fixed so easily anymore... with a simple clean & degrease :[
I'm a retired OTR truck driver. And here's one story. It's an early Sunday morning and I'm just getting up to speed on Kentucky parkway. I'm rolling up a hill into what I thought was an empty construction zone when I see the cruiser just over the hill. I know I'm busted, so I don't even wait for him. I just pull over and he gets turned around and stop behind me. This is when things get interesting. He hops out of his car and he's the absolute stereotype. High polished shoes, military crew cut, razor sharp creases on both shirt and pants, mirrored sunglasses under a wide brim hat, a gait that looks more like a time and a half march - this guy has it all. And, of course, he climbs up to my level and demands my license, registration, and insurance very aggressively. Trying to keep this situation from escalating, I'm very apologetic, and compliant and... well, humble. But as he marches back to his car, I decide to take this opportunity to really mess with this guy. So I do my very best to produce tears in my eyes and make like I'm crying. By the time he comes back to hand me the ticket, I'm blubbering apologies and bawling my eyes out. I could see my crying made this uber-mench uncomfortable. VERY uncomfortable. He looks like he would rather be facing down a PCP addict, a domestic violence case, a pack of rabid dogs, ANYWHERE but watching a grown ass truck driver bawling his eyes out and blubbering apologies. He has nothing to say to me. I can see his brain is trying to engage, but he's coming up with nothing in his training, experience, or testosterone saturated mind to deal with this situation. He practically tosses the ticket and my information at me, doesn't even wait for me to sign it, and leaves ASAP. I watch and laugh as his cruiser pulls out from behind me in an excessive display of acceleration. I took him totally outside his comfort zone and he was completely unequipped to handle it.
One of my favorites is the video where a woman is pulled over. She tells the officer that she didn't think they gave tickets to pretty girls. The police officer said that she was right. They don't. Sign here. LOL. Then my goofy brother tells me about a time he pulled over to side of the road and a squad car pulled in behind him. He tells the police officer that he noticed some shimmying. The police officer tells him that he would probably notice it a lot less if he was going under 70. But unlike the "pretty girl" he got off with a warning. But in both cases, the cop had a sense of humor.
I was in my late teens and driving my car a bit faster than I should have been . I passed a state trooper as we both crested a hill ( two lane state highway could not see him before that ) he hits the lights , I brake , downshift , pull over and shut my car off. He approaches and says ' kinda pushing that thing a little aren't you '? Now being a dumb azz gear head and being brutally honest I replied ' no sir I had plenty of pedal left ' and immediately realized what I said , and how smart azz it probably came off and it must have showed on my face . He asked for my licence ,insurance , registration. Comes back and says well I clocked you @ 112 mph , but if you show me what you got in it , I'll write you for a 65 in a 55 and not take you to jail. Deal officer .. So I show him my nova , pop the hood , tell him about everything that's done to it , turns out he's a gear head too , and remembers being a dumb kid at one time as well. We shook hands , I signed my ticket and drove away very happy . A week later he pulled up next to me in his 70 chevelle and asked if I wanted to go to ' X ' road and see who had the faster car ( not kidding ) I declined thinking it was a trap , but saw him a month later at the dragstrip , we talked a bit and set up a grudge race , he was disappointed in that chevelle , but coolest cop I've met to this day.
I was traveling with the flow of traffic on an Interstate. Was pulled over by a motorcycle cop parked somewhere I didn’t see. Said I was driving 70 in a 55 (speed change somewhere). I asked him to let me go and I’d slow down. He said, “That wouldn’t be fair to everyone else I’ve cited.” I smiled and said, “It will be our little secret.” I got the ticket.
Many years ago I was on a highway in Maryland, probably I-95. Every car was going over the speed limit, mine included, but I was still the slowest car (relatively speaking), so a cop stopped me. Maybe my New York license plate had something to do with it. You know how we New Yorkers are, um, beloved by everyone, everywhere. Anyway, he didn't give me a ticket right away. Instead, we got to talking about this and that. Issues with his wife, issues with his daughter (who was just a little bit younger than I was), general philosophical questions about life... whatever. It was a long, pleasant conversation. Maybe a half hour. I don't really recall now. He was grateful for some insights I offered him, and we got on great. So, I figured that he was going to let me off, considering the rapport we had established between us. Nope. Before he thanked me and said goodbye...he gave me a ticket!
I got pull over in Texas in my younger years by a state trooper. When the officer came to my window and ask "Do you know why I pulled you over".I replied " F@%$ I hope it was for speeding, I don't think I was do anything else wrong". He laughed and gave me a warning.
I got pulled over by a deputy when I might have been going 10-15 mph over. He asked me " do you know why I pulled you over?" My instinct was to admit to (POSSIBLY) speeding in and apologize, but for some reason I said- "No sir, I don't have any idea." Turns out, he wason a fishing trip & made an excuse that I "got close to the yellow line"! Got close to it! Didn't go over it! I didn't even do that. He was just fishing.
Trying to pull the "I know so-and-so" or "do you know who I am?" To escape getting a ticket is pretty dumb. Even when my pops was chief of police, I never tried that bs. That is what scumbags who feel the law shouldn't apply to them do.
Fun story about the fellow with the highway patrol neighbor :) and then you're relating about how you don't recognize patrolman in their street clothes, which solidifies the point that most "eye witnesses" are terribly unreliable.
I had a crazy excuse, I was in the right. A cop pulled me over after I turned left in front of him as he waited at a red light facing the opposite direction at the intersection I went through with a green left turn arrow. He pulled me over about a quarter mile up the road and told me I ran a red light. I told him that I had a green arrow for the left turn lane and he replied that there was no turn arrow there. I told him I'd let him follow me back to the intersection in question so we could settle the dispute or ride with him to go back but he said no I believe you. I wonder in hindsight if he was just using that to see if I was impaired even though I was driving completely sober and normally.
My sister has a friend who was driving up in the mountains. He was looking for a map while driving and apparently was weaving back and forth. A deputy pulls him over and asks if he’d been drinking. “No officer.” “Well you were weaving all over the road. How come? “ “Well. I’m not a very good driver.” The cop laughed and said “You had to pass a driver’s license test right?” “Yeah but I just barely passed.” He got off with a warning.
I used to deliver exotic cars by driving them and I was driving a Porsche 930 from Dallas to San Diego. I was somewhere in West Texas at 2:00 AM cruising at about 100 mph in the middle of nowhere not another car in sight and BAM!! I get lit up. I pull over Officer reads me the riot act then asks why I was going so fast. I asked if I could turn the radio on it would explain it. He said ok and when I turned it on the cassette playing was Deep Purple Radar love lol He laughed and suggested I change the tape and keep it under a hundred lol
The average citizen has never been arrested or pulled over. If they are, how do they know how they are required to behave by law during a traffic stop? Citizens have no training on what to do, or what to say. Cops on the other hand are fully trained. One wrong move and an innocent citizen can lose their life. Do a search on what happened to Daniel Shaver and Tony Timpa.
When I was in high school we had a lady come in and teach us some ASL to go along with the Helen Keller story we had read. She told us she got pulled over once because her horn was stuck blasting. She could speek but not hear so she told the policeman about her condition and I guess had a paper and pen ready for them to talk back to her. He fixed her horn and sent her on her way.
Had a deaf guy in my area get tazed at a stop for "Flashing gang signs" When he was pulled over, he got out right away (Probably a mistake) And was trying to communicate that he was deaf. When he refused the officers verbal commands, they tazed him. Luckily he was just tazed, because in this day an age, lots don't hesitate to just shoot.
When I was a kid, I was home on leave from the Navy. I was riding my Ducati South on I-15 through Salt Lake City. I was all over the road, cutting between cars and on the shoulder of the road to pass people. I leave the freeway, and make a left. This is when I notice a cop behind me with his lights on. Cop walks up to me and asks for my license, registration and proof of insurance. In my head, I wanted to ensure that I didn't say anything that might incriminate me, so I figured I should test the waters to figure out just how long this cop had been behind me. So I ask him, "Sir, can I ask why you pulled me over?" I knew I hadn't broken the law since I left the freeway, but I was hoping maybe he didn't notice my turn signal or something. He was walking back to his car with my license and papers when I asked. He whipped around and started walking towards me, and borderline yelling, he says, "BOY, if I have to tell you why I pulled you over, you're going to jail!" Seems he had seen me riding on the freeway. I did not go to jail that day, but I did get $2000 in traffic tickets. And 20yrs ago, to a 20yr old kid, $2000 was a LOT of money. That was more than I made in a month.
A defense Attorney told me of a case of his client charged with d.u.i. He got the video of the field sobriety test showing his client doing a hand stand! He got it dismissed.
A court case: In the early 1990's, from our house we could see the main road passing by our development. It was posted at *25* mph. Next to the road there was a farmer's fence with evenly spaced posts. After I got a *speeding ticket* along this road, I set up a video camera and recorded about half a day's traffic from my home. I measured the distance between fence posts, and was then able to calculate the speed of each car in the recording. Using my Apple II computer (at the time) I made a bar chart of the number of cars vs their speed. The average speed of the videoed cars was *35* mph. I went to traffic court with this chart. The judge was suitably impressed. He kept asking me, '"did you make this yourself?". He eventually asked what I wanted. I told him that I didn't want to have 'points' on my driving record which would increase insurance cost. He obliged by downgrading the charge to something lesser (with no points).
I used to live in San Diego and was on the freeway going 80 in a 65mph zone. I was speeding because I was a little late to a mid-term exam at my university (late students would not be seated for the exam). The officer pulled me over and did the usual routine of license, registration and insurance. He was going to let me off with a warning, but I said, "If you do that it's a 'the dog ate my homework' excuse for me and I'll fail my mid-term. I swear to god I'll pay the ticket tomorrow, but please write the citation so I can try to get re-seated for this test." The officer wrote the ticket and I was allowed to take the exam at an alternate time. I was as good as my word and paid the nearly $200 fine the following day.
Had a deaf friend got druck charges dismissed for no translator in court he went to public schools could read lips and read and write IN CURSIVE . Made me smile
My friend is a New Hampshire State Trooper, he once stopped a guy on the highway for speeding. As soon as the guy rolled the window down his colostomy bag burst. My friend gave him a warning and told him to slow down.
My dad was the Undersheriff for Shiawassee County. He made sure that EVERY Police Dept in the county that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES were they to give us boys a break if we were pulled over on his account!
I once got stopped for speeding in New Mexico. The trooper asked me for my stuff, then said, "the speed limit is 55 you were doing 70. What's the big hurry?" Me: "I guess I didn't want to be here for the full hour." That lightened me up about $250.
So I was driving past a school after school hours with my mom and two daughters. I got stopped for driving too fast. The cop asked me if I knew what the speed limit was in that area. Ok I lost it. I started complaining/griping that my husband was supposed to be my navigator to watch for signs but that he was doing a lousy job of it since he died. I was not trying to get out of a ticket. I was driving too fast but it was true that he was my navigator while I drove and I did the same for him when he drove. Anyway my kids cracked up in the backseat and so did the cop. He told me to be more careful and walked off.
I lived in VA at the time, an office stopped me for speeding and asked me if I had any idea how fast I was going but before I could answer he said I was doing 50 in a 35. I responded “I know was speeding and not really paying attention to the speed in this area since I had just come off the highway a few minutes early. I apologized for speeding and then told him “no sir I believe you are wrong.” His face began to turn red when I told him “sir I was driving faster than that and should have known better. I was driving closer to 60”. His jaw dropped. He then wrote me a ticket for going 5 mile per hour over as the told me I was “too damn honest”.
My mother was on a jury. When the defendant was stopped after buying a large amount of marijuana, the police asked him if it was him or someone else. Instinctively he lied, saying it was for his friend Bob. (At trial he said he did not know anyone called Bob.) His lie may have made the charge more serious. Fortunately for him, the jury convicted him of simple possession, rather than the more serious offense of possession with the intent of trafficking.
We were headed back to the office from a job when my coworker who was driving passed a local officer while doing 35 in a 25 zone. The officer stopped us. He asked us if we were working. We said yes, headed home from a job. The officer said he didn’t want us to get in trouble with the boss for getting a ticket. We said the boss was right behind us and had stopped at the local convenience store. While the officer was at the driver’s window I said there he goes now. The officer was laughing at us getting caught by the boss. He gave us a verbal warning and went back to his car laughing as we drove away. I think we made his day.
My friend told me some funny stories when he was a rookie on the NYPD, one being someone called the cops because “He stole my drugs”, or the guy that had a hole in his head (from a ball peen hammer strike) and actually died and came back 2 mins later and asked if he was under arrest. And my famous line, when the cop said to me “you crept through 3 stops signs, not one” and I said “well, they did not say Stop All Way”.
Years ago I remember my dad telling me a story. He owned his own business and had gotten to know the local chief of police so name dropping usually got him out of speeding tickets. One night he gets pulled over and name drops and the cop says "he's the chief in town X this is town Y his name means nothing here." Needless to say he got the ticket.
Most cops have no respect for name droppers. They also don't respect people who say "I'm going to sue" since after hundreds of idle threats and zero follow up the odds are this is just another dumazz. Cops also look down on people who say "I know my rights!"because those who use that exact phrase rarely do. The guy with dash cams who remains silent 90 percent of the encounter and only says once "I am not answering any questions," asks at most once or twice "is that a lawful order?" but doesn't argue with the cop if the cop is wrong, and says once or twice "I do not consent to any searches. Am I free to go?" The cop knows that one is disciplined to stay stfu, the real deal, especially if you can manage the "look" of a calm, fearless guy just praying this encounter will be the big score. Savvy, experienced cops can read that if you project it well. That is the kind of intimidation that doesn't look like intimidation, the most intimidating type of ultimate intimidation 😊, since you aren't arguing, making idle threats, nor continuing to talk after politely saying ONE TIME "I'm not answering any questions." That level of auditor will never say "I know my rights" nor argue with the cop. He is uninterested in scoring points or convincing the cop of anything at all. He's not after an "owning video." He's not bluffing with words. That auditor is after a big prize, the cop's job or a lawsuit. If the cop doesn't realize what he's getting into that's too bad. The auditor isn't trying to deter anything by arguments or idle boasts or threats. That auditor wants a quick seamless encounter with smart cops and wants the dumb cop to make big mistakes.
I typically avoid giving excuses as thats an admission of guilt. However. In my younger days I did a burn out around a corner and was still sideways when a cop came over the hill. He was pissed & asked me if there was any sand or anything on the road that caused the car to fishtail. I told him "No. There wasn't anything like that." Then I (might have) lied & said- "I've gotta be honest. I knew I was taking the corner too fast, but I didn't know I was taking it that fast. I didn't know the back end would do that" He gave me a warning! (Knock on wood) Edit: statute of limitations for possibly lying to cop has long expired, however , I'm not saying I did such a thing
I have seen mute / deaf people who carry a 3 x 5 card with the alphabet on one side and a lined note sheet on the other. I have also seen a 4 X 6 the same. They hand it to the officer so he or she can communicate. One officer I knew had taken Amersign, and was able to "talk" to the driver.
An elderly gentleman solo sail from California to Hawaii was boarded by Coast Guard. Asked why he didn’t have a throwable PFD on deck, “Who am I going to throw it to?” Asked why no life jacket “How long do you want to bob around out in middle of the ocean”? (He does wear a safety harness so he’s always tethered on deck).
I've given this line to a cop before when given a ticket for slightly over but following the flow of traffic while in another state, "Just giving me the out of towner tax?"
1. Was talking to my passenger and didn't realize light turned green, got pulled over, my passenger had tons of drinks so there was a smell. Cop didn't believe it at first but after a while he let me go 2. Walking on the street to my nighshift I see the flashing lights, cop wants to see my ID, SAME cop, I didn't know better so I showed it, after a few minutes they let me go. No questions no reason 3. Driving my uncles 80s truck I got pulled over, SAME cop, says 1 light is out, showed my driver license and told him I don't believe it. He asked me to step out and we both can look at it. Guess? Light was fine, he said the truck is too old and light is too dim, he let me go. 4. They pulled over my cousin for DUI, he called me to go pick up his car since it was a block away from my house. Guess? SAME cop, he still ask me for my license, I'm sure he remembered me. This happened in about 3 weeks. After that I never got pulled over or had any interactions with police. To this day I want to believe it was pure coincidence
Was getting "pulled over" on a busy road, but, there was no place to pull over to without blocking the rd. It took me a few blocks to find a place to pull .over. The officers exit their car with their guns drawn. They yelled at me "Why didn't you pull over. !!" I fit the description of a burglar they said.
I pulled a guy for a headlight out. Back then we had to call in info to dispatch since we only had one LEADS terminal. While I was waiting he started laying on his horn and yelling "What the f*** you doing back there?". I went up and looked real close and noticed the smell if alcohol. So I arrested him for DUI. He said to me " Why did you have to be a cop? Why couldn't you be a football cheerleader? " Made my night.
I was once pulled over for a little swerve late at night. Truth be told I might have been buzzing just a bit. However the reason for the wobble was that my Husky decided that she wanted to drive my Ford Ranger. The officer laughed and sent me on my way. I've never driven buzzed again.
One night after I got out of work , I was doing about 75 in my Lexus ( in a 55 ) on the Interstate , while headed out of town . I saw a Trooper on the right shoulder and , using the car in the right lane to try and block the Troopers speed gun aim , I managed to slow down a little before going by him. I looked in my mirror as I passed him and I saw him starting to roll. He hit his lights and I pulled over with my 4 ways on . As he walked up ( I had both hands out the window ) he said " Whats the Rush ? " I said " I just heard on the radio that the Hockey game just ended and Im trying to get home before all the drunks get out here " . He said " Where are You Coming from ? " . I said " I just got out of Work , Im a driver ". He saw the CDL endorsement and handed me my license back and just said " Slow down " . I said " Ok ! " .
did the guy going 162 have balloon animals??? in seriousness, love your videos. i love that you empower people by telling them about their civil rights.
My uncle was a cop years ago. He kept getting domestic calls at the same address. He told the woman next time to hit him with a frying pan she had. This was back when they were cast iron skillets. He gets another call from her thinking she killed the guy. My uncle was freaking out because he told her to do this. I guess the guy was okay and just that passed out drunk. He said after that he never got a call from her again.
I'm from Detroit and knew a lot of crazy cops back in the day. One day I was at a light and out of corner of my eye noticed cop car next to me so I made effort not to look at them. After a few seconds I could tell ( good peripheral vision ) that something was up next door so I looked. I ended up looking right down the barrel of a rifle, it was one of my kookie neighbor cops and he had a rifle right across the front seat over his partners lap and out the window pointing at me.........and he was laughing. What a jackass.
I pulled a couple over that kept claiming the female had to go to the hospital for an ob emergency. The female was driving and the male was passenger seat. This struck me as odd. Both had warrants, and it was revealed when EMS arrived that the female was not pregnant (she gave them a different due date than when I had asked, so I prodded). I found this funny.
I was with a buddy in high school. We had a cop pull us over and asked us to put our hands out side the window. He started to get seriously pissed cause my friend wouldn’t put both his hands out the window. Well he couldn’t. My friend was born with a malformed left arm. From the elbow there is basically nothing. Once the officer stepped up and released what’s what he got a lot nicer to us.
Riding a motorcycle without a helmet is not asking to die. Perhaps the more accurate statement would be that riding a motorcycle without a helmet and crashing makes the organ donation question posed to next of kin a high probability event.
I was pulled over by a town cops once for an expired inspection here in PA. I’m not sure how he believed this story but it’s 100% true, he let me go with a verbal warning. I went to a garage about 40 min from my house to get the inspection, upon completion of the inspection we find out the inspection station is out of stickers. So I went to another shop near the area that I heard could get me in they could not. Went to a 3rd shop in the area they were out to lunch so I went and sat in my truck for approximately 45min until the shop should reopen, upon my return to the 3rd shop is when I was pulled over. The officer asked me if I know why I was pulled over I responded with “ I’m guessing because of that sticker right there”( I now know that was stupid) he says rep asked me what I was doing told him my story. Asked me where I was going I said to the 3rd shop which was only about 2 miles away, he asked what what I was planning on doing if they weren’t open or couldn’t get me in and I said “going the hell home” he kind of chuckled went back to his car for a few min came back and sent me on my way. I guess I got a good cop that day.
I pulled up to an intersection in the morning on my way to work at a red light and waited for the light to turn green. There were no vehicles in sight anywhere, and I continued to wait. It seemed like an eternity, and the light still had not turned green, so, I looked left and right, punched the gas and glanced in my rearview as I was going through the red light. Lo and behold a police car was right behind me. My mind raced, what was I going to say to him? I immediately pulled over on the other side of the intersection, racking my mind. The officer parked behind me and walked up to my open window. He said he was a rookie in training and that his sergeant was sitting in the squad car waiting. He asked me something, I don't even remember what, but I just blurted out, "I saw you behind me and thought you needed to get by, so I pulled through the intersection to let you pass." Or something like that. He let me go with a warning. I don't know why I didn't just tell him the truth. That I just got tired of waiting. Why did I think I had to make up an excuse? I don't know. But, for better or worse, I guess I'm only human.
I've been living in Hawaii since I was a teenager although I'm originally from Pennsylvania. About 15 years ago, we decided to go visit my wife's grandmother for Christmas. Grandma lived in Western Iowa so we flew into Omaha, Nebraska and drove down. I think that our flight had been delayed so we were driving to a small town in Iowa at about 1 AM on Christmas Eve. My wife and kids had fallen asleep and the roads were deserted. I hadn't seen another car for about a half hour. Anyway, I found myself driving parallel to a train. We don't have trains like that in Hawaii so I began to wonder how fast it was going. So, I decided to speed up until I was stationary with respect to the train. I didn't make it because, before I reached that speed, I saw lights go on behind me. I pulled over and, of course, everyone in the car was wide awake by now. The officer comes up asks for my license and registration. I give him the documents which clearly show that I'm in a rented car and from out of state. He asks me why I was going so fast, so I explained about not having trains in Hawaii and how I wanted to know how fast the train was going. He looked at me, my wife, and my kids then handed my license and registration back to me and said, "Merry Christmas. Slow down!" I thanked him and wished him a Merry Christmas and drove, slowly, off to grandma's house. Unfortunately, the story doesn't end there. About 15 minutes later, we get to the town that grandma lived in and, as I make the final turn to get onto her street, police lights go on behind me AGAIN! My wife looks at me and says, "What did you do now?" and I look at her and say that I honestly have no idea because I certainly wasn't speeding. I pull over, right in front of grandma's house, and the police officer comes up to my window and says, "Hi there! I'm your wife's cousin and I heard you were coming in tonight." My wife looks at him and says, "Jim, you dumbass, you just gave me a heart attack. We just got pulled over a couple towns ago." He asked what for and I explained. We all had a good laugh over it.
I had no Drivers licenses my wife drove to the hospital and I walked to the truck to take the dog out for a walk and a cop came up to me and asked me if I was driving and I said no and one year later after I thought I could get my driver's license back this came up. Cop wrote me a ticket for driving with out a license so I called the county clerk and asked them if I got this ticket would I have to pay a bond or go to jail? I tried to get a lawyer to sue the court house
2:49 I am not surprised at the headline you mention. It seems the immediate conclusion an officer comes to is that the person us refusing to comply. It's like it never enders their head that the person might be deaf, hard of hearing, speak a different language or have mental challenges --- like high anxiety around cops who jump to erroneous conclusions --- which would make them slow to respond or unable to. Then the brutal treatment begins because the cop is ignorant of the possibilities and can't stand defiance. Then there are the xonfusing orders. Like, " Hands up where I can see them!" Immediately followed by: "get out of the car!" Now I don't know about all cars, but I'm pretty sure grabbing for the door handle to open the door means that a hand will be out of sight. What do you do? Do you have the presence of mind to tell the cop that you cannot do that without putting your hand out of view? Then what? Is it already too late because the gun is out and you took too long?
0: 20 Didn't notice right away. And you say be careful. What do you suggest? Always drive when it is quiet and there's no traffic? Always keep the window cracked? Never have a conversation inbthe car? Never play music? Never have a crying baby or barking dog in your car? If you really didn't notice right away, what could you have done differently?
Back in the ancient days, when I was 17- had a good friend living with us (his parent's present on his eighteenth birthday? Changed the locks and put everything from his room on the lawn...), but his girlfriend was still in the city about 30 miles away. I had a car, he didn't- and this was before cellphone were really a thing... I drop them off for a movie date- they decide to make it a double feature. Now, I could've left him stranded and went to do my plans for the evening, but didn't want to be a dick- even a justified one (Coming soon to USA Network- Justified Dick). SO, they finally roll out of the theater, and I'm... annoyed- but keep on a happy face, polite conversation until I drop off the girlfriend. About thirty seconds after she's out of the car, I turn into Speed Racer with a side of Murder. Flying down one of the back roads, doing about 85 in a 45- lights come on. Pull over, cop walks up, license and registration. And then he asks the, "So why were you going so fast?" "I'm trying to get this sonuvabitch back home before I fucking kill him!" (And I'm probably a lot more serious than I should be.) He goes, run the info, comes back to the car in about ten minutes, and gives me a warning with the advice to cool off and drive safe. Who would've thought threatening murder would get you out of a speeding ticket?
Things not to say when pulled over: "Are you wearing a bullet proof vest?" ....was my first time ever being pulled over and I was curious. ....didn't go well.
I was in Virginia and the wind was blowing hard moving my suv around and cop stopped me and thought I was drinking (which I don’t) did the eye test and said thank you have a nice day very surly. I was like geez I wasted his time for being sober 😂 I had one pull me over in my Mercedes and he thought my rear tail light was messed up turns out I had my rear foglight was on.
Cop pulled me over. He asked, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I replied, "My new girlfriend said she's married to a cop, so I guess you're her husband." He started chuckling, then walked back to his car, got in it, and drove away.
I once asked an officer for whom I was doing a real estate closing how it would be received if I tried the Judge Dredd, "I AM THE LAW!" (You can see from my last name, that I am in fact a Law man). He looked at me dead pan, "Give that a try. Let me know how that goes." Needless to say, I don't think I will ever try that.
I got pulled over one time and the cop tried to pull the old” I detect the smell of marijuana coming from your vehicle”knowing he was full of shit I told him straight up “that’s funny because I detect the smell a corrupt cop looking a reason to search my vehicle” the look on his face was priceless. oh I wish I recorded it.
In the 80s I was driving my motorcycle down 95 in Delaware doing 100. Speed limit at the time was 55. A cop was just coming on an on ramp. I saw her and soon as the lights came on I pulled over. Cop does the old "Do you know how fast you were going?" and I replied "You mean all those signs I saw saying 95 aren't the speed limit?" Cop tries not to laugh, but I ended up getting a 74/55 ticket. But at least I didn't incriminate myself and since I stopped so fast I don't think the cop got a chance to get a speed measurement for me. I prob should have fought it but I was shitting bricks and glad to only get a ticket.
I immediately discount stories that start with a “friend of a friend” (Jan Brunvald “Urban Legends” researcher). It _might_ be true or have a kernel of truth, but the facts get diluted as it passes along the chain.
I think part of what makes it hard to recognize a off duty cop neighbor or any uniformed aquiatence is that they carry themselves differently while on duty/working.
I once saw a video here on RUclips where a female officer off duty got pulled over and lost her temper with the cops when they wouldn't let her go without a ticket. They ended up arresting her.
Many years ago I got pulled over going 142 miles an hour in a 55, or I should say I pulled over and waited for the officer to catch up with me. He was parked alongside the road in a low spot over a hill. There was a hospital down the road a little ways and he asked me since, I was driving an SL600 Mercedes, if I was on my way to the emergency room. I said no then he asked if my wife was having a baby I said no then he asked if I was ill and needed immediate medical attention I said no. He asked why was I driving so fast? I told him the car speedometer went over 200 and I just wanted to see how fast it would go. After asking me about the car's performance and looking under the hood the officer said boy I'd sure like to drive this. I said well get in and I'll follow you in your car. Well that didn't happen and we had quite a conversation about the car, it wound up that he gave me a ticket for 65 in a 55.
Speaking of what not to say to the police... what might someone say in the event he has to use deadly force in self-defense? I realize absolute silence is golden, and it's probably best for the self-defense shooter to inform the police as quickly as possible that he or she won't answer any questions without an attorney present; however, how does one summon the police (as we are advised to do in such situations) without giving them any potentially-incriminating information?
How about stories of people getting crazy tickets ? I got one (in 1977) for running a red light - ON FOOT. Under make of vehicle the officer wrote: PED obviously for Pedestrian.
About 10 years ago, my new husband and I were driving from Texas to Arizona, and we got pulled over by highway patrol. We were both around 20 years old, and super ignorant, we legitimately thought that there was no way that we would have been pulled over, unless my husband had broken a law that we weren't aware of. Nope. Turns out that officer was just a VERY bored douchebag, and when my husband changed lanes to give him space (he was parked on the shoulder) he took that opportunity to waste two hours of our life. In the end, his justification was "signal earlier" and claimed that my husband should have signaled ten seconds before moving left.
Andrew represented me about 9 years ago with a traffic charge in VA, got in a fender bender in a construction area. He got the charges dismissed, did an awesome job. So here I am watching RUclips, and he pops up in my recommended feed! I was like hey I know this guy! So, not only did he save my ass back then, now he's teaching me all sorts of useful stuff. Great job Andrew.
Nine years ago? Was he twenty at the time?
@@EmilyTienne I'm not sure what his age was exactly, but considering he would have had to finish law school, pass his bar exam, and also the fact he was already practicing for a while based on his reviews, I think 20 is unlikely. Unless of course he's one of those overachieving geniuses. Regardless, I was just transiting Virginia at the time and actually lived in NY, so our interactions were over the phone. He was awesome in every way, courteous, professional, prompt, and did a great job in court on my behalf.
@@squintps I was joking with you. I guess because he is so skinny, he looks younger than what he probably is.
@@EmilyTienne He looks like mid-30s to maybe early 40s to me as of now.
I worked with a guy that had been LEO in Colorado somewhere. Well, one of his co-workers was a stutterer. So, one day, this co-worker pulls over a young man for something or another, and...you guessed it, the perp was a stutterer as well. My friend says hilarity ensued, with each one thinking the other was mocking them....apparently this went on for several minutes, and the perp demanded to see the cop's supervisor, then , and only then, did it get straightened out. But, where the two stutterer's were mad as hell at each other for 'mocking' the other, all the other cops that got involved couldn't help but laugh their rear ends off!
Lies.
I'm immediately thinking of the spiderman pointing at spiderman picture.
Oh... If only there was body cam footage
Many years ago I lived across the street from an Iowa State Trooper. We'd been friends and neighbors for about 5 years. One day during a snowstorm I looked out and saw my Trooper neighbor with his patrol car stuck in the snow in his driveway. I got my coat and boots and took my small tractor to his house and cleared his drive so he could go to work. He tried to pay me but I refused and said that's what neighbors do. Not two days later I was coming home from work and going about 10mph over when a state trooper car popped over the hill. The lights came on and flashed about twice then stopped. As he passed by it was my neighbor smiling and giving me the "slow down" sign. I guess he paid me for the snow clearing after all!
I was stuck behind a driver on old Rt 40 from MD into PA who would slow down more than 15 mph below the speed limit when it wasn't legal to pass. Once a passing zone came up, he (she) would speed up to the posted limit. After entering PA, and 20 miles of this yo-yo, I had enough and blew past him on an uphill grade in the left of two lanes. I knew that beyond that point that passing zones and two-lanes were not going to be an option for the next 40+ miles. As soon as I was completing the pass and cresting the hilltop, there was a PA trooper facing my direction. I didn't even wait for him to pull out, and pulled over. I had my papers ready and explained what had occurred up until he saw me. He checked my info and told me to have a safe trip, not even a warning for speeding, which I was absolutely guilty of. Sometimes, being honest and respectful can go a long way in the outcome.
A former roommate of mine once said that he could do anything he wanted and not get a ticket. Of course, I called BS. So we got in his car and headed toward the sheriff's department in search of an officer. We found one pulling out of the road beside the department, and he ended up behind us. So my friend - never speeding, just driving otherwise normal - ran a stop sign, stopped at the next intersection, which didn't have a stop sign, and then ran the next stop sign. The officer pulled us over and went through the usual routine: license, proof of insurance, etc. Then came the inevitable question: What the heck is going on? My friend's story was that he bent down to get the cigarette lighter and light his smoke, causing him to miss the first stop sign. He then dropped it, and stopped briefly at the next intersection to carefully pick it up before he burned himself or caught the car on fire. Finally, he missed the second stop sign because he was nervous about the officer behind him and was looking more in the rear view and simply missed it.
The cop never even bothered to check the lighter or anything else, just asked "well, that's a hell of a story, but what would you do in my position?" My friend said "honestly, I'd probably write me a ticket." The officer just told him to be more careful and sent us on about our way.
I'm not saying that this guy was really immune to legal consequences - but then again, dude did predict exactly what would happen in that insane situation ...
30+ years ago, as a 16ish year old, in Highland Village TX, I was pulled over for driving the normal speed limit in a school zone (20mph). I had to explain to the cop that there was no school that day, had there been, I'd have been in school. He came back and told me to slow it down and he had to go for a more important call. He couldn't admit he was wrong.
don't know about that area, but here in Arkansas those signs have another little sign at the bottom (or maybe it's the top, I can't recall at the moment) that says "when children are present," rendering the reduced speed limit meaningless unless kids are around. Fair warning though, it doesn't say "when school is in session," so if there's a kid at the playground on a Saturday, you might be in trouble lol
@@JamesFite I've never understood the intended scope of that damned "when children are present" qualification. It seems obvious to me that kids walking on the sidewalk before, during, or after normal school hours qualify, but is that all? Present where exactly? Anywhere on school grounds (including inside)? Outside but two blocks away? Playing in their yard unrelated to the school? How close to the street?
@@PrezVeto I suspect the scope is determined on a case by case basis by the prosecutor and judge - but maybe I'm just paranoid lol
Never ever will they admit being wrong
@@PrezVeto I'm in Massachusetts we add yellow lights and the sign reeds Speed limit 20 when flashing.
You would have to call me and take a phone interview to get my whole story but it's hilarious
He spent four months in jail for the crime of being deaf?
Okay. That cop, prosecutor, and Judge all need to lose their jobs AND spend four months in jail for the crime of being idiots.
ikr. wtf. 4 months? You'd think they'd know wtf was up by the time Discovery happened???
He was punished for the crime of being disabled to a cop. Every time someone has a medical crisis or disability, the cops make sure to mete out justice for that.
About 16 yrs ago I was in an a capella quartet which had a performance on a Friday night at a church in Naples, Fl. I live in Weston on the east coast. I had worked a bit late and was in a rush to get there by 7pm and was driving about 90-95mph and was within sight of the west toll booth when I saw a state trooper coming the other way turn on his lights. Knew I was busted so just pulled over and had my docs ready for him. He made a u turn and after parking behind me walked up and said he clocked me at 83. I said he needs to recalibrate his radar because I know I was going faster than that. The look on his face was priceless. He asked where I was headed and said "That's my church!" He said he could either give me a very expensive speeding ticket or I may have been going so fast that he couldn't tell whether or not I was wearing a seatbelt. I thanked him and waited for him to write up the ticket, which was a non-moving violation at the time. Then he asked about my directions to the church and gave me a shortcut.
When I showed up I presented the ticket to our lead who handled the finances and said it was a quartet expense and told them the story which they didn't really believe. After the performance the trooper came up to us and validated the story. He had brought his family to see us. Score one for honesty.
We once got lost in the middle of nowhere going back to Vegas from Phoenix. (Low on gas and long before GPS.) I saw a State Trooper and raced up beside him and pulled him over (curbed him.) He wasn't very happy about getting pulled over by three people in the middle of nowhere, but after explaining the dire situation and running all our info, he kinda found the humor in it. And, he escorted us to the proper turn off.
I never thought to ask: Tell us about when YOU pulled over a cop. Haha!
@@Andrewflusche It would be unusual, and probably a short video, lol
@@DBeskar6605 That's a great example of how drivers should NOT handle a traffic stop. Wow.
@@DBeskar6605 Yes, I'm thinking of doing a response video that includes the police authority here, etc.
@@Andrewflusche I got one; Was in New Orleans for a concert, when the show was over, and we loaded up to go home 2.5 hours away. I noticed my battery light was on. Which indicates a charging system failure. So I was driving on borrowed time(before the lights and ignition system would drain the battery and the engine would die.).
I stopped two different officers, to ask if I could borrow a moment of their time, to act as a charging circuit for my dying battery.
A Kenner officer straight up told me "No." And a state police, who was parked with lights to protect construction, declined as neither of us had cables. But he was atleast willing.
I drove without a helmet only 1mile to the gas station to grab something. Worst mistake ever. Had an accident involving a deer. My left temple hit the gravel road. I suffered from aphasia. When I woke up from a coma, I tried to speak, but baby talk came out of my mouth. If you ride a motorcycle, where a damn helmet!
More riders kill themselves in single vehicle accidents then are killed by car drivers.
I hope you are doing better now. ♥
@@lindaginn7714 much better now.
Great video, and I would like to say more, but, you know, fifth Amendment.
Hahaha! Yes, and the police use the internet too! :D
Not being able to communicate can be dangerous, and then, some cops can be real butt - holes with it.
There is video on you tube of cops trying to get an 80 year old lady that doesn't speak English to put a lousy knife down and almost end up killing her with tazing.
@@Andrewflusche fear is a control tactic
free speech should apply to everywhere, and noncompliance/disobedience to tyrannical authoritarian subjugation suppression of freewill is key
speak truth only
cops should be equivalent to community militia that is made up of people of an area who know each other and do other things, all looking out for and ready to protect each other if others come to do them harm, as individuals we cooperate, not police each other by any means, but stand together against those who would take from people's life
One Deputy was sitting for, nearly, his entire shift at a speed-trap without many speeders. With, only, minutes to go he decides to wright a ticket for 3 mph over the limit. He pulled-out turned on his lights and the driver sped-up. The closer the Deputy came, the more desperate the eluding became. After it became clear that there was no getting-away, the vehicle pulled-over. Upon arriving at the driver's window he asked, incredulously, do you know how fast you were going? The driver responded, "well, yes sir but, I can explain. Again, incredulously, the Deputy stated, " you can explain driving at over 3 times the posted speed limit?" The driver said, " well, I'd like to explain, sir." Incredulously- as before- the Deputy stated, "O.K. I-tell-you-what, if you can give me a good reason for driving the way you were, I'll let you off with, just, a warning! "Well, sir, the driver began. It was about 3 months-ago that my ex ran-off with a Police Officer. I've, never, even, heard of someone being pulled-over for less-than 5 mph over the limit so, I thought that you were him trying to bring-her-back.
Not a crazy excuse but I did get out of a "fix-it" ticket for having a headlight out. I was getting ready to go somewhere just after dark when I realized one headlight wasn't working. When the cop stopped me, I'd just been to the auto parts store and had the replacement light on the passenger seat. I showed him the light, the receipt (to prove I hadn't been driving around and just hadn't put the new light in)
In 1998 I was driving home after attending Oz Fest with a buddy. I was about 50 miles from home at 2am when I got pulled over. The cop asked all the usual questions and after I'd told him we'd been at Oz Fest he asked me if I'd been drinking, I said no because I had not been drinking. He obviously wasn't convinced and made up an excuse about my license not showing up in the system to get me out of the car. I passed the breathalyzer and we went and sat in his car while he was waiting on a radio call. He got out to talk to my buddy who had gotten out to smoke. I knew he was going to ask my buddy if I'd been drinking. About 9 months before this my buddy had been hit while walking by a drunk driver. It broke his leg and took out a chunk of meat. He was only 2 months out of cast at this time and still had some trouble walking. I saw my buddy point at his leg and tell the cop the story. The cop came back to his car, handed me my license and said "you're good, just slow down."
OzFest in 98? But when I saw him in '92, he was saying he wasn't going to tour anymore... 🤣😺
@@HariSeldon913 Hey, I've seen Motley Crue on two different "Farewell Tours"!
My box truck is a *cop magnet*.
I get pulled over every time I drive it out of state.
(It is under 10,000gvwr)
They want so much to open the back, desperate to seize (civil asset forfeiture) anything of value, convinced they've caught the world's largest drug runner.
So I speak to them in mandarin Chinese.
Drives them absolutely frothy.
My second language is now chosen.. lmao
was working for a construction company and got pulled for speeding. Told him that my company was building their new training center and was delivering some supplies, true story. He checked ,came back let me go. Pulled over another time, tried the same story. However, the officer told me that is metro division, and we are peel division ... 800 dollars in fines later. lol
I knew an ex small town cop. Both his parents were deaf, so he could communicate very well with sign language. He stopped a car for speeding and as he walked up, he could see the two people in the car "signing" back and forth... So he didn't say anything, just started signing to the couple in the car. They were flabbergasted that a cop was doing this... and actually asked "Are they hiring deaf cops now?". He chatted a while, realizing that this was the first time they had been stopped ever and just warned them to slow down.
When I was 19, I was driving back to campus after a weekend home from college. Came upon a 280Z that wanted to race. I slapped my mighty Dodge V-8 down into second and shot around the gimmicky Nissan. Point made! Except there was a very friendly county deputy waiting in the roadside hedges...77 in a 55! The cop invited me into the squad car, which was my only time to sit in a police cruiser. Sitting, sweating, I was beside the cop as he composed the citation (my first ever ticket). He said, "That pick-up's a beauty; will she run?" Surprised by his conversation style I coughed out, "I think that 77 is as fast at that 5/8th ton will haul." He snickered, tore the ticket off the pad, handed it to me, and I quietly exited. (Never went home that way again...)
Re: the first story, police gun holsters should lock shut once the gun is removed such that a supervisor has to re-holster it. Probably the only way to guarantee a Use of Force report gets filed every time.
Once we were test driving a fast car and when the cop went to stop us for speeding I told my cousin to speed up a little more and then pull into the median turn and shut it off and pop the hood. I jumped out and was looking saying there's a problem with the throttle sticking and it worked!
Lucky. but srsly speeding up once them lights flick on is NOT a good Idea, legally speaking. You end up in the territory of 'pursuit & evasion' etc
Glad that work'd tho. quick thinking. I've actually had a couple cars with sticky throttles tho, it's scary especially when *Driving a Car* (as opposed to 'operating a motor vehicle). Too bad such things can't be fixed so easily anymore... with a simple clean & degrease :[
Lying works.
@@Dr_Wrong lying works for the Cops!!!
I'm a retired OTR truck driver. And here's one story. It's an early Sunday morning and I'm just getting up to speed on Kentucky parkway. I'm rolling up a hill into what I thought was an empty construction zone when I see the cruiser just over the hill. I know I'm busted, so I don't even wait for him. I just pull over and he gets turned around and stop behind me. This is when things get interesting.
He hops out of his car and he's the absolute stereotype. High polished shoes, military crew cut, razor sharp creases on both shirt and pants, mirrored sunglasses under a wide brim hat, a gait that looks more like a time and a half march - this guy has it all. And, of course, he climbs up to my level and demands my license, registration, and insurance very aggressively. Trying to keep this situation from escalating, I'm very apologetic, and compliant and... well, humble. But as he marches back to his car, I decide to take this opportunity to really mess with this guy.
So I do my very best to produce tears in my eyes and make like I'm crying. By the time he comes back to hand me the ticket, I'm blubbering apologies and bawling my eyes out. I could see my crying made this uber-mench uncomfortable. VERY uncomfortable. He looks like he would rather be facing down a PCP addict, a domestic violence case, a pack of rabid dogs, ANYWHERE but watching a grown ass truck driver bawling his eyes out and blubbering apologies. He has nothing to say to me. I can see his brain is trying to engage, but he's coming up with nothing in his training, experience, or testosterone saturated mind to deal with this situation. He practically tosses the ticket and my information at me, doesn't even wait for me to sign it, and leaves ASAP. I watch and laugh as his cruiser pulls out from behind me in an excessive display of acceleration.
I took him totally outside his comfort zone and he was completely unequipped to handle it.
Oh come on. You can admit it;
Those were real tears!
(Jk)
I bet u have all kinds of stories in that profession
One of my favorites is the video where a woman is pulled over. She tells the officer that she didn't think they gave tickets to pretty girls. The police officer said that she was right. They don't. Sign here. LOL. Then my goofy brother tells me about a time he pulled over to side of the road and a squad car pulled in behind him. He tells the police officer that he noticed some shimmying. The police officer tells him that he would probably notice it a lot less if he was going under 70. But unlike the "pretty girl" he got off with a warning. But in both cases, the cop had a sense of humor.
I was in my late teens and driving my car a bit faster than I should have been . I passed a state trooper as we both crested a hill ( two lane state highway could not see him before that ) he hits the lights , I brake , downshift , pull over and shut my car off. He approaches and says ' kinda pushing that thing a little aren't you '? Now being a dumb azz gear head and being brutally honest I replied ' no sir I had plenty of pedal left ' and immediately realized what I said , and how smart azz it probably came off and it must have showed on my face . He asked for my licence ,insurance , registration. Comes back and says well I clocked you @ 112 mph , but if you show me what you got in it , I'll write you for a 65 in a 55 and not take you to jail. Deal officer .. So I show him my nova , pop the hood , tell him about everything that's done to it , turns out he's a gear head too , and remembers being a dumb kid at one time as well. We shook hands , I signed my ticket and drove away very happy . A week later he pulled up next to me in his 70 chevelle and asked if I wanted to go to ' X ' road and see who had the faster car ( not kidding ) I declined thinking it was a trap , but saw him a month later at the dragstrip , we talked a bit and set up a grudge race , he was disappointed in that chevelle , but coolest cop I've met to this day.
"The majesty" sometimes there are no better words to describe something...
I was traveling with the flow of traffic on an Interstate. Was pulled over by a motorcycle cop parked somewhere I didn’t see. Said I was driving 70 in a 55 (speed change somewhere). I asked him to let me go and I’d slow down. He said, “That wouldn’t be fair to everyone else I’ve cited.” I smiled and said, “It will be our little secret.”
I got the ticket.
Noble attempt.
Shoulda told him that if he _did_ give you a ticket, you'd just wait til he got bored of following you then go even faster. 😛
That last officer really living up to the "peace officer" moniker. You know they've got a spouse at home.
regarding the deaf story... aren't cops trained to deal with this shit? if not, why do we keep paying them?
Many years ago I was on a highway in Maryland, probably I-95. Every car was going over the speed limit, mine included, but I was still the slowest car (relatively speaking), so a cop stopped me. Maybe my New York license plate had something to do with it. You know how we New Yorkers are, um, beloved by everyone, everywhere. Anyway, he didn't give me a ticket right away. Instead, we got to talking about this and that. Issues with his wife, issues with his daughter (who was just a little bit younger than I was), general philosophical questions about life... whatever. It was a long, pleasant conversation. Maybe a half hour. I don't really recall now. He was grateful for some insights I offered him, and we got on great. So, I figured that he was going to let me off, considering the rapport we had established between us. Nope. Before he thanked me and said goodbye...he gave me a ticket!
Wow. Pulling over the slowest one instead of the fastest is bad enough, but then taking up 30 mins just chatting? That's just rude.
@@PrezVeto Yes! And then giving me a ticket, to boot. It was strange, that's all I can say.
I got pull over in Texas in my younger years by a state trooper. When the officer came to my window and ask "Do you know why I pulled you over".I replied " F@%$ I hope it was for speeding, I don't think I was do anything else wrong". He laughed and gave me a warning.
I got pulled over by a deputy when I might have been going 10-15 mph over.
He asked me " do you know why I pulled you over?"
My instinct was to admit to (POSSIBLY) speeding in and apologize, but for some reason I said-
"No sir, I don't have any idea."
Turns out, he wason a fishing trip & made an excuse that I "got close to the yellow line"!
Got close to it! Didn't go over it! I didn't even do that.
He was just fishing.
@@jupitercyclops6521 He may have thought you were speeding but didn't get a radar reading for some reason and was hoping you'd just confess.
What an awesome bow tie Attorney Flusche! Thanks for the entertaining and informative content. Happy Holidays.
Trying to pull the "I know so-and-so" or "do you know who I am?" To escape getting a ticket is pretty dumb. Even when my pops was chief of police, I never tried that bs. That is what scumbags who feel the law shouldn't apply to them do.
Not just in policing but also politics and just in general it's a "kiss ass" way of going through life.
I will take my L sir... I earned it!
That's why you take the 5th and allow them to arrest you. They'll find out who you are soon enough and drop the charges on their own.
Fun story about the fellow with the highway patrol neighbor :) and then you're relating about how you don't recognize patrolman in their street clothes, which solidifies the point that most "eye witnesses" are terribly unreliable.
I had a crazy excuse, I was in the right. A cop pulled me over after I turned left in front of him as he waited at a red light facing the opposite direction at the intersection I went through with a green left turn arrow. He pulled me over about a quarter mile up the road and told me I ran a red light. I told him that I had a green arrow for the left turn lane and he replied that there was no turn arrow there. I told him I'd let him follow me back to the intersection in question so we could settle the dispute or ride with him to go back but he said no I believe you. I wonder in hindsight if he was just using that to see if I was impaired even though I was driving completely sober and normally.
My sister has a friend who was driving up in the mountains. He was looking for a map while driving and apparently was weaving back and forth. A deputy pulls him over and asks if he’d been drinking. “No officer.” “Well you were weaving all over the road. How come? “
“Well. I’m not a very good driver.”
The cop laughed and said “You had to pass a driver’s license test right?”
“Yeah but I just barely passed.”
He got off with a warning.
lol Honest pays!
And could I tell stories on how my husband got out of tickets by telling the truth. I won't though. Not publicly.
I used to deliver exotic cars by driving them and I was driving a Porsche 930 from Dallas to San Diego. I was somewhere in West Texas at 2:00 AM cruising at about 100 mph in the middle of nowhere not another car in sight and BAM!! I get lit up.
I pull over
Officer reads me the riot act then asks why I was going so fast. I asked if I could turn the radio on it would explain it. He said ok and when I turned it on the cassette playing was Deep Purple Radar love lol
He laughed and suggested I change the tape and keep it under a hundred lol
I'm pretty sure you mean Golden Earring Radar Love
@@jimmygrant424 yes damn it! I always mess that up lol
You could do a whole episode on just my pullover experiences alone 😆 🤣 there's been A LOT
me too
The average citizen has never been arrested or pulled over. If they are, how do they know how they are required to behave by law during a traffic stop? Citizens have no training on what to do, or what to say. Cops on the other hand are fully trained. One wrong move and an innocent citizen can lose their life. Do a search on what happened to Daniel Shaver and Tony Timpa.
_"The average citizen has never been arrested or pulled over."_
Of course.. If you're arrested or pulled over, you're a crook. QED
When I was in high school we had a lady come in and teach us some ASL to go along with the Helen Keller story we had read. She told us she got pulled over once because her horn was stuck blasting. She could speek but not hear so she told the policeman about her condition and I guess had a paper and pen ready for them to talk back to her. He fixed her horn and sent her on her way.
Had a deaf guy in my area get tazed at a stop for "Flashing gang signs"
When he was pulled over, he got out right away (Probably a mistake) And was trying to communicate that he was deaf.
When he refused the officers verbal commands, they tazed him. Luckily he was just tazed, because in this day an age, lots don't hesitate to just shoot.
When I was a kid, I was home on leave from the Navy. I was riding my Ducati South on I-15 through Salt Lake City. I was all over the road, cutting between cars and on the shoulder of the road to pass people. I leave the freeway, and make a left. This is when I notice a cop behind me with his lights on.
Cop walks up to me and asks for my license, registration and proof of insurance.
In my head, I wanted to ensure that I didn't say anything that might incriminate me, so I figured I should test the waters to figure out just how long this cop had been behind me. So I ask him, "Sir, can I ask why you pulled me over?" I knew I hadn't broken the law since I left the freeway, but I was hoping maybe he didn't notice my turn signal or something.
He was walking back to his car with my license and papers when I asked. He whipped around and started walking towards me, and borderline yelling, he says, "BOY, if I have to tell you why I pulled you over, you're going to jail!"
Seems he had seen me riding on the freeway. I did not go to jail that day, but I did get $2000 in traffic tickets. And 20yrs ago, to a 20yr old kid, $2000 was a LOT of money. That was more than I made in a month.
A defense Attorney told me of a case of his client charged with d.u.i. He got the video of the field sobriety test showing his client doing a hand stand! He got it dismissed.
Working your comments in to your videos is a great way to present and educate! Subscribed and thumbs up!!
Thanks man!
A court case: In the early 1990's, from our house we could see the main road passing by our development. It was posted at *25* mph. Next to the road there was a farmer's fence with evenly spaced posts. After I got a *speeding ticket* along this road, I set up a video camera and recorded about half a day's traffic from my home. I measured the distance between fence posts, and was then able to calculate the speed of each car in the recording. Using my Apple II computer (at the time) I made a bar chart of the number of cars vs their speed. The average speed of the videoed cars was *35* mph. I went to traffic court with this chart. The judge was suitably impressed. He kept asking me, '"did you make this yourself?". He eventually asked what I wanted. I told him that I didn't want to have 'points' on my driving record which would increase insurance cost. He obliged by downgrading the charge to something lesser (with no points).
Dude. Epik. Classic old-sk00l 'bedroom Rocker'
r0x0rz man. that's 1337!
That was funny. I definitely like your videos. Keep up the awesome job.
I used to live in San Diego and was on the freeway going 80 in a 65mph zone. I was speeding because I was a little late to a mid-term exam at my university (late students would not be seated for the exam). The officer pulled me over and did the usual routine of license, registration and insurance. He was going to let me off with a warning, but I said, "If you do that it's a 'the dog ate my homework' excuse for me and I'll fail my mid-term. I swear to god I'll pay the ticket tomorrow, but please write the citation so I can try to get re-seated for this test." The officer wrote the ticket and I was allowed to take the exam at an alternate time. I was as good as my word and paid the nearly $200 fine the following day.
Cheaper than student loans.
Had a deaf friend got druck charges dismissed for no translator in court he went to public schools could read lips and read and write IN CURSIVE .
Made me smile
My friend is a New Hampshire State Trooper, he once stopped a guy on the highway for speeding. As soon as the guy rolled the window down his colostomy bag burst. My friend gave him a warning and told him to slow down.
My dad was the Undersheriff for Shiawassee County. He made sure that EVERY Police Dept in the county that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES were they to give us boys a break if we were pulled over on his account!
I once got stopped for speeding in New Mexico. The trooper asked me for my stuff, then said, "the speed limit is 55 you were doing 70. What's the big hurry?" Me: "I guess I didn't want to be here for the full hour." That lightened me up about $250.
LoL
So I was driving past a school after school hours with my mom and two daughters. I got stopped for driving too fast. The cop asked me if I knew what the speed limit was in that area. Ok I lost it. I started complaining/griping that my husband was supposed to be my navigator to watch for signs but that he was doing a lousy job of it since he died. I was not trying to get out of a ticket. I was driving too fast but it was true that he was my navigator while I drove and I did the same for him when he drove. Anyway my kids cracked up in the backseat and so did the cop. He told me to be more careful and walked off.
I lived in VA at the time, an office stopped me for speeding and asked me if I had any idea how fast I was going but before I could answer he said I was doing 50 in a 35. I responded “I know was speeding and not really paying attention to the speed in this area since I had just come off the highway a few minutes early. I apologized for speeding and then told him “no sir I believe you are wrong.” His face began to turn red when I told him “sir I was driving faster than that and should have known better. I was driving closer to 60”. His jaw dropped. He then wrote me a ticket for going 5 mile per hour over as the told me I was “too damn honest”.
Can you do a video on how to avoid civil asset forfeiture?
Own nothing.
1:59 Icelandic horses.
My mother was on a jury. When the defendant was stopped after buying a large amount of marijuana, the police asked him if it was him or someone else. Instinctively he lied, saying it was for his friend Bob. (At trial he said he did not know anyone called Bob.) His lie may have made the charge more serious. Fortunately for him, the jury convicted him of simple possession, rather than the more serious offense of possession with the intent of trafficking.
We were headed back to the office from a job when my coworker who was driving passed a local officer while doing 35 in a 25 zone. The officer stopped us. He asked us if we were working. We said yes, headed home from a job. The officer said he didn’t want us to get in trouble with the boss for getting a ticket. We said the boss was right behind us and had stopped at the local convenience store. While the officer was at the driver’s window I said there he goes now. The officer was laughing at us getting caught by the boss. He gave us a verbal warning and went back to his car laughing as we drove away. I think we made his day.
My friend told me some funny stories when he was a rookie on the NYPD, one being someone called the cops because “He stole my drugs”, or the guy that had a hole in his head (from a ball peen hammer strike) and actually died and came back 2 mins later and asked if he was under arrest. And my famous line, when the cop said to me “you crept through 3 stops signs, not one” and I said “well, they did not say Stop All Way”.
Years ago I remember my dad telling me a story. He owned his own business and had gotten to know the local chief of police so name dropping usually got him out of speeding tickets. One night he gets pulled over and name drops and the cop says "he's the chief in town X this is town Y his name means nothing here." Needless to say he got the ticket.
Most cops have no respect for name droppers. They also don't respect people who say "I'm going to sue" since after hundreds of idle threats and zero follow up the odds are this is just another dumazz. Cops also look down on people who say "I know my rights!"because those who use that exact phrase rarely do. The guy with dash cams who remains silent 90 percent of the encounter and only says once "I am not answering any questions," asks at most once or twice "is that a lawful order?" but doesn't argue with the cop if the cop is wrong, and says once or twice "I do not consent to any searches. Am I free to go?" The cop knows that one is disciplined to stay stfu, the real deal, especially if you can manage the "look" of a calm, fearless guy just praying this encounter will be the big score. Savvy, experienced cops can read that if you project it well. That is the kind of intimidation that doesn't look like intimidation, the most intimidating type of ultimate intimidation 😊, since you aren't arguing, making idle threats, nor continuing to talk after politely saying ONE TIME "I'm not answering any questions." That level of auditor will never say "I know my rights" nor argue with the cop. He is uninterested in scoring points or convincing the cop of anything at all. He's not after an "owning video." He's not bluffing with words. That auditor is after a big prize, the cop's job or a lawsuit. If the cop doesn't realize what he's getting into that's too bad. The auditor isn't trying to deter anything by arguments or idle boasts or threats. That auditor wants a quick seamless encounter with smart cops and wants the dumb cop to make big mistakes.
Always informative, thank you.
I typically avoid giving excuses as thats an admission of guilt.
However. In my younger days I did a burn out around a corner and was still sideways when a cop came over the hill.
He was pissed & asked me if there was any sand or anything on the road that caused the car to fishtail.
I told him
"No. There wasn't anything like that."
Then I (might have) lied & said-
"I've gotta be honest. I knew I was taking the corner too fast, but I didn't know I was taking it that fast. I didn't know the back end would do that"
He gave me a warning!
(Knock on wood)
Edit: statute of limitations for possibly lying to cop has long expired, however , I'm not saying I did such a thing
I have seen mute / deaf people who carry a 3 x 5 card with the alphabet on one side and a lined note sheet on the other. I have also seen a 4 X 6 the same. They hand it to the officer so he or she can communicate. One officer I knew had taken Amersign, and was able to "talk" to the driver.
An elderly gentleman solo sail from California to Hawaii was boarded by Coast Guard.
Asked why he didn’t have a throwable PFD on deck, “Who am I going to throw it to?”
Asked why no life jacket “How long do you want to bob around out in middle of the ocean”? (He does wear a safety harness so he’s always tethered on deck).
I've given this line to a cop before when given a ticket for slightly over but following the flow of traffic while in another state, "Just giving me the out of towner tax?"
1. Was talking to my passenger and didn't realize light turned green, got pulled over, my passenger had tons of drinks so there was a smell. Cop didn't believe it at first but after a while he let me go
2. Walking on the street to my nighshift I see the flashing lights, cop wants to see my ID, SAME cop, I didn't know better so I showed it, after a few minutes they let me go. No questions no reason
3. Driving my uncles 80s truck I got pulled over, SAME cop, says 1 light is out, showed my driver license and told him I don't believe it. He asked me to step out and we both can look at it. Guess? Light was fine, he said the truck is too old and light is too dim, he let me go.
4. They pulled over my cousin for DUI, he called me to go pick up his car since it was a block away from my house. Guess? SAME cop, he still ask me for my license, I'm sure he remembered me.
This happened in about 3 weeks. After that I never got pulled over or had any interactions with police. To this day I want to believe it was pure coincidence
Thanks for another good video!
Was getting "pulled over" on a busy road, but, there was no place to pull over to without blocking the rd. It took me a few blocks to find a place to pull .over. The officers exit their car with their guns drawn. They yelled at me "Why didn't you pull over. !!" I fit the description of a burglar they said.
Loved the balloon story, thanks
I pulled a guy for a headlight out. Back then we had to call in info to dispatch since we only had one LEADS terminal. While I was waiting he started laying on his horn and yelling "What the f*** you doing back there?". I went up and looked real close and noticed the smell if alcohol. So I arrested him for DUI. He said to me " Why did you have to be a cop? Why couldn't you be a football cheerleader? " Made my night.
I was once pulled over for a little swerve late at night. Truth be told I might have been buzzing just a bit. However the reason for the wobble was that my Husky decided that she wanted to drive my Ford Ranger. The officer laughed and sent me on my way. I've never driven buzzed again.
Love huskies, lots of character. Just bought a ranger today. reliable and economical.
One night after I got out of work , I was doing about 75 in my Lexus ( in a 55 ) on the Interstate , while headed out of town .
I saw a Trooper on the right shoulder and , using the car in the right lane to try and block the Troopers speed gun aim , I managed to slow down a little before going by him.
I looked in my mirror as I passed him and I saw him starting to roll.
He hit his lights and I pulled over with my 4 ways on .
As he walked up ( I had both hands out the window )
he said " Whats the Rush ? "
I said " I just heard on the radio that the Hockey game just ended and Im trying to get home before all the drunks get out here " .
He said " Where are You Coming from ? " .
I said " I just got out of Work , Im a driver ".
He saw the CDL endorsement and handed me my license back and just said " Slow down " .
I said " Ok ! " .
did the guy going 162 have balloon animals??? in seriousness, love your videos. i love that you empower people by telling them about their civil rights.
My uncle was a cop years ago. He kept getting domestic calls at the same address. He told the woman next time to hit him with a frying pan she had. This was back when they were cast iron skillets. He gets another call from her thinking she killed the guy. My uncle was freaking out because he told her to do this. I guess the guy was okay and just that passed out drunk. He said after that he never got a call from her again.
I'm from Detroit and knew a lot of crazy cops back in the day. One day I was at a light and out of corner of my eye noticed cop car next to me so I made effort not to look at them. After a few seconds I could tell ( good peripheral vision ) that something was up next door so I looked.
I ended up looking right down the barrel of a rifle, it was one of my kookie neighbor cops and he had a rifle right across the front seat over his partners lap and out the window pointing at me.........and he was laughing.
What a jackass.
I pulled a couple over that kept claiming the female had to go to the hospital for an ob emergency. The female was driving and the male was passenger seat. This struck me as odd. Both had warrants, and it was revealed when EMS arrived that the female was not pregnant (she gave them a different due date than when I had asked, so I prodded). I found this funny.
Motorcycle drivers on the the road are called "Donor-cycles" by most first responders and medical staff for a reason.
I was with a buddy in high school. We had a cop pull us over and asked us to put our hands out side the window. He started to get seriously pissed cause my friend wouldn’t put both his hands out the window. Well he couldn’t. My friend was born with a malformed left arm. From the elbow there is basically nothing. Once the officer stepped up and released what’s what he got a lot nicer to us.
Riding a motorcycle without a helmet is not asking to die. Perhaps the more accurate statement would be that riding a motorcycle without a helmet and crashing makes the organ donation question posed to next of kin a high probability event.
In some motorcycle crashes, the only difference a helmet makes is the rider being laid out in an open casket instead of a closed one!
Another great video!
I was pulled over by a town cops once for an expired inspection here in PA. I’m not sure how he believed this story but it’s 100% true, he let me go with a verbal warning. I went to a garage about 40 min from my house to get the inspection, upon completion of the inspection we find out the inspection station is out of stickers. So I went to another shop near the area that I heard could get me in they could not. Went to a 3rd shop in the area they were out to lunch so I went and sat in my truck for approximately 45min until the shop should reopen, upon my return to the 3rd shop is when I was pulled over. The officer asked me if I know why I was pulled over I responded with “ I’m guessing because of that sticker right there”( I now know that was stupid) he says rep asked me what I was doing told him my story. Asked me where I was going I said to the 3rd shop which was only about 2 miles away, he asked what what I was planning on doing if they weren’t open or couldn’t get me in and I said “going the hell home” he kind of chuckled went back to his car for a few min came back and sent me on my way. I guess I got a good cop that day.
I pulled up to an intersection in the morning on my way to work at a red light and waited for the light to turn green. There were no vehicles in sight anywhere, and I continued to wait. It seemed like an eternity, and the light still had not turned green, so, I looked left and right, punched the gas and glanced in my rearview as I was going through the red light. Lo and behold a police car was right behind me. My mind raced, what was I going to say to him? I immediately pulled over on the other side of the intersection, racking my mind. The officer parked behind me and walked up to my open window. He said he was a rookie in training and that his sergeant was sitting in the squad car waiting. He asked me something, I don't even remember what, but I just blurted out, "I saw you behind me and thought you needed to get by, so I pulled through the intersection to let you pass." Or something like that. He let me go with a warning.
I don't know why I didn't just tell him the truth. That I just got tired of waiting. Why did I think I had to make up an excuse?
I don't know. But, for better or worse, I guess I'm only human.
Traffic control lights fail, in most states the contingency is to treat it as a four way stop.
I've been living in Hawaii since I was a teenager although I'm originally from Pennsylvania. About 15 years ago, we decided to go visit my wife's grandmother for Christmas. Grandma lived in Western Iowa so we flew into Omaha, Nebraska and drove down. I think that our flight had been delayed so we were driving to a small town in Iowa at about 1 AM on Christmas Eve. My wife and kids had fallen asleep and the roads were deserted. I hadn't seen another car for about a half hour. Anyway, I found myself driving parallel to a train. We don't have trains like that in Hawaii so I began to wonder how fast it was going. So, I decided to speed up until I was stationary with respect to the train. I didn't make it because, before I reached that speed, I saw lights go on behind me. I pulled over and, of course, everyone in the car was wide awake by now. The officer comes up asks for my license and registration. I give him the documents which clearly show that I'm in a rented car and from out of state. He asks me why I was going so fast, so I explained about not having trains in Hawaii and how I wanted to know how fast the train was going. He looked at me, my wife, and my kids then handed my license and registration back to me and said, "Merry Christmas. Slow down!" I thanked him and wished him a Merry Christmas and drove, slowly, off to grandma's house. Unfortunately, the story doesn't end there. About 15 minutes later, we get to the town that grandma lived in and, as I make the final turn to get onto her street, police lights go on behind me AGAIN! My wife looks at me and says, "What did you do now?" and I look at her and say that I honestly have no idea because I certainly wasn't speeding. I pull over, right in front of grandma's house, and the police officer comes up to my window and says, "Hi there! I'm your wife's cousin and I heard you were coming in tonight." My wife looks at him and says, "Jim, you dumbass, you just gave me a heart attack. We just got pulled over a couple towns ago." He asked what for and I explained. We all had a good laugh over it.
I had no Drivers licenses my wife drove to the hospital and I walked to the truck to take the dog out for a walk and a cop came up to me and asked me if I was driving and I said no and one year later after I thought I could get my driver's license back this came up. Cop wrote me a ticket for driving with out a license so I called the county clerk and asked them if I got this ticket would I have to pay a bond or go to jail? I tried to get a lawyer to sue the court house
2:49 I am not surprised at the headline you mention. It seems the immediate conclusion an officer comes to is that the person us refusing to comply. It's like it never enders their head that the person might be deaf, hard of hearing, speak a different language or have mental challenges --- like high anxiety around cops who jump to erroneous conclusions --- which would make them slow to respond or unable to.
Then the brutal treatment begins because the cop is ignorant of the possibilities and can't stand defiance.
Then there are the xonfusing orders. Like, " Hands up where I can see them!" Immediately followed by: "get out of the car!" Now I don't know about all cars, but I'm pretty sure grabbing for the door handle to open the door means that a hand will be out of sight. What do you do? Do you have the presence of mind to tell the cop that you cannot do that without putting your hand out of view? Then what? Is it already too late because the gun is out and you took too long?
0: 20 Didn't notice right away. And you say be careful. What do you suggest? Always drive when it is quiet and there's no traffic? Always keep the window cracked? Never have a conversation inbthe car? Never play music? Never have a crying baby or barking dog in your car? If you really didn't notice right away, what could you have done differently?
Back in the ancient days, when I was 17- had a good friend living with us (his parent's present on his eighteenth birthday? Changed the locks and put everything from his room on the lawn...), but his girlfriend was still in the city about 30 miles away. I had a car, he didn't- and this was before cellphone were really a thing... I drop them off for a movie date- they decide to make it a double feature. Now, I could've left him stranded and went to do my plans for the evening, but didn't want to be a dick- even a justified one (Coming soon to USA Network- Justified Dick).
SO, they finally roll out of the theater, and I'm... annoyed- but keep on a happy face, polite conversation until I drop off the girlfriend. About thirty seconds after she's out of the car, I turn into Speed Racer with a side of Murder. Flying down one of the back roads, doing about 85 in a 45- lights come on. Pull over, cop walks up, license and registration. And then he asks the, "So why were you going so fast?"
"I'm trying to get this sonuvabitch back home before I fucking kill him!" (And I'm probably a lot more serious than I should be.)
He goes, run the info, comes back to the car in about ten minutes, and gives me a warning with the advice to cool off and drive safe.
Who would've thought threatening murder would get you out of a speeding ticket?
I can see why his folks threw him out
Things not to say when pulled over:
"Are you wearing a bullet proof vest?"
....was my first time ever being pulled over and I was curious.
....didn't go well.
I was in Virginia and the wind was blowing hard moving my suv around and cop stopped me and thought I was drinking (which I don’t) did the eye test and said thank you have a nice day very surly. I was like geez I wasted his time for being sober 😂 I had one pull me over in my Mercedes and he thought my rear tail light was messed up turns out I had my rear foglight was on.
Cop pulled me over. He asked, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I replied, "My new girlfriend said she's married to a cop, so I guess you're her husband." He started chuckling, then walked back to his car, got in it, and drove away.
I once asked an officer for whom I was doing a real estate closing how it would be received if I tried the Judge Dredd, "I AM THE LAW!" (You can see from my last name, that I am in fact a Law man). He looked at me dead pan, "Give that a try. Let me know how that goes." Needless to say, I don't think I will ever try that.
awesome stuff :) Enjoy your videos
I got pulled over one time and the cop tried to pull the old” I detect the smell of marijuana coming from your vehicle”knowing he was full of shit I told him straight up “that’s funny because I detect the smell a corrupt cop looking a reason to search my vehicle” the look on his face was priceless. oh I wish I recorded it.
In the 80s I was driving my motorcycle down 95 in Delaware doing 100. Speed limit at the time was 55. A cop was just coming on an on ramp. I saw her and soon as the lights came on I pulled over. Cop does the old "Do you know how fast you were going?" and I replied "You mean all those signs I saw saying 95 aren't the speed limit?" Cop tries not to laugh, but I ended up getting a 74/55 ticket. But at least I didn't incriminate myself and since I stopped so fast I don't think the cop got a chance to get a speed measurement for me. I prob should have fought it but I was shitting bricks and glad to only get a ticket.
I immediately discount stories that start with a “friend of a friend” (Jan Brunvald “Urban Legends” researcher). It _might_ be true or have a kernel of truth, but the facts get diluted as it passes along the chain.
Bless that officer for having mercy on that poor sap of a dad 🤣
I think part of what makes it hard to recognize a off duty cop neighbor or any uniformed aquiatence is that they carry themselves differently while on duty/working.
I once saw a video here on RUclips where a female officer off duty got pulled over and lost her temper with the cops when they wouldn't let her go without a ticket. They ended up arresting her.
Many years ago I got pulled over going 142 miles an hour in a 55, or I should say I pulled over and waited for the officer to catch up with me. He was parked alongside the road in a low spot over a hill. There was a hospital down the road a little ways and he asked me since, I was driving an SL600 Mercedes, if I was on my way to the emergency room. I said no then he asked if my wife was having a baby I said no then he asked if I was ill and needed immediate medical attention I said no. He asked why was I driving so fast? I told him the car speedometer went over 200 and I just wanted to see how fast it would go. After asking me about the car's performance and looking under the hood the officer said boy I'd sure like to drive this. I said well get in and I'll follow you in your car. Well that didn't happen and we had quite a conversation about the car, it wound up that he gave me a ticket for 65 in a 55.
Speaking of what not to say to the police... what might someone say in the event he has to use deadly force in self-defense? I realize absolute silence is golden, and it's probably best for the self-defense shooter to inform the police as quickly as possible that he or she won't answer any questions without an attorney present; however, how does one summon the police (as we are advised to do in such situations) without giving them any potentially-incriminating information?
How about stories of people getting crazy tickets ? I got one (in 1977) for running a red light - ON FOOT. Under make of vehicle the officer wrote: PED obviously for Pedestrian.
What are you? Roadrunner?
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About 10 years ago, my new husband and I were driving from Texas to Arizona, and we got pulled over by highway patrol. We were both around 20 years old, and super ignorant, we legitimately thought that there was no way that we would have been pulled over, unless my husband had broken a law that we weren't aware of. Nope. Turns out that officer was just a VERY bored douchebag, and when my husband changed lanes to give him space (he was parked on the shoulder) he took that opportunity to waste two hours of our life. In the end, his justification was "signal earlier" and claimed that my husband should have signaled ten seconds before moving left.