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Really, it's pretty much like Dave said. It's hard to write a ticket to someone who is nice, apologetic, and admits that they were breaking the law. We understand that everyone breaks traffic laws all of the time, including ourselves, and can sympathize with people who are nice about the whole affair. It won't guarantee you a walk, but it sure improves the odds. If I get pulled over, I don't just whoop out the badge and expect a free ride, but at some point before the officer goes back to his / her car, they will be aware that I'm a fellow officer. What they choose to do after that is up to them, but I'm always nice, never pushy, and never give them the impression that the badge make me above the law. Knock on wood, no tickets in the last ten years.
SkiCop wrote:
My personal pet peeve when I worked the road and cared about such things:
"Do you know who I am?"
That was usually followed by, "No ma'am/sir and it really has no relevence to the matter at hand. Sign here and press hard, you're making four copies."
Yeah that approach is lame. What approach works the best (for, uh, purely entertainment purposes)?
I have a female aquaintance that has used the smile, twitch a little and in their best pleading voice say "help I gotta pee" routine. She swears it has worked several times. I want to believe her but...
I was in the middle of the forest up north of wilson creek (any one been there?) one night back in Novemember, it was me, and two of my friends, these are switch back dirt roads, about 10 feet wide if that, probably shouldnt drive my car up there (91 accord) but its fun any way. It was about 8 pm and we were just driving around checking out stuff, originally we were gonna turn onto this other dirt road that should dead end into a firewatch tower, but there was a car coming down it so we kept going, well that car got behind us and followed us for about 1 minute and we kept debating stopping and letting them pass us so we could go back up there, and my friend goes "if you stop ill wave him on" and i was like "you dont have to matt hes pulling me over" cause right at that moment i saw the blue lights. So we pull over, and a guy comes up to my car and proceeds to tell me about my license plate light being out, and asking us about 50 questions about why we were up there, and so and so on about seat belts and stuff (my shoulder harness wont work cause of an electrical problem) So he asks me to get out of my car, which i do. He takes me infront of his truck, pats me down, takes my friends out, one at a time, and pats them down, while continously asking if they had drugs, weapons, or alochol on them. He was so serious, that i have a slight bulge in one of my pockets, and he started yelling at me to pull my pockets out to prove there wasnt anything in it. He then proceeeded to search my car, everything he could legally, the only thing he could find was bottle rockets, and he cant do anything about that unless we are shooting them, which we werent, so we were good. It was really pathetic though, Searched my car, searched me, searched my friends, interagated us for about 40 minutes, all the while there is this big sticker on the back of my car that says Drug Free and stuff.
So then we get going, and of course he has to follow us all the way cause there was no place to turn around, we finally come to a wide spot on the road, right when another truck was coming, so we pulled off a slight bit to let him but and as soon as that forest ranger could, he pulled his truck around REALLY fast and went after that other car. Its really sad
Turns out the next day, My license plate light WAS working, that REALLY pissed me off after all the crap we went through.
Though my car is very suspicious looking, and 3 teens in the middle of no where about 30 miles from any civilization, but still...
oh, and the best part about the story is that my friends had a band named sweet relief, and we had this shoe box that says SWEET RELIEF on it, and inside are about 20 used razoer blades for shaving, and we laughed our asses off when we disocvered that he had searched through that box, he probably thought that there were going to be drugs in that box or something.
The razorblades were for a practical joke that we never pulled...
myself, bigtime head, am smarter than putting band stickers all over my car. most kids at my school however aren't. my favorite is the beat up isuzu trooper with the allman brothers mushroom sticker, bob marley smoking a j sticker, and the dead Steal your face wider than my own face.
i like the music, and the lifestyle, but promoting on your rear glass only gets you busted
One time my cousin (she's a looker) got pulled over when we were coming back from the beach. I was saying, oh nooo. She said, don't worry, I'll handle this...she proceeds to take off her shirt, leaving her sitting there in her bikini...when the officer came to the window he asked for her license and registration, so she reaches over into the glove box and puts her "backside" wayyy up in the air as she searches really really hard in the glovebox..and no, she didn't get a speeding ticket..not even a warning. Silenced him right back to his cruiser. He even told us to have a nice day, watch the speed. I was like..did that just happen?? LOL...
