COPS!

[noxious.sunshine]

When I was 3 I ended up in the back of a cop car with a family member for a bulltrout reason. I was crying hysterical and the cop told me to shut up. About five minutes later I puked in his car.

smurf da police!

I was with this girl and this dude and the chick's son was with us and we all got stopped and some um... Questionable substances were found under dude's driver seat in his car ya know? So we're all in cuffs and shiz and chick's son goes "YOU BETTER NOT TAKE MY MOMMY TO JAIL MOTHERSUCKER!" & kicked him in the shin really hard. It was very difficult to not laugh. They let us go though and we had to walk like 20 blocks back to her apartment in the middle of July.

[Polnareff]

I don't like 'em.

Cops in central Ohio especially have the tendency to be racist. Try being anything other than white and driving through Grove City or Hilliard, the former town actually formerly being a hotspot for the KKK. You'll get a ticket for no reason, and so quickly that it'll make your head spin. It's precisely why I don't go to either of those places anymore unless a friend takes me. And good goddamn luck trying to fight any tickets you get. You'll get laughed right out of the courtroom.

When you actually need help, the cops always come too late, or say they're gonna help you, but actually don't end up helping, and just wave your case off like it's nothing. We have a lot of red light cameras around here, which are basically used to make money off people who legally turn right on a red light, or people who get caught in between two lights that are about 300 feet apart and end up sitting right under a red light (making it look like you ran a red light, even though you actually didn't).

Yeah, Ohio law enforcement is so smurfed in the ass it's not even funny.

[Formalhaut]

I might just have an innate respect for the police and in authority in general, but I'm 'generally' supportive of the police. Whenever I see them or the police community support officers walking around the streets I like to smile and generally be nice towards the police. Perhaps I'm being naive, and perhaps that is because I've never really had a encounter with the police, but I like to think that the majority of them in my area are good people trying to do a tough job. I can't speak for America though.

Not to say that I'm blindly in love. While I do have a innate respect for the police, I do get angry at police brutality and tactics such as kettling or other acts of police brutality. I do think the police should be, and generally is a positive influence to society but that they should certainly not be held on a pedestal: when they make mistakes, they should surely be criticised for it.

[Polnareff]

The funniest ticket I got was when I was driving down a state route going east. The highway happened to be heavily crowded at the time, and what I didn't see was a cop had a car pulled over on the side of the road. By the time I got to him, I couldn't get over because there was a huge line of cars in the next lane. He was still sitting in his car so I slowed down and drove past both cars. It was either do that or ram my car into the line of cars in the left lane.

Big mistake apparently. He pulled me over and claimed I tried to run him over with my car, when he was sitting in the car making out a report for the previous person he had pulled over. When I went to court to try to fight it, the judge basically gave me a speech about being careful and how ashamed I should be for almost running over a police officer. Had to pay 250 bucks because a cop decided he saw some easy prey.

[Yerushalmi]

The funniest ticket I got was when I was driving down a state route going east. The highway happened to be heavily crowded at the time, and what I didn't see was a cop had a car pulled over on the side of the road. By the time I got to him, I couldn't get over because there was a huge line of cars in the next lane. He was still sitting in his car so I slowed down and drove past both cars. It was either do that or ram my car into the line of cars in the left lane.

Big mistake apparently. He pulled me over and claimed I tried to run him over with my car, when he was sitting in the car making out a report for the previous person he had pulled over. When I went to court to try to fight it, the judge basically gave me a speech about being careful and how ashamed I should be for almost running over a police officer. Had to pay 250 bucks because a cop decided he saw some easy prey.

I'm really not sure "funniest" is the right word here.

[Polnareff]

I meant to use that word with both meanings, as in it was strange that I got that ticket in the first place, and that the ordeal was funny in retrospect. Basically all I ended up learning was, don't use that highway ever again.

[noxious.sunshine]

My dad got a speeding ticket once.

He went to court and contested it 'cuz the cop had no proof that he was actually speeding. He got it thrown out and only had to pay like $30 for court costs. This was back in the 80's though.

You can do that you know. Unless speed detectors now record a vehicle's actual speed & the make, model, & license plate number as hard evidence, you can go to court and get it thrown out. All the cop actually has is the dash camera that shows the traffic stop.