What's luckiest break a cop has given you?

[bottomshot]

this happened to someone else, not me, but it's good enough to bother posting.

Guy I know gets pulled over on a bike because his tag is damaged, last 2 characters are unreadable. Cop chats with him, and runs the plate. It's expired by a year. Also, the bike is registered to someone else- he bought it and couldn't register it where he lived (TX) because, get this- his license is revoked in CA. Also he's not motorcycle licensed. He could have gotten the bike and himself impounded but he got off with 2 tickets.

I have another buddy who's 24 and speeds about as often as anyone else, but every time he's sped past a cop, something miraculous has happened and he's gotten out of the ticket. Two separate times the cops got emergency calls before they could write him a ticket and had to leave, and one time recently the cop (bike cop) was texting or something on his phone and not looking as my friend blew past going 15 over.

 

[VA_ranger02]

Ive gotten out of everything from wreckless driving to even assault on a police officer (Sorry Dad) Thats what happens when family runs the town you live in

 

[Camo Ranger]

Been pulled over three times, all since the beginning of this past summer. Bad string of luck I guess. First was for doing 40 around a corner thats posted at 20. I've driven around that corner at least once every week for the past two years and never seen anyone slow down for it. Well the officer sitting around the corner thought I should slow down, but at least he was nice enough to let me off with a verbal warning.

Second time I was in Hampton Falls, NH on my way to a campsite for the weekend with my gf and my buddies. Turned on to this road and start following this black Dodge Ram going about 50. About a mile down the road he turns off and I keep going on my merry way. Start going up a hill and at the top theres a speed limit sign that says 30. So I lay off the gas and my truck starts slowing down instantly since I'm on a pretty steep slope. Well about 50 ft beyond the sign is a cop hiding behind some bushes. When I pass him I look down and I'm still going about 42mph or so. So I see him pull out after me and throw his lights on. I figure "shit, I'm gonna get a ticket for goin like ten over." I pull over and the guy comes up to my truck, doing the whole normal routine. Then he asks me if I know why he pulled me over. Of course I admit that I know I was going a little fast and that I'm sorry I'm not from the area and didn't know the speed limit. The cop goes "I clocked you at 60mph." No way in hell was I going anywhere near that fast. Still to this day don't know if he was just making it all up or what. Anyway, long story short he gives me a ticket, which apparently when you get caught going more than 23mph over the speed limit in NH, its an automatic court hearing.

So now I have to take time off from school to drive up to NH for my court appearence. When I get there, I talk to the court officer and he's willing to cut 10mph off the thing if I plead guilty. I say I'll consider it, and then manage to give him this long story of how it probably doesn't look good for an officer in a military academy to be going to court all the time. I also drop in how I worked for two police departments over the summer on their emergency response plan. After hearing all this the guy agrees to throw the whole thing out if I write him a five-page paper on the dangers of speeding and email it to him within 30 days. Of course I'm like "hellz ya." Went home, wrote the paper, and emailed it to the guy. Never heard a thing about the ticket again.

Finally, the last time I got pulled over was on the Maine turnpike heading up to my girlfriends house on Halloween. I was in the left hand lane doing 80, just being a stupid kid. Guy pulls me over, I admit to the whole thing and he lets me off with a written warning.

All three times that I got pulled over I really could have got nailed with hefty tickets, but somehow I've managed to get out of them all. My advice to anyone out there who gets pulled over by a cop is don't ever lie, be polite, throw in a few "yes sir's" now and then, don't argue with them and do everything possible to make their job a little easier. It may pay off in the end. Yet you could always try this new approach that seems to be working for me, don't speed and don't get pulled over in the first place.

 

[IlovemybroncII]

Was doing 82 in a 55 pulling a loaded trailer and had another guy behind me I didt know trailing me nc hiway come around a curve and busted us he walks up to truck and said you didt have that seat belt on when I saw you and I said no sir but I do now he got my stuff went to other car and come after a little while the whole time Iam sweating getting a ticket he said do you know how fast you were going I said 82 he said that was close and gave me a tictket for no seat belt 25 bucks thank him and slowed down

 

[bmonee5]

well long story short i was at a party in a house that people were in the process of moving out of. The people who owned the house where not there but a friend let everyone in through the window, this which i never knew. Anyways a couple hours later about 6 Sherriffs came through the door guns drawn. Evidently someone called the cops thinking everyone was breaking and entering, which we were kinda. Anyway everyone ended up getting cuffed up and talked to one at a time, i luckily knew the sherriff so he let me off with a slap on the wrist but definetly let me know if i do this again i won't be so lucky.

 

[Dweano]

This is unconfirmed. But I went to a defensive driving course (128 on a 100 road..different story) but i was chatting with some guys, best story I heard was some guy was going 110km/h in a 30km/h SCHOOL ZONE! and got a warning! I could hardly believe that, but the guy was like joe average business guy and wasn't bragging and his voice sounded dead serious...if true thats incredible!

 

[AllanD]

When I was 17, on Christmas eve, was on a big wide road, no subdivisions around, 35 mph. I was probably doing 40 and a car came flying up behind me and tailgated me to where I couldn't see it's headlights...so i sped up, and so did it...musta hit 65 or so before approaching an intersection and slowed down for the red light. The car got in the right turn lane, I was in the left turnlane. Out of nowhere, it went in reverse, then got behind me with its coplights on. Two cops got out, asked me why I was going so fast...told them because they were tailgating me and wouldn't go around so I sped up. They didn't seem to like that answer much, but asked where I was going. Told em Christmas shopping. They ran my stuff, came back, told me to be careful and Merry Christmas.

I've got a nasty suprise half-built for the next asshat that tries that...

Well... they got video cameras? I'll have video cameras.

Next blue badged Knob gobbler that does it is going to get a
court sanctioned taste of my knob....

I consider it assault, threatening with a vehicle.
and the reaction of the people they do it to is NOT
justification for the subsequent traffic stop.

I've had it done to me and the next SOB that tries to do it
to me is in for a world of hurt, physical, mental & legal

It's like walking around in uniform punching people and arresting anyone who fights back, it's a scumbag thing to do and any cop who does it should get flushed.


As for lucky breaks....

I passed a cop going the other way and I simply pulled over and stopped. it took him several minutes to get turned around
and come back to where I stopped...

Now he knew that If I had kept going he would've never seen me again... so he was kinda relaxed about the stop...

He asked if I knew how fast I was going, I looked him straight in the idea and said "Nope."
He asked "speedo doesn't work?"
Answer: "Don't read that high"
question: How fast do you THINK you were going?
Answer "Around 138"

He chuckled and said "142" and after a long look at the car said "slow it down" got back into his car and left

A 383 Dart with a road race oriented suspension is just too much temptation...

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[LittleHorse]

biggest was going 86 in a 55 after passing some douchebag right before the highway went down to one lane each direction. Pulled me over, ticketed me for my insurance being out of date and all I had to do was to get a new card and take it in to the courthouse to get it dismised.

Nothing like 138mph, but what amazes me is the number of times I've gotten away with nothing. By my count I've been pulled over about 15 times, ticketed three times. Out of those three, one stuck, one stuck but was waaaaay less of an offense than what I was really doing, and one was dismissed.

 

[Captain Ledd]

Got a WARNING for having an unregistered vehicle.

Turns out when I bought the car from my parents (my ignorant mother was with me) and they asked us if we wanted to change plates. I had never bought a car before, she said it wasn't necessary. He probably let me off because I had a spotless record and had been driving it for close to a year and put over 10,000 miles on it, and no one noticed.

And the SOS was literally 2 minutes down the road.

 

[bigcountry]

i was in pulaski Tn in my old 1990 yota it had 7in lift and 35s with no rear bumper but had cops follow me all the time but no one stoped me before for not having one and alot of yota guys will remove the rear bumper and ive known lots of guys who did that and got pulled over and NEVER! were told about not having a rear bumper so to contiune my story im driving thru pulaski TN going to my fiances parents house and it had been raning about 4 days and was drizzling that nite and he came to my window and told me to get out cause he couldnt see my hands so i hoped out and gave him all my info and he came back with his book and wrote me a 600$$$!!!!!!! ticket for not having a bumper and while i was in shock from the ticket the jackarse slides into the ditch next to us and has the nerve to ask me to pull him out and i asked if i did if he would drop the ticket and he said no and and i laughed in his face and left him in the ditch and 3 hours later on our way to dinner he was still sitting in his car in the ditch and when i showed up to court he applogized and got the ticket droped i guess sitting in that ditch gave him to time to think

 

[WNY964x4]

the first ticket i got was freshman year of college , was heading to class a little late , and was goin a little fater than i should have ( sppedo indicated 61 , and it was off by 2 MPH , so actual was about 63 ) kid in a merc sable was ahead of me cruisin , we both go by this cop and i just happened to see him , well i just immediatley pulled over , he pulled up behind me and we did the usual , as i was getting my paperwork , he walked around the front of the truck ( no bumper , plate sip tied to the grille ) , he came back and asked if the tires were oversized , and i said yea , so to make a long story shorter , i mailed it in guilty and he knocked it down from 67 in a 55 ( i think the sable was doin that ) to disobeying a traffic device , cost me 100 bucks

the second time was this year , got stopped by a town cop , he asked me the if i knew why he pulled me over , i said yea , i wasnt paying attention coming down the backside of the hill and was going too fast ( 50 in a 35 ) he takes my stuff and comes back says since i was honest , he wrote me a ticke for disobeying a traffic device , it keeps points off my license , no insurance increase , and i makes him look good to the residents , he told me to have a nice day and watch my speed , best part was i had to wait for him to do a like 10 point turn , and half my buddies went by and honked , then asked me what i did when i got back to campus

the best break i had though was my first week at college , i put my truck in a ditch on my way to a party , and it was after midnight , i was 17 still , and wasnt supposed to drive after 9 , well the Trooper was a local boy and when the tow truck was pullin me out he said "if you had a chevy this wouldn't have happened" , never gave me a ticket

so i have been pulled over by 2 staties and a town cop

and one last little story

i have a 72 Chevy C-10 , summer toy , and i drive it on a dealer plate , it's not registered ( the truck ) , inspected , insured , and it has a 350 with straight pipes , well the town cop where i worked would always follow me when i had it , so when they had their monthly inspection roadblock , he had me pull over to the side
He said : "know why i had ya stop ?"
I said " My exhaust ? "
Him " Nope thats legal"
Me " Inspection and registration ? "
Him "Nope dealer plate covers that "
Me " Why then ? "
Him " No seatbelt "

i just told him to look down , that truck only came with lap belts from the factory , he got kinda mad and told me to move along

 

[bmonee5]

haha wow i really love the story about the guy with the toyota who didn't pull the cop out of the ditch. He fell off of his high horse awfully quick...hahahha!!!

 

[RaceRanger97]

I have a pretty good one.

last summer me and a friend were both driving across town to go to a party. I was driving my ranger and my buddy was driving his very built up toyota prerunner with no body panels on. When every we drove togather it was usually bad news. Not knowing there was a sherrif lurking behind, we both drove with all our off-road light on. I was drafting off of his toyota by driving mabye an inch behind him, hitting him every 100 feet or so. I bumped him at every stop. We tore off the road wherever there was dirt, clobbered curbs, and went well over the speed limit before he pulled us over. He told us we were probably going to jail as that was "the most rediculous driving he had ever seen." He said he had seen us drive like this before in his civilian vehicle and was waiting to finally get us while on patrol. He held us for a while then said, when he was young he was given a big break and he was passing it on, and If he ever saw us drive like that again the trucks would surely be impounded. It was the most releaved I had ever felt. Drove like a grandma for like 2 weeks.

 

[Nater]

Most memorable police experience so far....My first experience with German Polizei. Now mind you that speeds over here are "slightly" faster than that in the states. Also the some of the speed enforcement officers are in plainclothes. Uniformed officers usually drive the marked cars, while plainclothes usually drive whatever they can get there hands on. 9 times out of 10 too is that the car is a older model, as not to stick out. Unless they identify themselves, you would never know they were Polizei....
Well, me and the wife (girlfriend at the time) are heading down a main road thru the city of Bamberg. Speed limit is 70 kmh. Well, I look in my rearview mirror, and I see this VW Golf tailgating bad. There were two guys in the car, so I decided, "What the hell are these guys doing!?" They were not passing me at all but were staying on my bumper wether I switched lanes or not. So I tell my wife to hold on, and I floored it...(at this time it was tuned automatic, and now it has a 5 speed) Naturally , the tires spun, and the rear crabbed sideways, but then kicked back straight, and I was off like a rocket. That little golf was getting smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror. So I look down and realize I was doing about 150-160kmh, and decide I better slow down. I come to a intersection with a red light, and this Gofl pulls up next to me. Now, mind you at this time the Stang had 5% tint all the way around (was legal till last year). So they couldn't see me, but I could see them Well, as I look over, I guess the passenger assumed that I was looking at him, and held out the classic lighted "STOP" light that they use over here...Basically it is like a baton with a rounded sign at the end that has a red lense and bulb that says "STOP" on it...So I roll down my window and he motions me to follow them. I look at my wife, (who is German) and she says to follow them. So when the light turned green I pulled behind them and into a parking lot. At this point, both of them hop outta the car, identify themselves as Polizei and start ranting at me asking me what my problem was and why in the h3ll I was doing 170 down the street......Wrong approach with me....I asked them back.."First off, why were you so far on my bumper that if I had to slam on the brakes, you would be sitting in my passenger seat? Second, bad idea for you to pull up on me like you did without being able to see who or what is in the car." To which one of them tells me that he can take my Military ID card and my driver's license and take me to the MPs. I told him he had no authority to take my U.S. Government property, and I would be more than happy to go to the POLIZEI station with him, since it was the next intersection down. One of them said it was not needed, but said if he caught me speeding again, that he would take me up on the offer to go to the Polizei station....They then hopped in their car and took off.
Fast forward to last year.....
The Army decided that we were going to try to blend in better and went to the standard German plates. No more NATO symbol, no more USA on the plate. It looks exactly like a German plate, complete with the Inspection stickers...(German inspection is outrageous! If it is not stock, or not written into the car's paperwork as belonging on the car, you cannot have it...but that only applies to Germans....) Was going to pick the wife up from work since her car was in the shop, when a Golf with two German guys pulls up behind me. I had the top down and saw the same two officers that had pulled me over before. Not doing anything wrong this time, but waiting at a stop light to turn left, they wave me over. One of them says...."ahhh now we see if all your car's modifications are in your paperwork..." I politely tell them that the car is still registered under the Army, and that I just got these new plates today. (had just put the Mustang thru inspection not 15 minutes prior...) I could see the look of disappointment on this guys face. Classic! He then tells me that my car is too loud (Catless H-pipe and Pypes Violators) He gets in my car before I can say anything, starts it up and revs it to 5 grand! Then hops out and says "SEE! TOO LOUD!" I told him he had no right to do that. And he said, "Here in Germany we can!" He goes back to his car and writes me a ticket for not having a exhaust....And they said "FIX IT!" and left...I go pick up the wife, and tell her what happened....She was totally shocked, and said we need to go to the station ASAP. So we drive down to the Polizei station, and ask for the person in charge of the shift...A older officer comes out to the lobby and we tell him what happened. He looks at the ticket that this guy wrote me, and then tells us to follow him into his office, where he proceeds to call both officers off the street and into his office....He says not to worry about the ticket, and asks me how much it usually costs to fill the Mustang on base....I told him about 35 dollars (at that time...LOL) and he hands me 40 euros out of his pocket. He said he will get the money back from the two that are coming into his office to see him. He profusely appolgizes for the conduct of his officers, and that if I had any more problems, come see him directly. Needless to say, in the past year, I have yet to see the Golf any more....

 

[machine090767]

back in 1992, i was drunk (yes, Very bad of me) and i was driving 50 in a 35. cop stops me. i'm drunk, so i think "this is it, i'm going tom be arrested" since this was night, first thing i notice is: No Search light blinding me. then the cop doesn't really look into the truck, just sort of says "licence, please" which i hand him and he walks back to his cruiser. Now, usually it takes a cop 15-25 minutes to "check" your license. this guy came back in under 5! heres how the rest of the stop went: "you do know it's 35 on this road, right?" me: "yes, sir, i was just going home" cop: "I notice your license plates are gulf war plates, are you a veteran?" me: "yes,sir, Navy" Cop: "Thank you for your service...I also noticed that you live only a few blocks from me and i am on my way home, so since you were on your way home, i'm going to let this incident slide,ok? just watch your speed." Me: yes, sir officer, thank you"
I don't know if it was the fact i was a navy veteran, or if he was just going off duty or if that and my being respectful allowed me to get out of a ticket and being arrested, whatever the reason, i thanked God about 100 times as i drove home. and yes, about 2 blocks from my house, the officer did pull into a driveway and get out and go into his house.