What's luckiest break a cop has given you?

[racsan]

about 6 month ago, coming home 2nd shift, about 12:15 a.m. i go around a wet corner and lose traction, i held it to the floor, grabbed 3rd and spun the r.r. until i needed to grab 4rth gear. about a block up the street, i notice a cop behind me, didnt see one when i went around that corner, check my speed, its o.k. set cruise for 35 and right after that the lights come on. i pull into a lot and as i turn im out of his headlights, so i grab my seat belt. (no i dont reguarly wear one) i get asked for the usual licence, reg, ect. i get asked what i was doing back at the corner, i said it must have been slick, didnt realize i was slipping tires. (wasnt about to say i ment to do that, that would be considered reckless op, 4 points on the licence right there!) then he asked about my plates, they were first issued 10 years ago, and i had sprayed them yearly with clearcoat, well the cearcoat was cracked with age and the plates dont reflect light like there supposed to. i didnt tell him that, i merely said it must be weathering and age. in hio you are supposed to have a county sticker in the lower left corner of the plate, i have a tiny conferderate flag sticker instead. nothing was said about that. i dont know what the plate viloation would be, but i was let off with a warning to get new plates and to be carefull going around wet corners. im sure the seat belt thing would have at least been 2 points. i got off real lucky that night. for the next several months i took a different way home. my plates didnt expire until january and i wasnt about to get new if i could manage it. whan i got the letter in the mail about renewal i did request new plates though, took a few weeks for them to come in. just got them last week in fact. and yes, i did clear-coat them. and probly the best thing of all from that night, the tool box behind the seat is where i keep all the "glove box stuff" its also where i have a pellet gun that looks real. glad it wasnt noticed. real fire arm or not, it would have not been good for that to have been noticed. yes it was loaded with b.b.'s ihavent read through all the storeies so im sure mine may be pretty mild, but i feel i got real lucky. the last time i had anything on my licence, my insurance raised my rates for 2 years and nothing i did cost them any money. i figure any chance the city has to gain revenue they would jump on, but i guess i caught a break that night. a good poker face and not giving any attitude probly helped too.

 

[bmonee5]

Non car related but their was a time that i was with some buddies and we made a bomb with a empty co2 cartridge taped up with a wic in it and 4 full co2 containers taped up to it. We blew up a federal state park payment drop box. It blew the steel box up and ripped the cover off the box, tore through 3 steel hinges and was airborne for roughly 6 seconds....then when we were speeding away a sherriff passed us heading to the park. The sherriff's came into my work that night and questioned me but i got off scott free but the other people with me got 2 misdemeanors each...i got lucky

 

[adsm08]

This didn't happen to me, but I was involved in it, and if I'd been the cop that was there, boy howdy would this kid have had tickets and no State Inspection stickers:

About 2 years ago we had a nasty snow storm, 3 inches sitting on the Interstate, well there is a small hill that my road goes down. It was an ice sheet when I came down it. I almost lost it and went into the woods across the street but grabbed 4Hi at the last second and ripped into the yard. 10 minutes later the next guy wasn't so lucky. He tried to not take out our trash cans and stay on the road but found the woods.

So a cop comes along, calls a roll back and a plow truck. We are all sitting there, waiting for the plow truck to get there and salt the road, roll back sitting at the top of the hill, which is still an ice sheet when this idiot pizza delivery kid comes along in his 88 accord, and tries to go around the rollback waiting at the top for the hill to get salted. He gets halfway down the hill, flips around, and almost ends up in a neighbor's yard which is itself a fairly steep hill. The cop and I ran up the hill and went to push him back onto the road and I notice that this guy's front tired are bald, I'm talking cords showing at the corners bald. The cop yells at the kid for driving like an idiot and not thinking that there might be a reason the tow truck was sitting at the top of the hill, I yell at him for driving on bad roads with bald tires and tell the officer that there is no way his front tires should have passed the safety inspection which had happened only a month or so before, and then the officer asks the kid if he needs a ticket.

We did get him turned around and moving the other way, told him to find another way around since his reason for driving like a moron and almost killing us all was that he'd get in trouble if he didn't make his delivery time.

I even told the cop that I am a state licensed safety inspector, which in that situation would have given me the right to pull the kid's safety stickers. If I'd been the officer I'd have hit him for wreckless endangerment, wreckless driving, driving too fast for conditions, and had the CIM next to me pull his safety sticker for the car not being legit.

He got off with a "Don't let me see you again tonight, and get new tires immediately."

Worst part of it was that the poor guy who wrecked got hit the worst of all. The officer didn't give him a ticket since it was a single car accident and no one got hurt, but he was a trucker, and since he had to report it to his insurance to get his explorer fixed, it still counted 2 points against his CDL.

 

[racsan]

any stories from the other side of this fence? -Jim? i bet you have some stories to tell.

 

[whitebassbenny]

83 in a 35. nice cop let me off with an "exp" reg card. but i got a nice little ticket for it.
It was an expensive joy ride for $800 with insurence increase aswell . ouch.

$500 for insurence
$150 max fine
$148 court fee's


But i can still drive.

With in two months of that i got stopped for 43 in a 25 school zone going to a town event and pulled over in the town event lot. Got a writen warning and told have a good day !

$124 red light ticket.

Got stopped on the motorcycle a day after i got it. went to a friends house 2 streets down and got pulled over on my street for not having glasses. got a good talk from the cop and his motorcycle cop buddy who showed up. both nice cops

See friends truck got searched in front of my house with me a 130AM. woke my mom up... damn straight pipe. got off with a warning for the exhaust and the cop did not like my big knife lol.

Passed a cop in NY at night aroung 1030 going like 95 on the motorcycle after passing out a saab turbo. needless to say i don't know if he pulled out.....


I guess live and learn?


... now i don't speed as much.

 

[Tiollib]

needless to say i don't know if he pulled out.....

That's what she said!

 

[MatthewT]

I was doing 50 in a 25 residential area, heavily populated. It was about 11pm and was looking for a place i wanted to visit the next day, i found it and was heading back home doing 50 toward the highway. And at one of the side roads that joins the road a city cop pulls to the stop sign as i pass and then pulls out with lights on in pursuit of me, i see and pull to side of road. When he gets out to talk to me all he asks for is my liscense. And asks me what i am doing, i tell him and he asks where i am heading, i tell him i am heading back to base and then we get talking about when he was in the military and after he finishes he says he will let me go with a warning but don't speed again. I was VERY HAPPY AFTER THAT!!!!

My fastest ticket was a 90 in a 50, but that i got screwed on!! Dang State cop!

 

[Beast4x4]

a few years back a couple days before thanksgiving when i was still in college and i was working at this video store. the one night i had to go pick up one of the kids that was scheduled that night cuz he didn't have a ride. i was running late, and so i take a right on red (it was posted no turn on red, i forgot the sign was there) off of a main street to go down to his neighborhood, i was cruisin down this road at 60 or so an it was 25 ( i was aware of that) when i look up in the rear view an see the flashing lights a good mile or so back. so i pull over thinking he is just going to go by cuz he is on his way to another call........ i was wrong......... sooo i start digging through the glove box looking for my information knowingly that i was just doing 60 in a 25 and waiting for the suspended license to come my way and then the beating from my parents. so the officer gets to the window, i hand him my information and he replies with,.. Officer: "So that sign pretty clear back there?" Me: "Uhhh ..... yeah..... crap (me thinking he is referencing the the speed limit) Officer: "So you're are not going to turn on red when its posted then anymore.?" Me: "Oh (thinking to myself, don't say to much..) .. I'm sorry officer." Officer: "Hang tight for a minute.." the officer goes back to his car, meanwhile i'm practically shitting my pants cuz i'm still thinking that he knows somehow that i was speeding. Officer comes back and "Now, would you like a verbal warning or written or ticket?" Me: "I'd appreciate the verbal warning but i understand if that is not possible." He then hands me back my information and says "Okay then just make sure you don't turn on red anymore when its posted and be safe with the coming holiday." after which he walked back to he car and left, an i was still sitting there for a few minutes trying to determine what all had just happened. thats the luckiest break i've ever had, since then i've tried to stay out of trouble as much as possible outta not wanting to tempt fate or karma

 

[hoosier1104]

Was playing tag and street racing in the same day, not recommended by the way, got pulled over by the SAME cop twice in the same day. He let me off with a warning for the tag but you may be able to out run the vehicle but you cannot out run a cell phone or radio. Needless to say they show up at my friends house after I was done racing, 0300ish, and since my motor was cool they could not prove I was taking part in the race (I won about 1k that night). Next morning my car would not start, blew the head gasket after the fact, karma is a biatch some times. Figured that was a sign to stop street racing and bought a sport bike. Been on 2 wheels ever since.

 

[nice00ford]

When I was 17 just over 2 years ago my boss and I were gonna go to Ihop in the next town. He said he would drive and I was gonna park my truck about halfway there since I lived close to where I'd be parking it too. I had a dakota at the time and he had a new Ram 1500 and we set off that way with me leading and him following. I passed several cars and he kept up with me all the way. All of the sudden we pass a cop sitting on the side of the road. I pull over immediately and so does my boss. Cop clocks me for going 93 in a 55. My boss, who is in good with all the cops since he owns the local pizza place and gives police a discount, talks to the cop and asks him if I was gonna get a ticket. Long story short I got let off with a warning, but strict instructions not to tell anybody about what happened or both me and the cop would get in trouble. Never told my parents yet, but probably will sometime soon since that was over 2 years ago anyway.

 

[B2 Addict]

A few years ago, I was in my Cobra Mustang on Interstate 840 locally, I was going to my buddies house. I had a silver full size Dodge pickup in front of me with 3 people in it & no other cars in sight. We rounded a bend & my buddies exit is less than 1/5 mile. I decided I was gonna hammer it until I got to the exit so I floored it & went around the Dodge.

I was doing 125 mph when I let out of it to get off the exit, I looked in my rear view mirror & that Dodge wasn't as far behind me as he should have been, not to mention he had flashing lights all over the place!!

He pulled me over at the bottom of the exit & said "guess who's the police"! It was three county deputies in an unmarked police truck, I didn't have my drivers license on me but I knew my #, once he found out it was valid & was a commercial license, he asked if his deputies could search my car. They didn't find anything, he complimented me on how good my car ran, wrote me a warning ticket, & let me go!! I still have the warning ticket!

 

[MAranger]

One time in a severe series of events, I was rollin down 1 south in my town, its a one lane with semi-frequent intersections. That night had been a trip. A titty bar a few towns away was holding a stunt show so me a few buddies and my gf went, brought some drinks with us. We wound up fighting and she ditched in her ranger with my bottle. I just went back to show. She came back maybe an hour and a few drinks later. We roll south on 1 towards home, and while i'm hitting the bottle, spill booze all over my shirt, Great, lose the shirt, tossed it. So after this fight I'm "making it up to her" getting friendly in the truck while shes driving, rubbin up the insides of her legs and kissin up her neck Apparently that behavior was a little distracting for her, and we rolled through a yellow light doing about 45. Cop blues us up, we pull right over. So here we are, a couple of kids, both buzzing, and me sans shirt. Asks if we've been drinking, we say no. Asks where we're going so I tell him to my place right down the road. He tells me to get her home safe and stay there, and wishes me a good night. Definately my luckiest run in with the law.

 

[b2rich]

85 in a 70 zone. in a daewoo got a warning.
had an accident on my motorcycle. rearended a suv, went thru the rear window, i was riding with my learners permit by myself. no ticket. did have a broken pelvis and 2 broken arms. maybe he felt sorry for me

 

[Twitch57]

shoot you wouldnt believe half of my stories

 

[Hopman]

Twitch, try us. I'd love to hear a few!