FRICKIN' LIAR! (Page 2)

Finally, someone who understands my pain! I am flabergasted that they do this. Why not have you follow them to somewhere safe and then work it out? In my case I was lucky that a good friend took off the next day from work to drive me around for hours and hundreds of miles to resolve things. But the cost to us was staggering! I hope you were not far from assistance on that road-side.

I have some friends who are cops.  What amazes me is how different copes can be.  My friends are all people like you and me.  They understand you and me and would NEVER do something like abandon people on the side of the road to have a car towed for an expired registration.  They feel like their primary job is to help people, not be a PITA to them.  Most cops are actually pretty nice people... sh!tty drivers themselves, but nice people.

And then there are others who once they put on the uniform feel like it's their right and priveledge to be as big of a d!ck as they want to be!  Abandon a family by the side of the road!  And what would have happened if you were all hit by a car or picked up by kidnappers afterwards?  That's UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Don't worry about them, the union will protect them from the results of their poor judgement.




Edited by D.Z. 2009-07-24 3:33 PM

Isn't the burden of proof on the prosecution?

Wait. Where's that danged sarcasm font?

Hope you get a good judge...

Illegal in all of NC now I think.

If you do the PJC, then you have another option other than the improper equipment. The way I understood the OP, it sounds like HE was traveling at 55 when he encountered another vehicle that he proceded to pass. I could be wrong, but I think the other vehicle was keeping him from going 55, so he passed. Either way, I hate it for you.

NC Troopers have laser as well as radar and vascar...which is not detectable at all, because it's a computer. But they have to be following you to use it effectively (from the way it was described to me).

Just like in any profession there are good people doing the job, and not so good people doing the job. If society was perfect we wouldnt even have this job, so they cant be perfect either. I do not stand for any of my officers that abuse their position. Its actually pretty cowardly in many aspects.

Although I must say, sometimes people (LEO's) act differently because of different situations. I had heard a story once of a State Tropper that pulled someone over for going just a few mph over the limit. Didnt ticket them or anything else but yelled at them to slow down, pay attention to the law, and other peoples lives. Was really for the most part out of line the entire time. These people drove away and then later filed a complaint (which they probably should have) - only to later find out, a short time before this Trooper was performing CPR on a young child that didnt live, because someone exceeding the speed limit went to pass and hit the family head on.

Everyone has a bad day - but a bad career is no excuse. 

Same in IL.  And you get taken to jail. 

The no-texting-while-driving law in NC goes into affect in December of this year.

Yes, he was passing another car at the same time I was.  Closing speed would have been about 145 (since I was doing around 74 at the height of the pass).  Unless he was passing at 17mph, there's no way he could have had me at 91.

My radar detector is 4-band (X, K, Ka and laser).  It picks everything up.  The only way for me to not know I'm being measured by the police is to be paced from behind or VASCAR from a plane overhead.

And despite my talking about speed and radar detectors... this is only my second speeding ticket (or any ticket for that matter) in 22 years!