I almost went to jail

[hangtym3]

Wow...consider yourself lucky....MY STORY: I was coming home from work(knotts berry farm), it is like 12:15, and im driving down the street, Im tired, so I have all my windows open and my music a bit "loud"(you could hear it, but it wasnt bumpin), and all of a sudden a cop pulls out of a driveway, pulls in front of me and slows down(wtf?!) we are now going like 20 in a 40 mph zone....So i get from behind him, and go a lil faster(i get up to about 35-40)So as soon as I go, the cop pulls closer to me, puts on his lights and this is where the fun begins!!! So he pulls me over shines the bright flashlite in my face, and says "Why are you bumping your music son? Its not cool." So I said "Im sorry, I just came off work, and I wanted to stay alert and awake, so I rolled down all my windows and turned the music up, wuts so wrong with that??" He said "that doesnt matter", and asked me to get out of the car.....So him and his partner started to search my car(why?)..... And they found a knife(I dont live in the best nieghborhood, People have tried to jack my car twice already while I was stopped at a light...so i keep it for protection) Newayz they put me in handcuffs read me my right put me in the back of the car, they talk for like 5 minutes come back to thier car, asked me why I had the knife, I told them, then they slammed the door talked for another 5 minutes, then came back took off the handcuffs, wrote me a ticket for "Thumping my Music" lmao thats wut it said on it, and they told me to hurry up on home.......SO THATS ONE OF MY MANY POLICE STORIES!!!!!!AND REMEMBER IM ONLY 16....SO THERE WILL BE MORE...I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED!!!....oh yea, sorry for the long post, and the jack :/

[fritz_t_coyote]

quote:Originally posted by thegoldpt

Note that, most cops are not really out to get ya, but really are doing there jobs, but what i dont understand is how throwing a piece of paper is fineable?[xx(][:I]

a) Littering?
(which could land you on the Group W bench)

b) throwing anything at a person can be considered an assault on that person.

In many places Assaulting An Officer is considered a crime.

Face it, you got suckered by someone who has a tough job to do: keep traffic moving in front of the terminal.

"MOVE NOW OR I'LL TICKET YOU!!"

Maybe the cop didn't intend to lie... but if the cops supervisor came by and saw the 'abandoned' car, she had to write the ticket; or maybe she gave you 60 seconds before she wrote it; Or maybe she was starting to write the moment you turned your back (it is much easier to write the ticket when you are out of the car), after all, she probably has 'productivity goals'.

Basicly, you gambled and lost.

Just be glad they didn't have the bomb squad deal with the 'abandoned vehicle in front of the airport terminal'.

[2step]

quote:Originally posted by hangtym3

it is like 12:15, and im driving down the street, I have all my windows open and my music a bit "loud"

I think it may have been the time of night that got you in the hot fat. What's OK at noon may not be OK at midnight.

[thegoldpt]

quote:Originally posted by hangtym3

Wow...consider yourself lucky....MY STORY: I was coming home from work(knotts berry farm), it is like 12:15, and im driving down the street, Im tired, so I have all my windows open and my music a bit "loud"(you could hear it, but it wasnt bumpin), and all of a sudden a cop pulls out of a driveway, pulls in front of me and slows down(wtf?!) we are now going like 20 in a 40 mph zone....So i get from behind him, and go a lil faster(i get up to about 35-40)So as soon as I go, the cop pulls closer to me, puts on his lights and this is where the fun begins!!! So he pulls me over shines the bright flashlite in my face, and says "Why are you bumping your music son? Its not cool." So I said "Im sorry, I just came off work, and I wanted to stay alert and awake, so I rolled down all my windows and turned the music up, wuts so wrong with that??" He said "that doesnt matter", and asked me to get out of the car.....So him and his partner started to search my car(why?)..... And they found a knife(I dont live in the best nieghborhood, People have tried to jack my car twice already while I was stopped at a light...so i keep it for protection) Newayz they put me in handcuffs read me my right put me in the back of the car, they talk for like 5 minutes come back to thier car, asked me why I had the knife, I told them, then they slammed the door talked for another 5 minutes, then came back took off the handcuffs, wrote me a ticket for "Thumping my Music" lmao thats wut it said on it, and they told me to hurry up on home.......SO THATS ONE OF MY MANY POLICE STORIES!!!!!!AND REMEMBER IM ONLY 16....SO THERE WILL BE MORE...I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED!!!....oh yea, sorry for the long post, and the jack :/

Was the knife a straight blade (not folding)? in california it is considerd carrying a concealed weapon, and are lucky you were not charged. They can't touch you if it is folding.

[thegoldpt]

My story,

I was driving in Arroyo Grande (i live on the california central coast) and was heading up the main highway that goes through the "village". I got on the highway 101 and starting heading north, i got up the on ramp, all this time an San Luis Obispo County Sherrif behind me. I keep it right at 60mph on the free way and he goes around me and we contine along with me right behind him, i we are comeing up to another on ramp, and a car is comeing on, so i did not want to deal with letting him in, and i am doing 55 becuase i am paranoid, and so i figure the speed limit is 70 i can hit it and he will fall in behind me, so i take it out of 5th into 3rd, and the pt rockets up to 70 (the reason i love a manual transmission) and the car slides in behind me and i go back to 60 right behind this cop, (if front of me) turns on his lights and pulls to the shoulder, and then gets right behind me. By now i am using every curse word in the book, and shuts off the lights. And follows me all the way into morro bay (about 15 miles away). ALL the way up to my street..... WTF i keep telling myself, so i decided to see if he was following me.. i make a few starange and abrupt turns driving around like i am lost, he follows me the entire time......... I cant understand what is happening, so i drive to mc donalds about a mile or so away, and decide to park and walk in. He follows me all the way until i park. and then goes and parks across the street at burger king, so i sait in mc donalds with a soda, and then drink it and leave, i make it a priorty to go past where he was parked. He follows. Now i am half expecting a fleet of squad cars to come at me like they think i am some murder. I am having a small panic attack so i decide, because i was out for a day by my self. to head to San Luis Obispo, he follows.......ERRRR So right on the highway. i just pull over, he passes. i get behind him, and as soon as he passed a on ramp, i get on it, and flip around and head the other way... back towards morro bay...... i am 10 mins into town a morro bay police officer gets behind me and begins to follow... now i am utterly shocked..... i cant understand what is going on..i go home, and he follows al the way to my drive way, i pull in and go up to my porch and go inside, and he makes a u-turn infront of it....... never heard anything about it again.

Can somewone explain this too me please... what were they doing.... this little dance lasted an hour......

[hangtym3]

It was folded...Stealth mode!!![?]

[thegoldpt]

quote:Originally posted by hangtym3

It was folded...Stealth mode!!![?]

Also, according to what you wrote, did they search your car without asking? If do they violated you civil rights, and as such you could charge them, unless the place you under aresst for a crime then it is different. You may be a minor, but the law still stands, and they took advantage of the fact they knew you did not know this, so time to bean up on them bill of rights okay?

Or you gave them permission and all was well, but they must ask first.

[Retro]

Gee, I didn't know so many cruiser drivers were such hardened criminals! Ok, me too! I went in to renew my driver's license. I was really proud because I wasn't late doing it like I usually am! So, I go up to the counter, have no problems, and then this cop comes up to me and asks me if I have any knives or guns in my purse?! I nearly fell over with shock, said no, of course not officer and then he asks me to come in an office. So I go, and then he tells me there is a warrant out for my arrest! Then I nearly did fall over in a dead faint, and asked him to please explain why. He then calls my local precinct to find out why, and tells me it is because I received a ticket for an expired sticker on my car. I did, about a year earlier, had gone IN to the constable's office and attempted to pay it and show them it had been renewed, and they couldn't find the ticket and told me to forget about it. So, I did. Literally.

By now I was about to cry. I was going to call my husband and his best friend next, who is a judge. Well, fortunately, the woman talking to him on the phone who was the secretary in the office he called asked him to describe me and when he did, she told him not to arrest me but send me up to their office and they would take care of it. She knew me. So, he agreed to do that, but told me to go straight there. I was almost out of gas and asked him if I could stop for that and he said yes. ( As you can see, I am a really experienced hardened criminal here! Duh.)

I then began to get a little miffed about the whole thing- we had a burglary the year before and they were not NEARLY as interested in solving that. I politely suggested that maybe their time would be better spent solving my burglary than hassling me about my sticker. That didn't seem to set very well, but the guy still let me go! I went on up to the local office and they dismissed the ticket!I was lucky somebody knew me and vouched for me, but what would have happened if I didn't? I wonder how many people actually get arrested for something this petty?? Bureaucracy run amok once again![xx(]