Top 5 Ways To Get Pulled Over by the Cops

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Top 5 Ways To Get Pulled Over by the Cops

Want to get a ticket? Here are the quickest ways to get stopped. If you don't want to get stopped by a traffic cop, these are the things to avoid.

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noscut

Perhaps the reason for not using a turn signal is that if you are holding a cell phone with one hand and driving with the other, there is no hand left to use the signal.

patches9

I agree 100% driving too slow is a reason to get pulled over. Often I get really angry however with the dope driving a vehicle covered with snow and none of the windows are cleared off! That to me is a good reason to be pulled over for driving to endanger and should be punishable more so than an expired inspection sticker ( $150.00 ) fine. WAKE UP!

ironcarbman

the sixth would be DWB.

tannim

Well, when cops start to obey the laws they're supposed to enforce instead of breaking them, maybe they'll get more respect and not be perceived as Revenue Extraction Officials! Cops are not immune from illegal U-turns, speeding, improper lane changes, or similar violations they go after everyone else for.

As for the bumper stickers, they serve a purpose of identifying the vehcile more easily if stolen, and if the cop can't get past the stickers content, then he's not professional enough to wear the costume and badge and should seek another line of work.

Driving slower then the traffic flow is not a standout to a cop if the driver is not speeding and is obeying traffic laws. If a cop is ticketing people for following the road laws but everyone else isn't, then the cop is revenue trolling and not properly doing his job.

As for speeding, when cops learn to properly apply the basic speed law and know what the roads they're trolling on are engineered to handle versus what they are signed for at too low of a speed, then maybe they can complain about speeding. However, far too many cops have zero clue what the basic speed law says or how to apply it, so they revert to their substandard training and use the signs and radar guns instead. Most straight roads are signed at 15 MPH below what is the edge of safety. Most road curves and offramps are also signed at 15 under. Hard 90 turns are usually signed correctly, however.

tannim

IOW, the #1 cause for people getting pulled over is incompetent cops. Selective enforcement of the traffic laws by itself proves that.

tannim

Well, when cops start to obey the laws they're supposed to enforce instead of breaking them, maybe they'll get more respect and not be perceived as Revenue Extraction Officials! Cops are not immune from illegal U-turns, speeding, improper lane changes, or similar violations they go after everyone else for.

As for the bumper stickers, they serve a purpose of identifying the vehcile more easily if stolen, and if the cop can't get past the stickers content, then he's not professional enough to wear the costume and badge and should seek another line of work.

Driving slower then the traffic flow is not a standout to a cop if the driver is not speeding and is obeying traffic laws. If a cop is ticketing people for following the road laws but everyone else isn't, then the cop is revenue trolling and not properly doing his job.

As for speeding, when cops learn to properly apply the basic speed law and know what the roads they're trolling on are engineered to handle versus what they are signed for at too low of a speed, then maybe they can complain about speeding. However, far too many cops have zero clue what the basic speed law says or how to apply it, so they revert to their substandard training and use the signs and radar guns instead. Most straight roads are signed at 15 MPH below what is the edge of safety. Most road curves and offramps are also signed at 15 under. Hard 90 turns are usually signed correctly, however.

schoolmarm

A gold star for CHP officer McElroy there is no safe speed to be pulling your shirt off while driving a car. I'd also call that distracted driving.Unless you'r in avehicle with no roof, you'r not caatching those rays anyway. What price tanning?

pdr1956

If I am on My Motor Cycle the saying Loud Pipes Save Lives,because they do not see you they may at least hear You and take notice

wildkippy

it don't matter what you do or say OR if you ask for a pass on the ticket, the cop is going to write it because his chief tells him to. The cop is told to Get Stats Up and ignore crime doers if it's worth getting more bang for the bucks. look what happened in NYC recently. one cop blew the whistle on this corrupt behaviour. it's just a microcosm of the whole nation. cops stop you for the least little reason nowadays to get stats up. I drive like an old man yet I got 4 speeding tickets so far this year! so when I start arguing with the cop about his faulty radar app. he blows his top & threatens me with jailtime. who can win against this kind of corruption?

ruebezahl

These are all valid reasons, yet I would really like to the police driving properly too.
Most times cops never signal, at other times they will zoom by you without any lights or sirens on.
Then right in front of them a car will go through a red light and they turn a blind eye instead of ticketing someone on such a serious offense.
I have witnessed this several times!

rcinsf

Scott,
Re: the fast lane. I agree about slow drivers in the fast lane BUT if you exceed the posted speed limit, even in the fast lane, you are speeding and can be cited for such.
RCinSF

sarahportuondo

Can I just say to Scott Klein, and anyone who agrees with him, that if another driver is traveling at the speed limit in the left lane, it is perfectly acceptable. Seeing as how it's called the speed LIMIT, you can be ticketed for going even one mile per hour above the limit if the officer feels like it. You should at no point in time be exceeding the LIMIT, by law. If you're in a rush, just leave your house early. It's not every other drivers problem if you're late, just yours.

enyberg

scottklein1, you don't get the whole concept of a speed limit do you? Period. End of explanation!

lwillienelson

Or another one. The ones who place their GPS either in front of them or in the center of the dash. Put it in the Upper Left hand corner of the windshield, nothing coming from that direction. If on the Lower Left, it will cover a pedestrian. Remember a pack of cigarettes will hide a Motorcycle, imagine what a GPS sitting there will hide.

pithysarcasm

Could you please show me a drivers manual from any state or Puerto Rico that says there is a fast lane? I bet you cant. Sooo.. You are obviously a Aggressive Driver.. and How many Tickets do you have? LOL

katiefusion360

So I have a couple of questions. Can you get pulled over for reckless driving or equipment failure for: 1) driving around with a cracked windshield or 2) like another commenter said, for driving with your windshield covered with snow or ice?

wigan

When stopped just blame it on the boogie?

wigan

@katiefusion360

1) If I was a traffic cop and saw you driving with cracked windshield (taking into account M.O.T. regulations) unless you were going to take it for repair/replacement I would stop you and have the vehicle recovered as you are a risk to yo

pete5668

Noscut, do you only have one finger on each hand? You can use your ring and pinky fingers to activate the signal as you are steering with your right hand.

pete5668

You can pull your sweatshirt off if you are on a straight road and there are no cars within sight from the front, side, or rear. I do it all the time. I do mean NO CARS AT ALL though. Or, just do it while stopped at a red light.

cgreenhalghsr

Making your car look like a 'Rat Rod' with primer etc will also make every cop you pass want to pull you over determined to get you off the road if possible.

julieclair

umm when a cop pulled me over and told me my music was louder than his and wrote me a ticket for disturbing the peace when the only peace i disturbed was his from playing on facebook and listening to music. seriously cops are pushing a cuota and they tend to enjoy the authority they have which in turns makes most of them [non-permissible content removed]. I would like to know if statistically cops writing traffic tickets prevent any accidents or very few

choctawindian

Driving at a SAFE, fuel-efficient speed is not a crime. In New Mexico apparently cops would rather you SPEED than "go too slow." And this said about an OLDER, slower car, going UPHILL from a complete stop at a stop light, where the surface street suddenly turns into a highway with 65mph maximum posted. They claim there are unwritten "minimum" speeds you have to guess at to "obey." That's not allowed, if they want to enforce "minimums" they must be posted as such, like all the other states which have been forced to do so by, apparently, Federal law. Then the excuse given was the out of state license plate. Again, illegal. I can tie those kinds of cops up in so much litigation their grandchildren will need lawyers - but when they SEE me they're still talking and still [non-permissible content removed]. It's because I'm a woman and a minority. This generation of cops is getting more and more racist and [non-permissible content removed].

Right about now I'm worried about driving through 9 states with "out of state license plates" on my way "home." New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-tucky are the worst. After that the worst of it will be over.

choctawindian

wigan said:

@katiefusion360

1) If I was a traffic cop and saw you driving with cracked windshield (taking into account M.O.T. regulations) unless you were going to take it for repair/replacement I would stop you and have the vehicle recovered as you are a risk to yo

And as long as it didn't obsure the driver's view I would call [non-permissible content removed] and sue the hell out of you.

choctawindian

tannim said:

As for the bumper stickers, they serve a purpose of identifying the vehcile more easily if stolen, and if the cop can't get past the stickers content, then he's not professional enough to wear the costume and badge and should seek another line of work.

Driving slower then the traffic flow is not a standout to a cop if the driver is not speeding and is obeying traffic laws. If a cop is ticketing people for following the road laws but everyone else isn't, then the cop is revenue trolling and not properly doing his job.

In my case, when I got to the library that day after the incident, I was told that it wasn't the "going too slow" per se as in by itself but the out of state license plates and then the colour of my skin that got me in trouble. These are all things that are illegal on the part of the "law enforcement" (they don't know that racial profiling is AGAINST this country's laws? - and before anyone jumps down my throat, selective enforcment of minor little obsure "back of the book" laws against only or primarily minorities, IS racial profiling. I.e. a white woman lawyer would have only gotten a "warning" instead of two tickets). These are the same "law enforcement" whom, when I had to call them because my brother was beating me up for something my nephew did and said I did, by the time they got there they took HIS side instead of mine. Cops weren't the reason I went to law school, doctors were (but we're getting there!).

meteor10

the most annoying thing is when somebody is driving too slowly! that causes traffic jams)

choctawindian

If they write me up for anything and everything they can based on having pulled me over just for being in another state other than the one on the license plate of my car - then I can and will sue the crap out of them for anything and everything I can, starting with racial profiling. And being pulled over for "driving too slow" is discrimination against people with OLDER cars that waste gas if you try to go too fast. That's discrimination against, let's see now, anyone not RICH?!

Wiscoboy

Tannim... I need to explain something to you and please don't take it like I'm being cocky in anyway because I'm not. Listen i read thisur first comment and we all understand that different people like different stuff and some people aren't going to just do whatever this list says nor should they if they dont want to.. you're an individual and deserve to be who you want to be and this just isnt fair. I get it.. Not to state the obvious but this list of opinions from a half assed survey/questionnaire someone took was so that people who may be trying to fly under the radar and don't care what others think about how square they have to make themselves just to not have to be harassed/noticed by the police.. So they made a list in case people may or may not be curios .. They didn't say it was fair.. They didn't even say if it was all completely legal but regardless if you dont want to get pulled over and are willing to sacrifice your option of letting everyone know it's you when you're coming down the road then you should really apply yourself to suggestions like these.