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I went by a SD County Sheriff last Friday at exactly 10 over because no one in CA is pulled over for 10 over on an Interstate Highway by the CHP, which has traffic jurisdiction, whereas the Sheriff's do not as far as I know. There was a staggered arrangement of clustered cars in very light traffic as there was a left and middle lane camper causing the cluster, but they were spaced just enough apart momentarily. Slow moving Sheriff in right lane (3-lanes wide here).
I move to the left, as there's just enough room to safely pass everyone as a long uphill incline is about to start, and I don't want to get stuck behind the slow moving campers, so I maintain my 10 over speed and pass everyone safely before the incline slows everyone down further (perfect weather and traffic conditions making high speed perfectly safe). Had I slowed down, I would have been trapped behind.
Sheriff pulls me over says I was going 10 over and missing my front license plate. I tell him the CHP already got me for that, and I'm well within my time limits for handling it. He asks if I have a copy of the ticket, and I do not have it in the vehicle, it's at home in my "TO DO Pile."
He issues me a ticket for the license plate missing up front, and says unfortunately he's been lied to before, so he has to issue the ticket for the same offense I've already been cited for.
He then states he's on narcotics duty. He requests permission to look in the trunk. At first I was going to deny, especially since I was going on vacation to AZ (nice roads) so my trunk was full of stuff and I was worried that the 20 minutes that were already wasted would be increased. Also, I don't believe either of his stated excuses for pulling me over and wasting our time was probable cause for drugs. I asked if it would be quick, and he said it would only take a couple seconds, and I said OK against my better judgment since at least he was polite (other than writing a ticket), and opened the trunk. Within 2 seconds he shuts the trunk, keeps his word, and says I can leave.
So now I have to send the Sheriff's proof of my old ticket demanding dismissal of the duplicate charges, or I suppose I'll threaten to have to fight them both in court for double jeopardy. No way I'll voluntarily pay the administrative fine twice for a fix-it ticket for the exact same thing. With my luck I'll find a judge that thinks you can be ticketed every time you start the car without a front license plate, but you should have a reasonable time frame to correct the situation.
What a waste, 10 over! WASTE, front license plate, WASTE, drug war, WASTE! 20 Minutes and counting..... depending on administrative/court fight they are willing to be in for......hopefully a letter with copies suffices.
I'm getting tired of having my time wasted by law enforcement; especially when he doesn't even have traffic duty jurisdiction!!!!
let's crowdfund a project to buy you a front license plate bracket and a DRILL!. we will call it the front license plate challenge and you will install the plate while dumping ice water on your head, and contributing $100 to your favorite charity.
btw, by consenting to the 'quick trunk look', probably by definition you also consented to search/opening everything/anything in the car. and thank you for re-verifying that sheriff/deputies have traffic jurisdiction anywhere in their county! happy/safe/detention-free travels...
Hopefully they can rebuild. so many lives affected!
For as bad as you say it is, up in your neck of the woods, when are you going to capture something like this?
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/road-rage-camaro-hole-wrecks-himself-big-rig-152600490.html
Allegedly, the owner of the dash camera got the unit a couple of days before.
copied from Entry Level Performance Sedans, March 2014 Where do I even start?
You go over the limit and get a ticket then you complain.
You take your front plate off, get a ticket, get another ticket, complain.
Reading back in this forum, you seem to spend a lot of time fighting tickets. You're always the victim. The bad cops have nothing better to do than to pick on you. You weren't even doing anything wrong. Their equipment wasn't working. The laws are illegal.
I think it's time to man up and take responsibility for your actions. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!
I got it to capture oblivious idiots, to be a safeguard in case of an incident where the investigators get it wrong, to capture scenic drives and cool car sightings. But what I mostly capture are the slow and timid, which are the majority here. Want to see the woman in a Lexus RX going 5 under with a two handed deathgrip on the wheel? Or the constant presence of non-signalers and phone holders that the professionals refuse to enforce? Not very exciting.
"Nah, people here are passive-aggressive rather than plain aggressive. I can't imagine many here passing on the shoulder. The pacing the vehicle beside you thing happens, though, probably subconsciously. "...
So, you capture the slow and timid? How? By going slower and behind them ? That, defacto makes YOU part of the problem !
You are going going to capture ladies in RX's going 5 under? (which is PERFECTLY legal by the way) and capture a two fisted death grip???? Good luck with that !!!
Maybe you need to reread to remember what YOU post/ed.
2 cars overtake in left/middle lanes, apparently racing and/or roadraging , approaching at 90 or 100, then tailgating me and the middle-lane-people. no room for me to merge right, and i sure didn't want to race, so i began signalling right. i signalled for multiple seconds to move right, to allow the very-fast left-lane driver/racer to pass me.
To prevent my merge, middle-lane-racer-guy tailgates car in middle lane insanely and refuses to let me merge into middle even after my looong signalling right, apparently because that would let the left-lane-racer get ahead. it was very insane - he drove next to me to block me out - we were both tailgating - traffic was packed, on a tight highway turn, 4 lanes merging to 3! I was trying to get the heck out of the way of the crazies, all the other drivers could see that. So all other traffic backed off at that point, even the less-crazy of the racer/ragers. and i returned to left lane, accelerated around 2 cars in front of the crazier/middle-lane-racer, and I merged to middle lane, then to right lane, and let the crazy driver pass. license plate 170 8108, NH plate, black vw passat or jetta. male driver. after he passed i watched him tailgate other drivers insanely close in left lane. i was *this close* to calling the state cops and reporting him, but didn't.
I'm sitting at a light waiting to make a left turn when the green arrow comes on. I happen to notice
that the car in the lane to the right of me has it's left blinker on. Of course they aren't in a left turn lane!
So I get the arrow and, sure enough the other car takes off with no lane to turn into! I lean on the horn
and back off quickly so the other car can squeeze in. Naturally, the car behind me has to break hard to avoid
rear ending me! WHERE ARE THE COPS WHEN WE NEED ONE??
Had a couple cars blindly pull in front of me today, I guess the shiny silver car with LED DRLs is hard to see. The fintail gets it even more. I guess they are both hard to see if you really don't look.
Now I need to go back to the body shop and remind them my old front bumper had 4-pre-drilled holes centered and correctly located on the vehicle. I don't want to have to "survey" because I'm picky and might notice if I'm 1 or 2 mm off the middle.
I'm just glad I'm not black so I don't get shot in the back, get put in a choke hold, or have my back/neck broken.
A white BMW in Bellevue? Surely you jest, not possible
For instance, before the light, when I'd go up there to make a right turn, I could usually find enough of a break in the traffic to just go and safely merge in. It was very rare that I'd have to sit and wait more than a minute. But now, with the light, if you get there just as it changes green to let the main road go, traffic is often so backed up that you don't get a break anymore, and usually have to wait for the light to change. So, instead of waiting a minute at the most, now you might have to wait 2 or 3.
Well, today was one of those instances where I got to the light just as it turned green to let the main road traffic go. And there was a LOT of it. So, I had to wait. I had the radio on, and the passenger side window rolled up, and I was looking mainly to the left, concentrating on waiting for a break in the traffic so I could go, but I thought I kept hearing someone yelling off in the distance. Then, just as a break is coming up, I happened to look over to the right, and saw this annoyed-looking little man by my passenger window (could barely see him, since the truck sits up) hollering at me. I couldn't make out what he was saying, but he was pointing around and it sounded like he said "Pull over!!" Which doesn't make sense, because I was stopped, and in a right turn lane.
My first thought was that maybe he had been behind me and had seen something wrong with the truck, but then remembered there had been no traffic behind me from when I left the house to when I stopped at the light...at least, nobody close enough to see anything obviously wrong with the truck. And, nobody would have been able to get to the right side to see anything. I also did a quick glance behind me, and there were maybe three cars back there.
Anyway, when that break in the traffic came, I took off, but kept an eye in the rearview mirror to see if some aggressive driver with a chip on his shoulder came up behind me, but none of the other cars were able to pull out after me, because of the traffic.
About a mile up the road, I got stopped by another traffic light. I was in the right lane. I did see a gray Jetta drive past and go into the left turn lane. There were two people in it, and the driver looked like it might have been the same guy. However, when the guy was yelling at me, outside my window, I only caught a quick glance out of the corner of my eye. And, as that Jetta drove past, the driver didn't seem agitated or annoyed or anything...usually when people are annoyed at you, they'll give you a dirty look if they catch back up to you. However, he did go off the pavement a bit to go into that left turn lane, to get around the car in the through-lane in front of him, so I guess that shows a bit of impatience.
So, I have no idea what this guy's story was? I'm guessing he had been in one of the cars behind me back at the traffic light on my home street, and got impatient because I was taking too long to go. There is a merge lane at that light, to get out onto the main road, but it's not all that long, is fairly narrow, and there's a big hole just off the pavement right in the corner, so it's easy to get the rear wheel of a long-wheelbase vehicle into it. I've seen drivers just blindly pull out into the lane when there's too much traffic, just creep up to the end of it, and then stop. And then they can't merge until there's a really long break in the traffic.
Somehow, I have a feeling I'm going to run into this guy again, since I usually go to work at the same time every morning, give or take a few minutes. And most of the traffic on our street is people using it as a shortcut.
But I wonder....what if the Camaro driver repeatedly rammed the little truck in front of him? Does an assaulted driver have a right to defend himself?
Did you check your truck when you arrived at work just to make sure there wasn't something amiss (e.g., low tire, etc.) that this person was trying to point out? It may be as you suspect, but perhaps the person was actually trying to be helpful.... Hey, one can hope, anyway.
Did you miss how the pickup was left lane camping to begin with, in violation of the great California (I know this wasn't CA, but just saying:
VC 21654. (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any
vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal
speed of traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall be
driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable
to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing
another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing
for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or
driveway.
Had the pickup not been camping in the left with faster traffic behind him, the Camaro would not have had to pass on the right. Did you also miss how the pickup sped up abruptly to prevent the pass on the right rather than slow down and allow it?
I for one, am happy one LLC was taught a lesson here, and will perhaps think twice the next time this happens.
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I'd create a new agency that actually serves and protects by enforcing laws that matter, laws that actually impact safety, laws that when disobeyed, lead to accidents.
But seriously, the world wouldn't become chaotic because you stop overpaying a few police department payrolls and pensions.
Do you think all traffic goes 120+ on the Autobahn? The only people that go over 120 are the ones that can safely and responsibly do so. That is why their safety records trounce ours (in addition to better enforcement of laws that aren't designed to maximize revenue as their sole purpose).
I drove out to the coast yesterday. Easy drive with no real bad ones out there, but more than a few LLCs. I undertook a few times.
Mercedes 550 blows through red light. I jam on brakes, lean on horn. Truck does the same thing. Pedestrian in crosswalk jumps out of the way.
Mercedes driver gives us all the 3rd digit.
Nice. Real nice.