Today by the good old Florida Highway Patrol! This trooper states he cloked (radar) me at 86mph in a 55 and then he stated that he paced me at 96...funny thing is I was only doing 64 in a group of 4 other cars! MY SPOILER WASN'T EVEN UP!!! I seen him pull out and automatically began to slow down...so there is no way he could have paced me!!! What crap. And to top it off he seen my badge when he asked me for my license and still wrote me 96 in a 55...thank god he didn't arrest me for wreckless driving and impound my car! Courts here I come! I'm fighting this one!

 

Yikes and good luck.

 

Sorry to hear that Viper.

 

I sympathize with your problem having been similarly treated as I am sure many have, for some reason police officers sometimes lose sight of reason when dealing with the public. I once nearly got into deep s##t when I said thank you when a officer gave me a ticket. I always say thank you when some one hands me something, it used to be called being polite. Please learn something from this.

 

Viper,

I feel for you. The one's that hurt worse are the ones when they get you for not speeding. For other stupid things you know a dozen cars did right before you did. I hope things turn out well


OneHundred,
Trouble for a 'thank you'? I mean I was always taught common courtesy as it seems you were. I always say thank you, its just polite, like you said. That is crazy. I would love to have that conversation on video:

-"Here is your ticket, you need to slow down"
-"Thank you, sir"
-"What did you just say to me?"
-"Thank you, sir"
-"Are you getting smart with me, there is no need for you to let your smartass mouth run like that. I'm just doing my job. I oughta take you in for pissing me off."
-"Thank you, sir"
-"There you go again letting your mouth go. You'd better zip it up before i zip your face across this pavement"
-"..."
-"What nothing to say?"
"...have a nice day? Bye."

 

ZAHANMA
That's basically how it went, I could not win so I shut up. I was in my thirties at the time, twenty years earlier I would have ended up giving him some lip and it would have rapidly gone down hill from there.
I got a written warning two years ago for going through a stop sign, the road was a sheet of ice. The officer was going to give me ticket until he realized that the road was slippery when I showed him others were having the same problem.
I did not like his attitude so I went to his HQ's and complained, I told them he was not ever going to make detective, the desk sergeant asked why, I said the officer lacked observational skills having missed the icy conditions, I left them laughing among themselves and I had got it off my chest.

 

100/100!!! Great one!

 

best reply ive heard to an officer when he asked why the guy was speeding:

"because I'm in a Porsche..........."