SlammedA4

Dammitt all to hell anyway!!

Got pulled over tonight on 35W and 494W.

The damn Police OBVIOUSLY had nothing better to do then mess with me tonight. I was pulled over for ...now catch this...(mind you it was 1:20AM) Illegal window tinting.. What kind of crap is this??? Didn't mention no front plate or clear corners with superwhites...but my damn Platinum tint that was SUPPOSE to be legal anyway!

Tested it...turns out it is a little dark...32%...

He then politely asked if I had been drinking.. Obviously..It is Saturday night and it is bar close...Einstein he was not. Next thing I know..sobriety test. Had to keep my eyes on some damn flash light for five minutes as he waved it back and forth.. Meanwhile, my damn girlfriend is sitting in the car laughing at me... Don't you think it is more dangerous to be standing on the side of the freeway at bar close doing a sobriety test! than actaully enjoying a couple Newcastles with dinner??

Enough said, home safe with NO tickets...what a total *****. Perhaps I need a MADD sticker on my car...Geesh....


Had to vent.

Pelican Pete

Just be glad you didn't get a ticket!
I was at the Jersey Shore over the summer, with my Pelican Blue A4 with bike rack on the roof, and NEW YORK license plates. I was doing nothing wrong. My car has no visible mods.
And I was not drinking that night at all.
But the cop was a total *****, and he gave me a BS ticket for "failure to maintain lane."
(This was after he gave me the sobriety test, and realized that he could not cite me for drinking. He just HAD to give me a ticket for SOMETHING.)

Of course I took it to court and fought it, because it was completely made up. And he LIED on the stand. Fortunately the prosecutor was a human being, and he gave me the minimum penalty with no points. But even that is too much, considering I did nothing wrong.

Look at it this way... the cop was doing his job, keeping drunk drivers off the road and out of our way. And your girlfriend got a good laugh out of the situation. So it was a minor inconvenience.
At least he didn't give you a ticket.

-- Peter

britoki (Brian T)

35W and 494? Partying at Mall of America, huh?

britoki (Brian T)

hmm, maybe Joe Sensors too

SlammedA4

(try to AVOID the Mall of America!)

Be afraid!! Very afraid!!

HAHAHA!

SlammedA4

Thank God, is all I have to say.

britoki (Brian T)

Drink 2 Shark Tanks at the smiling moose ... No problems with cops then because you won't likely even find your car in the parking lot at that point.

SlammedA4

You live around here??

Gotta love the Smiling Moose! I actaully (hypothetically speaking) managed to heist 46 Beer taps from that place!! What am I going to do with them?? I HAVE NO FRIGGEN IDEA!!!!

RKA

No ticket for tint, not ticket for the clears.

I know it's an inconvenience, but look at it this way, he was trying to prevent some idiot from causing an accident. You weren't the idiot he was looking for. Something probably set him off when he first met you...your behavior, the way your eyes dialated, whatever. When he determined that you definitely weren't drunk, he let you go.

Personally, I would be more than happy to oblige 15 minutes of my time once a year if it meant they would get more clowns off the road.

EdP

They catch a lot more bad guys than they bother us fine folk this way.