a gentleman in a khaki uniform driving a black and white car with a gold badge on either door.

Gregory was driving a bit faster than normal on his route, and according to this gentleman I met, "You blew past me like I was parked, and I was doing 83 in the middle lane".

In a 55 zone, but he bumped it up to 65 zone, could have written 90+, wrote 80, double-fine zone, didn't write that down. He could have been like other officers who will keep you pulled over to simply make you later for whatever it was you were rushing to do, he had me pulled over for 5 minutes at most.

No lectures, no judgements, no mind games, just professional, courteous service - if that's what you can call it.

Am I guilty? Yup. Am I going to fight it? Nope. Simply take responsibility, pay the ticket, go to traffic school, and slow down.


There are good cops out there!!

 

Jesus

 

lucky lucky youuu!

 

Were you driving WAAAYYY too fast? Yes. Is the Sonoma County construction starting to get on everyone's nerves? ALSO, yes.

Glad you're owning up and also that the officer wasn't a *****. I generally believe in and support law enforcement, but I had a lousy experience with a CHP officer in Marin County last year who pulled me over in my white L wagon instead of pulling over the white honda accord wagon that blasted past me at 80+ in San Rafael.

 

wow misread that. So you were going a lot faster than 83, well **** happens.


Glad he was cool.

 

so if he was doing 83, how fast were u going? 95+?

 

I think he was trying to "shoot the gap" and completely missed the CHP cruiser in the middle lane. Of course it happens the day I let him borrow my car! He's relegated back to the "slow" Forester today.

 

This mindset to own up to what he did probably helped. Though not always the case, I'm convinced that so many of us are expecting the officer to be a ***** that we act in a way (combative, defensive, etc.) that causes them to be prickish.

Roo was probably calm, courteous, and respectful which the officer reciprocated.

 

Perhaps it's my late-night Netflix viewing habits that got me in trouble.

Watching Stringfellow Hawke push the "Turbo" button, and have that chopper accelerate to Mach 1 - just about describes the feeling. I was in the left lane, traffic to my right was doing about 60, and about 300 yds. ahead, there was a really nice clearing between crowds of cars - and my exit coming up in a mile. Pushed the "turbo button", shot back in the seat, got into the clearing, and just as I settled in to the middle lane and was clearing my mirrors to execute my lane change into the right lane, my left rear view lit up with massive red lights...

Yes, bassplayer, I did what I was taught to do when pulled over.

1. Park in a safe place
2. Turn off the car and roll down both front windows
3. Keep both hands VERY VISIBLE - and have your passenger do that as well
4. Don't mouth off
5. Communicate what actions you're taking to the officer BEFORE you take them - make them slow and deliberate
6. Don't make excuses, don't argue what the officer is saying - he's not the judge, he's simply doing his part of the job
7. Always close with a smile, thank them and wish them to have a SAFE day

Be courteous, make them comfortable, and hopefully they'll be nice to you.

 

Gotta watch out for those pandas out there.

 

I expected to see way more CHP last night going between SJ and SF via 101, only saw 1 and it was at 3am. Where's this 'Maximum Enforcement'? haha

 

ALSO, be sure to take your keys out and put them on the dashboard....

 

I get pulled over often and have had some great experiences with some really nice police officers, and I'm almost always pro-police as long as they aren't overstepping their bounds, but I was pulled over Saturday by a San Jose cop for an expired reg tag (car is registered, someone stole the sticker off my car!!! ). I was very polite, turned off the car, rolled down windows, put keys on the dash, and as he came up he treated me like I was some violent criminal... I was driving my wife's little cousin home and he demanded that she provide ID, accused me of being with a minor (in a sexual way!). She's 16 and has her drivers lic, so she had ID to give him... We both have clean records and haven't commited any kind of crimes, not even a strike on our driving records... He kept us there for a good 45mins and gave me a ticket for missing tags, and for impeding traffic (I was stuck behind a bus and couldn't go around without cutting off a bunch of cars in the fast lane)... I plan on fighting the ticket because I know for a fact that I wasn't doing ANYTHING wrong, I was barely even going under the speed limit. The cop was just being a TOTAL ***** and def one of the worst experiences Ive ever had with a cop. F'ing bastard, I hope he loses his job.


(Also searched my car to look for guns/weapons because he saw my "GLOCK" sticker on the back window. I thought this was TOTALLY uncalled for and since I just wanted to get out of there and had nothing to hide, I let him look in my trunk (which is empty). Even though he found nothing, he was still a royal *******

 

So a sticker was his reason for searching your car?

Sorry OP, this one deserves its own thread lol.

 

Yep, only thing he had on me was a missing reg sticker (even though my car WAS registered and I had the papers to prove it), and once he had me pulled over he tried accusing me of being with a minor and searched my car because of the Glock sticker on my back window. I have never had this kind of experience with a police officer in all my years of driving, and I have been pulled over A LOT... Even when I do break the law and the cop is pissed (like one time I was going 95 in a 65) I get treated with more respect than this officer.

I don't know his name (don't have the ticket with me at the moment), but it was a decently tall, medium framed black officer that looked to be in his early-mid 40's. I was tagged on Santa Clara and 1st street in San Jose as I was driving in the right-hand lane and was stuck behind a bus... The cop was in the lane next to me and cut over to go around a car that was trying to make a left and decided to pull me over. I could tell that he was angry from the getgo, so who knows what was going through his head.