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Originally Posted by jsarno
Sorry, I don't believe your story that you were just minding your own business, maybe on the way to church with your suit on singing Holy, Holy, Holy, and a big bad cop showed up at your window with a gun pulled. Why not be honest with all of us and tell us EXACTLY what happened, with an emphasis on what you said and did to envoke him.
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You just run off with your assumptions, huh?
You want the whole story? Ok.
I was driving to work one night (I used to work at UPS in Chantilly-worked there for a little over 3 years). It was around 3:15am when I passed a cop who had someone pulled over in the far right lane right near...I wanna say it's Chantilly Plaza, but I could be wrong about the name. There's a gas station there & across the parking lot is a townhouse community...it's on route 50 just past Old Lee Rd, if I'm not mistaken.
Route 50 thru there is 3 lanes & no shoulder, so he had this car pulled over in the far right lane. I was in the middle lane with a car about 1 to 2 car lengths behind me. I was driving the speed limit (which is 45mph). Next to me, about 1/2 a car length ahead was a blue minivan & behind him, about 1 to 2 car lengths back, was another car.
We pass the cop & the person he had pulled going the speed limit. I look up in my rearview & I see his lights. This cop is swerving in between the cars behind me & next to me to get behind me. The blue minivan (which I remember with astounding clarity) thinks HE is being pulled over so he starts to get in front of me & over into the right lane. I realize that, for some reason, the cop is after me. The blue minivan hasn't figured that out yet & stops in front of me, nearly causing me to rear end him. Once he realizes that the cop wants me, he bolts.
Now, I am stopped on the side of the road. At this point, we are near where the IHOP & Lowe's(?) shopping Center where there is more room for me to pull over. This guy approaches my window with his gun drawn & screams, 'HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE 'EM!' So I put my hands on the steering wheel, now thinking that this is a case of mistaken ID or something. He never pulls me from my car, but he is seething the whole time. I actually expected to see foam forming around the corners of his lips.
Once he realizes that I am not going to give him any trouble, he puts his gun away. I never say more than "No, sir", "Yes, sir" to him as he explains that I did not "yield to an emergency vehicle." I didn't argue with him as I knew this would cause more problems & I really didn't want to see the gun again. He gave me a ticket & left. Now, maybe that doesn't seem like much to you, but try having that gun in your face when you ARE obeying the law, which I was...keep reading.
NOW, I get to court. If you've ever been to court, then you know that they call cases by the cops name. So they start rattling off his cases while I'm sitting there. At one point, the judge practically had his head in his hands BEFORE he calls me. The girl who was called before me he pulled over in a similar fashion because she had an expired county sticker on her windshield...right next to the valid one which she had just gotten at the gov't center. She explained to the judge that she did not have a razor blade on her to remove the old one, but thought she was ok with the valid one until she got home, which was when he pulled her over. The judge threw HER case out.
Then I get up there & explained the situation to the judge (after reading the LAW in the DMV book before going to court which states that you are supposed to yield to emergency vehicles WHEN REASONABLE) & how there were several vehicles around me & that I did not see it reasonable to sideswipe the car next to me or slam on my brakes & meet the guy behind me via car accident. Once the judge heard the WHOLE story, gun drawn & all (that prompted the "doh: from him), he looked at the cop & asked, "What was he supposed to do?" and threw the case out.
Like I said, you are assuming way too much & obviously think that everyone who gets abused deserves it. That is my most recent run in with a bad cop. I can only imagine had my situation started out like your friend, Brad with
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COP- Do you know why I pulled you over today?
BRAD- You had nothing else better to do?
COP- You were going 45 in a 35.
BRAD- Are you upset that I was going to get to the donut shop before you?
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I wouldn't be here to tell you about it.
You must really think I'm very stupid. Your assumptions are so ridiculous, they are actually kind of funny...not.
