Yesterday I was ridin the GS on the highway and a few cars cruising together kept messing with me and trying to get me to race and telling me to do wheelies (at highway speed....lol...ya right..).  I brushed them off for 5 or so miles, then it got annoying.  I dropped the 'ol GS into 3rd and flew around them quick as possible to put some space between us.  Soon as I did..... , ya that's right.... Got pulled over, obviously.  he got out of his car smiling, told me he got me at 85 MPH in a 55, asked for my paperwork.  Came back with my paperwork 2 minutes later, and told me to please slow it down a bit!!!!!!!     I didn't even have to explain my story!  He just let me go!!!   Best day ever!!!  I thanked him for being the most decent cop iv'e ever met, he just laughed and told me to have a good night....  To which I replied "you too!!!!!".  Absolute craziness.....  He had a hot blonde in the passenger seat for a ride-along.....I'm sure that had nothing to do with his good mood!!!!   Please no replies saying: you were going too fast blah blah blah.  I don't wanna hear it.  Just thought I'd share this story because for once a cop was cool!  Unreal!!!

Last week me and two other guys from England decided we would have a day out in France, in the morning we went to Sainte-Omer to visit the V2 German rocket site, on the way our glorious leader made a bit of a poobah on a junction. Two mins later we are pulled over by two Gendarmes - there are hundreds about bacause of threatened demonstrations a couple of days later - They had a chat, said be carefull and off we went all smiles and handshakes. It does happen sometimes and it's great when it does.
They could have knicked us with instant fines, official or unofficial.

Indeed. ive gotten lucky on many occasions. i gotta chill out. cause i fear the nexst oen i run into will be having a horribly bad day or suffering from lackanookie

wow, odd, i was thinking the same exact thing yesterday! i was heading back home and was cruising in the fast lane going ~70mph in a 55. then all of a sudden i see a motorcycle cop in the middle lane. i give him the nod, since after all, he still is a motorcyclist, and then he gets behind me and rides with me for a little while. then next thing i saw was him pulling over some SUV that apparently didn't see him.



thought it was gonna be me, but i guess he was enjoying the weather as well. 

cheers,
~drin

God was smiling on you that day for sure. Personally I have more fun just cruising and thinking about what great gas mileage I am getting! While everyone else is driving a car to work I am having fun to and from and saving money at the same time LOL!

you were going too fast, YOU WERE ALL GOING TOO FAST! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!

DRIVING=MURDER




lucky guys. one of these days my lack of velocity measurement is going to catch up with me... i hope i get this lucky too 

Quote from: Bridger on July 05, 2009, 09:55:40 PM
He had a hot blonde in the passenger seat for a ride-along.....I'm sure that had nothing to do with his good mood!!!! 8:

It was probably his lucky day too.

I mean writing you the ticket would mean, taking up your DL number, the licence plate, then putting in his speed, your speed ... man all these big numbers ... so time consuming ...
Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: The Buddha on July 06, 2009, 09:33:30 AM

Quote from: Bridger on July 05, 2009, 09:55:40 PM
He had a hot blonde in the passenger seat for a ride-along.....I'm sure that had nothing to do with his good mood!!!! 8:

It was probably his lucky day too.

I mean writing you the ticket would mean, taking up your DL number, the licence plate, then putting in his speed, your speed ... man all these big numbers ... so time consuming ...
Cool.
Buddha.

LOL 

I'm pretty sure he was gettin him some bj action when he was parked way off the highway under some trees.....I'm thinkin' he wanted to get back on the road and let her finish what she started...  :-----   Lol, oregon cops NEVER just let you get away with 30 MPH over the speed limit!!!  I have been pulled over at least 15 times, usually for really lame stuff and I have ALWAYS recieved a ticket.  I'm sure he saw me grab my front brake right before I got into the view of his radar gun and he didn't even give me a hard time for it.....IDK, maybe he rides and understood what I was doing with going around the idiots in their $1200 import pieces of crap.......

Not sure if you know but your bike is an import

Quote from: Bridger on July 05, 2009, 09:55:40 PM
... Please no replies saying: you were going too fast blah blah blah.  I don't wanna hear it...

Only 85!!! you were going way too slow!!!!!

But that's cool.  I think deep down inside most cops are decent people, and sometimes it gets hard being an @$$hole 24/7.

Count yourself lucky, my man!    Don't let the squids in roached-out Hondas with wheels worth more than the car rile you up!

Over the last 30 years I've been pulled over for speeding about a dozen times.  Despite the fact I'm always pleasant and polite with cops and I don't speed excessively, (every ticket was for 12-15 mph over the limit) I've been let-off only once.

Here in NY we have low speed limits in most areas.  As a result, most drivers speed routinely, so tickets can be written at will.  I'll probably take some flak for saying it but it's the truth.  This includes cops and prison guards I see every morning on their way to work when I'm on my way to work.  Many of them drive even faster than the rest of us, speeding by 20+ mph rather than 10-15.  Then they wonder why people don't respect the law.  I think we should set reasonable speed limits then enforce them.  Local governments will never do it.  They want the revenue stream.  I hope it's not like this where you live.

Being in the city makes it reasonably easier to go on with your life without being pulled over for stupid things since the cops actually have other things to do. When I was younger and grew up in the super suburbs, 99% of the cops job was traffic duty, so all you had to do was look at a motorcycle and you'd get pulled over. I used to come home the same exact way every night at midnight, and every single night cops would follow me the entire way 10 feet behind me. The speed limit was somewhere around 35-45, and I'd just go 25mph the entire way since it's a dark windy back road that I had once hit a deer on at 2:30am. So needless to say, they were just bored and looking for someone to harrass, and they knew it, so the nice friendly approach never did you any good because you were still some kid on a sportbike out at midnight.

Umm, I wasnt making fun of imports.  Just saying they were imports.....I have a 09 WRX turbo and a 2000 civic Si, so I know a thing or two bout imports....lol