Saturday Morning Pull Over......

The Great One

Last Saturday started as any normal Saturday does for me.....work early in the morning. So I am headed to the mall that I work at (Freehold Mall for those people familiar with Jersey) and as I am entering the parking lot in the mall, I see a cop sitting in one of the parking spots. I think to myself, "I wonder what he is doing just hanging out in the parking lot so early". Thinking nothing of it, I drive right passed him and head for a spot. As I am right about to pull into a spot, I see some movement out of the corner of my eye, look in the rear view mirror, and low and behold, I am getting pulled over.

I find a place to safely pull over and then I turn off my car, turn off the radio, and roll down the windows.

"Good morning sir"

"Good morning. I'm officer "so and so" with the Freehold Township Police Department. Can I see your license and registration please?"

So all is well and he seems like a pretty nice cop. Since I was 100% sure that I wasn't doing anything wrong, I ask:

"Can I ask why I am being pulled over?"

Then he comes back with a snotty ass attitude saying "You know why you are being pulled over"

Knowing that this was going to get really ugly, really fast, I decide to keep it cool and just say "Sorry sir, I really don't."

"You're driving a car with illegally tinted windows and no front plate"

Lovely. I hand him my license, registration, and insurance card as well as a couple of PBA cards and I kindly ask him to extend some courtesy.

"Who gave you these cards?"

"Well, my friends father is a detective and he gave them to me"

Now THIS is where he REALLY starts to be a dick.

"Do you think you're above the law because you have these cards?"

"No sir, I--"

He cuts me off, and is raising his voice, borderline yelling, saying "Well that is basically what you are saying by giving me these cards, aren't you? You think that because you have these cards you don't have to follow the laws that everyone else has to. Why don't you have a front plate on this car?"

"The last owner never gave me the bracket for the front plate"

"And why do you have illegally tinted windows?"

"I got them to keep the heat out of the car. They are the lightest possible tints that I could have gotten (35% all around with nothing on the windshield) and I even got the more expensive ones that reflect sunlight/heat"

Still screaming at me, as if I wasn't just a foot away from him, he says "I don't care how light they are, all tints are illegal. I can't have them on the front of my police cruiser so why do you feel that you are allowed to? You have a car with black windows and a black interior, you could be holding a black gun under your sweater just waiting to shoot me right when I come up to your window"

Now at this point, I really wanted to be like "Dude, can you bring it down a few decibels? I'm pretty sure even Helen Keller can hear you right now" but instead I just shut up and sat there while he kept going.

"You asked me to extend some courtesy and I'm trying pretty hard here, but you are giving me all of the wrong answers to my questions. I'll be right back".

He gives me back my PBA cards but walks to his car with my license and info.

He comes back to me and says "Now I am going to extend some courtesy and not give you any tickets right now, but I am giving you 10 days to show up at my headquarters with no tints and a front plate on this car or else I am going to mail you a citation for each. My badge number is 233 and I am there Monday through Friday for the day shift".

As he gives me back my license and info, just to entertain him and make him think I'm really going to show up at his headquarters, I ask him, "what's the address for the headquarters?"

Still with his attitude, he says to me "Google it" as he walks away.
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Now, my question is, can he really mail me tickets 10 days after the fact? I took it as some sort of scare tactic, but I am just curious. Either way, I'd just pay the tickets because it would be more expensive to get the tints redone if I took them off anyway. If anyone is sure about whether he can mail me tickets or not, I'd love to know. I'm still pretty annoyed that this clown made me almost 40 minutes late for my shift

dans69ss

Time to pull out the heat gun (tint removal) and scredriver (license plate install). When I first saw the thread, I thought it was going to be another confusing one night stand story involving a VA member typing into the wee-hours of the morning spilling his guts about free pussy, then crying and finally falling asleep, only to realize the next morning that his..never mind.

GTS_Steveo

Sounded like he was having a bad day from the start and decided to take it out on you. Here in SC, IIRC, legal tint is 27%. I have 20% on all my vehicles and have never had any issues ever.

That "Fix-It" ticket will probably turn into a fine if you don't show them proof of being legal.

TexRob

I Hate Cops who get on a Power Trip! I can't believe you can't Tint your Windows in Jersey,it's almost Mandatory here in Texas,we have to have lighter tint on the Front windows,but we are still allowed to tint them,Good Luck.

Rocman

Go rent a stock car just like yours and take it to him to write off.

You should have said "My uncle game me these cards just in case a dumb ass cop with a power trip pulls me over" and then see what happens. Try that next time, but make sure someone is tapes it and puts it on Youtube.

99 RT/10

Another cop on a power trip.

Denny Wagner

Play the game....then reverse it afterward!!

Rocman

Get yourself a bottle of "Morning breeze" or some sort of stick bomb in a bottle. Go speed down the highway and get pulled over and open the bottle. When the cop comes up to the window, let him get a whiff and tell him that you were speeding cause you really had to go. Let us know how it worked.

JGK95

First step. Tell him to tone it down. I've done that before and they've complied.

Second step. Call 911 and demand his sargent show up now, as in Right The F'k Now. That will definitely change his attitude towards you when his superior officer has to show up to a routine officer pull over where his suboordinate is acting like a dick and getting called on it.

Third step, I think this is a bullshit ticket setup of a HAVE not envious of a Have.

Cheers,

Jay K.

w8liftn

That's the gayest fucking statement I've ever heard.

And calling 911 to get his Sgt. to come because he's raising his voice at you? LMFAO!

1) Cop didn't make the laws
2) Using 911 for some bullshit like that because you think you are a 'have' is a misdemeanor criminal charge (also yet another law that the cop didn't make).

I learned at about 16 years old that if I didn't follow a law (speeding, tint, license plate, expired tags, etc) that I'm risking getting a ticket. And I'm a 'have not' and figured that shit out. I bet you that it really chaps your ass that 'have nots' like myself own Vipers. How fucking privileged I am!

gman8589

Oh hey! Look! Jersey cops on a power trip! That NEVER happens.

Some of the cops that have pulled me over have been really cool, so I guess in some respects I've been lucky. The couple that pulled me over that sucked though, genuinely SUCKED.

My A8's comin back w. 2% tint all the way around...this is gonna be fun.

b3rndtt0ast

how about this story...

i was picking my brother up from school on the last day, and i got pulled over.
cop asks for my lic and reg, so i give it to him, along with my military ID, and leave papers ( was on leave from the navy, stationed in Virginia, on leave in minnesota)he asks me to get out of the car, so i do. then he searched me, handcuffed me and put me in the back seat of his car. i was asking what i did wrong and his response was "you will find out when i tell you" at this point im pretty heated. once in the car, he tells me my lic is expired by 3 years and they are going to tow the car. (remember, active duty, and on leave...) The law in minnesota states that i DO NOT have to renew my license while stationed outside of minnesota. and i had that paperwork in the car (incase i got pulled over in Virginia and the such) they he gets rather vocal, and starts to talk down on me telling me im a deserter and im awol... i asked him to please call the ship (number was on leave papers) if he felt so inclined, then started to yell saying it was MY JOB to PROVE to him i was on leave... uh... thats leave papers... so, then he says he wants to search my car, I wasnt going to have that. I did nothing wrong so i told him no, He cannot search the car. upset him even more. so after sitting in the back of this car for over 45 minutes and getting yelled at and talked down to for most of it, he calls dispatch and finds out i was right on the laws. as he let me out of the car his words where "Dont let me catch you over here again. and you BETTER renew that license..." but yes. cops are good people

b3rndtt0ast

wrong person. sorry.

Sir Hiss RT

1. Congratulations on having a viper
2. Thank you mother hen for your words of wisdom.... douchebag

Now take that ugly bra off the front of your car

plumcrazy

TGO, i seriously dont think he can or would mail you any tickets in the mail AFTER the fact. fuck him. dont take it off.

unfortunately those are the times i get myself thrown in jail cause i cant let a POS cop talk to me that way......

boplaw

You should not have given him the PBA cards. I doubt he will remember to send you tickets if you don't show up at the station in compliance within 10 days. If he does remember it will be because you gave him the cards.

If he sends you the tickets (which is a new one on me), the only way to contest them is to show up for court. I would be in compliance if I showed up to court.

2MANYTOYS

Are you a cop?

Mark O

And if you ansswer yes to the above question, please clarify if you are a real cop, campus cop, or a mall cop.

JGK95