right place, right time

[Richard Cranium]

Originally Posted by Bud

Sort of disappointed to hear this. Passing on the right, reckless driving, speeding. All issues aside, it really sounds like this guy deserved a ticket for at least something.

IMO, having a bad day doesn't excuse someone from driving safely.

Must have been a good family name.....

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by bohman

I don't know which is more BS - that it really was you that I saw, or that somebody only got a warning after that performance!

It was not me. My post was a lame attempt at humor.




So that part is more BS.

[bohman]

Originally Posted by Toxick

It was not me. My post was a lame attempt at humor.




So that part is more BS.

I assumed both were BS (I've seen you use humor, oh, once or twice ), but apparently the old saying about what happens when you assume applies to me.

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by bohman

I assumed both were BS (I've seen you use humor, oh, once or twice ), but apparently the old saying about what happens when you assume applies to me.

It's true... when you make an assumption you make an ass out of you and ...


...mption.

[bohman]

Originally Posted by Toxick

It's true... when you make an assumption you make an ass out of you and ...


...mption.

Just me this time!

[smcop]

Originally Posted by sockgirl77

I have issues every day. Did not stop me from getting a ticket the week before I moved down here. So, because someone had a bad day, they can flip the bird and speed past a cop?

It depends on your issues, and the cop that is pulling you over. Just like everything in life, not every cop acts like every other cop. Each are an individual, some are understanding, and some are not. Some may be understanding one day, and have a bad day the next.

[smcop]

Originally Posted by itsbob

As long as he has issues.. I mean, as long as he was in a bad mood, if he had caused an accident out there that caused the death of someone's child it would be ok, becasue yanno, he was in a bad mood and all and we should forgive him

Or was the issue.. "He was a cop"

No he wasn't a cop. He didn't cause an accident. I believe if he had, he would have been given the appropriate citations. Have we become so calous to the human struggle that we should forget people can make minor mistakes. Isn't a warning when someone has realized they made a mistake, apologized for that mistake, and that mistake has had no lasting effect on anyone, sufficient?

[smcop]

Originally Posted by Bud

Sort of disappointed to hear this. Passing on the right, reckless driving, speeding. All issues aside, it really sounds like this guy deserved a ticket for at least something.

IMO, having a bad day doesn't excuse someone from driving safely.

It depends on what your bad day was. If a significant other was dying, and you were trying to get to thier side, and you found you were too late, should we give you a ticket?

[Ponytail]

Originally Posted by smcop

It depends on your issues, and the cop that is pulling you over. Just like everything in life, not every cop acts like every other cop. Each are an individual, some are understanding, and some are not. Some may be understanding one day, and have a bad day the next.

My last ticket, the officer that pulled me over chose not to make my day any worse. He could have thrown my azz in jail, making it a VERY bad day. But let me off with a very light ticket in comparison. He was in his DNS pickem truck and I was on my go-fast bike, and I went fast with the front wheel JUST grazing the concrete...right passed him as he was tailing another vehicle doing about 50 in a 55. Just as I realized WHAT I was passing, the light in front of me turned red. And he pulled in behind me. He even told me that had that light been green, he wouldn't have even bothered to pull out of traffic to get me. No way he could have caught me. He had "no idea how fast I was going but that it was obvious that I was going WAY above the posted speed limit".

I won't do THAT again. *whew*

[SoMDMama82]

Respect doesn't work when your an out-of-stater speeding in Virginia!!

I should have been paying attention to the speed limit drop from 80mph (in TN) to like 65 once you go over the VA line. Especially since it was the weekend after Thanksgiving! I was just cruizing along trying to get home. The cop got me AND the truck with TX tags! Said we were both doing 19 over the speed limit. Considered it "reckless driving" That was a NASTY ticket to pay off Good place for a speed trap in VA!

I couldn't have been nicer to the man, but I guess it didn't help I had my fiance in the car with me, would have worked better if I was alone