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allreadyused
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I'm in shock...
#7519451 - 10/15/07 01:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was pulled over the other night in town for a brake light being out. Not speeding, not swerving, etc; a brake light. The cop even told me that was the only reason I got pulled over. Here's where it gets interesting... I was fucking wasted. Still in control of myself but definitely drunk. Cop asks "Have you been drinking?" Being obviously drunk I had I said "I had a 6 pack." He said "I could tell, I can smell it pretty strongly." What he was smelling was the whiskey I was drinking straight from the bottle and the 8 beers. By this point I know I'm fucked. I have a CDL license meaning I get a DUI at a .04 instead of the normal .08 plus a mandatory 1 year suspension of my license; regardless of weather I'm driving a CMV at the time or not. The cop takes my license and registration and all that other bullshit and asks me to step out of the car. I'm mentally preparing myself to spend the night in jail at this point. He pulls out the portable breath thing and tells me if I blow below a .08 I can go. I blew a .17... Here's why I'm still in shock. I was able to bullshit my way out of it. Don't ask me how, I'm not even sure I know how I did it. I think what helped is I was pulled over 2 blocks from where I live. You could see my house from where I pulled off. Also I was extremely polite and apologetic. He let me park the car where it was pulled over and walk home. No ticket, now written warning, no summons. He did however tell in no direct manner I'm now a marked target and if I ever get pulled over again I'm getting fucked with whatever they can fuck me for. My guess is a brake light being out is kind of a bullshit reason to get pulled over for by itself. So if I got a decent lawyer he may have been able to argue that since I wasn't speeding or swerving I shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place. That combined with being apologetic and being so close to home may have done it. Either that or the cop was in an extremely good mood that night. I dodged a bullet and have definitely learned my lesson about driving drunk. I drive drunk all the time and have been doing so for years. Well not anymore. I'm still drinking but there's no way I'll be driving. So if you choose to drive drunk aside from trying not to swerve or speed check those fucking lights. The cop said to me about the brake light "it's just something stupid we use to pull people over for."
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Dave Bowman
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Man.... you just got lucky. The cards were in your favor. I've had a similar "impossible-to-get-out-of" situation that I ended up getting out of.
Then sometimes... you get caught.
But wow man, that's pretty awesome.
After something like that happened to me, I too, never drink and drive anymore.
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allreadyused
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I had a friend who got pulled over a few years ago at 2 pm after just drinking a fifth of whiskey. He was able to bullshit his way out too. He told me the cop asked him if he was drinking and he said yes. The cop asked him how much and he replied "I don't know what you want me to tell you officer." Seeing as how it was 2 pm and he had just finished a bottle. Telling a cop you just finished a fifth at 2 in the afternoon it likely going to cause him to reconsider letting you off.
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fastfred
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allreadyused said: My guess is a brake light being out is kind of a bullshit reason to get pulled over for by itself. So if I got a decent lawyer he may have been able to argue that since I wasn't speeding or swerving I shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
No, an out brake light is a perfectly legit, ticketable offense. 100% legal stop.
Another thing I would point out is that telling a cop that you drank a 6 pack was pretty stupid. That amount of alcohol would put you over the limit and they could probably have convicted you on that admission alone without even a breathalyser.
My best guess is that the cop felt sorry for your stupidity in immediately confessing to being drunk.
Then again it used to be the case that cops would routinely escort people home or let them walk as long as you were nice or they knew you. Maybe that cop was from that bygone era. How old was he?
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: fastfred]
#7520197 - 10/15/07 04:36 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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hahahhahaha man, theres certain times where you WILL get lucky...
i was with my roommate 1 time when we got pulled over by cops about half hour after we had finished shooting up K and ice in random places. i was so fucked up i couldnt even talk, i was fucking drooling in the passengers seat... in the meantime, he was spun off his ass, completely twacked out of his mind yapping away his entire life story to the PO's, he sounded fairly intelligent/coherent though, so they let us go. i think its cause they didnt have a legit reason to pull us over to begin with, he kept asking why he was pulled over and all they could say was "something just doesnt seem right." LOL
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: fastfred]
#7520406 - 10/15/07 05:53 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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> My best guess is that the cop felt sorry for your stupidity
Much more likely the cop had already met his ticket quota for the month and didn't want the extra work involved when you were within sight of your house.
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: Seuss]
#7520971 - 10/15/07 08:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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this happend to me twice. i considered it 2 strikes. i havent set myself up for a third. Learn from this blessing my friend, imagin how much sex you would miss out on without a car and all that money the insurance company will take.
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: rodfarva]
#7522673 - 10/16/07 11:11 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, I've been pretty lucky when it comes to being pulled over.
One time, I had just bought 20 sack, had smoked 3 joints in my car about 2 hours prier, and it still reeked.
He pulled me over cause I didn't use my turn signal, but I know I did, he was just checking to see if I was drunk since it was near a college campus. I figured I was fucked, because of the smell. He asked if I had been drinking or if I had any drugs in the car. I simply replied "No officer" and he let me off with a warning.
I was for sure I was fucked.
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Since were sharing...
I was driving with a few friends to buy some shrooms. We smoked bowl after bowl on the way there. We were almost to the hotel when I decided to pull over and put some visine in my eyes. I get back on the road and as soon as I go around the corner theres a roadblock. The cops are just checking licenses' and letting the cars go through. My turn finally comes and they dont ask for my license but instead ask me to pull off to the side. I was pretty wasted at that point and couldnt follow the cops orders. I ended up parking my car sideways in the middle of a street. They start yelling at me to move my car. The cop ask me to get out and Im physically trembling at this point and can barely walk straight. He takes out a little flashlight and waves it around in my face. Tells me to follow the light. Thank God I used that visine! He says my eyes look unusually dilated. I told him I take medicine for epilepsy, which is true, and start firing off big fancy medical terms. He then surprisingly thanks me for being patient and lets me go. I think he felt sorry for me or something...People always seem to get a little weird when I tell them I have epilepsy.
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Sometimes your guys luck really depends on how over filled the jails are. That and the cops are humans too and know that giving someone a very close call can often times scare someone into changing their habbits for good instead of wasting tax payers money (they are tax payers too).
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I dodged a bullet and have definitely learned my lesson about driving drunk. I drive drunk all the time and have been doing so for years. Well not anymore. I'm still drinking but there's no way I'll be driving. So if you choose to drive drunk aside from trying not to swerve or speed check those fucking lights.
thats a perfect example of what im talking about.
A few months back, after my friend and i got out of our classes at the local college we stayed there until about 2 in the morning working on homework. Half way across campus my friend lost his wallet in the grass. we went and got in his mustang, and as leaving he burned his tires in the parking lot. a couple hundred yards away was a couple cop cars. They pulled us over for the following : exhibition of acceleration, blue lights (neon lights all over his car which he no longer has) and his headlights were off. He freaked out when he found out he didnt have his drivers license with him so they thought we were on drugs. They called for backup and got 11 more cops there. Made us get out of the car, searched us, did three different drug test things on us like moving the flashlight around and such. My friend was just fine. Now me i had red eyes (i havnt smoked pot for about 2 years prier to that. I just had a migraine from doing homework all day) So they ended up doing the drug tests on me a second time just to show the other cops what it looks like when someone fails all three.. They asked if they could search the car and they found nothing, i offered to have them get a drug dog over there to do a real search and said id be more than willing to take a real drug test cause there shitty tests are worthless (i was being cocky cause i had nothing better to do for the rest of the night.) In the end, from burning rubber with our headlights off with blue lights on the car and not having a drivers license on him, all we got were 2, 10 dollar seat belt tickets. My friend hasnt burned rubber since then, he disabled his blue lights, and has a duplicate drivers license he always keeps in his car.
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college town, tail light was out. pulled over. MIP for me and driver and duii for driver. who checks all their lights before pulling out the driveway??? shit happens
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: casgoodie]
#7526761 - 10/17/07 06:38 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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casgoodie said: who checks all their lights before pulling out the driveway??? shit happens
when doing something wrong, a smart person.
OP: i really hope you have learned your lesson and don't drink and drive any more. It's a stupid risk for so many reasons. If you are driving drunk and get into an accident and someone gets hurt.. you're the one they are going to try and fuck, no matter whose fault it really is. Any little infraction turns into a huge headache (sounds like even more so for you). I
I personally don't think the cop should have let you go... but, hope you walk away from it a changed man.
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: casgoodie]
#7526776 - 10/17/07 06:46 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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> who checks all their lights before pulling out the driveway???
I do, about once a month.
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: Seuss]
#7527493 - 10/17/07 12:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seuss said: > who checks all their lights before pulling out the driveway???
I do, about once a month.
I do too. I also carry a spare or two in the glove box. And occasionally I just go around and replace every light bulb in the car. That way they don't burn out on me. Light bulbs are cheap insurance against getting stopped. Far cheaper than real insurance.
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yeah, I used to run weight around town. damn skippy my shit was tip-top!
Once, a cop pulled me over while I didn't have anything in the car. He told me that my car's registration didn't match the license plate number, simply because the previous owner of the vehicle had not put the new plates on. He then told me that I needed to go to the DMV and pay $10 for some new license plates. Minor technical issue, but important nonetheless.
I sincerely thanked him for pointing this out to me, because if he had pulled me over at a less opportune moment, I could have been in serious fucking shit.
Never give the cops a reason to pull you over when you are holding or under the influence. That means stickers, tags, lights, everything perfect. Then they'll only have cause to pull you over if you're driving like a dumbass.
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Re: I'm in shock... [Re: fastfred]
#7531397 - 10/18/07 02:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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fastfred said:
No, an out brake light is a perfectly legit, ticketable offense. 100% legal stop.
Another thing I would point out is that telling a cop that you drank a 6 pack was pretty stupid. That amount of alcohol would put you over the limit and they could probably have convicted you on that admission alone without even a breathalyser.
My best guess is that the cop felt sorry for your stupidity in immediately confessing to being drunk.
Then again it used to be the case that cops would routinely escort people home or let them walk as long as you were nice or they knew you. Maybe that cop was from that bygone era. How old was he?
-FF
It was pretty obvious I was drunk he didn't have to ask to realize that. The cop looked like he wasn't even old enough to drink himself. As far as feeling sorry for my stupidity... I'm not complaining. Oh as it turns out the bulb wasn't the problem. I replaced it the next day but it's still out. I took it to the mechanic.
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