why were you speeding?

[nastysven]

dont worry about him, I am:D

[yohoes]

I've said "being a dickhead", and "showing off to my mates"..

Considering I was caught (and potentially fucked!) either way both times, I figured no point wasting either my time or theirs..

Funnily enough got off both times

[No_idea]

I got pulled over on the M2 on my bike for some seriously awesome lane splitting. I was a dead duck big time so i figured my best chance was to try and give him a laugh in the hope he'll let me off.

Officer: Why were you lane splitting?

Me: Hypothetically speaking lets say it was a safety manoeuvre. The cars in front slammed on their brakes and in an emergency situation i had no option but to perform a safety manoeuvre and go up between the vehicles. So whilst it appears i was splitting, i was actually being safe and avoided an accident.

Officer: 'are you saying that's what happened here?'

Me: Hypothetically speaking.....

Officer: Ok. I've been following you since you rode down the on ramp about 3km back.....long stare.....

Me: Ah......

Booked. 3 points.

[Hansel]

I had just finished chucking new discs and pads on the front at about 10pm and drove around the block just to check everything was all good.

Pull up to a T intersection just as a divvy drives past while im stopped at the stop sign. Divvy pulls straight over so i pull up in front of them and pull over before they hit the lights.

Bitch gets out, feels inside the rear quarters and walks up and says i've been doing burnouts. I explain the test drive and adamantly deny that i've done skids. I hadn't. Bloke walks up, feels the tyres, listens to my story, can see spanking new discs on the front while his bitch partner is still going off.

The look he gave me was classic. It was a cross between sorry mate and i have to do a shift with this PMS'ing cunt. Like a broken down husband. Poor cunt.

I laughed as he told her to get back in the car then said "Thanks mate" and he just smiled at me.

99% of cops are cool but a bitch aint one.

[theblacktexta]

To the best of my knowledge, I do not recall any of the incidents being refered to by council, your Honour

I've got a funny story of me messing with a solicitor in court, if you're interested

Of course.

[yeldat71]

Got pinged yrs ago outside of Port Macquarie on the way back to Brisbane. I worked for a hire car company was driving a brad new VY commodore ( only had 300k's on it when we started the trip )

It was just before the bypass lane finished and went to a single lane each way for age's. I saw an old bus in the left lane and didnt want to get stuck behind it so tried to pass before the lanes changed. Didnt see the office at the bottom of the hill, got pulled over for doing 140km.h in 100 zone.

Cop: Any reason you were going so fast?
Me: Its a brand new car officer and I couldnt turn the cruise control off, the car started to accelerate. I had to stand on the brake to slow the thing down and thats when i saw you.
Cop: I have the same car ( VX SS HWP car ) .............. ( goes into rant about how his car does this that and the other with its cruise control )
Me: Its a hire car and brand new so I have no idea about it. So i ask, " If i get a letter from the hire car company that the car has a fault can I get the fine reduced?
Cop: You can give it a try but don't like your chances.

I get back to work and speak to one of the mechanic's who are Holden Certified. He writes me a letter stating that there was a fault the cruise control unit and send that to the RTA. Didnt hear anything for 12 months and got a letter of demand asking for payment, reply back about letter and got a nice letter in the mail appologising and the fine plus points waived.

[Dark Orange]

Last time I got a ticket it was in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in the Pilbara. Unmarked hiway patrol had been raising revenue all day apparently, got me for 120 in a 110 zone. No "do you have a valid reason for speeding, sir?", just a "You were speeding, here's your ticket, blow into this Sir, have a nice day" and on their way.

Seriously... 120 in a 110 zone in the Pilbara!

[Cal]

Kind of on this subject, what are the cops going to do when these just become as app for your iphone? http://showroom.windingroad.com/list...content=Show+7

PS fuck you Luke, only you could get away with that shit.

[tremolo]

IMO it's about 1% how you conduct yourself & 99% how damaged the cop is in the head. If you get a prick, you're getting a ticket regardless.

I was driving home through Mt Cotton (rural area) at about 3am after dropping my missus at home years before we got married. Car comes around the corner with high beams blazing, so I give the car a quick flash of mine to let him know they were still on...and as he passes I realise it was a marked cop car. I think "haha woops", and then he slams the brakes on in the middle of a blind, 80km/h sweeping bend, does a u bolt & comes flying up behind me.

Realising I've just waved a red rag at Junior Constable "I got my lunch money stolen every day at school for 12 years" I set the cruise at 79km/h and just waited for him to pull me over or fuck off. After a few km of him seriously riding my arse (so close I couldn't see his headlights anymore) he pulls me over. Sure enough, 22yr old officer douchebag sidles up next to the car puffing his 5'7" frame up as much as possible, peppering me with questions about what I'm doing out so late, what trouble I've been in before, all this sort of bullshit. I'm sober as a judge, dressed nice (had been out for dinner), and in a respectable car (my Alfa) & polite, but he decides to give me a 5 minute lecture on how dangerous my actions (flashing my lights at him) were, without once realising the irony in the situation. He then took my license back to the car & jerked himself off for 15 minutes while I sat on the side of the road. I didn't get a ticket in that instance, but I guess my point is it has little to do with how you act & more to do with how the cop decides to act.

[MickyD]

I've told the story a million times, but the day after I got my MINI I was overtaking someone down a hill at about 150-160 (in a 90, out in the back roads on the Mornington Peninsula - right here actually: http://maps.google.com.au/?ll=-38.34...17.87,,0,17.27 ) and halfway through the pass saw a HWP coming towards me with the roof mounted radar so I just put on my indicator and pulled over before he'd even put the lights on. Passed the attitude test, and he put me down for 99. He was also an older guy, I suspect if he'd been a younger cop I would have been screwed.

They day after we got the MX5 I got done at 80 in a 60, and I was dead certain it was still an 80 zone there (I drive the road regularly). Turns out they'd put a new (very small) 60 sign up literally the day before. I swear the concrete at the bottom of the pole was still wet. I think he put me down for <10 over.

Also got out of a 115ish in an 80 (Mountain Highway bayswater, should have known better) in about 1997, it was literally the day before I started my first full time job out of uni, and I just gave them a sob story about needing the license for my new job.

Haven't had any fines since December 2007 (touch wood), though I did have an unmarked Calais wagon flash the red/blue and waggle his finger at me on Eastlink a few months ago.

[exwrxex]

My personal highlight was going down to the local cop shop to report a divvy van driving in a dangerous manner. I am sure I am now a marked man.

[Dark Orange]

Kind of on this subject, what are the cops going to do when these just become as app for your iphone? http://showroom.windingroad.com/list...content=Show+7

Book you for having a radar detector?

[BeverlyHillsCop]

Everytime i've been pulled over for speeding, i've explained that my foot was resting on the accelerator pedal and i did not know because im disabled and in a wheelchair.... (while showing the wheelchair on the passenger seat and hand controls etc) works 100% of the time... everytime!

[rowdytoot]

Everytime i've been pulled over for speeding, i've explained that my foot was resting on the accelerator pedal and i did not know because im disabled and in a wheelchair.... (while showing the wheelchair on the passenger seat and hand controls etc) works 100% of the time... everytime!

time to go looking on ebay for wheel chairs and to rig up dodgy hand controls...

after my TL/DR post last night I was thinking about the last time I got pulled over for anything and realised it was over 10 years ago..

[Rona]

I go through phases, a couple years back I got RBT'd probably 10 times within 3 weeks including twice within 10 minutes on an otherwise ordinary weekend during the middle of the day and I was driving a stock LS400 at the time. Before that I probably hadn't been pulled over for 6 months.