Followed for no reason. Complained. Following evening pulled over.

[svtcop]

Kinda disappointed this one hasn't been moved yet.

OP is treading lightly. Not nearly the head of steam he entered with.

Still waiting for his response to the repo comment. He ducked out of that thread as well. :nonono:

 

[silver03svt]

OP is treading lightly. Not nearly the head of steam he entered with.

Still waiting for his response to the repo comment. He ducked out of that thread as well. :nonono:

He skeered.

 

[Kiohtee]

OP is treading lightly. Not nearly the head of steam he entered with.

Still waiting for his response to the repo comment. He ducked out of that thread as well. :nonono:

He's gonna sue you for harassment for following him like that.

 

[svtcop]

He's gonna sue you for harassment for following him like that.

:lol: I thought the same thing.

 

[skratpiece]

Wow. I never knew we had such complete idiots just waiting to offer up their useless opinion in the Donut Shop. I don't care if you agree whether I was right or wrong in my post, I came here looking for opinions, but when you begin to misconstrue facts and twist details on your way to your conclusion, then you're opinion is not based on evidence. You're wrong. I'll make sure I come here from now on if I need a reminder of how not to act, and to think these are the same people that we run into at events, share experiences with, do business and make dealings with here on this site.

 

[RDJ]

You asked for opinions and you got opinions and now you are crying because we dont agree with yours. Well too bad. Our opinions are based on what YOU wrote from what I see the if any facts were misconstrued it is on you for posting conflicting pieces of your story. I would be more interested in the details you left out.

Wow. I never knew we had such complete idiots just waiting to offer up their useless opinion in the Donut Shop. I don't care if you agree whether I was right or wrong in my post, I came here looking for opinions, but when you begin to misconstrue facts and twist details on your way to your conclusion, then you're opinion is not based on evidence. You're wrong. I'll make sure I come here from now on if I need a reminder of how not to act, and to think these are the same people that we run into at events, share experiences with, do business and make dealings with here on this site.

 

[Blueline]

I argued that it was difficult to say i was speeding when he was 1/2 mile ahead of me driving in the same direction. He gave me my ticket and towed the vehicle.

With the equipment today, he could check your speed going the same direction 1/2 mile ahead of you, just so your aware.

I also need to spend more time in here, this stuff is hysterical.

 

[silver03svt]

Tuesday evening after working til midnight outside on my car, I decided to drive to my favorite restaurant to get a bite to eat. On the drive there, nearby the restaurant I passed a police officer with lights on patrolling. I was completely lawful yet the vehicle pulled out behind me and began to follow. At 12AM, I simply accepted that he was probably patrolling for drunk drivers, and I continued on all the way to my favorite Restaurant/Bar. The officer followed me over town lines without turning his lights on nor pulling me over. He parked at the gas station across from the restaurant, waited, and decided to head back from the direction he came as I walked into the restaurant. I had a feeling it wasn't the last time I'd be seeing him that evening.
Later that evening around 12:50, as I drove back down the same route I had came, a police cruiser coming in the opposite direction at the same 3 way intersection decided to whip around and began driving in my direction 3 vehicles behind. With 1/4 mile distance and 3 vehicles apart from the police car, at that point I did not feel as though he could possibly come up with a reason to have to follow me again. I took a right hand turn toward home still with 1/4 mile distance ahead of the cruiser and I expected that would be the end of being followed. Another 1/2 mile up the road, feeling that the police officer was nowhere in sight, I decided to take a detour home to see if the cruiser was still going to follow me. Through highly wooded and low lit areas even with the initial 1/4 mile seperation, the officer still managed to catch up to me. Driving entirely within the limit of the law, the cop continued to follow me for no reason all the way to the town line without pulling me over and discontinued following me.
Feeling that I had done nothing wrong and tired of being followed through town I decided to call the policed department. I gave the dispatcher my personal information, which I presumed whomever followed me already had by running my plates and explained to the dispatcher that if there was a reason for the police to feel the need to get in touch with me that I could be reached, but there is no reason to follow me around town every time I come through.
The following evening , as I came upon an intersection two cruisers sat at a pizza place on the corner of a 4 way main intersection. Just prior to turning in their direction, one of the cruisers left his patrol and began driving in the same direction that I was turning. He had driven 1/4 mile ahead of me by the time I turned onto the route and continued until he was visibly 1/2 mile ahead of me. He stopped at an intersection up ahead of me, waited for me to drive by him, began to follow me and pulled me over. When I asked him why I was being pulled over, he replied "Speeding". I complied and gave the officer my license number and explained to him that I had forgotten my registration in another vehicle. He came back to the vehicle and informed me that my registration was expired, although two days prior I had seen a copy of my registration that showed valid until 12/31/2012. At this point he explained that he was going to be having my vehicle towed. I expressed to him that I felt as though I had done nothing outside of the limit of the law, and that my registration should be active but he maintained that I had been pulled over for speeding, and now with an expired registration I was being towed. I argued that it was difficult to say i was speeding when he was 1/2 mile ahead of me driving in the same direction. He gave me my ticket and towed the vehicle. Initially i noted that the ticket had two statute numbers written and only one violation described. I did not sign the ticket. In conversation with him I had inquired why there were only 1 violation on the ticket. Later as we wrapped up our encounter, he approached me again and demanded the ticket back so that he could "darken" the writing on the ticket. He effectively went back into the ticket and physically wrote in the missing violation description next to it's statute. I question whether modifying or altering the ticket was lawful or ethical either. Now I have a court date for a Speeding/No Registration violation and $120 out of pocket for a tow, when I shouldn't have been pulled over to begin with. Initially both officers maintained that they weren't aware that I had called the department the previous night to complain of being followed for no reason. Towards the end of our encounter in conversation, one of the officers remarked that I shouldn't cause attention calling to complain when you're driving with no registration.
Get followed for no reason and call the station, get pulled over and have violations made up and busted for unrelated violations. If I complain about harassment or fight it in court, I'll be a target in that town for the rest of my life, but what am I supposed to do? Just lay down and allow police to patronize, harass, and throw tickets at me?

So now violations were made up? That's more than one you know? And this is what court is for. To fight the charges if you feel you've been falsely accused.
You already knew this. Trying to file a comlaint on a cop for doing his job only makes you look like the town idiot.
Suck it up and move on with life with a lesson learned the hard way. You aren't the first, and I'm sure you won't be the last.
Nobody harrassed you. The cops were doing their job. Deal with it. It's life. Suck it up and move on.

Wow. I never knew we had such complete idiots just waiting to offer up their useless opinion in the Donut Shop. I don't care if you agree whether I was right or wrong in my post, I came here looking for opinions, but when you begin to misconstrue facts and twist details on your way to your conclusion, then you're opinion is not based on evidence. You're wrong. I'll make sure I come here from now on if I need a reminder of how not to act, and to think these are the same people that we run into at events, share experiences with, do business and make dealings with here on this site.

We already know idiots don't read the rules and make threads attempting to bash LEO's for doing their jobs because the got butthurt, and then get more butthurt because they don't like the responses that the LEO's give them in their thread. Sometimes the truth hurts and people just don't want to face the fact that maybe they are the idiot in the situation, not too much unlike yourself in this situation.

 

[Njc0las]

and to think these are the same people that we run into at events, share experiences with, do business and make dealings with here on this site.

LOL you have 2 feedback, kid who posts future mods in his sig. Looks like it's going to take you even longer to get those future mods now that you pissed off the cops trying to be a tough guy know-it-all.

 

[gil_t2]

I used to get followed all the time, I was 19, and drove a 1970 HEMI Cuda, with a beefed up auto trans and 4.10's. It was impossible to drive it with out it chirping the tires shifting in to 2nd. One day 7 different cops followed me from my house to my girl friends house and back. One would follow for awhile and turn off, then a couple miles down the road another would be sitting on the side of the road waiting to pick me up. I would race the car at the track twice a week, but never raced on the street, but they always though they would catch me racing one day. I just though it was funny. One night they followed me with there lights off, but it was a full moon and i could still see them. Then they finally pulled me over and claimed i had glass packs on the car, I offered them a flashlight to look under the car to see that it had stock mufflers. They did not like that, they were writing me up for loud exhaust, I did not care it really was stock. They were always the same cops, so they stopped me again for exhaust on my way home from work. My Dad saw them and pulled in behind them, and chew them a new ass hole, I never got pulled over again.

 

[Njc0las]

I used to get followed all the time, I was 19, and drove a 1970 HEMI Cuda, with a beefed up auto trans and 4.10's. It was impossible to drive it with out it chirping the tires shifting in to 2nd. One day 7 different cops followed me from my house to my girl friends house and back. One would follow for awhile and turn off, then a couple miles down the road another would be sitting on the side of the road waiting to pick me up. I would race the car at the track twice a week, but never raced on the street, but they always though they would catch me racing one day. I just though it was funny. One night they followed me with there lights off, but it was a full moon and i could still see them. Then they finally pulled me over and claimed i had glass packs on the car, I offered them a flashlight to look under the car to see that it had stock mufflers. They did not like that, they were writing me up for loud exhaust, I did not care it really was stock. They were always the same cops, so they stopped me again for exhaust on my way home from work. My Dad saw them and pulled in behind them, and chew them a new ass hole, I never got pulled over again.

I bet they were absolutely TERRIFIED of your dad.

 

[gil_t2]

Lets just say that a word from my Dad back in those days, could cost them at least an unpaid vacation.

 

[RDJ]

Lets just say that a word from my Dad back in those days, could cost them at least an unpaid vacation.

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Sure it could there sport

 

[gil_t2]

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Sure it could there sport

What would you know, you probably went even alive back then. LOL

 

[Njc0las]

What would you know, you probably went even alive back then. LOL

 

[Camaro_94]

The cop did nothing wrong. He was driving on a public road. If you aren't doin anything illigal, you don't have anything to worry about. You didn't have your registration on you and that was your fault, not the cops.

 

[FordSVTFan]

I bet they were absolutely TERRIFIED of your dad.

Lets just say that a word from my Dad back in those days, could cost them at least an unpaid vacation.

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Sure it could there sport

What would you know, you probably went even alive back then. LOL

God damn I hate newbie liars. First, a civilian pulls in behind a traffic stop is not going to end well for that "interfering/obstructing” civilian, especially if he attempts go chew out that LEO. Second, if your old man had such "influence" he would have intervened a lot sooner. Third, police unions will not allow a member to get dinged for doing their job because some kid's father thinks it was wrong.

Please crawl back under your rock.

 

[mswaim]

I think had contact with that pair years ago. I pulled over a young kid in a 70 Cuda. His dad pulled in behind my cruiser and he approached me from my blind side. I cited the son for cvc section 39599 (being a dumb-ass newbie liar) and I cited his father for cvc section 39589 (being the parent of a dumb-ass newbie liar) with priors......and of course in those days it was permissible to bitch-slap anyone cited for 39589, so his dad still sports a red cheek.

 

[07COBRAVENOM]

I think had contact with that pair years ago. I pulled over a young kid in a 70 Cuda. His dad pulled in behind my cruiser and he approached me from my blind side. I cited the son for cvc section 39599 (being a dumb-ass newbie liar) and I cited his father for cvc section 39589 (being the parent of a dumb-ass newbie liar) with priors......and of course in those days it was permissible to bitch-slap anyone cited for 39589, so his dad still sports a red cheek.

I actually got a good laugh out of that one :beer:

Seems like this section is good for bringing out all the idiots of the forum.

 

[S8ER01Z]

It's definately the most entertaining section of the forum.