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I got pulled over...

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Posted by: 00ls5spd

Well it finally happened to me. I got pulled over for my window tint.
The cop was across the street and was turning right when all of a sudden he flipped a u-turn and told me to turn right and pull over instead of turning left. He walked up and told me my tint was illegal in California...Just the front. I was in my business attire and had all my paper work right there for him. I have a neveda license So he started asking me questions about that. I informed him that I live in Vegas and was here on business and this is the vehicle I use when here on business. He went back to his car for like a minute and then came up and just gave me a warning. I bet $100 if I hadn't been dressed nice and had all my papers in order he would've given me a fix-it ticket and a harder time. Maybe just my opinion..... He didn't even notice the blacked out marker lights or the fact my corner bulb was burned out( I'm fixing it today) and he didn't say anything about the angeleyes either.

Posted by: KD00LS

Aren't Angel Eyes legal?

Posted by: StinkinLinkinLS01

i got pulled over for window tint last summer. well...technically reckless driving. i was racing a dodge stratus r/t on the highway on the way to school. 10 min and about 5 miles later as i was hopping out of my car in the school parking lot about 3 unmarked squads surrounded me like some sort of felony stop. i didnt know what the hell was going on. turns out someone followed me to school and called the cops. they couldnt do anything and ended up giving me a tint ticket out of pure frustration. they labeled my car as a black continental. i drive a green LS. needless to say, the ticket dissappeared. lol! man i love these cars!

Posted by: BanginLS

a random person followed u and called the cops? wtf..

thats a slap to the face..

Posted by: 00ls5spd

yeah angeleyes are legal...but if he wanted to be an a$$ he could've given me a hard time. As far as I know you just can't have any forward luminated blue or red bulbs...those colors are for emergency vehicles only.

Posted by: PM80

My friend had an 03 cobra comign across the mobile bayway at about 120 at 2 in the morning and he passed the only car on there. They called the cops on him. He was sitting in waffle house eating and the cop comes in and gives him a wreckless driving and a DUI.

Posted by: Boomhower

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Originally Posted by 00ls5spd

Well it finally happened to me. I got pulled over for my window tint.
The cop was across the street and was turning right when all of a sudden he flipped a u-turn and told me to turn right and pull over instead of turning left. He walked up and told me my tint was illegal in California...Just the front. I was in my business attire and had all my paper work right there for him. I have a neveda license So he started asking me questions about that. I informed him that I live in Vegas and was here on business and this is the vehicle I use when here on business. He went back to his car for like a minute and then came up and just gave me a warning. I bet $100 if I hadn't been dressed nice and had all my papers in order he would've given me a fix-it ticket and a harder time. Maybe just my opinion..... He didn't even notice the blacked out marker lights or the fact my corner bulb was burned out( I'm fixing it today) and he didn't say anything about the angeleyes either.

Don't always count on your business attire man. I was caught speeding a few weeks ago just after getting on the road from where I work. 76 in a 55. My wife and I both were in business attire, I pulled over as soon as I saw him pulling out, and had my papers handed to him before he could even ask for them. He never flipped on the blues until he stopped in behind my car. Still costed me $236.00. That's the last time I try to be nice. Sounds like it worked out good for you though.

Posted by: sloban

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Originally Posted by PM80

My friend had an 03 cobra comign across the mobile bayway at about 120 at 2 in the morning and he passed the only car on there. They called the cops on him. He was sitting in waffle house eating and the cop comes in and gives him a wreckless driving and a DUI.

Should of got him for reckless eating, too! LOL, just kidding, I love Waffle House restaurants (but not so much the food).

Posted by: sloban

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Originally Posted by 00ls5spd

What % is your tint? It doesn't look that dark in your pics. I've got a feeling that I shouldn't have let the tint guy talk me into 30%. I originally wanted 50%.

Posted by: 00ls5spd

It's not that dark but this morning was overcast and looking acroos the road at me it probably looked darker than it really is and I have the six inch limo tint on the front so that is also why I may have caught his eye. I'm not worried about it, what are the chances of him seeing me again neways here is SD. I am pretty sure he was an SD cop over here in Chula Vista, Not sure what kinda jurisdiction (sp) he would have had anyways.

Posted by: MsM8tress

Have your wife drive.. hehehe jk

Posted by: 00ls5spd

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Originally Posted by MsM8tress

Have your wife drive.. hehehe jk

She doesn't know how to drive stick shift...But I bet, if we were riding in her Volvo XC90 we wouldn't have been pulled over....

Posted by: MsM8tress

ahhhh, didn't catch your sig either...it was the 20's!!!! He was jealous!!!!

jk LVC's "Heat" Hotties

Smooches
MsM8

Posted by: John Hubertz

Minding your own business is as much a part of history as all our other privacy rights - one reason I don't watch much TV is all the shows glorify the police-nation and nanny government.... I'm old enough to remember when a police officer couldn't search you, or your car, just because he was giving you a ticket, and required probably cause to stop you or breathalyse.

We've lost most of our rights in this country - and yet for some reason we act like we have any Freedom to spread around the world? Give me a break.

Blame the Insurance companies - they've funded the "Institute for Highway Safety" and MADD for years to lobby states to pass ever-more restrictive laws aimed at reducing their costs by ruining peoples lives and freedoms.

Anyway - I said my piece, sorry for the tirade but people who don't mind their own business should be staked out in public squares and vilified as the Judas Goats they are.

Posted by: chocolat1701

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Originally Posted by PM80

damn my best friend is a cop here in NYC and he tells me that here if the officer does not see you do the crime then he cannot issue the driver a summons especially if he finds him eating in a waffle house and not actually driving, the only thing that can be done is the person that called can file a civil complaint and the officer can issue the driver a warning, and in order to get a tkt here in NYC for TINTS the officer has to test the tint with a ultraviolate meter that test the percentage of your tint, if the tint is over 30% then its elegal if not it wont hold in court......I LOVE NYC WE GET AWAY WITH SOOO MUCH BULL$HIT.

Posted by: J3FF

Some cops take their authority too far...One of my friends got pulled over for goin 69 in a 55 and he got a 500 dollar ticket...for alot of different things, speeding, tints, oh and his radar detector being in the way of his view. There was some other things, but they were bogus.

Posted by: LS4me

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Originally Posted by J3FF

Some cops take their authority too far...One of my friends got pulled over for goin 69 in a 55 and he got a 500 dollar ticket...for alot of different things, speeding, tints, oh and his radar detector being in the way of his view. There was some other things, but they were bogus.

Sounds like he was doing his job to me. Fourteen over is going to get you a ticket almost anywhere. The cop doesn't set the fine, the courts do.

Posted by: NVMyLS

I got pulled over yesterday for some bullsh!t. I was on the freeway following this volvo almost my entire drive. We were probably driving around 60 in this 50 zone. I noticed the CHP up ahead on the shoulder and so did the volvo and we both hit the brakes and got down to probably about 55 MPH by the time we passed the CHP. I looked in my mirror and didn't see him pull onto the freeway. I looked one last time and I saw him put his blinker on and get onto the road. The volvo then switched to the right lane after passing a car. I was gonna switch also, but was not able to because they were driving too slow and I wasn't about to speed up to get into the slow lane. Within a couple of seconds, I check my mirror again and he's on my a$$. I knew right then he was gonna pull me over. But I guess it took him a while to run my plates because I had time to finally switch into the right lane and by the time he pulled me over, I was in a 65 MPH zone. He lit me up and I pulled over. He told me that he pulled me over for numerous reasons: the main reason he said was he got me on radar at 65 when I passed him (now that's bullsh!t), next he told me that I had my lights painted black, my blinkers were white, my windows were tinted, then he walked to the front of the car and told me that I had no front plate. I was so pissed. Not so much about all of the things he named but the fact that he said I was going 65 when I passed him. If I was going 65, why didn't he get the volvo that I was following? He told me that I came up quick on the volvo. That just got me more pissed because he was completely lying. After our little discussion, he asked for all my stuff and when he looked at it, he didn't believe that it was my car because my address on my insurance card is different from the one on my license. He kept asking me the addresses on both items then ask me a question, then asked me again what the addresses were. He was one of the cockiest CHP I have even ran into. So I'll have fun fighting this one.........

Posted by: J3FF

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Originally Posted by NVMyLS

I got pulled over yesterday for some bullsh!t. I was on the freeway following this volvo almost my entire drive. We were probably driving around 60 in this 50 zone. I noticed the CHP up ahead on the shoulder and so did the volvo and we both hit the brakes and got down to probably about 55 MPH by the time we passed the CHP. I looked in my mirror and didn't see him pull onto the freeway. I looked one last time and I saw him put his blinker on and get onto the road. The volvo then switched to the right lane after passing a car. I was gonna switch also, but was not able to because they were driving too slow and I wasn't about to speed up to get into the slow lane. Within a couple of seconds, I check my mirror again and he's on my a$$. I knew right then he was gonna pull me over. But I guess it took him a while to run my plates because I had time to finally switch into the right lane and by the time he pulled me over, I was in a 65 MPH zone. He lit me up and I pulled over. He told me that he pulled me over for numerous reasons: the main reason he said was he got me on radar at 65 when I passed him (now that's bullsh!t), next he told me that I had my lights painted black, my blinkers were white, my windows were tinted, then he walked to the front of the car and told me that I had no front plate. I was so pissed. Not so much about all of the things he named but the fact that he said I was going 65 when I passed him. If I was going 65, why didn't he get the volvo that I was following? He told me that I came up quick on the volvo. That just got me more pissed because he was completely lying. After our little discussion, he asked for all my stuff and when he looked at it, he didn't believe that it was my car because my address on my insurance card is different from the one on my license. He kept asking me the addresses on both items then ask me a question, then asked me again what the addresses were. He was one of the cockiest CHP I have even ran into. So I'll have fun fighting this one.........

Well that just sucks. I know the cop was doing his job with the 14 over, but I didn't really see the point of the other things he wrote him up for. He also wrote him up for a cracked tail light...I didn't think they could do that.

Posted by: chamorro

You wouldn't have happened to be in IMPERIAL BEACH??? That's where I got my tint ticket, those cops are

s. The cop told me the same thing, that having just a little bit of tint was ILLEGAL.

Posted by: Fla02LS

The thread starts off good then goes downhill with all the complaining. If you get cited for something then there is a law or statute or something that allows it. People act as if cops just think really hard and CREATE some reason. If the reason you get cited seems wrong, contact your gov., congressman, mayor...etc. Dont get pissed at cops, they didnt create the law. And yes also thank the auto insurance companies. They are a HUGE lobbyist for traffic laws. Also, in case you havent been informed, tuner cars...meaning mostly custom/moddified/nonstock cars are and will continue to be targeted for these "little" offenses....bulb color, lights tinted, etc. Again people, accept the outcome for the choices you make. Any or all the mods you make could easily result in a traffic stop. I have an '02 LS and i dont like the orange bumper lights, but i also understand that changing it COULD result in a traffic stop so i have decided not to do that modification. Makes sense doesnt it. Also keep in mind, 66 in a 65 is illegal. There is no amount that is legally allowed to be "over". Usually a few is given due to a speedo being alittle off or whatever, but dont ever count on even 1 mph.

Posted by: 00ls5spd

No it was over here in Chula...Over by brairwood and the 54

Posted by: LS4me

One thing I learned in traffic school. They can site you for just about anything. CHP has been notorious, since I started driving over 30 years ago, for siting forticky-tack stuff. I got pulled over near Eureka for 65 in a 55, illegal passing (I didn't complete the pass prior to the broken yellow line turning solid) and front window tint. He didn't notice I don't have a front plate. I got warned for the speed and pass, and a fix-it ticket for the tint. Wierd.......

Posted by: LS4me

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Originally Posted by Fla02LS

The thread starts off good then goes downhill with all the complaining. If you get cited for something then there is a law or statute or something that allows it. People act as if cops just think really hard and CREATE some reason. If the reason you get cited seems wrong, contact your gov., congressman, mayor...etc. Dont get pissed at cops, they didnt create the law. And yes also thank the auto insurance companies. They are a HUGE lobbyist for traffic laws. Also, in case you havent been informed, tuner cars...meaning mostly custom/moddified/nonstock cars are and will continue to be targeted for these "little" offenses....bulb color, lights tinted, etc. Again people, accept the outcome for the choices you make. Any or all the mods you make could easily result in a traffic stop. I have an '02 LS and i dont like the orange bumper lights, but i also understand that changing it COULD result in a traffic stop so i have decided not to do that modification. Makes sense doesnt it. Also keep in mind, 66 in a 65 is illegal. There is no amount that is legally allowed to be "over". Usually a few is given due to a speedo being alittle off or whatever, but dont ever count on even 1 mph.

I remember when Tricky Dick had the DOT lower the speed limit to 55. The CHP was infamous for handing out tickets for 56 and 57 mph!

Posted by: Fla02LS

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Originally Posted by LS4me

I remember when Tricky Dick had the DOT lower the speed limit to 55. The CHP was infamous for handing out tickets for 56 and 57 mph!

Exactly. I'm not saying its a cool thing to do, but they can. There is an area by me that cops nail all the time. The other day a plain clothes cop is sitting in the back of a plain pickup on the side of the road, in his hand a laser. He was just sitting there clocking people and radio to the 8-10 cops waiting just around the corner, just waving people off to the side ticket book in hand. Again, its not the coolest thing to do and some even see it as a waste of time for them, but if your gonna do anything over the limit then just smile when it happens. They just passed a new law in regards to seat belts, it is now PC for a traffic stop. So, what that tells me is that window tint will be used more as a reason to "not see" if your wearing your belt. Just a thought.

Posted by: MsM8tress

Can't our "Serve and Protect" resources be used more efficiently and effectively? I hate the camera ticket deal (especially since the maker/supplier of the cameras get a cut of the ticket), BUT, it does free up a few SnP guys to actually do that, Serve and PROTECT.

Our SnP guys could be sooo much better utilized, robberies, rapes, drugs, missing children, child molester's freely roam the streets....but bet your sweet wheels you'll be paying out the *** if going 10 miles over the speed limit. Even at 10 over grannie is flying by me flippin me the bird (tint does have it's advantages, I was sooo embarrassed)!!

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMIN'S HOTTIES, and don't go freakin out saying that "cops are need on the freeway", of course they are, but the asinine charges and car profiling, makes the $ conclusion crystal clear.

ok, off my soapbox....NEXT.

Smooch!
MsM8

Posted by: ToddG

Sometimes the state troopers in my state will have a campaign of "enhanced enforcement". Usually this happens on a Thursday or Friday prior to a 3-day weekend. They simply enforce the law more strictly, so if you're going 68 in a 65, you'll get a ticket. There's one guy with the laser who clocks you, then he radios to his buddies up ahead, where they pull you over.

I think there are also motivations from state budgets. After all, collecting more money in ticket fines is a plus for state revenue.

Posted by: DragonDesign

I think we all agree that getting caught is a big hassle, but that's exactly what it is - getting caught. I've been lucky so far, but I try to keep everything fairly legal, because I've had tuner cars before and I know they're just waiting for me to do something wrong because they've got nothing otherwise. Front tint isn't legal up here either - but some cops will go so far as to scratch at your tint with a pen knife so that you have to take it off. And then they end up scratching the glass too and you can't say anything about it or they won't even let you drive away. I think it's just luck of the draw. Sometimes they're just having a bad day, or you did something to upset them, or they could even be jealous that they don't have a car like you do. I have yet to find a good way around it though.

As for speeding tickets, I don't know how it works down here, but I've heard that up here if you take it to court and say that somebody was passing you while they hit you with the radar then it'll get thrown out. Just fight it regardless and they might reduce it at least. Well that's my rant for now.

Posted by: GWL

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Originally Posted by PM80

How is the officer going to testify that your friend was operating the vehicle? He can't use what someone told him (hearsay). He did not see the offense. He did not even see the car on the road. Any competent attorney would get the citation dismissed without even going to trial. Anyone could have been driving. Sounds like an urban legend to me.

Posted by: StinkinLinkinLS01

Yea the cops that got me couldn't do anything. They even said that I was lucky they didn't see me otherwise I'd be getting a wreckless/exhibition driving ticket. If you fight that in court the cop WILL NOT show up and you WILL have the charge dropped. It happened to my buddy in his 5.0 stang when he got a ticket in the mail for wreckless driving (cop in a gas station watched him do a burnout 'round a corner but was too lazy to jump out and chase 'em) and he went to court, the cop didn't show and he got it dropped.

Posted by: StinkinLinkinLS01

I take my LS to the races every weekend, for the most part ANYONE who gets pulled over gets tagged and towed immediatly. When I got pulled last weekend the cop told me the only reason he pulled me over was becuase it looked like I was trying to get away the fastest. Otherwise he said if I just sat there he wouldn't have done anything. I ended up not getting any ticket, the cop even said that they don't really care about the street racing until people start calling on us. Haters. Anyways, I know its probably not the best idea to race my beloved LS but I only get to do it 4-5 months out of the year and I can't help but show it off. In fact I've NEVER EVER seen another LS anywhere near the races or anywhere near where people show off their cars period! Maybe its because I live in MN, is there anyone else who hits up street races with their LS on here?