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Quoted: This guy had a wild last few minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4dCpdr-GVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijDYlgk-Qk View Quote No kidding. Sad part is it looked totally survivable had he been wearing a belt. Cabin area of the car looks pretty intact, all the bags deployed. Probably would have had minor injuries (cuts/bruises). |
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I was speeding recently. THP pulled me over. I rolled down windows and shut car off. I told him I had a weapon, he said "don’t show me your and I won’t show you mine." He knew because CCW shows when plate was run. I have not had a ticket in over 25 years, he cut me a warning.
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Seat belt laws are stupid! Not wearing a seatbelt is more stupider.
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I'd be dead several times if it wasn't for safety devices, seat belts have saved me at least twice.
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Back in the late 80's I lived and worked for a year just outside DC and was driving on the beltway everyday for a while.
Saw lots of major accidents and decided to start wearing a seat belt. Nothing to do with laws, just decided it was the smart thing to do. Been wearing them so long it feels really strange without one. |
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Quoted: Never once in my life gotten a warning on a traffic stop. Lights come on, you are getting cited for something. Have gotten a few window tint or no front plate tickets as a result of getting stopped for going well north of the posted limit though. Cheaper to give them a loss leader to write then a speeding ticket. View Quote Been stopped at least a dozen times and only one ticket. Was 22 over in a constructions zone, he dropped it to 20 over and saved me a ton of money, judge then removed the construction zone doubling penalty. (was midnight, no traffic or workers). Cost me $160, insurance didn't go up either. |
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Quoted: 28 over in a construction zone on the highway He comes up on my window and asks me when I decided to put on my seatbelt...told him right when he pulled out. He gave me a warning for the speed and a seatbelt ticket First time in my life I've ever had a cop give me a break.....I feel lucky ,he could have impounded my truck and took me to jail. I didn't learn my lesson though,I still speed on the highway and don't wear my seatbelt. View Quote So much for cops are wacist I'm lawful now a days so maybe cops are now wacist. |
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Quoted: I was speeding recently. THP pulled me over. I rolled down windows and shut car off. I told him I had a weapon, he said "don't show me your and I won't show you mine." He knew because CCW shows when plate was run. I have not had a ticket in over 25 years, he cut me a warning. View Quote An ASP trooper pulled me over for speeding last year (I was) and when I told him I was carrying, His answer was "I won't play with mine if you don't play with yours." He asked me to slow it down a bit and gave me a warning. |
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Friend of a friend was ejected from a roll over accident. The car rolled over him. Broke his neck and back and lots of other things. This was during the 80s and one of the other big crusades against opiates. After removing 1 vertebrae, fusing several others and putting a large rod in his spine, he was sent home with Tylenol 3s for pain. I assume it wasn't doing the trick so he started self medicating by snorting heroine. Spent the rest of his life addicted to the big H.
The moral of the story is, wear your seat belt or you will become a heroine addict. The End |
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Damn u got some balls. I'm a speeder and don't wear my seat belt often either but I do wear it when I'm driving on the highway.
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Quoted: He was sitting hiding behind a big tree in the median View Quote Hmm.. Lights on?? Usually when they are on the OT gig, they just sit there with their lights on. If he wasn't on OT and stopped you, that is normal EXCEPT for you not getting a bigger ticket. You must have looked pretty hot! |
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Quoted: Hmm.. Lights on?? Usually when they are on the OT gig, they just sit there with their lights on. If he wasn't on OT and stopped you, that is normal EXCEPT for you not getting a bigger ticket. You must have looked pretty hot! View Quote |
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do you just like driving fast or something?
unless you are driving a 500 mile road trip doing 28 over the speed limit really does not save you much time. ETA: are you one of those people who feels like they are more important than everyone else and passes everyone going in to construction then tries to merge last minute to cut line? |
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I respect your freedom to not wear your belt. I didn't used to either. Getting tossed out the back window of the notch back mustang I had been driving a few moments before convinced me that I might want to start wearing the old seat belt.
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Maybe that cop was too lazy to book you that day.
In my town the cops got a rep for giving no breaks. They pull you over, you’re getting a ticket. |
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Was it the BFL decal or the Rainbow Unicorn sticker that got you off?
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Shit, the only time I drop under 90 around here is if grandpa in the minivan won’t get out of the fucking way.
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Quoted: Never once in my life gotten a warning on a traffic stop. Lights come on, you are getting cited for something. Have gotten a few window tint or no front plate tickets as a result of getting stopped for going well north of the posted limit though. Cheaper to give them a loss leader to write then a speeding ticket. View Quote Last year me and my wife were headed to Phoenix, she was driving her GTI, we were headed up a hill and she was doing maybe 85 in a 65, highway patrol sees her, flips around and turns on the lights. He gets up to the car, license/reg, "you know I got you for 85?, When was your last ticket?" She's replied 1996. He was a fairly young officer, while he was headed back to run her license, I said that she probably just told him that her last ticket was before he was born. He came back and gave her a warning. |
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Quoted: Last year me and my wife were headed to Phoenix, she was driving her GTI, we were headed up a hill and she was doing maybe 85 in a 65, highway patrol sees her, flips around and turns on the lights. He gets up to the car, license/reg, "you know I got you for 85?, When was your last ticket?" She's replied 1996. He was a fairly young officer, while he was headed back to run her license, I said that she probably just told him that her last ticket was before he was born. He came back and gave her a warning. View Quote All those Troopers giving a warning stories are just those guys making stops to show activity. Nobody in Arizona really cares about speeding, except maybe in the construction zone. |
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I have multiple personality disorder in terms of driving.
Pickup: speed limit or below. Car: 10-20 over, with the exception of contruction zones...... Only thing I've ever been pulled over for is no front plate. Which is hilarious, since in Missouri no pickup needs a rear plate if you register it the right way. |
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I have no idea why people refuse to wear a seat belt. That is like wearing a helmet while riding a motorcycle. I do not even consciously realize i have put mine on.
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You probably got the seat belt ticket because currently there is a nationwide "click it or ticket" campaign going on and many departments get grants for traffic safety which is partially based off numbers of seatbelt tickets written.
As a patrol guy if you catch someone speeding and they don't have a seatbelt on you can write a seatbelt ticket, the person stopped thinks your the good guy who cut them a break and admin likes your activity because you are writing seatbelt tickets. One of those very rare times as a cop you can be a "good guy" to both sides of the equation. |
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Was in my race car leaving a gas station to go race when all these street racers pulled up. Buddies and I were like yeah let’s split before the cops roll up and as we’re about to pull away I get lit up from a coo coming the wrong way into the gas station.
Cop: Lic and Registration, this thing can’t be street legal…those tires DOT legal? Me: yeah but barley, hands over ID Cop: looks at my Lic, how long you lived at this address? Me: long time Crowed: filming and yelling at the cop to leave me alone Cop: strange, I don’t remember you… Me: didn’t you used to live at the end of the block with the bike? Cop: yup Me: Cop: get out of here cause I know what your up to, tonight’s not the night for this so call it a night Me: done and done Crowd: it cause he’s white |
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I just whip out my White Privilege license, get released and on my merry way.
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Can you just right in your will like 100-200k for an arfcom party after your deaded?
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