[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Local State Trooper warned me... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/29/2016 10:17:09 AM EDT
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights.
Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now! 
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
So have you fixed your brake lights yet? |
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Have several friends in law enforcement. Without exception their rule is if I'm going to the trouble of pulling you over, you're getting a ticket. LOL. Outside of the Troopers, most depts don't work that way. I rarely cut tickets. Sometimes people talk their way into one, but if I gave everyone a ticket that I pulled over, I'd be the chief by now 
Also, it's not really any trouble to pull someone over, it's the job. Your friends sound lazy |
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You're white, huh? Quoted:
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
Silly man. Only the blacks get pulled over, duh! |
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You're white, huh? Quoted:
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
Yep. Proud of it, too. 
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
I've gotten warnings the majority of the time. I've had two tickets in 10 years. The last one I was the guys first stop. Pulled me over for doing 66 in a 65.  let me go with a warning on the speeding . But gave me a ticket for failure to display registration. I had the registration in hand. Very young guy and he was nervous I figured I was getting cited no matter what. At least I could get the registration ticket dismissed. That's really been the worst interaction I've ever had with TX DPS.
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
TXDPS has given me a warning before. Happened the first time I got pulled over while carrying, too. It was late at night and I was speeding but I think he was just looking for drunks and cut me loose with just a warning. |
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TXDPS has given me a warning before. Happened the first time I got pulled over while carrying, too. It was late at night and I was speeding but I think he was just looking for drunks and cut me loose with just a warning. Quoted:
TXDPS has given me a warning before. Happened the first time I got pulled over while carrying, too. It was late at night and I was speeding but I think he was just looking for drunks and cut me loose with just a warning. Quoted:
I've gotten warnings the majority of the time. I've had two tickets in 10 years. The last one I was the guys first stop. Pulled me over for doing 66 in a 65. let me go with a warning on the speeding . But gave me a ticket for failure to display registration. I had the registration in hand. Very young guy and he was nervous I figured I was getting cited no matter what. At least I could get the registration ticket dismissed. That's really been the worst interaction I've ever had with TX DPS.Quoted:
The last two times I got pulled over by DPS I was let off with a verbal warning. Both officers were professional and courteous. They were sticklers for speed though. One was 5 over (80 in a 75) and the other was 3 to 5 over (63-65 in a 60).  It might be my location (East Houston area), but Troopers around here have a reputation of always writing a ticket. On similar topic: As I was being pulled over, I was thinking about Aimless's thread a couple days ago about Low-Viz patrol car markings. This was a black charger with a chrome grill and silver aluminum wheels. It had a black spotlight with antennae on the trunk but, no overhead bar and absolutely no markings on the car, low-viz or otherwise. Thought that was interesting.. |
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So your friends are those guys? Quoted:
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Have several friends in law enforcement. Without exception their rule is if I'm going to the trouble of pulling you over, you're getting a ticket. So your friends are those guys? When I was on the road I wrote about 1 out of 5 stopped, you pretty much had to earn your summons. Now I'm a third responder and only deal with felons. |
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
Maybe he needed to rush off to take a shit and just gave you warnings. |
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Have several friends in law enforcement. Without exception their rule is if I'm going to the trouble of pulling you over, you're getting a ticket. Shitty friends. Been stopped by DPS 4 times in my life, once was twice in same day by same officer. All 4 were warning tickets for speeding. |
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It might be my location (East Houston area), but Troopers around here have a reputation of always writing a ticket. On similar topic: As I was being pulled over, I was thinking about Aimless's thread a couple days ago about Low-Viz patrol car markings. This was a black charger with a chrome grill and silver aluminum wheels. It had a black spotlight with antennae on the trunk but, no overhead bar and absolutely no markings on the car, low-viz or otherwise. Thought that was interesting.. Quoted:
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TXDPS has given me a warning before. Happened the first time I got pulled over while carrying, too. It was late at night and I was speeding but I think he was just looking for drunks and cut me loose with just a warning. Quoted:
I've gotten warnings the majority of the time. I've had two tickets in 10 years. The last one I was the guys first stop. Pulled me over for doing 66 in a 65. let me go with a warning on the speeding . But gave me a ticket for failure to display registration. I had the registration in hand. Very young guy and he was nervous I figured I was getting cited no matter what. At least I could get the registration ticket dismissed. That's really been the worst interaction I've ever had with TX DPS.Quoted:
The last two times I got pulled over by DPS I was let off with a verbal warning. Both officers were professional and courteous. They were sticklers for speed though. One was 5 over (80 in a 75) and the other was 3 to 5 over (63-65 in a 60). It might be my location (East Houston area), but Troopers around here have a reputation of always writing a ticket. On similar topic: As I was being pulled over, I was thinking about Aimless's thread a couple days ago about Low-Viz patrol car markings. This was a black charger with a chrome grill and silver aluminum wheels. It had a black spotlight with antennae on the trunk but, no overhead bar and absolutely no markings on the car, low-viz or otherwise. Thought that was interesting.. That was a supervisor's car then. Sometimes, though rarely, our Sergeants will stop a car when going somewhere if they deem it necessary due to bad driving. They sometimes work routine patrol but not often. The good part for you is, unless you were doing something extremely bad, they rarely give tickets. |
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I got pulled last month 80 in a 65 by AHP I got a warning and told to mind the speed limit. I hadn't had a ticket in 20 years or more so I counted myself lucky.
There were probably 8 other highway patrol working this stretch of highway it was easy pickings for them as that road hadn't had any surveillance in years and people were driving like it was a NASCAR track. 80 was the normal speed and I would get past regularly doing that. A month later, it is same-same. <shrug> I do not normally drive that route but I was short on time and it is faster. I feel I was real lucky anyway. |
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TxDPS has hired a bunch of local police officers and put them through some accelerated training classes and put them around border hot spots with promises of high pay. I have a friend who was a local cop for like 9 years, he was in really good physical shape (training still kicked his ass) and he did it. Now he's in some small town on I35 south of San Antonio. I know there were several classes of these kinds of guys.
Maybe you got one of these guys. |
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... not to speed again. And to use my turn signal. Oh yeah, and to fix my brake lights. Holy crap, I've never seen or heard of TxDPS giving out a warning instead of a ticket! I need to go buy a lottery ticket now!
You're surprised you didn't get a ticket and bitch about TXDPS always handing out tickets, but aren't surprised because of your predicament? |
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CHP doesn't give out warnings either IME.
Lights come on, you are getting written for something. Occasionally they will cut you a break on speed or find an equipment cite to get you on instead. One time and one time only I got cut a break. CHP rolled up to my passenger side at about 80 (so cal traffic flow speed), chirped his siren and wagged his finger at me (like no no no). I slowed down and he went and pulled the guy in front of me over (who I had just cleared the fast lane for to let pass). I have just come to the realization that no matter how I drive, every couple of years it is my turn to pay the tax. When a speeding ticket was $120, no big deal. Now that they are in the $500 range it stings a bit more. |
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I've found that when I'm annoyed and think a cop is being a douche I get a ticket (only to escape later BWAH HA HA). But when I know I am busted and figure I might as well get the ticket and get going I get out of it (around here it also varies by agency as some are more douchebaggy than others) I got pulled over speeding from one court to another once. I knew the ticket would be immediately dismissed when I got to the second court so when the trooper came up to the car and asked me why he pulled me over I said "Yeah I was going like hell!" I had one of the few times I saw a traffic cop kind of surprised. he didn't recognize me and said he was glad that someone was honest with him because he was tired of everyone bullshitting him when they were pulled over and told me to just get going.I also got out of a speeding in the same area when a young Trooper went nuts and flew through a pretty deep ditch between the north and south lanes, I immediately pulled over because I was afraid he was going to roll his SUV. I said something about how it wasn't worth him getting hurt to write me a ticket and that middle aged men in suits driving pick up trucks don't usually try to flee the police, he just laughed and said he bombed through the same area every day. I got nailed in a small town too by a cop who had a great spot hiding behind a closed business that hid the police car really well but had a driveway that he could tear right out of. I knew I'd get out of that one too and said something like "Oh that's fucking cheating" when he walked up, he did eventually recognize me after laughing at me and let me go.
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