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Unfortunately I don't have any advice, but I can share with you my very own Cops-Are-A**holes story...
I was driving home from my sister's engagement party, which was in the city I went to university in, to my family's house about 45 minutes away. It was late at night, but the street lights are so bright in town that I didn't notice I didn't have my headlamps fully turned on. Well, directly I see this cop following me, but he didn't have his lights on so I didn't stop. After a couple of blocks, the cop's lights go on, so I pull over at a gas station just in case he's after me. He turned on that huge flashlight thing and aimed it directly at my rearview mirror before he got out of his car and came over to my window and did the usual spiel ("Let's see license, registration, insurance...yada yada"). The trouble started when he asked me if I had been drinking and I said no, because I hadn't. Well, to make a long story short, the moron was convinced that I had definitely been drinking because 1) I was driving at night, and 2) I had on a cocktail dress. He grilled me about where I was going, where I'd been, what I was doing on the road, my parents' names, why I had overnight bags in my truck, etc etc. I guess he was put out that he didn't catch me driving drunk, so he wrote me a ticket even though I had never been pulled over before...come on, who gets a ticket for not having their headlights on bright enough? The guy was a complete jerk about it, and I ended up having to pay about $80, so I totally feel sorry for you. Your situation is a lot worse than mine was, but please know that you get those kind of cops everywhere.
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