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Originally posted by smiley21
i rememer two years ago when i came to a stop sign. i stopped and looked. i saw a car coming but it was kinda far away, so i went. there was a cop there and he just points at me. i pull over and park in a lot and he parks behind me. (in case i decide to make a break for it ) he tells me that i ran the stop sign. wtf?! i am thinking 'i dont just run stop signs. i am not stupid'. i just give him this look. i get a ticket. what is worse is that i see people who dont even slow down at that stop sign. they just go right through it. is there a cop there to catch them? of course not!!
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I had something kind of similar to this happen in December 2001. There's a blind corner near my school, so I stopped BEFORE the line, poked my head around the corner, and after seeing it was safe, went.
An officer heading the other way does a u-turn, and pulls me over in the middle of campus (very embarassing). I have NO CLUE why I just got pulled over. He claimed I had rolled the stop sign (and now, in retrospect, I can understand how from his perspective he might have seen that). He ended up putting on my ticket that I had pretty much blown the stop sign, but I knew it wouldn't be much use arguing semantics.
The guy was pretty rude, and I started crying because I had applied for a job at Space Camp and they ask about speeding violations because sometimes the counselors have to drive the campers. I didn't want it to seem like I had lied, or lose my chance at this job because I got pulled over. The guy took no sympathy on me, and told me if I wanted to save some money and the points on my license I could just go to traffic school.
Well I decided to fight the ticket because traffic school is NOT cheap and I didn't want the points either. When I got to court, I was PRAYING he wouldn't show (I'm originally from Illinois, so the officers are notorious for not showing up). He did, and since the guy looked like a Marine and scary, I was prepared for the worst.
He asked the judge to throw out my ticket because he didn't want me to not get the job because of it. I about wet myself! I thanked him afterward, which my boyfriend said I shouldn't have done, but I was very appreciate of him for understanding.
So sometimes police officers aren't in it for the right reasons, but they can also be really nice guys.