How NOT to get tasered by the Police!!!

ClorideRUS · Jan 15, 2008

So ? I gotta eat crow on what I've said about the UHP. We had a real urgent deal going on at one of our fiber optic sites today. I grabbed one of my techs & said ?I'll drive, I can get away with going faster than you? Long story short we're cruising up I15 & I see this UHP in the southbound lane about the same time the governor kicks in on the pickup. I turn to my tech & say ?crap! I'm gunna get a ticket?. Sure enough the UHP flips a u-turn & I've got red & blues in my rearview. The UHP walks up to the truck & says ?Your governor kick in?? I said ya it did! UHP says ?that means you was going 90mph, give me your license? UHP comes back a minuet later & hands me my license & a warning. He says ? RUS you don't seem like the kind of guy that's going to give me a bunch of crap ?. Just slow down! ?for crying out loud?. True story!!! I've decided Jered Massey got what was coming to him! LOL!

Post Script: I slowed way down the rest of the day!

RUS

tageater · Jan 15, 2008

Thats cause his tazer hadn't re-charged from the last ole boy he pulled over!j/k

The UHP does a pretty dang good job, given that the have to deal with us all the time

bobcatbess · Jan 15, 2008

JUDAS FRICKEN PRIEST!!!

90 MPH???

MUST OF BEEN DRIVIN A CHEVY???

I'M GONNA HAVE TO SHOW YOU WHAT A REAL GOVERNOR IS!!!

AND IT AIN'T QUITING AT 90!!!

GLAD YOU ONLY GOT A WARNING RUS!!!

THERE FOR A MINUTE I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA HEAR HOW YOU RUN THE UHP OFF!!!

THIS IS MY NEW GUN,YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT,YOU'LL LIKE IT A HELL OF A LOT LESS WHEN IT HITS ITS DESTINATION!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT KNOWS ALOT OF YOU HAVE HAD THIS IMAGE IN YOUR PEA BRAIN BUT DUE TO POOR SHOOTING TACTICS I'M STILL KICKIN!!!

ClorideRUS · Jan 15, 2008

Ford Ranger bcb, company rig ya know! At least it wasn't a stinking Dodge ... belching smoke making noise & going no where anyway. What does it sound like in one of them rigs??? Must be cool 'cause all that noise & smoke just pisses everyone else off! including the Altamont cheerleaders!

Post Script: "Ever done time for going over 90 in that stink bucket bcb???"

RUS

RELH · Jan 15, 2008

Rus;
the main reason you got a break was due to you being honest right off the bat about the gov. kicking in. You didn't try to lie about it, and your speed. When a cop hears this, the first thing that comes to his mind is, this is a person, if given a break, will heed a warning and my job is done.
As a cop I have heard every clam bake story out there, and only about 1 in ten will be honest and admit their wrong doing. Those always got a break from me and most of my fellow cops.
This is not a review on how to get out of a ticket, because there is some cops that will still write you a ticket even if you confess to being a serial killer.

RELH

eelgrass · Jan 15, 2008

90 MPH going through Utah?????

What was the warning?

"Speed it up a little, you're a hazard"??????

I drove through Utah. I was the only one driving under 90!

Eel

bobcatbess · Jan 15, 2008

YOU GOTTA GET A HEMI OR A BELCHER eel!!!

I'VE GOT ONE OF THEM LITTLE BASTARDS RUS!!!

NOT SURE MINE WILL DO 90 THOUGH???

MAYBE DOWN HILL WITH A TAILWIND???

I'LL HAVE TO SEE IF I CAN HIT THE SPEED LIMITER!!!

LAST TIME I WAS CHECKING A SPEED LIMITER LIMIT I BLOWED THE LEFT FRONT AT 110 MPH!!!

MIGHT SAY I HAD MY HANDS FULL THERE FOR A MINUTE!!!

THIS IS MY NEW GUN,YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT,YOU'LL LIKE IT A HELL OF A LOT LESS WHEN IT HITS ITS DESTINATION!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT KNOWS ALOT OF YOU HAVE HAD THIS IMAGE IN YOUR PEA BRAIN BUT DUE TO POOR SHOOTING TACTICS I'M STILL KICKIN!!!

Cornhusker · Jan 15, 2008

I was going 68 in a 60 2 years ago but it was my own moronic fault I got a ticket. The cop walks up to my Camry hand on his gun I my 20 year old dughter and wife are in the car. He's all of 23 years old he says to me can you tell me why you'd be speeding in my county. I replied back no mister Hamilton I can't, big mistake he had me out of the car hand on his gun the whole deal. I shouldn't have been a smart aleck but it was almost impossible to resist, sure scared my wife and daughter. It was Hamilton County Ne.

eelgrass · Jan 15, 2008

Mr. Hamilton! LMAO! That's great Cornhusker!

Bobcat, no HEMI. A four banger Toyota.

Eel

kilowatt · Jan 15, 2008

That is actually hitting on 3 most of the time. LOL

Brian

RELH · Jan 15, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Jan-16-08 AT 01:46AM (MST)[p]CornHusker;
I will tell you a tale about Nebraska. I took the wrong turn at Lusk, wyoming and found myself in Nebraska. I was on the highway with one Nebraska car in front and two behind me. We were all doing 65 MPH.
A Nebraska state trooper passed going the other way. As he passed I observed the radar unit on his dash. I looked down and saw the needle pegged on 65 mph in a 55 zone. Told my wife that state trooper will be turning around and stopping me for excessive speed. Sure enought he did.
He asked how fast I was going, told him that as he passed I looked at the speedometer and it was on 65. He told me that his radar showed I was going 68 mph. I told him that could be true as I had new mud and snow tires on and the speedometer could be off. He asked me to come back and have a seat in the front passenger side and asked for my driver's license and regristration. Boy! talk about very poor officer safety. I gave him my license and he proceded to write the ticket. I never identified myself as a CA. law enforcement officer. I asked him if I had to pay the ticket now or could I mail it in since I was not familar with Nebraska's laws. He proceeded to look at a document, told me that Ca. was not on the list for mailing the fine in . As he was saying this, he reached into the back seat and pulled out a credit card machine and smiled while he stated," we take Master Charge and Visa credit cards."
I pulled my credit card out and he proceeded to process it and gave me my copy of the ticket and a receipt that I payed the $42.00 fine.
All this time I am thinking that he never got a clocking on me, due to the car in front of me,let the Nebraska cars go and only stopped me because I was the out of state license plate, then he shows me the system that Nebraska has for taking care of tickets for those out of staters with a credit card payment.
I then identified myself as a law enforcement officer and thanked him for his couresty and also stated that I thought that Nebraska's system did "suck" a little. He smiled back and we parted company. Never have been back to Nebraska since that time about 15 years ago.

RELH

P.S. I also never did tell him about the small .380 cal. pistol that I had in my right hand pocket the intire time I was sitting in his car or the .45 auto that was in the door panel pocket of the truck.

Roy · Jan 16, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Jan-16-08 AT 10:11AM (MST)[p]Looks like a real Barney Fife RELH. Up to that point (before the meth boom) he probably never had a major crime in his area. I'll bet they do things differently now. I guarantee he hit you because of your out of state tags.

I was driving my 85 'vette (ok so it was only a CHEVETTE but man was it cool!) back home from a wrestling camp in Laramie when I was 17 (almost 18) and was coming down a hill coasting in the middle of three other cars who were passing me at the time and a Wyoming Highway Patrolman cut clear across the median of I-80 from the far right hand lane and whipped around, mud and grass flying and lights flashing and pulled me over and told me he clocked me doing 78 in a 65. I just gave him my license and registration and didn't argue. He asked me what I was doing in that part of the country all by myself and gave the car a good looking over through the windows. When he came back he told me he was going to reduce it to 70 in a 65 and I told him that I would gladly pay the ticket and it only ended up being $5. Yeah, I thought I got off lucky for sure, however it did take 75 points off of my license! After paying however I asked him to explain to me how my "'vette" could do 78 going downhill in a head wind when at 75 it started shaking and shimmying so bad I couldn't keep it on the road? He just smiled and said that it must have been the Utah plates that kept it under control. At that point I thought he was just going to keep my $5 and it would never hit my license. Wish he would have.

So RUS - how did you avoid getting a ticket in Iron Co. doing 90MPH? You must have done something right in the pre-existence because they usually slap you down hard for that! I guarantee you if it was Beaver County you would have been fined for sure!

UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)

Ropinfool · Jan 16, 2008

I always wanted to used the line from the movie lier lier when the cop asked him "do you know why I stoped you? and Jim Cary said "depends how long you've been following me". Never had the guts.....lol.

bobcatbess · Jan 16, 2008

WELL RUS!!!

I KEEP A FRESH BAKERS DOZEN ON HAND!!!

IT HELPS SOMETIMES!!!

LAST TIME I GOT PULLED OVER!!!

THE COP SAYS:BOY HAVE I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU!!!

I SAYS:BET IT AIN'T NEAR AS GOOD AS WHAT I HAVE FOR YOU!!!

THIS IS MY NEW GUN,YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT,YOU'LL LIKE IT A HELL OF A LOT LESS WHEN IT HITS ITS DESTINATION!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT KNOWS ALOT OF YOU HAVE HAD THIS IMAGE IN YOUR PEA BRAIN BUT DUE TO POOR SHOOTING TACTICS I'M STILL KICKIN!!!

Cornhusker · Jan 16, 2008

The cop that stopped Rus was out of Harrison pop. 300 or Crawford 800 you can bet he didn't have a lot of experience and that puts him at risk in today's world. About a month ago the cop in that area called in a game warden and they went into an abandoned building after a 16 year old runaway kid who they ended up shooting an killing. The cop although he was a town cop not highway patrol has been indicted. Really a sad deal. The only speeding ticket I have ever gotten besides the one previously mentioned happened approximately where I think you got yours Rus. I was pushing 75 or 80 on a downhill trying to get to Wyoming for opening of antelope season the next day. A black diesel pickup with 3 cowboys in it flies past me pushing 100 at about the same time we top a hill a long valley between the next hill HP hits the top of the next hill. I try to get it slowed down a little cops lights go on the pickup punches it. Cop does a u-turn in the road I slow and go to the shoulder cop pulls up right beside me I stop he stops. After the initial license registration request I politely mention the Pickup doing 100 he says to me I know those boys I'll talk to them later. Come on back to my car, same thing as Rus Safety talk what you up to well have a good day, have a good antelope hunt. Probably not real safe if I would have wanted to hurt him. It was about 10 years ago probably same cop. I still like most cops tough job some do it better than others same as any profession.

ClorideRUS · Jan 16, 2008

Roy ... believe me I know about the Iron County Gestapo ... only thing I can figure is we was in Millard County!

RUS

JLTD · Jan 16, 2008

110 bess thats weak mine tops out at 134 dont ask how i found that out.

Just Living The Dream

bobcatbess · Jan 16, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Jan-17-08 AT 04:37AM (MST)[p]YA!!!

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT!!!

WEAK!!!

THE FAMILY GROCERY GETTER WILL ONLY DO 110!!!

WTF???

LETS HEAR IT JLTD???

THIS IS MY NEW GUN,YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT,YOU'LL LIKE IT A HELL OF A LOT LESS WHEN IT HITS ITS DESTINATION!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT KNOWS ALOT OF YOU HAVE HAD THIS IMAGE IN YOUR PEA BRAIN BUT DUE TO POOR SHOOTING TACTICS I'M STILL KICKIN!!!

Roy · Jan 19, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Jan-19-08 AT 05:18PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Jan-19-08 AT 05:17?PM (MST)

>Roy ... believe me I know
>about the Iron County Gestapo
>... only thing I can
>figure is we was in
>Millard County!
>
>RUS

That must have been the reason! When traveling down I-15 you can speed in Utah county (you have to just to keep up with traffic) but you better slow it down around Nephi, then you can cruise again pretty much through Scipio, in Fillmore proper you better toe the line and then from Beaver down to the black ridge you better go 10 under!

I was going back to Cedar from Vernal one night in TripleK's red Grand Am and pretty much had that thing bored out. I left at 9:45PM, made it to Provo by midnight. Gassed up there and when I hit I-15 I turned the horses loose! I made it to Beaver at 1:30AM and he pulled me over about 100 yards shy of the Iron County line. He was really pissed too! But I had my license and registration ready when he came to the window and he didn't even have to ask. Here is the conversation as best as I can remember it:

Officer: DO YOU KNOW JUST HOW FAST YOU WERE GOING SON?!!

Roy: (in subdued humble and apologetic tone) Well, I know I was speeding officer, I wasn't really paying attention (which is partly true - I wasn't really paying attention, except to make sure I didn't go under 95)just trying to make it home. How fast was I going?

Officer: FAST ENOUGH THAT I COULD IMPOUND THIS CAR AND THROW YOUR BUTT IN JAIL FOR A WEEK! FROM THE TIME I FIRST CLOCKED YOU, GOT TURNED AROUND, CAUGHT UP TO YOU AND PULLED I OVER I TRAVELLED 8 MILES!

Roy: (even more subdued and apologetic) Wow. I'm truly sorry. I just wasn't paying attention. I'm glad you pulled my over. I'm just trying to get home.

Officer: OK. I'll be right back.

10 minutes later.

Officer: Here's your license and registration. You were pulled over in a construction zone but since it is 1:30AM and nobody is working I'll overlook that and give you a break. Are you a student?

Roy: Yes sir. I go to SUU.

Officer: Well be careful. We've had a lot of deaths due to speed on this highway. There is nothing worse than a tragedy like that. Hmmm... well listen. Like I said, I could write you up for 98 in a 60 and since it is a construction zone it would double. This could easily be over a $350 ticket and would classify as an arrestable offense. Instead I am going to write you up for 90 in a 70.

Roy: Oh thank you officer. I will watch it more closely from now on.

Then as I drove off I noticed as soon as I crossed into Iron County that there was a car that stayed just far enough behind me to keep me in sight all the way to my apartment. Thanks for the escort Mr. Iron County Sherrif! After going that fast for that long, that was the longest 40 or so miles of my life! Anyway I was still in bed before 2:30!

UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)

bobcatbess · Jan 19, 2008

HEY Roy???

DID YOU TELL THE COP YOUR NAME WAS JENNTRY???

YOU COULD'OF SENT THE TICKET TO LIL SIS!!!

THAT WOULD'OF BEEN A NICE PRANK!!!

AS LONG AS YOU WERE IN SOUTHERN UTAH & SIS WAS IN NORTHERN UTAH,LOL!!!

THIS IS MY NEW GUN,YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT,YOU'LL LIKE IT A HELL OF A LOT LESS WHEN IT HITS ITS DESTINATION!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT KNOWS ALOT OF YOU HAVE HAD THIS IMAGE IN YOUR PEA BRAIN BUT DUE TO POOR SHOOTING TACTICS I'M STILL KICKIN!!!