LesterOfPuppets

You might wanna withhold this info next time. It's well known that musicians are all on drugs, you're gonna get your car searched if you're not careful

Bah Humbug

And people from Colorado, apparently.

big john

I got pulled over a number of times when I was drinking but I never got arrested. I was so drunk I was all over the road and I called them names and was a jerk to them. They were going to take me to jail but when they found out my girlfriend couldn't drive they told me to lock the truck and walk home. So lucky.
Other times I was able to pass the field sobriety test. One cop said " I don't know how you did it, you must have good concentration".

I've had 3 tickets, one in 1971, one in 1975 when I was driving a tow truck, and the last one in 2005 for a U turn. 2 cops on bicycles watched me do it, there wasn't another car anywhere in the area.

big john

I got pulled over one night and had quite a few beers in my belly and a bag of the devil's lettuce in my pocket. I thought I was going to jail for sure. Turned out they were looking for a suspect and I didn't fit the description so they told me to go away. I almost said "Don't you want me to take the test?"

genejockey 

I've gotten pulled over, let me see.... 4 times in almost 50 years of driving. 3 for speeding - the last cut me some slack when I said I was heading to pick up my wife for an OB appointment (it was true!). The other one was a stop sign on Cornell Campus which was in a really weird place. I only saw it AS I WAS PASSING IT, and I slowed down to a crawl before rolling again, and the cop didn't ticket me because he could see that I'd done that.

EDIT: I should point out that I almost never drive the speed limit and almost never come to a complete stop for 4 ways unless I have to. Even in the Dodge, cops aren't interested in me.

Velo Vol 

. . . as I was saying. #LawAbidingCitizen

Velo Vol 

Had a very rare Puerto Rico license plate sighting on my walk/jog activity.

The last four or five times I've walked from the office I've seen a guy playing a guitar in a storage shed. Granted, they've all roughly been at the same time of day, but it does make one wonder how much time he spends there?

Along the MUP there was two bikes leaning against a tree. No one anywhere nearby. Maybe the police should patrol there more instead of setting up stop sign traps?

Velo Vol 

datlas do you offer this service?

Mojo31

When the kids started driving, I bought a breathalyzer, part as deterrent and for proof if needed. I did not want the kids drinking and driving due to the devastating consequences it could have on their futures. Fortunately, I never had to use it.

But, one evening my wife and I were discussing how much you would have to drink to blow the limit, so we started drinking with the goal of seeing what we would blow when we got to the point of being, in our opinion, totally obliterated. We ended up having cocktails followed by two bottles of wine over a short period of time, and felt like we were in absolutely no condition to drive and would not drive if in that condition. Ended up we only blew about half the legal limit. We were shocked by how bad we would have to be to get a DUI.

bampilot06

I do live in the addiction forum for a reason. Why are you here?

bampilot06

So you can get a ticket.

LesterOfPuppets

There was a bar in Seattle that had one in the early aughts. Unfortunately it didn't have a high score screen like a proper video game

bampilot06

How does that work for you?

big john

Wow.

bampilot06

Thats because Doug’s don’t do drugs. It’s a known Fact of life.

bampilot06

you need to drink more often.

big john

abshipp 

Only time I have received a moving violation was on my bicycle.

Granted I did blow through a stop sign with absolutely zero intentions of slowing down, but in my defense it was a four way stop with very clear sight lines in all directions and no other traffic.

bampilot06

I’ve crashed twice, Prolly have gotten 5 speeding tickets.

One ticket for not wearing a seat belt. That was bull ****. He pulled me over becuase records showed I didn’t have insurance. (I did, my company dropped the ball). I took my belt off to get my wallet out and I know he watched me do it. Gave me a ticket for no insurance or seat belt.

When I moved to bull head I drove from VA to Arizona. First day I get pulled over outside of Charlottesville. Boom, speeding ticket. Cop didn’t like my excuse that I didn’t know how to drive in the mountains. I was only doing 14 over.


6 days later, I’m coming down Flagstaff doing 3 digits and I see a flash of white in the median. I immediately pull over. I came to a stop before he had his lights on. Good ole boy cop and he let me go with a warning.


Moral of the story. West coast cops are nicer than east coast cops. Scientific evidence.

Mojo31

Had four Old Fashioneds at dinner and the rodeo last night. That's enough for now.

bampilot06

There was that woman on Rte 58 in Va which has notorious sections of road where you do not go one mile over.

She facebook lived the pulling over and was the most obnoxious person I have ever seen. Tried to make it about everything under the sun other than the fact she was speeding. Then tried to play a sad pathetic victim. It’s insane how much mental health goes unchecked in this world. She refused to sign the ticket. I wish I could remember how it ended.

bampilot06

Thats 4 more than me.

genejockey 

What I always found to be just a whole lot of fun was when the Not-Yet-Mrs. GJ lived in the Outer Sunset in SF, where there were a number of intersections with NO stop signs at all, on either of the streets.

bampilot06

You are out of control.

Bah Humbug