yeah i just got 2 tickets int his past week, 1 was in a a school zone at a high school ok i understand there are kids around but 25 at a high school i mean thats slow but i guess i should obey the law but the other ticket was for going 45 in a 30 zone and to make it worse the cop was a lesbian, you could totally tell which only made it way worse, to be honest i think they target guys/girls with cars like ours, thats bull**** and for some reason cops always follow me and check my plates, its harrassment, heres the story yesterday i was driving minding my own buisness driving at the speed limit doing nothing wrong when this cop from a downtown area starts following me and he even fallowed me onto the freeway and about 6 exit's down than finally got off, i mean it shouldent be just cause i got a stang that they need to follow me, does this happen to anyone else>?

Nope

doesn't happen to me ;)

They can't keep up with me...[sm=smiley29.gif] J/k. That sucks...hasn't happened to me.

yes, but only bc my car is red



I HATE IT
thats y i figure.....if you cant beat em, join em

ORIGINAL: sandcracker21

yes, but only bc my car is red



you're joking, right? :D

I don't get harrassed now...but there had been a time(many years ago)where I new they had it in for me.I had a Ford with a 429CID ,that I absolutely loved.This was a loud car when I openned her up.Before to long I realized when I was doing my usual cruise there was a plain car at every corner.Everytime I openned her up I got what was coming to me.Lost my license in 30 days.

when in my car i get constantly followed and watched and ****...but for the last week i've been driving my grandmothers crown vic because of getting hit and my car being fixed and i never get followed at all while driving her car

yes. cops look at my car like it's got titties or something.

yep, about once every two weeks or so. I think more than anything its the blue racing stripes on on my white Gt though. Its happened alot though but they never write me up for anything. I have had a few start asking about my car. You got to love that!!!!

i was in my friend 02 stang and this cop kept following us and pulled up right next to us at a light then he turned on his lights and told us to pull into a parking lot he gave my friend a ticket for the 5% tint and told him he had to come down to the police dept and show the officer that he had removed his tint

yes, it doesn't help that both the cops in my town know me either

it happens to me all the time even when my car is parked on the street they still check my plates

no i dont hear anything from anyone, if i get seen doing something stupid my dad knows every cop in town, no ticket, just being grounded

i got pulled over last year and the cop said that my exhaust was to loud and i said that the exhaust is good in all 50 states and he just looked at me and said you are free to go some cop are cool and some suc*

Theres a cop up the road from my house that harrases me to no end, it really pisses me off, he pulled me over for one of my license plate bulbs being burnt out like one isnt enough to light it up when a car with a headlamp out was right behind me!! what is that. and he gave me a hard time for parking in the spots for trout fishin saying i was littering and tresspassin, its a public park back off dude. everytime i pass him on the road which is like everyday he gives me the worst looks and follows me for a bit.

ORIGINAL: Anthonyandmarisol

yeah i just got 2 tickets int his past week, 1 was in a a school zone at a high school ok i understand there are kids around but 25 at a high school i mean thats slow but i guess i should obey the law but the other ticket was for going 45 in a 30 zone and to make it worse the cop was a lesbian, you could totally tell which only made it way worse, to be honest i think they target guys/girls with cars like ours, thats bull**** and for some reason cops always follow me and check my plates, its harrassment, heres the story yesterday i was driving minding my own buisness driving at the speed limit doing nothing wrong when this cop from a downtown area starts following me and he even fallowed me onto the freeway and about 6 exit's down than finally got off, i mean it shouldent be just cause i got a stang that they need to follow me, does this happen to anyone else>?

I don't think it's so much that they are harrassing you as they are catching you doing somthing you should not. Like it or not we have speed limits, and they are there for a reason. You chose to speed, wheather on purpose or not, and got caught, it's not really the cops fault for doing thier job.

not true man i got ****ed by the police so many times i dont have a license right now. In fact once i turned on to a road that was a school zone for 500 feet but it said end school zone 25 mph and i went to 28 and got clocked after the sign by a cop sitting in someones driveway at 28 mph in a school zone that was supposed to be 15. yeah and if ur car is really clean they seem to follow you. i see cops follow suv's with big rims alot around here. its a scare tactic. im working on a flip license plate right now. no joke.

We have a great deal many turnpikes in the great state of Oklahoma, speed limit is 75, not so bad, I got stopped one morning on my way home for 79 in a 75, yes I was speeding, but I was being passed by other cars! I get a 150.00 ticket. I know it had to be for my car.

me and friends with mustangs have come to this conclusion
a nice looking mustang is like a donut on wheels to most cops.... lol

ORIGINAL: TwotoneVert

We have a great deal many turnpikes in the great state of Oklahoma, speed limit is 75, not so bad, I got stopped one morning on my way home for 79 in a 75, yes I was speeding, but I was being passed by other cars! I get a 150.00 ticket. I know it had to be for my car.


you could have argued that man its 4 mph. all you have to do is say your new gears in your car threw your mph off by 3 mph and you didnt know it so to you it looked like the right speed

ORIGINAL: Smallpox33

ORIGINAL: TwotoneVert

We have a great deal many turnpikes in the great state of Oklahoma, speed limit is 75, not so bad, I got stopped one morning on my way home for 79 in a 75, yes I was speeding, but I was being passed by other cars! I get a 150.00 ticket. I know it had to be for my car.


you could have argued that man its 4 mph. all you have to do is say your new gears in your car threw your mph off by 3 mph and you didnt know it so to you it looked like the right speed


That's no excuse, really... it should have been corrected at the time of modification... they'll still ticket you because either way about it you were above the speed limit.

I'm surprised that the officers around here don't target me. I FLEW past one once and he did nothing... this was like 70-80 in a 50... he was in the right lane about to go onto a highway onramp in traffic, and my lane was empty... he had no lightbar and I had just noticed the state trooper logo on the side of the car as I went by and got the worst feeling... no more criminal speeding for me, ever. Yesterday, I was cruising with Fastlane034 here on the forums, we were doing maybe 40-41 in a 35, traffic was catching up with us. Four lanes in our direction, with space behind us, a trooper pulls up to the intersection in front of us on the right side... I downshifted to shed a couple MPH, so I ended maybe 39 in the 35 as I went past him... he didn't even seem interested, we were the biggest target in the world... 18 yr old driving a black 04 stang, followed by an even younger guy in a black 06 stang... I'm really surprised he didn't turn to follow us just to look for some stupid reason to pull at least one of us over. Thankfully, the officers around here don't seem too interested in me, that or I've been lucky. I've seen a lot of ricers pulled over, though :D

Nope, never!

IVE NEVER GOTTEN A SPEEDING TICKET OR BEEN PULLED OVER IN MY STANG... ASIDE FROM THE OTHER OFFICERS THAT I KNOW JUST WANTIN TO BS FOR A BIT

ORIGINAL: ShadowDrake


ORIGINAL: Smallpox33

ORIGINAL: TwotoneVert

We have a great deal many turnpikes in the great state of Oklahoma, speed limit is 75, not so bad, I got stopped one morning on my way home for 79 in a 75, yes I was speeding, but I was being passed by other cars! I get a 150.00 ticket. I know it had to be for my car.


you could have argued that man its 4 mph. all you have to do is say your new gears in your car threw your mph off by 3 mph and you didnt know it so to you it looked like the right speed

That's no excuse, really... it should have been corrected at the time of modification... they'll still ticket you because either way about it you were above the speed limit.

I'm surprised that the officers around here don't target me. I FLEW past one once and he did nothing... this was like 70-80 in a 50... he was in the right lane about to go onto a highway onramp in traffic, and my lane was empty... he had no lightbar and I had just noticed the state trooper logo on the side of the car as I went by and got the worst feeling... no more criminal speeding for me, ever. Yesterday, I was cruising with Fastlane034 here on the forums, we were doing maybe 40-41 in a 35, traffic was catching up with us. Four lanes in our direction, with space behind us, a trooper pulls up to the intersection in front of us on the right side... I downshifted to shed a couple MPH, so I ended maybe 39 in the 35 as I went past him... he didn't even seem interested, we were the biggest target in the world... 18 yr old driving a black 04 stang, followed by an even younger guy in a black 06 stang... I'm really surprised he didn't turn to follow us just to look for some stupid reason to pull at least one of us over. Thankfully, the officers around here don't seem too interested in me, that or I've been lucky. I've seen a lot of ricers pulled over, though :D


Not a good excuse anyway... I mean think about the argument. You are going to tell the cop that you got new gears in and its off by 3 MPH? Well hell, you just told him that you knew it was off and you even told him how much it was off! So if you know that its off by 3 MPH and it says you are going 50, then you know you are going 53 by your own admission!

Not saying that you should get a ticket for osmething that small... but using that argument is just plain bad, LoL

Also consider that when u do stupid sheet there are regular citizens that will call the cops & complain about you. Its difficult for the cops to do any thing because any body could be driving your car & have to prove it was you driving. So they wil eventually get to know you & your car. If they get complaints about your car they can hassel you by keeping a close eye on you & pulling you over for the smallest infraction.

You wil always get the "eye" when you drive a fast looking car.

I get the eye, I get followed, etc. All the cops in my town have no lives anyway, and I'm an easy target. [&:][&:]

If you continually behave your self they wil give up & respect your right to drive a cool car.

the cops around where i live seem to follow me but then again i am only 18 and i just got the car. its an 86 white gt 5.0 speed. it was like the 3rd day i had the car..never drove anything fast in the rain n i spun em pulling out of a turkey hill parking lot.....pulled me over....just a verba warning but now they follow me EVERYWHERE

Cops in my hometown of Boise Id almost always completely leave me alone. I rarely get tailed or followed. But a lot of em know who I am, and what I drive for a living.;)

The cops follow because there's plenty of morons out there who make it easy for them to fill their quotas. It's because of those morons that the rest of us have to get harassed from time to time.

There's a way to combat it, though.

Keep a pad of paper and a pencil with you at all times. Every time a cop gets on yer ass and just ghosts you around, copy down his plate number and the unit number. Then, pull out her cell phone, and report him/her. Unless they got some reason to be following you (ie yer wanted for something) they aren't supposed to be doing that and can get in trouble for it. It's considered harassment and provocation.

Once when I was renting a vert, some dickhead cop ghosted my bumper for nearly 30 miles, waiting for me to break speed so he could nail me. And we're not talking just cruising back a few lengths, he was right on my flip'n bumper, pushing. Fed up, I pulled out my cell phone and started looking back to read the numbers on his car, making sure he saw me doing it. Within seconds he backed off, then took off. Too late, though. I had the plate. :D

Cops should be enforcing the law, not harrassing people.

If you ask me, they should be ghosting the damn ricers. I see far more plastic-geared rice-humpers streaking down the highways around here than anything else! Gonna get someone killed... [>:]

Happends to me constantly, they've nitpicked the shi#$ out of my car, gave me a ticket for no front plate, for loud exhaust, and one for no seatbelt. I've been pulled over 10 times in the last month. And am followed almost everytime i drive my car. It's flippin annoying, lol they're gunna cause me to crash cuz i keep my eyes glued to my speedo when they follow me. I know that i should have a front plate, my exhaust is annoying but theres is louder around here, and i should wear my seatbelt, but damn there is better things to be done then to harrase me....doesnt it just bug the **** out of you when your pulled over on the side of the road for something stupid and u see like ten others breaking the law in a worse way

I'm not to worried about it here in town because I have alot of cop friends. Now out of town...that's a different story. [&:]

Never had a problem with the cops here

Recently got a ticket while I was passing someone. After that I now have cops following me whenever they see me. It's freakin bullsh!t!

I drive like a sane person. Never get on it until I'm getting onto a highway or something. I follow all the road signs to as close a T as I can possibly do it.

I'm always the one in the slow lanes getting passed. There are tons of morons who I've almost get hit by that would make cops target me as well.

::sigh:: I hate being stereotyped. Stupid muthafu**in pigs.

ORIGINAL: Arrow
Every time a cop gets on yer ass and just ghosts you around, copy down his plate number and the unit number. Then, pull out her cell phone, and report him/her. Unless they got some reason to be following you (ie yer wanted for something) they aren't supposed to be doing that and can get in trouble for it. It's considered harassment and provocation.


100% Absolute Complete BS. There is nothing preventing a cop or anyone from following your vehicle. You are driving on a public way! This is not harassment in any way shape or form and there is no law against it. Just because you don't like something...that doesn't make it illegal or against some policy.

You guys need to be proactive about defending your own rights. Start reporting the cops that follow you around like that, and make them realize that you won't settle for that crap. It's harrassment and entrapment, and they can get in trouble for it.

I never really have a problem with the cops. I know 2 of the county sheriffs, one has a grand national and one has a 74 camaro. I've raced both of them on the street before. Only time I've really had a problem with a cop in my area was when I had bungee cords holding my hood down and a state trooper saw me. I told him I was taking it too a shop to put the hood pins in and he didn't even give me a warning. I live in a red neck area and the cops are really concerned more about important stuff then following some kid in a mustang.

ORIGINAL: Arrow

You guys need to be proactive about defending your own rights. Start reporting the cops that follow you around like that, and make them realize that you won't settle for that crap. It's harrassment and entrapment, and they can get in trouble for it.


If it is against the law then please cite me the specific law that is being violated. If you cannot cite the specific law, then please tell me how you know it's illegal. I assume you have some sort of background in criminal law? Or is this something you just "heard" from other people? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's illegal.

I get it a lot. Got followed twice this past week. I just see these headlights hauling ass from 3/4 a mile away and I know it's a cop. My tires wailed a little after making a sharp turn, so I figured he was going to nail me for that. I play it cool by acting like he's a tailgater so I move over a lane to let him pass and sure enough he pops right behind me.

He followed me for about 5 blocks before pulling up next to me, flashed his light in my girlfriend's face, so I rolled down my window. Then he said "your tires bucked a little back there, I could've given you a ticket for exhibition of speed. Slow down when you turn." All the while he couldn't keep eye contact with me.. what a vagina. I say "Yeah, I heard. Thanks!"

I think cops really appreciate it when you don't slow to a crawl just because you see them. I stay at 1-5MPH over the limit and pull over so they can pass, or at least speed up so they can get behind me and slingshot around the traffic.

I used to get it a lot when I drove my stang daily. I live in one of the most over policed cities in the US, so they really have nothing better to do. It might be that my car looks like a dope dealers car, but hey its my car and Ill do whatever I goddamn please to it. But I can relate to the people that get it, one time I had gotten 8 tickets in 2 months. Granted I deserved some of em but others we're just plain BS. I got a ticket for an AIR FRESHENER, 3 points - obstruction of view and/or control, right along with that I got the same ticket for tinted windows. 6 points - wtf?!?!?!? When I got those I joked to the cop ' hell, I shouldve just killed someone with my car it wouldve only been 5 points' he didnt find it very funny. All I gotta say to them is _.|.. F. U. PIG!!!!!!! [:@]
-P.

do you think they will follow around a classic car as much?

i kinda think they will cause i ( will ) have a 1968 mustang Red W/ racing strips, V8, 2 door mucle car..

I have a habit of toying with cops... leaving it in a low gear so its a constant 3500RPM when cops are next to me, pulling up at stop lights and droppin the top, passing them going 3 over, then getting infront of them and going the speed limit....

yeah, I am pretty much asking for it, and a TON of cops follow me, and the same ones. I have seen their VIN or w/e you call it on the side of their car, and it's usually the same few guys just following me. If they get on my ass, i just got 10under... and have once gone 15 in a 40 with my hazards on...

but yeah, never had a ticket, been pulled over 6 times. One time i was close, he wsaid i was going 51 in a 45 (i knew i was going 61 the whole time). So i asked to see the radar, and he walked to his car, walked back to mine, then said I would jsut recieve a warning?

ORIGINAL: DaSweed

I have a habit of toying with cops... leaving it in a low gear so its a constant 3500RPM when cops are next to me, pulling up at stop lights and droppin the top, passing them going 3 over, then getting infront of them and going the speed limit....

yeah, I am pretty much asking for it, and a TON of cops follow me, and the same ones. I have seen their VIN or w/e you call it on the side of their car, and it's usually the same few guys just following me. If they get on my ass, i just got 10under... and have once gone 15 in a 40 with my hazards on...

but yeah, never had a ticket, been pulled over 6 times. One time i was close, he wsaid i was going 51 in a 45 (i knew i was going 61 the whole time). So i asked to see the radar, and he walked to his car, walked back to mine, then said I would jsut recieve a warning?


:) LOL gave me a great laugh. The hazard lights 15-40 was pretty funny.

Anyways my answer for the topic: NOPE, doesnt happen to me

yeah cops are dicks, some dike chick gave me a ticket about a month ago note dont get pulled by a lesbian cop there dicks to guys like us

i dont really get bothered that much... ive never had a ticket and ive never really done anything infront of them to give them a reason to follow me.. i have been followed though. it was pretty funny, i was comming back from a friends house and we were both driving our own cars. well i drove by a cope with my friend right behind me. sure enough he pulls out and starts to follow us. after 3-4 miles my friend slows down to 5 under the speed limit and i just slowly pulled away. i think he was checking out my exhaust because it was pretty loud. but ohwell its 50 state legal and if i get a ticket for it ill just go to court and prove it.. no biggy

Where i live there are cops everywhere and you dont speed unless you can afford the ticket. Im 18 and had my license suspended twice and had to take that dumb driver improvement class. Next ticket is revoking of license. Needless to say i dont speed now. Until July 23 2007 when my license is cleared... And id watch out with the flipping license plate. One of my friends did that and got pulled over by a blown 2005 GT. They have some fast cop cars, and you get your license taken and such for flipping plates.

I kno where your comming from man, im a 16 yr old guy, with a red 03 gt mustang, with black racing stripes, and 5% tint all around (wich is illegal in texas) and with the stuff i have in my car its not neccisalry quiet ethier, but one night i left my friends house at about 1am, and its probably like a 25 min drive to my house, as soon as i left my friends neighborhood i passed a cop, he literally rode my ass for the entire 25 mins untill i turned into my neighborhood, when cars were going atleast 10-15 miles over passing me, but he still stuck with me and rode my ass, it sucks bro.

also just about every time i see a cop, like even at a stop light my radar detector goes off with a laser alert like crazy, i mean com on... im stopped at a light... im not speeding douche bag

no i have no real problems, get a few DD's that think they are John Force on the interstate though....lol they crack me up... i usually toy em a lil them just floor it and wave bye....

Me and a friend both have white edge GTs and theres one black cop in town that has bitched a time or two for no reason but other than him all the cops seem ok in my town.

ORIGINAL: FrostByte

If they get complaints about your car they can hassel you by keeping a close eye on you & pulling you over for the smallest infraction.



This is absolutely true. If you are driving aggressively and someone calls 311 and reports the activity, and your license plate, the person taking the call puts a note on your dmv record. If you get pulled over, the officer will see it and take this into consideration when deciding to let you off with a warning or give you a ticket. This is kind of unfair because people can just arbitrarily call on you and say whatever they want and they'll put the note down. I'm sure there are people that would call on you just for merging into traffic, or because they are a racist, or [insert stupid reason here]. I guess the theory is if they hear from a lot of people about you, you are probably driving like an idiot and deserve a ticket.

Aside from this, this is a really interesting thread. I've been driving a stock 97 escort for a while (yea it was torture but I have a mortgage, a 5 year old, and I was biding my time8), and speed often, though I never push it too far, or drive aggressively (following closely, swerving around people, etc). Generally I just keep up with the nutcases so they don't ride my bumper. I usually stick to slow lane, but if flow of traffic is 75mph, I go with the flow. If people in slow lane are being deadbeats I pass them. I never camp the fast lane because that's begging for it.

I got a new GT because the wife's car is paid off and now I get a new car >8).

It will be interesting to see if I get pulled over in the GT as opposed to getting ignored like I did in the escort. I'm going to try really hard to not drive differently but it will be tough not to:D

I'll update this in a week or two and let the board know if anything changes. I live in a large metropolitan area so it's not like I have the only GT in town, like someone else posted, and there's only two police. If I get pulled over by all different police, then it's probably the car. I've only ever gotten one ticket a really long time ago and haven't been pulled over in the last 8 years or so.

-Viz

I've only been followed once so far in the month I've had the car. It was at night and I was the only one on the road. How long does it take to run a plate to check for warrants at 45 mph, a few hundred yards... He followed me for over 4 miles before a speeder came the other way and got priority attention. If they can't find a reason to pull you over they will make one up, in Michigan your guilty until proven innocent when it comes to traffic laws, the judge ALWAYS, with out exception, sides with the cops. The prick cops know this and think they are gods. I've been followed by the pigs for miles, so I pull into a gas station to get them off my back, he follows me in and turns on his lights and starts harrasing. Then trumps up some B.S. charge. Disagre with them and you get arrested for disorderly conduct. I had a cop follow me over a mile into another township, across the border and follow me into my work parking lot, the pig was out of juristiction. He said he was in "pursuit". Yet he didn't turn on is lights until we were in the parking lot, and the little penis prick stopped at a frickin stop light that was green for me. You run the gauntlet with the cops in the Metro Detroit area at night in any kind of bright colored sporty car.

Mike

I don't get followed because I have been driving a Crown VIC police interceptor for the past 2 yrs. I get waved at alot. It has Firefighter platesand that helps also. I was pulled over in middle of night on bridge to philly I was speeding and he pulled up behind
imediately shut off lightbar gave me a beep beep with the electric horn and drove away. I was stopped while going to a house fire( I even had My blue LED bars going. once we stopped he then pulled up along side of me and Said " my bad" and waved me away.

If you want to really get back at the ones who know you, get a better police car than they have. yours will be nice and thay have to follow you around in their beater.

I definately get harassed and followed him my town. I put QTec Exhaust cutouts under my baby, I have pretty dark tints and have temp plates from another town simply because I plan on uninsuring my car this winter. (No use getting new plates until after the rebuild this winter).

I guess I deserve it.

I may be a little behind, but...

-there are not any laws against a cop following you, but there are laws for following too close behind someone.

I have one cop that constantly badgers me, BUT HE HAS A REASON. I haven't broken a law in my town in over 2 years and he still follows me around. He has been rude to me every time I've seen him, since he had to drop the street racing charges. My friend and I went by him racing and he was out of the car, didn't get to clock us, and by the time he got in his car, we were already running the speed limit again(so he couldn't even gauge our speed). His only argument was that our engines were revved up...got lucky, but I have been careful every since.

I was with another friend riding around on a cool Friday night and there was an officer following us very, VERY closely(I mean dangerously close). A deer jumped across the highway, my buddie slammed on breaks, and we got rear-ended. The officer tried to write us up for wreckless driving even though we argued that he was following too close. A few days later, the chief of police viewed the recording off of the officers in-car camera...charges were immediately dropped.

...Police screw up just like anyone else, it's just when we screw up, they have a reason to follow us. Don't give them a reason to bother you, and they can't really do anything to you but stare and be jealous of what you have.

its not only cops but also even in my own neighborhood. people will yell to slow down even though im going like 20 in a 25. wtf?? i make sure i dont speed in the neighborhood and yet people still think im speeding. its stupid

its kinda like that car commercial where the old man gets out of this house and yells at the empty red parked car "SLOW DOWN" then mumbles somethen.. hah

nope not me

its kinda funny cuz on my way to school a cop heard my exhaust and followed me 3\4 of the way to school and didnt leave until i reached the parking lot. then i swear to god going home from school a cop in the oncoming lane tured around and followed me for like ten minutes. And thats not the first time its happened

I got followed all the time. I havent had my mustang that long, i only drove it about 2 months before i put it up for the winter and decided to do a HCI and it still not done :(
But in my old car they followed me alot, especially in this lil amish town. I've been pulled over more than 6 or 7 times in that car by the same cops, they are huge dicks too. Also a radar detector kindof helps. I also have a phaser II, and i'm pretty sure it really does work. But the first encounter i had with a cop with that it "didnt" work. He said i was going like 42 in a 25, but he was sooooo far away, it couldnt have been true. Those cops only come out like 12 hours a week, no joke. a few hours on thursday night and friday night. But they were young, and thought they were tough as ****. And at the time my speedo didnt work properly because they gears were changed and the speedo gears werent changed to match. I told him my hole situation, but he had to be a hardass and give me a ticket. I took it to court, ( didnt see the cop there by the way ) and even before i got into the court room the prosecutor wanted to talk to me. I showed him the papers that i got it fixed and i had a large stack of papers to fight the case, all about showing proof of their equipment and stuff ( pretty easy to win a traffic case if you ask for evidence ). He droped it from like 17 over to 4 over so it didnt go on my record. I paid the fine and walked away.
And running from the cops in a car is a prety bad idea, pretty hard to get away. Thats where the cock rocket comes in ;)

But yea, cops suck and they follow cars that are sporty and loud and look good, especially with a young person drivin.

I would have to agree with this statement... I have a yellow 94 GT and I am followed and pulled over all the time... I was once pulled over for doing 53 in a 50... The police officer asked how fast I thought I was going and I told him 55... He said, "No, 53... Slow it down... I am giving you a verbal warning this time." Also, I don't know how many times I have seen police officers make U turns and ride my ass for a couple of miles.... Also, I had this one state trooper follow me for 10 miles in the dark... He would turn his headlights off and flash them at me... Finally, we came to a stop light and he pulled next to me... I looked over and waved at him... When the light turned green, he sped off... The cops love my car... It sucks! I have so many other stories I could tell ya'll... lol

Oh yea I do. Here are my stories....

Ok pulling out of my work, I usually go slow so my car does't scrape, then ease up to speed. Well no one in the lane so i pull out, all of a sudden I see headlights, so I open up a little bit to get at the speed of the "car" i didn't know what it was. So I was going bout 40 in a 35. (It was pitchhh black) the car comes up on me, i stop at a light. I see it's a cop so I was alright sweet. So then I go 30 in a 30 pull in my neighborhoods new road and he pulls me over. He says, "Why you turning in here?" I say cuz i live in here.... "Oh" Thne he says, why did you accelerate so quick? I said cuz you were coming on my ass quik then he was like ok. Then said dont do it again.... I'm like WTF?! I didn't even do anything and he had no idea how fast i was going so no reason..

Then there was this....

I'm on a 35 mph road, i was going bout 38 i change lanes go up to 40 and pass a car, slow down and pass another car, and slow down. Well this cop comes from aboot a block behind me pulls me over and says, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I said these exact words, "Because I changed lanes." He said it was the way you changed lanes... I was like okay..... He said "see all these people you changed lanes infront of put on their brake lights and that tells me you cut them off. I said no because when I see I am able to change lanes with out cutting them off I change lanes... He said "See all these old people dont have the reaction time you young people do.." And let me off with not ticket.

Just because I have a mustang they think i speed, or do something illegal. Both had no right to pull me over. The second cop was a block BEHIND me and couldn't see if I cut them off..

1. I talked with a local cop about it in colorado where i'm from. He said there's over 660 moving violations possible for a motorist to commit. He said, if you're cool, not burning out at lights and being dumb, they'll leave you alone, but if you're acting dumb they'll get you for sneezing in a crosswalk. (just an outlandish not-true example, don't knock it)

2. Yeah we get harassed, but I see alot more toyota camrys and stuff like that getting pulled over than stangs. it's often the people with the average car that go fast. Us, we don't need to prove it, we already know we can.

3. Ricers should def get hit alot more than us. I live in Albuquerque right now and ricers (well, people in general) here drive SOMETHING AWFUL! I can't believe what they get away with, while I hear about our kind (dang, we sound like our own ethnicity) getting hit right and left.

Peace.

I got followed once or twice, but local cops usually are more apt to tail younger drivers. I remember once I was leaving the local post office and driving a block to a hardware store. (My car was on the loud side!) As I shifted through the gears I saw a cop parked across from the hardware store. I wasn't speeding or anything. But I'm sure he heard me coming. LOL! I turned into the hardware store parking lot and as I parked, the cop drove in and parked next to me. I rolled down my window to ask what was wrong and he kind of smiled and asked what I had as far as mods. Come to find out, he knew me from the previous car I had, a 1994 Callaway Camaro. I used to take it to a local tuner where he worked before becoming a cop. So two fellow gearheads had a neat conversation. Pretty cool cop! ;)

There are so many Mustang here in my area...it would be alot of work for the cops to follow everyone :)

Only time I've ever been pulled over in my stang was doing 135+ in a 65 which was clearly my fault. Other than that they leave me alone. Was followed
more in my jeep than my stang, but I drove my jeep like a madman, any and everywhere I could. And Ive driven by a few cops doing 15+ over the speed limit quite a few times. Im guessing the bacon around here is lazy then.

my favorite cop story:

I was driving from Boston MA to Hartford CT at like 2 am. On the mass turnpike (I-90) there are a few toll booths. As I pull into the booth and give the person my money, a black Firebird pulls up in the one next to me....

two sports cars...dead stop...perfect straight-away.....2 am.... i think you know where this is going....

we both peeled out and about 1/4 mile down the stretch we were still neck and neck.

all of a sudden we fly by a cop parked with his lights off and we both drop from like 90-100 mph to like 75 as fast as we can....the cop just flashed his brights at us a few times and never came after us

we were both lucky, cuz when we passed the cop, we were both definetly still accelerating....


never did tell who won that race [>:]

Yes, the cops check my tags whenever they are behind me. I have a Redfire 05 Roush and I get stares all the time:eek:

ORIGINAL: GT03 TJS

my favorite cop story:

I was driving from Boston MA to Hartford CT at like 2 am. On the mass turnpike (I-90) there are a few toll booths. As I pull into the booth and give the person my money, a black Firebird pulls up in the one next to me....

two sports cars...dead stop...perfect straight-away.....2 am.... i think you know where this is going....

we both peeled out and about 1/4 mile down the stretch we were still neck and neck.

all of a sudden we fly by a cop parked with his lights off and we both drop from like 90-100 mph to like 75 as fast as we can....the cop just flashed his brights at us a few times and never came after us

we were both lucky, cuz when we passed the cop, we were both definetly still accelerating....


never did tell who won that race [>:]



I hate driving on highways, because they can ticket you without ever seeing you. If you travel between 2 tolls to fast, they will send out tickets. I recieved a written warning one time, because my average speed was 73 in a 65...

Cops tail young kids in fast or fast-looking cars because kids in fast or fast-looking cars do the stupidest crap on the road.

65 year old men dont pull up next to you at a red light and start revving their engine and yelling "yo dawg yo u aint got **** ize the race car master of da werld". If older folks want to race, they know where the track is.

Young guys also think they're hot **** drivers, but really aren't. They wander over lines, dont maintain constant speeds, etc, which looks to an onlooker like a drunk.

I thought I was a kickass driver when I was 17, and realize now that I wasn't, and those cops followed me around and pulled me over for a reason.

Cops are people, and with any group of people, some of 'em are jerks, some are really cool. But they aren't stupid, and if they see you acting like a wingwang on the road once, they'll remember, and tell their colleagues "keep an eye out for the kid with the nosering in the blue mustang, saw him doing burnouts in the 7-11 the other night"

Hmmm... I never get harrassed or pulled over. In fact I see the opposite, people seem to behave in their driving around me.

Is that because of the "Active Member - Fraternal Order of Police" license plate frames? hahaha :)

Cheers,
Kevin

not really cause there are soo many mustangs around here... (tampa) but the speed bumps are horrible

I find it amazing that you all hate cops because they pulled you over when you were speeding or doing something else wrong. If your car was stolen, broken in to or hit who are you going to call ~ not the ghostbusters! If your doing something wrong and get caught, don't wine about - it's your fault! I don't have any problems with the cops and I don't know any of them. I do my fair share of speeding and such, but if I do it and get caught - my fault. (knock on wood) And as far as being followed, nobody thinks the cop is going the same direction as you are? Just my .02

ORIGINAL: Greedy

Happends to me constantly, they've nitpicked the shi#$ out of my car, gave me a ticket for no front plate, for loud exhaust, and one for no seatbelt. I've been pulled over 10 times in the last month. And am followed almost everytime i drive my car. It's flippin annoying, lol they're gunna cause me to crash cuz i keep my eyes glued to my speedo when they follow me. I know that i should have a front plate, my exhaust is annoying but theres is louder around here, and i should wear my seatbelt, but damn there is better things to be done then to harrase me....doesnt it just bug the **** out of you when your pulled over on the side of the road for something stupid and u see like ten others breaking the law in a worse way


what do you mean you dont wear a seatbelt????????

Yes I have had cops follow me for 5 or 6 miles before finally getting bored. It sucks [:@]

LOL Love the donut comment.... And yes i do eat donuts :P... (and imagine i am still not fat)
Well lets start by saying that i am a Deputy Sheriff... Thereare several reasons for a "cop" to see our cars and follow you and check your plates or as some of you say harass you. Just imagine this for a second .. Your car gets stolen. Hmm what a concept.. cop sees your fancy ass kicker and well its simpletheyliketo look at it. But ask yourself, what ifyour car was stolen (you own a nice car why wouldntsomeone want to steel it?)and the cops just drive by it because they figure well that guy will just get pissed for me following him... and yet he could have found your stolen car (imagine how many stolen vehicles and warrants are attached to license plates its a common action by the police not just directed at you). AND MOST OF ALL YOU OWN A FLASHY CAR IT WILL GET NOTICED BY EVERYONE!! so you speed or do some stupid **** your screwed.... simple concept if your gonna break the law dont do it in stupid places.. such as a school zone. talk about pull ur head out of ur ass. I do agree however that there are cops that will just be prics and mess with you over and over. its a simple concept, go to the police station or sheriff's department and file a WRITTEN complaint.. A written complaint will force the department to do an investigation on the officer... If your going to do this have ur facts ready dates of contacts andactions done by the officer, the reason he said he contacted you and so on... As for license plate lights.. I refuse to contact and idividual for that purpose unless i need to contacted the vehicle for a seperate serious offence (suspition of transporting drugs weapons gang bangerssomething should i say important). and being contacted for 79 in a 75 is a BS contact!

Inturn keep in mind that id say its 50:50.. Just keep in mind what you have done to attract the attention. You screw up time after time ya yourgoing toget contacted again and again. to sum it up leave them alone and they will leave you alone...... If your not doing anything wrong then dont be so paranoid...

i do appologize for the rant

FINAL statement window tint that is to dark is a safety issue for the vehicle operator and police... how well can you see out the side windows an night??? and to educate you on the exhaust.. In almost every state in theUS it is illegal to modify your factory exhaust to emitt a louder sound then the factory exhaust.. it is illegal to modify your suspention unless you have a factory installed suspention.. If you have any of these problems you can be pulled over time and time again untill you fix the problem.
Ok here is my point i cruis my car out of town denver, vail, avon, silverthornearea where i do not live! I live approximately 100 miles from denver.. the point here is my window tint is to dark i have no front license plate my front window tint is to low onto the windshield and as we all know with a fast car what do you do? SPEED.. I have never been pulled over or followed by the police. infact i welcome to be followed. why because by chance one day that my car is stolen i am glad to know that the police are doing there job and just may find it before it gets to the chop shop...........................
Sorry to add i read the last two pages of the forum.
Most of the posts in this forum seem like whining. STOP!
SPEED = TICKET
DARK WINDOW TINT = TICKET
LOUD ANNOYING (STUPID EXHAUST) = TICKET
LOUD STEREO = TICKET
YOU DWD (DRIVING WHILE DUMB) = TICKET

GROW UP AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DRIVING LIKE A JACKASS

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE GETTING SCREWED ARROUND PLEASE REFER TO MY PREVIOUS POST ON TAKING CARE OF THE ISSUE

ive actrually been getting followed horribly lately... on my way back from school is where they get me.. im always good about following laws and such.. so since the new year ive been pulled over 7 times, 1 was a inspectioin ticket that was fine, the other 6 were verbal warnings to slow down... hah mind you i got pulled over in the right lane behind a car for speeding.......(anouther verbal warning):eek: so now i have a little note pad in my car, im going to go and complain to the town after i get 10 cases where ive been followed.. at this rate i should have them by july.

The Memphis cops never mess with me, not even the cop that was tailgating me when my tags were out of date and I did not have Cats on the car. It seemed I was going too slow for him. It may be my age or the worthless cops in Memphis. I drive through school zones all the time and people fly past me and there is never a cop to stop them. Try living in a crime infested city and you don't have to worry about tickets, but not getting your car stolen is a different story. I do travel alot and got a few tickets in a small town where the cop told me the speed zone starts at the "Reduce Speed Ahead" sign, so I was speeding. The next time I was driving through that town I got a ticket when I was leaving town because I spead up to the speed on the sign I could see, but the cop said the speed zone starts after I get past the sign.

I definately get the stink eye from cops more now since I got the Mustang. I suppose it doesn't help that it's red. I had a modded Grand Prix and it was still invisible. It was a lot easier to mess around on the streets and not get noticed.

haha nope. cause i don't even have my license just yet. but i got a 04 gt and my friend and i were doin 120 in 4th and i live right between 2 cops. but they ain't **** haha j/k

I got pulled over by a local who was looking for a reason. He felt I had not come to a complete stop when taking a right. After I was finished sucking up he gave me a warning and sent me on my way. Because he looks at my car whenever I see him, I feel we are now buddies and I smile and wave. Recently, he was on traffic duty, saw me, said something to his fellow officer, and they both waved.

Get to know every cop in town and never sh** in you own backyard.

ORIGINAL: Margarita Girl

I got pulled over by a local who was looking for a reason. He felt I had not come to a complete stop when taking a right. After I was finished sucking up he gave me a warning and sent me on my way. Because he looks at my car whenever I see him, I feel we are now buddies and I smile and wave. Recently, he was on traffic duty, saw me, said something to his fellow officer, and they both waved.

Get to know every cop in town and never sh** in you own backyard.






Perhaps he had other reasons.

Like my glowing personality and quick wit? Or are you applying for that job?

Sorry, Giddyupgo, couldn't resist.

I get followed because I have the bright hugger orange...but once they realize its a 4banger they let off...but some aren't smart enough to know so they follow me anyway...I have actually had a cop ask why I was going so slow (i was going up a hill)....I looked him in the eye and said..."It's just a four banger"...then he kinda just shut up and said to drive a bit faster...

another reason why I was going slow is because I get nervous as hell when they follow me like that :|

ORIGINAL: krush3dr3amz

me and friends with mustangs have come to this conclusion
a nice looking mustang is like a donut on wheels to most cops.... lol


LMAO

ORIGINAL: Smallpox33

not true man i got ****ed by the police so many times i dont have a license right now. In fact once i turned on to a road that was a school zone for 500 feet but it said end school zone 25 mph and i went to 28 and got clocked after the sign by a cop sitting in someones driveway at 28 mph in a school zone that was supposed to be 15. yeah and if ur car is really clean they seem to follow you. i see cops follow suv's with big rims alot around here. its a scare tactic. im working on a flip license plate right now. no joke.


:Dhahahahhaa im sorry but that is some funny ass stuff!!

You get marked once you own a stang Welcome to the club:D

i got busted twice in a week. both for speeding but the first onelet me go when i did an unreasonable 60 miles on a 45 miles zone. the second one ticketed me for going the same amount but there was no posted speedlimit. i learned my lesson that day. sometimes i would think if you had stripes on your car, toocops would look at you kind ofsuspicious.

Well lets see. Ive gotten 3 tickets now all from the same cop giving tickets while my car is parked at school for too dark of tint on front windows and no front license plate and got another one today! HATERS!

i know this is off topic but that's a really cool mustang you got. i love the back spoiler.