RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by cops all the time?? is it just cause we have mustle cars
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 8/28/2006 5:11:04 PM
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SPARTAN VI
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 8/28/2006 5:28:57 PM
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P Zero
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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!!!!!!! 
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 8/28/2006 6:58:40 PM
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Sean W.
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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..
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 8/28/2006 9:57:17 PM
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DaSweed
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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?
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/22/2006 3:39:21 AM
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BmX
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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
< Message edited by BmX -- 9/22/2006 3:40:34 AM >
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/22/2006 11:44:41 AM
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Anthonyandmarisol
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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
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/22/2006 1:44:23 PM
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MustangMadness7
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/22/2006 1:46:15 PM
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chetsexington
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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
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/22/2006 3:48:36 PM
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7upedition
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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....
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/22/2006 4:01:56 PM
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perfect.disguise
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/23/2006 1:49:08 AM
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viza
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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
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
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/23/2006 5:34:32 PM
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bluegill
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/24/2006 2:12:24 AM
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squad272
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/24/2006 10:33:29 PM
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Jexey
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/26/2006 8:40:04 AM
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SuperHoss
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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.
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RE: Does anybody get harrased "Followed" by c... - 9/26/2006 9:58:55 AM
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tightdogal
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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
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