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
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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..
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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.
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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!
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.
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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....
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"
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
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????????
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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... There are 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 simple they like to look at it. But ask yourself, what if your car was stolen (you own a nice car why wouldnt someone 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 and actions 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 bangers something 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 your going to get 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...
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 the US 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, silverthorne area 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) 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.
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