Whats your best line after getting pulled over, and did it work?
Its always good to have a back up line. Just used mine and it didn't work. I think he actually gave me the obstruction of view because I was really trying to lay it on thick.
Ladies, the time of the month excuse doesn't work. I told him I was in a rush, hence the speeding.
Snoopy
LOL I was speeding cause my sister was in labor..It worked we were really on our way to hospital but she was not in labor yet
I got pulled over once for speeding. I was having a kidney stone attack. As he walk3ed up to the car I had an immediate urge to vomit. I looked at him and said excuse me I am very sick can you step aside. As he did I vomitted! He sent me on my way without saying a word. I think I may have gotten his shoes but never noticed.
Christine 
I got pulled over for speeding and said.........Guess I didnt see ya soon enough. Honesty is the best policy, didnt get ticketed. :)
abbadabbadooooo I'm not above crying but my brother is a cop and he gave us mini badges and wallets for them so now I just pull that out. Due to professional courtesy, they usually just say have a nice day! That's what happened a month ago when I got pulled over on 46 in Independance while doing 60 in a 45.
Soccrgrl08 got pulled over the cop asked why i was speeding and i said "i was just going with the flow of traffic" he said "traffic was way ahead of you" i said "i was trying to catch up!" no ticket :)
shoebie trying to get to a bath room so i dont have to pull over roadside then get arested for peeing in public
Caged Animal soccrgrl08
What are you, crazy? Why would you get your brother in trouble and why do you want to give cops a bad name? Now people will be bitc*%)@! about that - doctors get perks for their families, as do politicians, judges, and most people. Police on the other hand are not well liked and I am sure you will hear wise comments regarding your statement. If I was your brother I would take back whatever it was he gave you and keep it till you learn to keep your trap closed.
frustrated what are you special soccergirl ? Do the laws not apply to family members of our finest ?
Please Ease up frustrated!!!!! We have enough indesirable posters on this forum. I said please too so don't go off the handle.
Ryan(ligitty) I can't believe I just did what I did, I have lived here for 55 years and I sure as hell know better than that!
(after making a left hand turn at a red light with a cop right behind me)
and yes, it worked
Really Frustrated? The family cards are NOT a secret society. Most everyone knows they exist. To bring it to light to those that do not know, is not a betrayal to her brother. It just shows that favoritism is alive and well amongst NJ cops. Nothing new.
L.A. Cops Daughter wow frustrated calm down a notch as la cops daughter said its not a secret at all. Its just the family version of a PBA card why so hostile
Recently DH got pulled over in Great Meadows. We saw the Trooper pass us in the opposite direction and the next thing we knew he was pulling us over. DH passed the "family card" that we'd gotten from my cousin, and I explained that DH usually goes to H'town via Rt 80, and I was showing him an alternate route, and he was unaware that he'd gone over the speed limit. He didn't get a ticket, but the guy grilled us for about 5 minutes about my cousin, where he works, for how long, etc, etc. Turned out he knew a lot of guys in the same area, but didn't know my cousin. I know people won't like it, but we're certainly not the only one's who've done it...
Lori...since '73 I never pull out my card for a traffic stop I save it for big trouble or when i need help
Well, I wasn't speeding, but I was in an accident (I had been hit by someone running a stop sign) in a quiet residential area. It was not a horrendous accident, but I was a teenager, and I was nervous and upset, needless to say. The police officer was asking me a few questions after the accident to figure out what happened, and he asked me how fast I was driving. I really didn't remember, so I said, "Well, what's the speed limit?" (I wasn't speeding, I just was trying to say that I was surely going the speed limit, whatever it was, lol.)
The only thing that "worked" is that I knew never to say that again!
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Hopeful in H-town So if you cause an accident while speeding all is forgiven if you are related to a cop? Nice! 60 in a 45 is bad especially in an area like Independence where there are many twists and turns. Oh well. :( I guess we should all watch out for cop relatives who think they can do whatever if they have some special badge they can flash.
youngnfresh I'm disgusted at the family/friend card's that people use to get out of tickets. It's blatant corruption. You should get a ticket just for owning one. The Supreme law of the land of USA is everyone must obey the law.EVERYONE! Why is this OK?
With that in mind the best line is my brother,father or friend is a cop because the law doesn't apply to the friends and family of police officers.
What I want to know is when Snoopy said, "Hook me up soccergirl!!!!," to the cop, did that really work?
Hackettstown Harold I have a gold card as well, and got yelled at once for NOT using it. The cop knew the family member that gave me the card, recognized my name, and asked me where my card was, I sheepishly pulled it out, he was like "i was about to give you a huge ticket, you have a family member on the force who I happen to be friends with, plus an unusual last name you are lucky I recognized it. You have a card! Use it!" and then he let me go... I later received a similar call from the family member admonishing me for not using my card.
njchia "officer i swear to drunk I'm not god" lol
i herd this in a joke one time but i forget the joke
but ive never been pulled over but these are all funny
Deadhead the family cards should be banned.. that so not right !! break the law but ya know a cop so that is okay.... if ya caused and accident and the other person landed up being hurt ....thats okay??? it not like getting a store discount for knowing someone who works at a store....this is about safety!!!!
that not fair no family cards are a good thing when i had my wielder towed off an stolen they helped find it more so i will npt use it for a trafic stop
I don't get it. If you break the law and have a family card, you get off. If I break the law and don't have a family card, I don't? What's up with that?
cbel One of my favorite sayngs. "It's all about who you know" cbel.
BTW, the reason the officers ask you all the questions about who gave you the card they want to make sure you really know them. They dont always work. Had a firend who had one and he took it and still gave her a ticket. Same with the stickers yousee on peoples cars. Its suppose to help you when you are pulled over. Doesnt always work. I have never had one so really wouldnt know but it is kind of like playhing favorites isnt it?
I just sya if you are doing the right thing you wont have a problem.
I know that, Christine. It's just not right. But then I'd be very happy living in a Pollyanna world. Not going to happen, I know.
This is a story that supposedly happened 20 or more years ago. It concerned the first female state trooper in Warren County. As I was told, she was on duty and patroling Rt. 517 when she saw a car speeding and weaving. She put on lights and siren and pulled over the gentleman. When stopped he gave her his documents, she asked him to step out of the car for a sobriety test. He said "Do you know who I am"? Her answer was "You are the man who is getting a ticket". He then said "I am Judge Hibler". She answered with "You are still the man who is getting a ticket". As the story goes, it was not long after, that she was transferred to somewhere in South Jersey.
I cannot attest to the veracity of this, but that was the story going around town all those years ago.
Tanya Tanya: True or not, it's a good story. Do the deed, pay the consequences, no matter who you are.
CARNi From what I have been told, they take the card and return it to the person that you got it from (who has signed it). That person can then decide to talk to you about it or give it back to you if they want. But I've never had to use mine so I can't be certain.
Reggie Voter I have also heard thats story and so many more of Judge Hibler! Some that would make your skin crawl. But they are stories and have never been able to confirm or deny them.
I dont think the cards should be in existence. Did they start doing them to raise money for PBA or something similiar? I really dont remember.
I've never been pulled over for speeding or anything but I got pulled over for my license plate light being out and I handed over my family card and the cop took it and gave me a ticket. I had that card for three years and I never used it because I felt like a fool but my brother kept pushing it saying I should so I finally did and it gets taken away! It wasn't a big loss for me I just thought that was amusing. I may have misunderstood my brother but what he pretty much told me was that they actually appreciate when you show the family card, because it's disrespectful to another cop to give a relative of theirs a ticket and if you show the card you are actually giving the cop a break. Who knows!
My best line was when a much much much older male officer pulled me over for not using my blinker on a right hand turn, he asked if I realized that I did not use my blinker, I said, "Of course! I saw you sittin' on the side of the road and thought you were so good lookin' that it would make my day if a handsome officer like you pulled me over and asked for my most personal details." He appreciated my lame attempt at a joke and let me go!
cbel, I agree with you, but if it is true, I feel sorry for that poor girl. She just started working here and the big powerful judge made her disappear because she stood up to him, when he was in the wrong.
Wow, I post something to read and get a few chuckles, instead of course, I read arguments and poster bashing. Good grief charlie brown!!!!
Anyone else have an amusing run in with law, and verbally get away without a ticket, not using a card?
Tanya: I just tell myself that "Ours is not to reason why" ... and, Karma takes care of all things in time.
Rebecka I tried, "are u sure that you were operating that high tech radar right; I mean that field rabbit just passed me" to hear "mr harold, I am the instructor......"
no ticket though.
My Dad went through a stop sign once. It was late at night and he did a "rolling stop", there was nothing in sight and he drove through. But there was a police officer sitting in the dark and he pulled him over. He asked my Dad if he saw the stop sign. Instead of being honest and telling him why he didn't come to a complete stop, he said no, he didn't see it. The officer said "You didn't see that big red sign with the word "Stop" on it? My Dad not only got the ticket but also a court ordered eye test. He passed the test. If he had been honest, the officer might have given him a break.
My friend was pulled over by the Rockaway Police int he mall parking lot at Christmas time. He was racing around the lot to find a spot. The cop pulled him over, asked "Do you know why I pulled you over?" And his reply? "You found me a spot up front??" No ticket:)
The regular plasticy cards they take from you and return to the officer who gave it to you. The family cards are metal and engraved with your name, and they are the property of the person whose name is on them, the officers are not allowed to take them.
My wife got a PBA card from her cousin and gave it to the State Trooper who pulled her over for doing 80-something in a 65 on Route 78. The trooper asked her what department her cousin was out of and she didn't know, so he figured she was lying, I guess, and kept the card and wrote her the ticket.
She called her cousin (the guy who showed up at the airport for his honeymoon with an expired passport, if you recall the "Are you married to the dumbest man on earth" thread) and explained what happened and he said that he would call the trooper and fix it. I told her that he was full of sh*t, that once the ticket was written, it wasn't about to be unwritten, courtesy or no courtesy.
So, we show up for court on the date prescribed on the ticket (being this was her first ticket and I've been to just about every muni court in Warren and Hunterdon Counties at one point or another, I figured I could show her how to get the charges knocked down by the prosecutor) and we sit and watch the typical human dramas that unfold every day of the week at one of the various municipal courts in our part of the world. They really should charge admission; some of the things you see and hear are extremely amusing.
Anyway, she comes back from her appointment with the prosecutor with a little smirk on her face and won't tell me what the prosecutor said. Eventually, the court clerk calls her name and she goes up in front of the judge. The prosecutor then tells the judge that the State Trooper asked that the charges be dismissed due to "lack of evidence". From the judge's reaction, you could tell that it wasn't something that he heard often in the courtroom, but he acceded to the request and we walked out of there without so much as having to pay court costs. It turns out that her cousin was a Port Authority cop and went to the Academy with the Trooper or something... some pretty amazing coincidence. I doubt if he would have done it for just any fellow man in blue.
ianimal I don't have a certain line I use, but there are certain things you can do, and I have done, to lessen the chances of getting a ticket.
You gotta realize that every time a cop pulls someone over, he/she has no idea if this is going to be the one - the car that's been stolen or something, and maybe the driver has a gun ready to shoot the officer, or a driver who is going to give them some other major problem.
The best thing to do is to make the officer feel as much at ease as possible. First, pull over all the way to the side of the road as possible, so he/she isn't standing near oncoming traffic. Then, turn your interior lights on, if at night, so he doesn't worry as much that you are up to something. Don't fumble around looking for your wallet and documents, because that makes them nervous as well, because they don't know what you are reaching for.
Then, place both you hands on the steering wheel so when the cop comes up to your car, they see them. This puts the cop so much at ease that if you humble yourself and plead your case, many times they will let you go.
I used to get tickets all the time when I was young, but since I was told of those strategies, the few times I've been pulled over in the last 15 years or so, I did not get a ticket.
Rich I agree with Rich. I've been pulled over with some of my friends and they don't turn down their music, start going through the glove box before the officer even comes to the car, and leave their window up. I used to get tickets ALL the time, but since I've learned a few things, I never get them anymore (knock on wood). I pull over, put my flashers on, turn the car off (not all the way off but just to where the radio and lights are on, not sure what that's called), make sure my music is down, put down my window, and turn on my interior lights. And when the cop asks for my credentials I'll say "It's in my purse in the back seat, do you care if I reach back?" or "I have to go into the glovebox, is that ok?" I've been thanked by officer's for asking before rather than just turning around and going through stuff behind my seat, etc.
Q: Sir, do you have any idea how fast you were going?
A: Hell no! Speedometer only goes up to 85!
Q: Why were you going so fast?
A: I wasn't going fast. If I was speeding, sir, I would have put my seat belt on!
Q: Do you know why I pulled you over?
A: You were bored? (add stupid facial expression)
PSA: I highly doubt any of these dumb responses will work.
DTJ - Accessory
Rich & DTJ - likewise. I do everything I can to make the officer feel safe.
Gotta love the hypocrisy from some of the poster's here :)
OP: Forget the "lines" and take your lumps. Just like the rest of the chumps who pay all those fines and tickets that support your local government and police force.
justintime I got pulled over recently for talking on my cell, and the cop told me that was why he pulled me over. He then asked me quickly “what was the nature of the call?” I chuckled a bit, and told him that I was speaking to my son. I then told him that I liked his question. (He was actually trying for me incriminate myself with the question) He checked my documents, warned me about the cell use and let me go, thanking me for my honesty
Q: why were you driving so fast?
A: If I wasn't so busy sending a text msg I would have seen you sooner and slowed down!
I know, I know.... Don't quit you day job!
This happened years ago. I was on 46 east just past the old Island park, on my way home to H-town, I was in my early 20's NOT speeding or drinking about 11:00 at night. That was the week their was a stalker pretending to be a police officer, I remember it being in the news. The (state) officer must have seen me going through the 46&57 green light. I was really affraid, it was dark and I couldn't see his car because of his lights blinding me. In those days they didn't cock their vehicle to the side. He came up and asked for my documents. I rolled my window (no power either) down just enough to slip it thru. I told him I was uneasy putting my window all the way down because he could be the stalker. He was taken back for a moment. Oh course he said he was not. I asked him if he was sure and he said yes. I said I'm sorry but I don't know that for sure can you prove it. I was young and not thinking, so I asked him all kinds of stuff including seeing his license, we went around and around about it, finally he started to laugh and just gave up. He handed my paper work back, told me to have a safe trip home and walked back to his car just shaking his head. Never did get around to why he pulled me over. obtw he wouldn't show me his license.
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