Ass-Hat police officers

[Rev Den]

you are...Extremely anal retentive... just likes to pick on other people on the net.

I resemble that remark.

Rev

 

[RichP]

You know what cracks me up about this whole thread? Every single one of you that have jumped his case would have been equally pissed if it would have been you.

He was in a place that is pretty much a parking lot in the mountains on a very small dirt road. NOT on the highway, NOT even on a rural country road!

If one of you can tell me if you were in your rig, checking your flex or moving up 50 fee to get out again and you put your seatbelt on then you are either.

A. Extremely anal retentive and probably think it should be a law to wear knee pads when you.....do whatever extremely anal retentive guys do on their knees.

or B. are just a liar who likes to pick on other people on the net.

Like I said at the beginning, there is the letter of the law and the intent, they were enforcing the letter of the law which makes them asshats, same as game depts that use the confiscation drug laws to steal cars when the owners come out of the woods, open their tailgate on their pickup and sit on it while they unload their rifle, letter of the law is thats a loaded weapon in a vehicle, felony, intent was for the drug agencies to seize assets, all the other police agencies see it as a free ticket to seize other items.

 

[DrMoab]

I also wanted to mention that in Utah they cannot pull you over for a seatbelt violation. They can pull you over for a busted tail light and give you a seatbelt ticket, but a seatbelt violation is not a primary offence. If these cops did what this guy said they did....they were in the wrong.

 

[bjoehandley]

DrMoab You know what cracks me up about this whole thread? Every single one of you that have jumped his case would have been equally pissed if it would have been you.

Sounds right on the money to me.

RichP Quote:

Like I said at the beginning, there is the letter of the law and the intent, they were enforcing the letter of the law which makes them asshats, same as game depts that use the confiscation drug laws to steal cars when the owners come out of the woods, open their tailgate on their pickup and sit on it while they unload their rifle, letter of the law is thats a loaded weapon in a vehicle, felony, intent was for the drug agencies to seize assets, all the other police agencies see it as a free ticket to seize other items.

That has to be fightable in court!

DrMoab I also wanted to mention that in Utah they cannot pull you over for a seatbelt violation. They can pull you over for a busted tail light and give you a seatbelt ticket, but a seatbelt violation is not a primary offence. If these cops did what this guy said they did....they were in the wrong.

Unfortunetly the State of Illinois has fixed that problem, they can stop you for that legally now. Mom hates seatbelts and had all but refused to wear one up until the last couple of years when my sister and myself started insisting that she wears one so that we didn't get pulled over when she rode with us. When I had my Shadow it was kinda funny when I picker her up from work in it for the first time in that car, I tought she was going to crawl through the sunroof the first time that car put the belt on for her after she closed the door! I'm still kinda curious how far out of the driveway my Sister's boyfriend was when he got got his ticket.

 

[lawsoncl]

I also wanted to mention that in Utah they cannot pull you over for a seatbelt violation. They can pull you over for a busted tail light and give you a seatbelt ticket, but a seatbelt violation is not a primary offence. If these cops did what this guy said they did....they were in the wrong.

I used to live in MD, where they would pull you over under a bogus reason like "unsafe lane change" or "passing through a yellow light" (which is legal in MD, but not in DC). They would issue a verbal warning because you can't appeal or fight a verbal or written warning. Of course now that they have you pulled over they can write the ticket for the seatbelt they could clearly see you weren't wearing.

They also used to sit outside the bars and use this tactic to pull the outgoing customers over just so they could get a closer look and do a roadside sobriety check on the ones that didn't seem coherent enough. Just a way of fudging a reason to pull you over and look for other violations.

 

[dmillion]

You know what cracks me up about this whole thread? Every single one of you that have jumped his case would have been equally pissed if it would have been you.

Nope. Wrong.

In the first place, I would have been wearing my seatbelt, so it wouldn't have happened to me. In the second place, I might have been pissed about it, but I wouldn't have come on hear whining about the "ass-hat police officers." I would have maybe complained about the law, and about how friggin' stupid it was of me to get caught, but I would NOT have blamed it on the cops and pretended like I was the victim here.

Sorry, but you're just completely wrong about this.