I plead the 5th. The one time I shoulda gotten smacked hard I didn't.

Hmm... actually there is one I can tell. Was back in Houston when I had a XJ6. After work, I stopped at Joe's Crab Shack for happy hour and food. During the 4 hours I was there I had 1 beer and a lot of food. So knowing I was completely straight to drive home. I do, driving the speed limit mostly (seriously, it's Texas. Driving the limit means you're guilty of something) and I get pulled over.

He never said why, just the standard speech (license, registration, insurance). I give and wait 20 mins while he runs every thing. He comes back, says I've been drinking and wants to test me. Sure, why not? Apparently I suck at field tests because he takes me to city. There I demand a breathalyzer, on which I blow a .01 which means I've smelled alcohol in the past day. From time of pulling me over to downtown to testing, perhaps 45 min - 1hr has passed. And the cop still insists I'm impaired. Call to Mom, tell her where my emergency cash is and get bailed out almost 48 hrs later (worst idea in Texas: get pinched on a Friday night).

When I finally had my day in court, I told the prosecutor to get stuffed on his plea bargain and demanded trial. Court appointed defense got a gimme and the officer got a warning from the judge about wasting his time

 

Back in 'the day' some of the uk cops were pretty cool;

I was cruising at 100mph with a mate on the back. I was with another rider, also two up. I couldn't see properly in the mirror and took a glance back. I yelled to my mate "Is that a cop behind us?" I had to yell it three times before he replied "Oh, Yeah."

The guy was really laid back and just said "Take it a bit easy will you fellas? I don't want to clean up the mess!" He left it at that.

Another time I was dragging my mate from the lights at 2.00am in the middle of London. (Yes I was young and daft!). This was great fun until we realised the cops were behind us in an unmarked car! Suddenly there were cop cars everywhere and we were pulled over. The two in the first car had a chat with the others and they left. One of the cops asked me "What on earth do you think you are doing mate?" I replied "Just blowing out the cobwebs officer" with a big grin.

He said "the motorway is the place for that." I couldn't believe I'd heard that from a cop. Turned out they were both into bikes and asked how fast our bikes went etc. Then one just said "Have a nice night lads." and they left.

That sort of **** just doesn't happen now .

 

Many nights coming home from the nearest city, 30 min away, I always happen to have a state trooper end up behind me. I never see him and its a long stretch of dark road and you can see cars from a mile away so i figure hes running no headlights before hes about 10 feet from me. Its usually 2am or later so there is probable cause, but still no pretty lights in the mirror.

 

whoopsies just had another run in of my own. Walking out of my friends apartment with a beer and i step on the sidewalk as a campus police officer pullls up besides me and stops. I look at him and toss the beer in the bushes and shrug my shoulders. He shook his head at me and drove off.

 

Waste of good beer. You're underage I assume?

 

I have a vaguely funny story. I was on an old Yamaha RZ350 and those suckers are light and quick. I was pissed about something one day and the traffic was making it worse. I did a rapid lane change, squeezing between two cars. A cop saw me and pulled me over. He seemed quite alarmed at what I'd done and my pissy attitude didn't help. Result: a lecture and a ticket.

At the time I was working for my aunt who was a prominent lawyer in town. First she contacted the officer directly to see if he'd drop the ticket. He was quite adamant that he would not. Next she contacted his supervisor (or some other kind of superior, don't remember exactly) who was also an acquaintance. He inquired with the officer about dropping the ticket. Again, he wouldn't budge. One of the ladies we worked with was friends with a guy at another law firm who was an old high school buddy of this cop. We enlisted him to act on my behalf. No luck. The old high school buddy then turned us on to his wife and she said, "Don't worry, if he ever wants some again he'll take care of the ticket." Next thing you know, the ticket disappeared.

I had this image of this poor cop getting hit relentlessly at every angle to drop the ticket. Must have pissed him off so bad that he decided he wouldn't drop it in a million years. So he goes home to be with his wife and even she is on his case about it. I can just see him yelling, "You've got to be kidding me! Okay, okay, I'll drop the damn ticket already!"

By that point I'm sure the guy just wanted to be rid of me.

 

you cant be drinking in public, doesnt matter if youre of age or not

 

You can if you are on your property. He could have easily just walked back inside if he was of age. I remember when I went to Vegas it was a complete trip to be walk anywhere with a beer or a drink in hand. I love that town.

 

haha thats so funny

 

I don't drink too, and got stop at road block just because I had lifted 4x4 with tinted window. I rolled down the window and he saw me and 2 small dogs inside smiling at him. He totally had the surprise look. ha ha Then while another cop was running my plate etc, he kept talking about his dog. He told me " Have a nice evening" as he handed me back my license and registration.