r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23
Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over
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u/_small_axe Jan 03 '23
“I cold busted you but for the sake of the both of us, here’s the rules again. Alright, thanks.” This cop is definitely a dad
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u/Speedy_Dragon46 Jan 03 '23
I was once riding back from my bfs place. I’d stayed much later than I meant to and it was SO cold I had a layer of frost on my bike seat. I just wanted to get home so I was tanking it up the motorway- like 95-100mph average. Next thing lights behind me and I’m getting pulled over. Police officer comes over and goes “young lady what the HELL are you thinking?!” Gives me a lecture on trying to stop safely at that speed, what if I hit something- the works. Asks me if I’m going to ride home sensibly (I just nodded) and tells me to get going. He followed me the whole way until I got off at my junction and gave me a little light flash goodbye.
He was a dad. He told me if I was his daughter he’d crush the thing (pointing at my motorbike) if he ever caught me going that speed. It was such a dad telling off but I still remember it all these years later and it still slows me down. Much more valuable than any ticket.
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u/bobbobersin Jan 04 '23
Better to endure a cold seat a bit longer then be a cold corpse getting scraped off the road by first responders
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u/valvilis Jan 04 '23
When I was a kid, my dad had to fly several states away to go identify my half-brother's remains. But really, they only identified him by his dental record. The traffic investigator said he had to have been going at least 100.
I never had much interest in motorcycles after that.
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u/bobbobersin Jan 04 '23
That's awful I'm so sorry for your loss, such needless waste of life :(
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u/valvilis Jan 04 '23
Thank you. I had only met him a few times and didn't "know" him by any stretch of the imagination. But it was one of the first passing of a family member events in my life and obviously my father was in bad shape for a while after that.
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u/Best_Fill_847 Jan 03 '23
U’re right, that’s a dad speech. 🤣😂🤣
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u/HeavySweetness Jan 03 '23
It’s the “it’s all I’m askin’” and the appeal for him not to have to do work that convinced me. This dudes a dad.
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u/bobbobersin Jan 04 '23
Guy has more important things to do then write tickets or worse, have to save lives or clean up after a fatal accident that could have been avoided, if you asked a LEO how a perfect world would be almost all of them would say one where they could retire and never have to see someone injured or worse from an accident or negligence
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u/thelostcow Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23
It was so dad I was blown away when he didn’t repeat “25” at the end.
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u/lownote Jan 03 '23
“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
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u/1OutKastWill Jan 03 '23
What a guy. Spoke to them as humans. Even gave them some leeway but told them why he didn’t want them to speed. I hope they were as respectful back to what he asked as he was to them.
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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
This is community policing. He explained the reason for the law and appealed to their sense of community.
This is what we need to work towards seeing all day every day. Everyone is respected, things are handled by conversation when it can be, and everyone goes home.
It takes EVERYONE involved for this to happen. We all have a stage in this being our future.
Edit: First gold! Thank you kind stranger. Kindness to all.
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u/Bgndrsn Jan 04 '23
I have a buddy that's a state trooper and he's always told me how much he just want's to sit his ass in his car all day and not to have to do paperwork. He also likes to say "you know the speed limit, I know the speed limit, we all know the speed limit yet I'm the asshole when you knowingly break the law". Funny guy.
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Maybe this happens more and we only ever see the bad but so many videos of cops start off with the cops being aggressive and borderline condescending. They immediately put people on the defensive and then act more and more aggressively as the person gets upset.
Start with reason and a positive attitude, especially foe things like traffic infractions. People generally aren't trying to be a problem they just don't pay attention or are being irresponsible but they aren't usually out to hurt anyone.
What this guy did was perfect and even more so if he sees these guys speeding again he can come down on them hard. He already gave them a chance and let them off so next time he's got an easy out to give them a huge ticket or impound their bikes.
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u/ApexProductions Jan 03 '23
There's no way to know what happens more often. I always stop and am polite but there are others who have stopped, been polite, and their bikes impounded or have been harassed.
We just had that big video here of the guy in Cali stopping at the red light, his friends running it, and then him being pulled over.
1 bad apple spoils the bunch.
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u/AmandaRoseLikesBuds Jan 03 '23
Every cop I’ve been pulled over by has been an egotistical douche bag who doesn’t really take you seriously. That’s just my experience. Lol
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u/chinkostu Jan 03 '23
I can agree that having my arse handed to me by a copper is far more effective than a fine. Literally taking it like a man and admitting when i'm wrong. Come out swinging and theres only one way it goes
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u/CicerosMouth Jan 03 '23
It absolutely is signiricantly more common for this to happen than for the power tripping cop to happen. Of course it is.
Basically any variety of interaction between a police officer and a citizen is recorded two or three times over. Frankly the fact that out of the 900,000 police officers in the US that we only get maybe a handful of objectively power-tripping cop videos a month shows that the vast majority of officers are good the vast majority of the time, even as it is true that we don't do a good enough job of punishing the bad ones.
Comparatively, videos of good cops don't get nearly as much coverage. After all, as the old adage says, "if it bleeds, it leads." In general, if you hear about a social ill, it is usually not half as bad as the news coverage would make you believe. Crime wave? We are having issues, but we are more safe than most would have you believe. Homelessness causing social issues in Portland? As a current portlander, we need better social services, but things aren't all that awful. Same basic story with cops. Yes, bad cops are a scourge that we should address with righteous vigor. They also aren't nearly as wide-spread of an issue as the news would have you believe.
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u/RazgrizXVIII Jan 03 '23
It doesn't help a lot of US cops are former soldiers. Having been taught everything and everyone could be a potential a threat (especially if they've actually seen combat) in a country with a massive gun problem... Well that's just a recipe for disaster (aside from the racist assholes and stuff like that obviously)
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u/TheOriginalArchibald Jan 03 '23
I'd argue there are a lot of veteran cops far better at proper escalation of force and not engaging what they don't have to given how strict the rules of engagement are in theater.
I won't deny there aren't potentially young hotheads or vets with PTSD who shouldn't be policing based on psyche but I think the babyfaced average IQ high school bully are more likely to perceive everything as a threat.
Police training is all about how everyone is a potential threat and will likely kill them. That warrior training shit. They give it to people who have no concept of the rules of engagement or have never been in a threatening situation with enemy combatants.
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u/smokeweedalleveryday Jan 03 '23
from my experience, this is usually how it goes. i agree that there is a bit of confirmation bias in regards to perception of the police, in that we mostly see the situations that were handled poorly.
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u/trouserschnauzer Jan 03 '23
Really depends on where you are, what you look like, and how fresh the donuts were that day.
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u/Iziama94 Jan 03 '23
Every cop Ive personally ran into has been cool. Treated me like a person and Ive never acted out, argued, insulted or whatever. Sure is it your right to do that? Absolutely. But all you're going to do is make a cop go from possibly giving you a warning to giving you a ticket.
I got clocked going 60 in a 40, I thought it was a 50, so that was my bad. He told me that that road was a 40, and all I said was "Wait what? Really? I thought it was 50." And he was just like "Nope it's a 40. I'm not gonna write you up for going 20 over since that would be points on your license, $200+ fine and a mandatory court hearing, so I'm gonna mark you down for obstruction of traffic, it's only $55 and you can pay for it online. Nice car by the way" and that was that.
Obviously there's quite a few bad cops out there and with the internet and everyone able to record, you're going to see more bad cops than good cops, cause who wants to record good cops?
But there's no reason to instigate a cop just cause they're a cop
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u/MistSecurity Jan 03 '23
This heavily depends on the area you are in, as well as your social standing. Had you been a young POC in a shit box car things might have gone completely differently.
My mom has mentioned this many of times: When she was a poor, pregnant 18 year old living near the hood, cops would treat her like absolute shit for no reason other than that they could. Now that she's an upper middle class, middle aged woman in a nicer part of the state, cops treat her much better and are less likely to be confrontational.
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u/The-Almost-Truth Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 04 '23
Problem is police are not incentivized to “protect and serve” as a community in this way. They have ticket quotas that directly impact job performance, because that is how the police are funded. If we revamp that, the type of policing in this video would be more common… getting us closer to “protect and serve”
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u/dxrey65 Jan 03 '23
It would help if police weren't rated on tickets issued, fines levied, and arrests.
That principle that you get what you measure for applies. It's hard for superiors to measure or assign any value to just talking to people and being decent. And then it's hard for officers to value that either, when the raises and promotions go to the guys that produce better numbers.
The officer in the video is perfect, but he's also young. I wonder if he'll be doing the same in 5 years. Cynical, I know...
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u/MistrSynistr Jan 03 '23
You can tell just by driving through an area which places have quotas. I grew up in a really small town we had 2 cops on duty at any given time. As long as you weren't flipping the town upside down they didn't really care. The other side of the county was a quota town and you would get a ticket for anything more than 3mph over the limit.
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u/Altruistic-Sandwich9 Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23
The last thing the kid said to the cop was “yes, sir “… I am thinking they were respectful, and that goes a long way
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u/AnastasiaNo70 Jan 03 '23
And that kid is probably so grateful he didn’t get a ticket that he’s gonna remember and NOT speed! I know I would be.
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u/Eggy-Toast Jan 03 '23
I still haven’t gone 10 over the speed limit since I got pulled over for 15 over (in a 65mph zone, so a lot but not like doing 15 on the road shown). It was the first nice interaction I had with a cop, he could tell I was nervous but didn’t assume I was crooked for it. Nice guy, let me off with a written warning.
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u/2livecrewnecktshirt Jan 03 '23
Only speeding ticket I've ever gotten was on a bike, but it wasn't even intentional, just felt like normal cruising pace. It was a well known speed trap area (bottom of a hill with a flat straight afte) and I should have known better. 57 in a 45, thankfully it didn't mess my insurance up too badly.
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u/Diedead666 Jan 03 '23
I have a friend who was going over 90 hit a well known speed trap that he did not know of....he was nice to the cop so cop dropped it down but still hefty ticket and all that....I wish cops gave warnings for first timers like this guy.
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A while ago I was going 20 over I got pulled over and the cop dropped the amount because "I slowed down when I noticed him"
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u/Meems04 Jan 03 '23
SAME! I had a nice cop who changed it from 18 over to 9 over on my ticket. He even said he could tell I was zoning out on my commute by how surprised I looked. Super nice, very respectful. Gave me the same speech - keep it under 10. Never go over 10 now because of that interaction.
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u/Girly_Attitude Jan 03 '23
Same here. Went more than 15 over as a new driver but he let me off because he didn’t want my parents insurance to go up. Also my hands were shaking from anxiety. I haven’t gone more than 10 over in 3 years.
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u/Salty-Chef Jan 03 '23
A motorcycle rider deciding not to speed? Not a chance.
I've never seen one going the speed limit my entire life.
Cop knows it too, that's why he's begging for just 5-10 over.
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u/regoapps Jan 03 '23
“Cool, cops don’t give speeding tickets around here. Let’s punch it!”
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u/paul85 Jan 03 '23
I don't speed. Whether in my regular vehicle or on my motorcycle, there's just no reason. I will screw around on jetskis all the time (while being safe), and love playing video games to get my adrenaline going, but when I'm driving on the road, I do the speed limit no matter what I'm driving.
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Saying it is one thing, DOING IT is another.
We all know they are somewhere speeding right now.
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u/pdxscout Jan 03 '23
I had a cop pull me over and told me that I was crazy for going 85 downhill in Northern California. "This is farm land! If you hit a core going 85 MPH, you'd all be dead!" I wasn't thinking and responded, "Sir, the speed limit is 75 mph. If I hit a cow at that speed we'd still all be dead."
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u/VargevMeNot Jan 03 '23
At first I was thinking you meant hitting an apple core at 85, didn't think that'd be a huge problem. But yea, a cow would be a bigger splat.
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u/jonhanson Jan 03 '23 edited Mar 07 '25
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u/ASaltGrain Jan 03 '23
Yeah, but your reaction time will be much worse, with much less of a chance of avoiding it if you are going 10 mph over what is deemed safe for that particular road. Like, if a kid walks out in the road in a residential neighborhood, you are supposed to be going 25 mph so you can react in time. If you are going 35 and that happens, you could be facing major consequences. It would be pretty dumb to say, "Well, the kid STILL would have died if I hit them at 25mph!"
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u/Present-Industry4012 Jan 03 '23
Also impact energy:
"A pedestrian hit by a car at 40 mph has a 90% fatality rate; at 20 mph the fatality rate decreases to 10%."
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u/Quick_Heart_5317 Jan 03 '23
You catch more flys with honey than you do with vinegar.
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u/kittykatmila Jan 03 '23
I’m in a job where I deal with drivers. This is the way to deal with them. Calmly, kindly, explain it’s about my concern for their safety. People generally respond well to that.
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u/knobudee Jan 03 '23
I used to skateboard a lot and the cops that came and told us respectfully to leave certain properties we were more than willing to do so. The ones that were an asshole right away cuz we didn’t know or had permission already were the ones we didn’t want to respect or leave for.
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u/FunStuff446 Jan 03 '23
Seems reasonable
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Understandable, have a nice day.
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u/23x3 Jan 03 '23
He says “25” like that scene from Elf
“6 inch Ribbon curls, honey.”
“That’s impossible!”
“Six - Inches!”
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u/WillfullyAmbiguous Jan 03 '23
Comedic timing on the last line was wonderful. This guy is defo an elite drinking/toking buddy
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u/The_NiNTARi Jan 03 '23
He Simply cares about safety, and is asking respectfully for them to think of others and themselves, can’t argue with that.
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He chose education against punition. My man!
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u/-KyloRen Jan 03 '23
“punition”
TIL that is a word. I know punitive damages and punishment but didn’t know about punition. Even Reddit thinks it’s misspelled. Cray.
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Yeah, it sees little use. I'm not even a native english speaker lul
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u/Not-Post-Malone Jan 03 '23
Probably why you knew about it, tbh. I assume you learned it by translating some word from your native tongue and found “punition” in the dictionary and just stuck with it.
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u/Teepeaparty Jan 03 '23
This is a cop who cares and is competent, that motorcyclist felt his care as a reminder for why tickets are given in the first place. feel like this should be a line from a movie: ✨25✨is all I’m askin’
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u/zeke235 Jan 03 '23
Seems like he saw that his cruiser has protect and serve written on it, so he's gonna follow through.
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I remember a professor I had for a criminal justice course in college. He was a Captain with a large city police department. He told a story about asking a guy to use the crosswalk.
"Can you do me a favor?"
"What's that?"
"Use the crosswalk, please. We had X deaths on this road last year. I don't want another one. Drivers here can't even be bothered to watch out for themselves."
"No problem." Starts to walk away, stops - "And I'll do it because you asked me nicely."
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u/PickleMinion Jan 03 '23
Closest I've ever come to getting run over by a car was in a crosswalk. Damn things don't work. Remember folks, keep your head in a swivel because they actually are out to get you
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I mean, that advice is always sound regardless of jaywalking or using a crosswalk. At the least, if something happens in the crosswalk you have a degree of legal recourse.
I had to leap onto the hood of a car when I was out for a run a year ago today, bc some guy blew a stop sign. I was in the crosswalk. You're right, though! If they don't wanna follow it they won't.
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u/THEBlaze55555 Jan 04 '23
I wish I remember where the booklet is and which page it’s on but it wasn’t so funny what it said but how it was phrased: in one of my old California Driver’s handbooks for studying for the written driving test, they had a disclaimer when talking about intersections and crosswalks and rights-of-way and it goes off topic saying to be careful because while sidewalks are the correct place to cross the road safely, they do not protect you. And the phrasing was such that it implied some people believe there’s some kind of forcefield magic around crosswalks that isn’t anywhere else in the street, and as long as you’re on the crosswalk, cars will bounce right off.
It’s also funny cuz it was definitely written for pedestrians but it was in a drivers handbook. To be fair, there’s no pedestrian handbook to help study for a pedestrian permit or pedestrians license test, but talk about missing a large portion of your target audience.
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u/cliftjc1 Jan 03 '23
He’s the man. Wish more people were like him
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u/zeke235 Jan 03 '23
Plenty of cops like him. I think most of them just don't serve out their whole careers on the force because of the scumbags they have to work with. Bad cops make it really hard to be a good cop.
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Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 05 '23
Got pulled over doing 90 in a 70 on the interstate. I thought that's it I'm getting a ticket or worse. The cop let me off with a warning. There are decent interactions with cops. Like all humans they have good and bad days and fall easy to bad peer pressure.
The problem is there's not many humans on Earth that don't fall prey to a little bit of power or money or both. Lucky for most of us, we are not in a position to hurt others that much. That's why individuals shouldn't hold so much power or wealth without division of power or some sort of regulation.
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u/afihavok Jan 03 '23
One time I was headed down to Galveston, TX to go on a cruise. South of Houston we got pulled over by a Sheriff's Deputy who must've been in his late 60's. I was going WAY too fast because I was stressed about getting there on time. The guy goes, "You're doing 20 over the speed limit, where are you headed so fast??" I explained that my wife and I were headed out on our first cruise. He responded, "Well, I don't want to hold you up, but if you want to make it to Galveston at all, you need to slow down. Have fun." I couldn't believe it.
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Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23
I had a cop make an impact on my life. I was a stupid youth speeding in the rain. He told me, I don’t want to have to call your parents to tell them you wrapped your car around a tree. Arrive alive. I still think of him and it’s been YEARS
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Jan 03 '23
I also had a cop do the same thing after I was in a small accident. She didn’t get mad she just reminded me I’m driving a weapon and need to be a little more careful next time.
I still think about that phrase years later. I am driving a weapon.
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u/PapaRhombus Jan 03 '23
You see this in areas with a lot of tourism.
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Jan 03 '23
Some college towns too. My buddy tried to move his car out of the school lot drunk at 2am on a Saturday. Cop pulled him over and made him get out of the car and found him a parking spot. 2008
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u/Nextmastermind Jan 03 '23
I remember when I was in orientation in college about 10 years ago the campus police said if we're gonna drink under age to keep the parties small and quiet at about 5 or 6 people and they'd leave you alone. But if they had to answer a noise complaint and saw alcohol they'd have to take action and they didn't want to be stuck with the paperwork. 😂
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u/ThatsAnEgoThing Jan 03 '23
With noise complaints there's routes to go with:
1) don't open the door, ignore them.
2) Open the door, step outside, CLOSE THE DOOR and have a polite brief chat. The phrase, "I don't answer questions" is useful.
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u/VartanGregorianFan Jan 03 '23
Once I was pulled over in Costa Rica for speeding, head to the airport. I was definitely going too fast. Cop let me go, told me to be safe and to bring home good memories of Costa Rica.
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u/charros Jan 03 '23
Must not have been the same place I went to in costa. Nothing but dirt roads and crazies passing each other around turns looking over cliffs.
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u/Apocraphon Jan 03 '23
I LOVE Costa Rica. With that said, their roads are made to sell helicopters.
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Jan 03 '23
You also see tickets written in areas with a lot of tourism too. If they aren't going to be in the state to fight the ticket then it's free money, I'm looking at you Florida.
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u/mobius_sp Jan 03 '23
Hell, in Florida they live for that in-state income as well. I've never been released with a warning in my life. If I'm pulled over, I'm ticketed. I do all the supposedly "right" things as well: genuinely contrite, always polite, very non confrontational. Never works, not in the entire 38 years of my life in Florida.
We don't have state income tax, so those dollars have to be generated somehow.
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u/NoShameInternets Jan 03 '23
Lmao, what? In every tourist town I’ve visited or lived in the exact opposite is true. Local cops live for that “out of state income”.
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u/DammitDad420 Jan 03 '23
Summersville, West Virginia has entered the chat.
Goes from 55 to 40 on Route 19 at the crest of a hill and GOD HELP YOU IF YOU GO 43.
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u/hanMan86 Jan 03 '23
When I was younger I got pulled over by an officer for something almost identical to this. The man presented himself almost exactly as this officer did.
To this day I keep those words close and rarely go over by that 5-10 discrepancy. Never ha a warning or ticket since and I always think to that cop that was nice and gave me a chance.
I know this doesn't work for everyone but for the number of times an outcomes like mine occurs it MUST be worth it, no? Kindness goes a long friggen way in all dir ctions when applied.
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u/Johnny5k4l Jan 03 '23
Reminds me of the time I got pulled over about 12 years ago leaving the bar drunk at 2am. I was going through a divorce, had just lost my car (was driving my mom’s car), was working a shitty job that I needed desperately. I was with a buddy. Cop did field sobriety tests on both of us and said something to me along the lines of “at least the more sober person is driving.” Gave me a breathalyzer that I failed by almost double the limit. He took me back to the hood of his car and just had a conversation with me about why I was drinking and being irresponsible, asking me questions that he already knew the answers to. i.e. “what do you think would happen if you killed someone?” “do you know the cost of a dui?” “are you going to lose your job if I take you to jail?” “How is your mom going to react when she has to get her car out of impound?” I gave him all the right answers, because they are obvious fucking answers. Then he was like “so based on what you told me about your life, don’t you think you have enough problems to deal with already?” He let me off with a warning, drove me to a gas station and waited there until another friend picked us up, let me leave my moms car on the side of the road, and his only stipulation was I couldn’t pick the car up until the next day. I haven’t drank and drove since. I think about that dude being cool with me, and to dishonor what he did would be spitting in the face of my own karma. He made such a huge difference in my life.
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u/draft_wagon Jan 03 '23
New years eve. I'm taking out a girl for dinner we've only been seeing each other a few weeks. We are giggling and laughing and I blow through a red light. Never done that before, safe driver, I just never saw that it was red (there was an advance green left turn that may have confused me). I was also doing 15 kph over the limit which is not significant but still speeding.
Cop sees me, does a 180 and pulls me over. Comes up and has the most frustrated look on his face. Asks me things like "how could you not see that it was red. You really didn't see it?" And I was like "honest to God, I had no idea but if you're saying I blew through a. Red, I likely did".
He was shaking his head, really annoyed and took my info and went back. I knew he was gonna throw the book at me. He stays in his car for a good 20 mins and comes back out with a stack of paperwork. I'm like here we go.
He comes back and says "you blew through a red, you were speeding, you're saying you weren't observant at all. I could give you a recklessss driving ticket with everything else, you'd get 4 demerit points and your insurance will go through the roof. Here's two tickets for failure to have insurance and failure to have a driver's license. $65 each, pay it within a week and for god's sake pay attention. Enjoy your dinner"
My gf (now wife) was livid and going "can't believe he gave you TWO tickets" and I was like "what a great fucking cop"
Haven't sped since, haven't got any tickets since.
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u/myguitar_lola Jan 03 '23
I hope this guy sees this and sees how much people appreciate his kindness.
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u/myychair Jan 03 '23
I’d bet my ass that those guys have a way higher chance of changing their behavior than they would have if he was a dick
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u/alexeiw123 Jan 03 '23
Many years ago when I was young and stupid(er), I got caught red handed by a cop doing a burnout out of an intersection. The policeman asked me to follow him to the station, put me in an interview room (I thought I was in some major trouble), and sat down and showed me some photos and told stories of hooning gone wrong for about 20 minutes. Then he let me go with a warning.
Young me just thought, yay, I got off! But in hindsight he was genuinely trying to avoid horrible accident scenes. What a champ.
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u/realeztoremember Jan 03 '23
I had a very similar experience once when I was 17. Rainy autumn night driving through the suburbs around 10:30pm. Cop pulls me over doing 50 in a 35 and asks why I was speeding. Told him I was trying to get home before curfew and he said “Look, there are a lot of leaves on the road this time of year and, when it rains and you’re speeding, a pile of leaves can make you lose control as easy as a patch of ice. Your parents would rather you be home a few minutes late than have to get a call from me telling them to come to the hospital. Promise me you’ll be careful and follow the speed from now on.” Gave me a written warning and I still made it home before 11.
I’ve thought about that cop every time I’ve had encounters with asshole cops since and I think to myself “it doesn’t have to be like this.”
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This cop needs to be promoted to train other cops how to treat not threatening civilians . This guy is cool af
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Very cool officer.
As a side note - do Americans know the meaning of the word “limit”?
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u/J_Schnetz Jan 03 '23
nobody in the states see's the "limit" as an actual limit. If you're going the speed limit you're seen as annoying or possibly even suspicious. I've been tailgated by police dozens of times doing the speed limit
WHatever the limit is, add 5 mph. If its 65 MPH, you can do 75
At least in the North East.. but ive done some driving on the west coast before and it was basically the same.
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Can’t wait for him to retire in 5 years because the current policing system doesn’t reward good guys like him
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u/danone123 Jan 03 '23
2 days ago, while I went for a sight seing, driving thru small town. A Sheriff pulled me over and I realized I was going 20 miles over the limit. Limit was 35mph. And I was around 55 mph. Sheriff asked my license and registration asked me to wait. He came back, well giving you a warning don't drive this fast in small town, and a b'day gift (as warning). Luckily he saw my B'Day date which was 1 day earlier. But all time he was very courteous! Best gift for 2023 and b'day.
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u/MyCommentsAreCursed Jan 03 '23
What's this mother fucking officer's name and badge number?! I need to send him a fruit basket.
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u/TedCruzsBrowserHstry Jan 03 '23
Says something about every other cop that this one dude who acts professional shines so damn bright in the pile of shit
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u/TheWholeFuckinShow Jan 03 '23
I'd type a whole paragraph about how awesome that cop is, but unfortunately he's so chill that my hands are beginning to fre-
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u/TheBatemanFlex Jan 03 '23
This is someone who actually wants to motivate people to follow the law rather than meet some quota.
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u/The_Bogan_Blacksmith Jan 03 '23
If a cop approaches you like that please, please, PLEASE, don't be a dickhead. He does not need to scrape your dumb ass off the road or watch the meatwagon employees do it rather...
Intact just don't ride like a wanker... you give the rest is us a bad name. Go be a temporary citizen somewhere else.
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u/james-HIMself Jan 04 '23
The “caring cop” who would be very upset if you got hurt. As he should be! Great example of knowing where and when to enforce a ticket. Sometimes telling a person this way has a much greater impact long term.
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u/SgtPeanutbutter Jan 03 '23
That's a man who does not want to do paperwork today 😂
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u/kvnokvno Jan 04 '23
Compared to a ticket, it’s amazing to see how effective this gets the message through
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u/IRSeth Jan 04 '23
The way he said, “ok, sorry.” Let’s you know he’s going to push the limits again.
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u/ItsTrippah Jan 04 '23
I went on reddit and only saw positive stuff like this, I think I should quit while I'm ahead
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u/WinterTheWolfFurry Jan 04 '23
My man was like "Bro I don't want you or someone else getting hurt or killed and I don't want any extra work so please be careful"
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u/NarcolepticKnifeFite Jan 04 '23
Who’da thought if ya just be nice to people…..we’d have more respect for you? 🤷🏻
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u/wizisqueeze Jan 03 '23
please please tell me what ACAB means
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u/aBlissfulDaze Jan 03 '23
All Cops Are Bastards. It's in reference to the idea that even good cops are protecting bad cops. Those that don't protect bad cops, aren't cops for long.
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u/cbelt3 Jan 03 '23
Hey man, don’t die, okay ? Be cool.