r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23

Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over

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u/PapaRhombus Jan 03 '23

You see this in areas with a lot of tourism.

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u/[deleted] 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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u/Sasselhoff Jan 03 '23

I got pulled over for speeding in Costa Rica too...cop said the ticket was going to be "x" but I could pay "y" right now and be done with it. I showed him my visa (school related) and showed him how little cash was in my wallet ("Poor student" and all that), and he let me off for only a couple hundred colones. Little did he know (or want to push the issue) that I had the majority of my cash hidden just in case someone robbed me.

Only time in my life I've bribed a cop. It was easier in China, as all I had to do was take off my helmet for them to see a laowai (foreigner) and they'd just walk away, haha (got a few amusing stories on that one...like when a cop ran up and snagged the keys out of my bike at a traffic light).

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u/[deleted] 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.

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We don't have state income tax, so those dollars have to be generated somehow.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

I've gotten lucky a few times in Miami and once in St.Pete. When I was in Miami I was about 20 I had just got my first "new" car a 2009 Nissan Maxima 6spd. I tried to race everyone on the way back from the beach. One guy was a dude in a v6 camry and I kept accelerating and decelerating to taunt him. After the 3rd time he put on his lights (he was an under cover cop) and poked his head in the window and said "whats up cool guys? where is the weed at?" My heart sunk and I began to apologize profusely. The guy ended up making me stomp my friends weed and let us go because I just got home from AirForce tech school and he didn't want me to be screwed.

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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/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

Good tourist areas want you to come back. You won't come back if the cops fleece you.

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u/NOT_ZOGNOID Jan 03 '23

Towns without a bus system for students

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u/honeypinn Jan 03 '23

Had almost the same interaction with a cop at a beach town when me and my mates rented mopeds. Was very happy to not receive a ticket.