The second occurrence was in April of 2013. I was performing drifts and cheerios on a massive oil slick in my college's parking lot. The responding officer was laughing so hard he just wrote me a silly worded warning and told me to continue my shenanigans at the abandoned Wal-Mart in the town over.
Drifts and cheerios... :rofl: Love it! On an unrelated note - an abandoned Walmart!? I didn't know that happened.
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I've got a ticket story for this thread.
I received a ticket from a Trooper out in the hick / redneck / farmer part of Upstate New York that insisted I was doing 51mph up a very steep hill. I actually laughed when I told him it wasn't possible and he got flustered like he didn't know what to say. He told me that he could show me the readout in his cruiser and I agreed to take a look.
It was a little digital box with the number 51 on it in red. Nothing else. I asked him how he could guarantee it was my car that number applied to in a line of traffic? (Which was in no way doing +50mph up this hill.) He said he was pointing right at me. I said since he's the Trooper, I believe he was right, but I don't think it was me. He said ok, give me a minute and step back to your car.
He came back and said he wasn't going to give me a ticket,
but he then asked if my windows were tinted... *mumble grumble*
I said I think they are, but I just got the car from a well-known local dealer chain, and this is the way it came. I also told him I know the car came from Florida, and any tint wasn't my doing. Didn't matter! He happily whipped out a new toy of his, plopped it on the edge of my window, and goes yup, they're too dark.
So I got a fix-it-ticket. From some Trooper out in the boonies. I had to go back there to fight it, and the Judge tossed it out telling me it was ridiculous, but I still had to pay court fees and schlep of about $65.
I brought everything I had to the sister of the head of the car dealership chain here, and explained it all - including that they sold me a car with illegal window tint that they made no attempt to remove or replace, and didn't even notify me of it. She said she had to verify everything to make sure I was on the up & up, but she'd get back to me.
2 days later, I get a check in the mail covering the $65, an apology letter, and an offer to have my car un-tinted for free.
Moral of the story... The windows still have the same tint, and no Police Officer, Trooper or Sheriff has ever made a fuss over it in any of the cities that I frequently drive around. Only in the boonies - where trucks, banjos and cows are necessities for life.
I know without a doubt I was cherry-picked because I was in a Smart. :smartje.bl.zl:
Oh well. Personal victory for me, anyway!
I was also pulled over once locally because the Cop never saw a Smart up close and had all sorts of questions. We chatted for a while, he told me he appreciated my time and have a good day - and those tinted windows existed then. *sigh*
Man, that was a lot of typing in a short time.
. He couldn't believe that they are used by law enforcement in some countries.
