Tyler's Trooper Troubles

[TylerM]

No, interesting. He never gave his name...

[Spencer]

II. Upon a roadway with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for 2 or more lines of vehicles moving lawfully in the direction being traveled by the overtaking vehicle

Does this include a four lane divided interstate?

Yes; the law reads that you're not supposed to pull onto the shoulder to drive around someone on a two-lane road.  Next time stare at the pi -- ahem, trooper's chest, there should be a name plate and / or badge with a number on it.  Also, look for / at his license plate, and, as you did, immediately write down all details of your encounter.

Also, next time don't say a thing about where you were coming from or where you are going.  Just ask the guy to write you the ticket and allow you to leave; the reason he gave you a "break" was because you had violated no law.  If he won't let you leave, tell him that you want him to call for his sergeant or the supervisor on duty.

One of my favorite cross-examinations was of a sheriff's deputy who claimed that the reason that he'd pulled my client over was for having a white light shining from the rear of his car (it was a license plate light, of course).  I asked him to tell me the number of the statute that my client violated.  He told me that he knew that it was in the vehicle code somewhere.  I pulled my copy of the vehicle code out of my briefcase, handed it to him, and asked him to find it for me.  It was an uncomfortable ten (yes TEN) minutes of silence while he sat on the witness stand leafing through the 500+ page vehicle code, only to admit that he couldn't find it.

[KBCraig]

My reply would have been, "I try to avoid passing on the right, but sometimes it's unavoidable when drivers going under the speed limit don't obey the law requiring them to keep right except to pass!"

What an ass.

[Kat Kanning]

Gave this it's own topic.

[TylerM]

Thanks everyone!

And thanks to Kat for breaking this off into it's own topic.

[Kat Kanning]

Welcome 

[LiveFree]

Wow.  Sounds like officer Rambo needs to go back into being a drill sergeant, or get the hell OUT of being a cop.  There is NO excuse to treat a person that way in a police/civilian encounter!  And for his "MY HIGHWAY" comment, oh, I could get creative with that...

"Well, since it's MY TAX MONEY that funds it, it's really MY HIGHWAY, OFFICER!  And since it's MY TAX MONEY that funds YOUR JOB, I guess that means that you're MY SERVANT, doesn't it???  Now make haste, manservant, and fetch me some coffee!"

[mvpel]

Attorney Penny Dean had another similar encounter with a self-important Statie while she was out for a late-night walk in Concord, and saw to it that he was taken out behind the woodshed for his trouble.  His son turned up at an event at UNH-Durham where Penny was speaking and tried to berate her for it, slinging misogynistic epithets at his classmates as they tried to get him to sit down and shut up.  Like father, like son?

[TylerM]

Wow.  Sounds like officer Rambo needs to go back into being a drill sergeant, or get the hell OUT of being a cop.  There is NO excuse to treat a person that way in a police/civilian encounter!  And for his "MY HIGHWAY" comment, oh, I could get creative with that...

"Well, since it's MY TAX MONEY that funds it, it's really MY HIGHWAY, OFFICER!  And since it's MY TAX MONEY that funds YOUR JOB, I guess that means that you're MY SERVANT, doesn't it???  Now make haste, manservant, and fetch me some coffee!"

The ticket: 295 dollars
The look on the cops face: Priceless...

There are something fiat Federal Reserve notes money cannot buy. For everything else, there's sarcasm.

[Rosie the Riveter]

Wow.  Sounds like officer Rambo needs to go back into being a drill sergeant, or get the hell OUT of being a cop.  There is NO excuse to treat a person that way in a police/civilian encounter!  And for his "MY HIGHWAY" comment, oh, I could get creative with that...

"Well, since it's MY TAX MONEY that funds it, it's really MY HIGHWAY, OFFICER!  And since it's MY TAX MONEY that funds YOUR JOB, I guess that means that you're MY SERVANT, doesn't it???  Now make haste, manservant, and fetch me some coffee!"

The ticket: 295 dollars
The look on the cops face: Priceless...

There are something fiat Federal Reserve notes money cannot buy. For everything else, there's sarcasm.

[Rochelle]

Wow, I never knew it was illegal to pass on the right in NH.

Maybe someone should tell all the driver's I see on Rt 101 driving the speed limit in the left hand lane--henceforth known as the PASSING lane--and forcing everyone else to pass them on the right.

Didn't Douglas Adams say Americans have a constitutional right to pass in whatever goddamn lane they please?

[Insurgent]

This is why my truck wears a bumper sticker that says "Stop Road Rage--Slower Traffic Keep Right" and more importantly, I practice it myself...if I am ever the slower traffic 

[KBCraig]

This is why my truck wears a bumper sticker that says "Stop Road Rage--Slower Traffic Keep Right" and more importantly, I practice it myself...if I am ever the slower traffic 

I once saw a blue-haired biddy driving a huge Cadillac near Hot Springs, Arkansas. There was nothing visible but hair and white lace gloves. She had an obviously custom-made and HUGE sticker on her rear window: "SPEED LIMIT OBSERVED. GO AROUND! -->"

And yes, she was planted in the left lane at 2mph under the limit.

To misappropriate Sam Kinison, "I don't support road rage... but I underSTAAAAND IT!

[Kat Kanning]

"SPEED LIMIT OBSERVED. GO AROUND! -->"

Russell needs one of those    He doesn't hang out in the left lane, though.

[slim]

When I interact with a cop I always try and end my sentances with a question like "am I free to leave now?"