Got pulled over for speeding last night.
1st time in 20+ years.
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The main downtown area is 20mph. The road into Rockaway Beach starts at 45 mph from Forsyth. I guess I missed where it turns into 35mph.
Soon as the police car's lights went on, I pulled over, turned off my Jeep and had my hands on the steering wheel when the police officers walked up - 1 on each side. The officer at my window was wearing a BP vest, white T-shirt, blue jeans, a huge beard, and full sleeve tattoos. He asked me "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
I responded: "Speeding would be my guess but I couldn't be doing more than 28mph just now."
He responded: "You were doing 47 in a 35 back at where the sign for Rockaway Beach is located."
I responded: "Oh my bad, I wasn't paying attention to my speed, back there. My mistake"
He asked me for my license & proof of insurance and went back to his car - a Dodge Journey to run it.
I was fully expecting a ticket. Karma and all, but I prefer to do my speeding on desolate 2 lane 55mph highways and divided highways. I keep it between 4 and 9mph over the limit and never had any problems. In towns / suburbia I do the speed limit.
He came back up to my window and handed me back my DL and insurance card and said. "Slow down and have a nice night."
No ticket.
He could've also gotten me for no front license plate. It didn't come up and I wasn't going to mention it.
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Well I did get one I didn't deserve. Pulling a bass boat home from Columbia in front of Shaw Air Force Base. A highway patrol pulled me over. I was not speeding..he clocked the wrong car that passed me . I paid that ticket . That officer lost his life speeding and lost control hit a tree.
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If you get pulled over, just do exactly as the OP described. Look the cop in the eye if possible, answer politely and humbly.
That alone will be such a shocking difference to the cop that he may forget why he pulled you over!
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Your lucky you didn't have your dog with you it would have been shot.
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I would never get accustomed to walking up behind a dark vehicle not knowing what or who was inside.
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about 30 some odd yrs ago after just moving to our current place
I came home from work my wife was in tears . so I ask whats wrong thinking something terrible had happened .
she said I just got a speeding ticket (first ticket she ever had ) just down the road is a small village use to be a town.
any way the speed limit goes from 55 to 35 at the top of the hill as your entering the city limits .
a deputy sheriff pulled her over for going 41 mph in a 35 mph zone. ( wow a whole 6 miles over )
she said I was trying to explain I was coming up the hill but was slowing down as I was getting close to the city limit . she was in tears said the LEO did not want to hear it or let her explain , he just said "slowing down don't get it lady "the speed limit is 35 here's your ticket
it hurt her feelings big time the LEO would not listen to her reason or give her a break over it .
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My one and only speeding ticket (when I was 16) was the opposite. I was leaving a tiny little town at exactly the posted limit of 35 and started speeding up when I saw the Limit 45 sign at the town border. That's when the lights started flashing on the town cop car parked just before that sign.
Got a ticket because - as that smirking cop said, "The limit doesn't change until after the sign."
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I think the best answer to: "do you know why I pulled you over" is "no officer, I thought I was driving safely." No admission of guilt. Emphasis on being safe. Polite. And it's honest. I mean I guess unless you thought you were driving recklessly. Ticks all the marks.
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