Pulled over for the first time in my 993...
07-12-2012, 01:16 AM
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I might be over cautious, but I'd consider editing out the specifics of where you were pulled over..won't change the story and don't want to risk the wrong people singling out the guy who let you off the hook; with a time, day and location I'd imagine they could figure out who the officer was very quickly (and a first letter of the last name no less). Law enforcement has been known to browse the forums..I'd hate one of the good guys to get in trouble! 
07-12-2012, 01:24 AM
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No, it isn't otherwise it would never happen, but it might not be the sort of thing his superiors would like to see, especially in this economy (that would have been a profitable stop for the city!). I wouldn't exactly call what he did an innocent mistake, IMO the officer stuck his neck out a bit for the guy, and I wouldn't want to risk it with information totally superfluous to the story. Just sayin'..
07-12-2012, 01:01 PM
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Hehe, my wife coined that phrase after I talked a cop out of giving her a speeding ticket a few years ago. You look at the officer with your honest big brown eyes (or whatever else you've got) and ask for mercy and forgiveness. It really works! 
07-12-2012, 03:10 PM
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It is not that hard, if practiced, to avoid tickets when pulled over. There are a few reasons: Most cops are car guys. Most cops respond well when you treat them with the level of respect they expect. Most cops know that, satistically, cop shootings happen most frequently on car stops and if you act in a manner clearly designed to reduce that concern, they are greatful. Add this all together and what you get is a greatful car guy being nice to another car guy.
Here is my script upon being pulled over: (1) turn off car; (2) leave hands on wheel while waiting for officer to arrive; (3) be polite, contrite, and wait for instructions; (4) before any movement, I inform cop what I'm about to do -- i.e., he says "license and registration" and I respond "my license is in my wallet and registration is in the glove compartment. I'm going to get them now." They usually say "ok."
That's it. In the scores of times of I've been pulled over, about 80% of them have resulted in no ticket issued and 20% in citations for offense far less serious than what I committed, i.e., reduction of speed in speeding ticket, etc. I don't think I've been written up for the real offenses sinces that stupid time in college I tried to run a Cambridge cop while driving my BMW 2002....
Here is my script upon being pulled over: (1) turn off car; (2) leave hands on wheel while waiting for officer to arrive; (3) be polite, contrite, and wait for instructions; (4) before any movement, I inform cop what I'm about to do -- i.e., he says "license and registration" and I respond "my license is in my wallet and registration is in the glove compartment. I'm going to get them now." They usually say "ok."
That's it. In the scores of times of I've been pulled over, about 80% of them have resulted in no ticket issued and 20% in citations for offense far less serious than what I committed, i.e., reduction of speed in speeding ticket, etc. I don't think I've been written up for the real offenses sinces that stupid time in college I tried to run a Cambridge cop while driving my BMW 2002....
07-12-2012, 05:11 PM
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I love it - it's a great car:
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...urburgers.html
Unfortunately, I am out of town during P2O so I will not be able to make it.
07-13-2012, 01:36 AM
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Great story!
Mine was a little different...pulled over by the same cop in the same week in a different location...! Doh!
Mine was a little different...pulled over by the same cop in the same week in a different location...! Doh!
09-17-2013, 05:44 PM
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End of June my wife and I finish dinner at a place downtown and a show at the Comedy Works. 10pm-ish I decide to cruise down Speer and wind the 993's 3.6 out, with Fister exhausts in the Speer tunnel. never got out of 2nd gear, windows down, glorious sound...
Cop sitting on outside of tunnel lasered me doing 63 in a 35.
ugh...
My wife laughed and said, "You've blasted through there at least 100 times in the last 10 years and this is your first ticket in there, so suck it up."
6 point ticket, have to go to court to resolve.
Denver County Courthouse a month later.
$200 fine points reduced to 4. No traffic school or other nonsense.
Cop sitting on outside of tunnel lasered me doing 63 in a 35.
ugh...
My wife laughed and said, "You've blasted through there at least 100 times in the last 10 years and this is your first ticket in there, so suck it up."
6 point ticket, have to go to court to resolve.
Denver County Courthouse a month later.
$200 fine points reduced to 4. No traffic school or other nonsense.
09-17-2013, 05:46 PM
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Today after lunch, in DTC, cruising on Quebec. downhill, lasered doing 53 in a 35.
Officer wrote me up and was gone in 5 min.
$100 fine. If I pay within 20 days, 4 points goto 2 points.
Great... I wasn't even trying to speed.
He didn't ask me anything, but had he, I would have replied, "This car is really hard to go 35 mph in."
I'm a dumbass.
Officer wrote me up and was gone in 5 min.
$100 fine. If I pay within 20 days, 4 points goto 2 points.
Great... I wasn't even trying to speed.
He didn't ask me anything, but had he, I would have replied, "This car is really hard to go 35 mph in."
I'm a dumbass.