My coworker related this story after being late. She wants to fight the ticket.
Her car has been shimmying when she goes over a certain speed; she's waiting to have it checked. To get to work on the highway is 55. She said she was going 45; minimum speed there is 40 without flashers. She was in the rightmost lane, about 4pm, when she said a car sped up behind her and ride her bumper. It dropped back and flashed its high beams at her, then repeated the motion a couple times. She kept waving for him to pass her in the left hand lane, not knowing what he was doing. Then the red and blue lights on the dash turned-on and the car 'whoop-whooped' so she pulled over.
She said the officer was in plain clothes and she asked for his name and badge number to prove he was a police officer. He said he didn't have to give her that. He wrote her a ticket for driving too slowly.
She's pretty upset. She said he was mad she didn't pull over right away. She explained that she didn't know what he was trying to communicate with the following her and flashing the headlights. In our job, a speeding ticket isn't the worst thing, but you have to report any citations to the company. From what I've read, unmarked plainclothes officers can stop you, but have to call a marked patrol car to issue the ticket. She also wasn't under the minimum limit and wasn't impeding traffic. So I'm wondering if it's a fantastic story to explain why she was late, or if there really is THAT bad of a police officer out there!
Her car has been shimmying when she goes over a certain speed; she's waiting to have it checked. To get to work on the highway is 55. She said she was going 45; minimum speed there is 40 without flashers. She was in the rightmost lane, about 4pm, when she said a car sped up behind her and ride her bumper. It dropped back and flashed its high beams at her, then repeated the motion a couple times. She kept waving for him to pass her in the left hand lane, not knowing what he was doing. Then the red and blue lights on the dash turned-on and the car 'whoop-whooped' so she pulled over.
She said the officer was in plain clothes and she asked for his name and badge number to prove he was a police officer. He said he didn't have to give her that. He wrote her a ticket for driving too slowly.
She's pretty upset. She said he was mad she didn't pull over right away. She explained that she didn't know what he was trying to communicate with the following her and flashing the headlights. In our job, a speeding ticket isn't the worst thing, but you have to report any citations to the company. From what I've read, unmarked plainclothes officers can stop you, but have to call a marked patrol car to issue the ticket. She also wasn't under the minimum limit and wasn't impeding traffic. So I'm wondering if it's a fantastic story to explain why she was late, or if there really is THAT bad of a police officer out there!
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