Serious Cop Pwnage

[Samaliel]

Here in the UK speed limit violations allow a 10% margin of error.

Here, across th Channel, it depends on the type of radar used. If it's an hand-held device, the error margin is 10km/h under 100km/h, then 10%. It it's a fixed device (and here's the trick : a device embedded in a parked car is considered fixed), the error margin is 5km/h under 100km/h, then 5%.

So depending on the device that flashes you, you can get away with going as fast as 143km/h on a 130km/h highway or end up getting a speeding ticket for a mere 136km/h.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Yesh, that cop must have been anal, or your cousin was stupid enough to mouth off when he got pulled.

A mate of mine got a ticket for going 35 in a 30mph zone... in all probability cuz when he was pulled over, he asked the cop, "Shouldn't you be out catching burglars?"

I once had a pillock in a Jaguar barge past me on my motorbike so close he nearly knocked me into the hedge. I shouted a few choice words after him as I braked and recovered from him trying to kill me. When I felt well enough to carry on, I did so, turned a corner... to see Jaguar man in a speed trap. Burn!

[protege]

Cops in my borough have nothing better to do than pull people over. Why? Well, because the borough is so small and most people know each other...there's very little crime. They do not give you 5 miles over the speed limit--if it's 35mph, and you're doing 40, guess what? If they clock you, they'll pull you over.

[Pezzle]

Cops in my borough have nothing better to do than pull people over. Why? Well, because the borough is so small and most people know each other...there's very little crime. They do not give you 5 miles over the speed limit--if it's 35mph, and you're doing 40, guess what? If they clock you, they'll pull you over.

Yeah, doesn't mean you can't fight the ticket due to the margin of error in some of our crappier car's meters. Cop clocked me doin 41 in a 35 the other day (apparently cops have nothing better to do at 4 AM than pull over paper deliver thralls..), and my needle was floating right on the 35. -kicks car- All they ever seem to do is talk though.. like "you're out here, I'm out here, there's nothing going on so what's a free paper and a conversation between friends"

[Difdi]

There's this long and very steep hill near where my parents live, where there's usually 2-3 cop cars camped out along it, just lying in wait. All the locals know about it, but the fact most of the hill is 25mph limit, with a school zone limit of 20mph near the bottom means it's very hard on a car's brakes.

Drivers literally have to stand on their brakes on sections of the hill to avoid breaking the speed limit. This puts so much wear on a car's brakes, that the local police department actually instructs officers to disregard the speed limit when driving their patrol cars. There were even a few incidents of people pacing police cars down the hill on the theory that the police wouldn't violate the law (no lights or sirens, mind you) then being pulled over at the bottom, because the police knew anyone following them was breaking the speed limit.

It caused quite the local scandal when a local newspaper broke that story. All the town judges now automatically dismiss every speeding ticket on that hill, if the driver contests it.

[Horsetuna]

. Classic examples are offering a bribe to an official, or an undercover officer posing as a hooker offering sex in exchange for money.

Not wanting to cause a Fratchign thing, but is that last thing true? I can't remember where I read but somewhere cops ARE doing the 'pose as hooker' thing to catch johns in the act.

Maybe its just in Canada that trick isnt illegal.

[protege]

Yeah, doesn't mean you can't fight the ticket due to the margin of error in some of our crappier car's meters.

Where I live though, it doesn't matter. District magistrate (who handles that sort of thing) is a bit anal-retentive towards traffic laws. At least most of the speed traps are *blatantly* obvious, and several have signs warning of their existence.

[draftermatt]

Not wanting to cause a Fratchign thing, but is that last thing true? I can't remember where I read but somewhere cops ARE doing the 'pose as hooker' thing to catch johns in the act.

It's on COPS all the time...

The problem my neighborhood has is enforcement. The cops in the town I live in spend most of their time pulling over people not wearing seat belts (small rural town, lots of people who don't wear them). So people fly up and down my neighborhood, park illegally, and run stop signs.

Occasionally the police will be there (my wife got a warning for a rolling stop one Saturday, though she swears she stops, and I believe her). Or the cops will post the digital signs, but nothing big every happens.

[morgana]

Not wanting to cause a Fratchign thing, but is that last thing true? I can't remember where I read but somewhere cops ARE doing the 'pose as hooker' thing to catch johns in the act.

Maybe its just in Canada that trick isnt illegal.

The quibble in this is that the undercover cop cannot OFFER sex, or it's entrapment. He/she can stand on the corner and talk to people who pull up, but the mark/john/offender must make the offer.

[blas]

If it's a big enough police force and the jurisdiction in question has a problem with prostitution.

Around here, prostitution is pretty unheard of, or really well kept quiet. The cops do undercover drug stings, trying to buy drugs from the big druglords. And the idiots always fall for it. Funny thing is, these people are always in so much trouble with the law, wouldn't they recognize a cop OUT of uniform? Oh wait..drugs...impaired....gotcha.

[Pagan]

doing the 'pose as hooker' thing to catch johns in the act.

Maybe its just in Canada that trick isnt illegal.

Heh, "hooker", "trick". Sorry, just the way my mind works!

[daleduke17]

I got to see some serious pwnage from a duo of state troopers one day. One of the greatest things, ever, IMO.

Ok, I'm headed south on IL 23 (four lane undivided road) in Ottawa (IL) and pull up at a stop light. I'm in the right lane, second vehicle back. In the left lane, first car is a fully marked ISP cruiser, second car is an unmarked ISP cruiser. Southbound traffic has the red, but it turns green. Someone heading west on McKinley (who has the red at this time) turns left onto southbound IL 23 and almost T-bones the car that was in front of me. Both ISP units light up and pull idiot boy over. There I, and a few other drivers, laugh our asses off at seeing the ISP get someone doing something that blatantly stupid.

ISP - 1
Idiot - 0

[Broomjockey]

I can't remember where I read but somewhere cops ARE doing the 'pose as hooker' thing to catch johns in the act.

The quibble in this is that the undercover cop cannot OFFER sex, or it's entrapment. He/she can stand on the corner and talk to people who pull up, but the mark/john/offender must make the offer.

This. Now everyone, as to not derail/go to Fratching, can we drop this tangent?

[PepperElf]

happened to my mom once... some jerk didn't like the fact that mom was driving the speed limit so he pulled out around her in a no-passing zone and then continued on down the road speeding.

a few minutes later mom passed him... where the cops had pulled him over for speeding

[protege]

I had someone do something similar on Friday. There's constant construction in PA, so naturally, there's traffic. On the way home, the city had one lane closed, forcing everyone to merge into the left lane. As I'm about to take my turn, some asshole in an SUV decides to drive over the *sidewalk* to get in front of me. As if that wasn't enough, he nearly rear-ended the car in front of me. No cops around, so he didn't get nailed. The kicker? On the back of the SUV was a Yale sticker--if that's the type of people Yale is turning out, he must have been valedictorian