Last night, after just finishing smoking a blunt, i decided to ride along the beach and air out my car. as i made a right on a long street along the beach i drove 2 blocks until i checked my rear view and saw a cop speeding up behind me. I was not worried because I was not speeding because I was too focused on trying not to hydroplane on a low elevation road. The speed limit is 40mph and I was driving between 35-43mph. So, the cop is behind me, running my plate, which is no problem. He THEN pulls alongside of me and checked to see what I looked like. I was wearing a bandana with my long blonde hair, 20 years old with my friend in the passenger seat. He then pulls back behind me and pulls me over. He comes up to my window and just puts his hand out. Before he could walk away with my information, I asked him, "Officer, can I ask why you pulled me over?" He laughed and said, "Are you serious right now? You were going 65 mph". I was so thrown off that I was like "65, Officer, its pouring rain why would i be going 65 mph, 25 over the speed limit on a semi flooded street?" He was like "good question" i then asked at what point was i going 65, he told me N. Bath ave which is 2 blocks from where i made the left. We talked back and forth for a bit then he left with my info. He came back to me after 20 minutes of waiting (checking my PBA card validity & writing a citation) he came up and said, I'm not gonna write you a ticket but your insurance card is expired. it expired in March. take this to court w/ your new insurance card and the ticket will be cleared. I left because I was high and didn't wanna push my luck. But what is fishy is, even if you have a PBA card, (mine happened to be the lowest rank you could have), driving 25 over the speed limit in pouring windy conditions with flooded roads and high risk of hydroplaning, you would get a ticket. You cannot drive that fast in those conditions and not get a speeding ticket/reckless driving/ breathalyzer testing because that is not common. So since he couldn't snake the speeding ticket by me because he knows he was wrong and my pba card was valid, he instead booked me on something else. But, there's a catch. I gave him my small folder with both my new insurance card and my old one which was behind the new one because I never took the old one out. What i think he did was take my new insurance card and leave my old one in so he could write me a citation for failure to provide correct documents or whatever the fucking charge is called. My mom doesn't think the cop took it but an insurance card doesn't disappear out of thin air and I KNOW i put it in the folder in March when I got it. So now i'll have to pay court fees and that's it. Yes I know it could've went a lot worse because i could've got a DUI and a hefty speeding ticket but I was pulled over for obeying the law. I was not speeding. I was shafted because I was stereotyped by an officer who believed he could pull a fast one on me, and even when he failed at one, he came around and fucked me another way. He thought I was just a dumb teen who was just gonna take the 200-300 $ fine and wouldn't say anything back just so he could generate tax revenue the easiest way possible. Fuck SOME cops.
Always give them ONLY your valid ID and insurance. I throw my old insurance cards out when they expire. To many times was I fishing through the expired shit for five minutes when I didn't need to
the thing is I had my new insurance card in my car. I put it in there the day i got it. And it just so happen to not be there when the cop came back with my information. Yes, it is a far fetched idea that the cop took my new insurance card but they don't disappear out of nowhere. He had no other way of booking me so he found his only way out. Even with a PBA card, going 25 over the speed limit in a beach commercial area, in the pouring rain, is not just speeding but reckless driving and whatever else you wanna call it. No one is getting out of that ticket. So something is obviously really fishy about the whole thing.