Today, I was pulled over and was given a $300 ticket for going 90mph on a 70mph highway. The cop swore he saw my silver car darting in and out of traffic. A couple of minutes earlier that exact car had passed me while I was following the speed limit. FML
I agree, your life sucks (19838) - you totally deserved it (862)
On 11/03/2009 at 1:00pm - misc - by wrongcar - United States (Kansas)
Bingo! If it really wasnt you then dispute, you might not win but its better than just rolling over and taking it.
I had the same thing happen to me several years ago except it was a cop that accused me of running a red light. He pulled me over 6 blocks away from the light I supposedly ran and even though it was nighttime and there were half a dozen cars around that looked like mine, yet he swore it was me. I never even when through the intersection he accused me of running the light in!
Unfortunately, it's the OP's word against the cop's, and everyone knows that cops are infallible gods among men.
#16 - On 11/03/2009 at 6:33pm by Tubasaurus
So the cop got make and model but not licence plate. Grounds to fight it surely. Any traffic cameras that might have caught the other guy?
Number 11 - "YDI for living in a country like that :D"
he deserves it because he lives in the united states of america? youre pathetic him living in the united states has nothing to do with it... go jump off a bridge.
now seeing that youre from "Germany" YOU would say some shit like that pffft nuff said cum bubble.
I had a cop tell me I failed to stop at a red light before turning right. I did stop, he was 100 yards back when I came to a full stop, then I inched forward to see around the cars to my left before going without coming to another full stop. Did I mention that this was 2/3 AM (Saturday night, would have been 3 AM DST but was 2 AM Standard time). No ticket, thankfully, but he did have a few choice words about my hat with the pot leaf embroidered on it.
#14 - On 11/03/2009 at 6:14pm by Kristoffer
he was bragging about his kick ass hat. where can i get one?
#24 - On 11/03/2009 at 8:31pm by Plumppotato
You could take it to court. Cop cars have a camera in the front windsheild and you could prove it wasnt your car with the license plate.
Well, it looks like you're gonna get stuck with a ticket because of some other asshole, but I guess you can sort of take a little bit of heart in the fact that it seems to have been an honest mistake on the part of the cop.
#18 - On 11/03/2009 at 7:44pm by capthavoc123
Yeah, a honest mistake that would cost him/her a $300 dollar ticket..."honest". The cop just didn't feel to chase down the other car and used OP as a scapegoat.
#38 - On 11/04/2009 at 9:08am by loooooooooool
I say BS...to get PASSED by this speed demon going 90MPH you would have had to have gotten ahead of it at some point thus going faster. If the cop was sitting under a bridge for instance its impossible for it to know an identical car is coming down the road without seeing both pass it speeding. Unless the car stopped and got gas you wouldn't have gotten ahead going the speed limit. The cop would have pulled them over long before them anyway.
#19 - On 11/03/2009 at 7:48pm by hotmodel1234
Um, no it does not mean she was going faster then the other car. It means they weren't coming from the same place, so she could've been going down the road when this other car came out of a side road or something.
no actually it says in the FML that the person driving fast had passed OP before the cop pulled her (yes i'm assuming this is a woman driver) over so.....that makes you a whore
i mean am i right? your shit's WEAK
#26 - On 11/03/2009 at 8:44pm by hahathatsux
"I say BS...to get PASSED by this speed demon going 90MPH you would have had to have gotten ahead of it at some point thus going faster." Not necessarily, just because the OP was ahead of the other car to begin with, doesn't mean the OP had to speed to get there. The OP may have been on the road before the other car, turned onto the road from another street etc.
Hotmodel1234 you have it all wrong. This "silver car" was obviously driving so fast that it went back in time, causing said car to pass OP again. Hope I cleared things up for you.
IC, thanks for clearing that up as I should have thought it was a Delorean...I guess when you hit 88MPH you really do see some serious s****.hahaha
#27 - On 11/03/2009 at 9:04pm by hotmodel1234
Umm...no. There's no way an officer/deputy/trooper would pull you over MINUTES after the suspect car passed him or her. Stop speeding.
Cops often post up on the side of highways to catch speeders. If they are stopped, then they have to catch up with the car that they see speed past. It is not uncommon for this to take a couple of minutes.
Besides, the OP only said that the speeding car had passed them (the OP) minutes before, not passed the cop minutes before. There may have been a delay before they both passed the cop, who would have then got on the highway and tried to catch up with the first car they saw that looked like the speeding one, which would be the OP since the OP was behind the speeder.
Are you kidding? The only reason people become cops is because they value power over money. You think any normal American would risk their life for 30k a year without getting a little something extra from it? Cops are dicks - not because it's the nature of the job, but because it's the nature of the man who would take such a job.
Traffic cops are the worst. They're tax collectors with a gun, handcuffs, and a huge chip on their shoulders. Go find a real crime, piggie, and stay out of my wallet.
way to say cops are dicks while at the same time being a judgmental dick yourself. They risk their lives every day, what do you do that makes you so much better?
#43 - On 11/04/2009 at 12:46pm by Littlerunner
WTF? I could slap more sense into a goat's ass with a brick than you have in your head.
Take your computer, box it up, and return it for your money back. You obviously are too stupid to use it.
stupid cop! ahh fyl dude but shit like this happens to everyone
#32 - On 11/03/2009 at 10:41pm by icanfloat12
I don't think so. In Kansas, 20 miles over the speed limit is a $155 fine.
http://www.opkansas.org/_Gov/Municipal_Court/Traffic/speeding.cfm
#34 - On 11/03/2009 at 11:54pm by o0ginger0o
hmm you might of been speeding he would of taken your plate and clocked you just before he pulled u over
Well obviously you were going so far over the speed limit that you warped spacetime and passed yourself. If that isn't ticket-worthy, nothing is!
Honest mistake or lazy mistake, it's too hard to tell. You should be able to prove your innocence thanks to the police cam, but you might get still get screwed anyway and lose even more time and money. *shrugs* Good luck. You're gonna need it.
#37 - On 11/04/2009 at 1:49am by blastvortex
been there done this. if you told the cop that you were passed by a similar vehicle you will def win this case in court. probable doubt will easily clear you.
#42 - On 11/04/2009 at 12:36pm by DaBluedude
I'm still trying to figure out how this speeding fast car that the cop mistook you for ended up behind you for long enough to come flying past minutes later. And where you live that a +20 speeding ticket is three hundred dollars.
Cool story though.
#44 - On 11/04/2009 at 3:43pm by MegIsGreat
This sounds like something that would happen in Wisconsin to a driver with Illinois plates. Seriously, Wisconsin troopers are douches, and it sounds like this one was too.
That's what you get for driving a boring silver car. Why is pretty much every freaking car on the road these days boring black, silver, or white or some shitty variation of it?
#46 - On 11/05/2009 at 5:07am by dieburnbot
