I got pulled over for like the tenth or eleventh time this year this past week and it’s starting to piss me off. Thankfully I’ve escaped ticket-less for all of them (*knocks on wood*), but I can only say I deserved to be pulled like thrice out of all those times.
All the other times have been on some profiling/cop bored out their mind. Being African-American, mid 20′s and driving a pretty decent car a majority of the time doesn’t help at all. I can’t help but feel angered because these dumb asses keep wasting time on me when I know they could be doing real police work (word to McNulty).
Take for instance what happened to me this time. I’m driving home talking to my girlfriend when I notice a cop tailing me. So I hang up with her, slow down to the speed limit, & put the left hand on the wheel for good measure. He follows me for a good three blocks & I know we’re on a collision course to meet. It’s only a matter of time.
So I look in the rearview and see those familiar flashing lights. I pull over, turn up Viva La Hova, and wait for him to mosey on over. I put the window down and the conversation went like this:
Pig: Do you know why I pulled you over sir?
MZ: No.
Pig: Well, either you were swerving to miss that pothole or you’ve been drinking. It is that time of night.
M: (Thinking “what the hell are you talking about!”) Yeah i was avoiding the pothole…. and obviously I haven’t been drinking
Pig: Yeah, I can see that now, license, proof of insurance, and registration please.
M: *Hands over paperwork and hopes this won’t take long.*
So he takes my stuff and heads back to his cruiser and I’m ready to go. It’s one in the morning and forty degrees outside. I’m literally five minutes from home and tired as hell. A couple minutes pass and I look out my rearview to see like five sets of flashing lights and another squad car pulling up in the parking like next to me. These fools are having a pow wow behind me and I’m really regretting turning off the engine because I’m cold as hell. 10 minutes later he saunters back over.
Pig: Well everything looks in order. Be safe out here and have a good night.
M: *Silence as I hold my tongue*
As soon as he walked away, I started the car, picked out RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta and put on the “Hell Yeah.” Not to knock M-1 and Stic.man, because I actually believe they’ve done what they spit in that song, but Jay-Z summed up how I felt perfectly at that moment. Johnny Law doesn’t care whether you choose to live your life on the wrong or right side of the tracks; they’ll fuck with whomever they want to. They just better be happy I chose the right side.
But if some crazy riot were to ensue, this song (and album) will be what I have in mind while I’m helping flip over a squad car on my way to loot Best Buy and the Lacoste store.
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Damn 11 times in 1 year? WTF are doing to attract all this attention? I don’t think I’ve been pulled ove rthat many times in my life, well….I take that back. But damn.
I fuckin hate the Po-po.
I feel ya pain I got pulled over 1 block from my crib for being 8 miles over the limit
Pig: Yeah, I can see that now, license, proof of insurance, and registration please.
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if he knows why you swerved, why the fcuk he need to see your registration…
Word to Fonz though… 11 times, my dude?
Lose them rims, you don’t need that kind of attention as often as you’re getting it.
the reason for my last pull over was because the po po said i didnt take at least two seconds to signal that i was goin to the next lane… i was like your a lying bastard because its almost inmpossillbe to not do that. he said “well next time make sure you put your signal light two seconds before you change lanes” WHATEVER AnD GOOD DAY SIR!! lord baby Jesus! thats utah….well the whole nation for ya
I don’t have rims because I drive a company car.
I don’t even have rims on my personal car. I’m low-key for real.
I just drive Chargers & Magnums. Add racial profiling to the mix & it’s a wrap. I’ve been pulled over driving 37 in a 35 AFTER the cop drove by me for a few minutes, then pulled behind me & flashed the lights.
I’m just waiting for ’09.
No rims?
Maaaan, we’re gonna figure this out TOnight!
Pump some of this if there’s a “next time”, and I SWEAR they’ll be the fcuk out… word to “the brothers” Shawn and Marlon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4
Black folks… are we being serious here? Is white the new black? LOL!!!
“Damn 11 times in 1 year? WTF are doing to attract all this attention?”
“Lose them rims, you don’t need that kind of attention as often as you’re getting it.”
Ya’ll know I’m just kidding but man… I would expect white folks to say those things – LMAO!
*Doing my best Ice Cube and that bear claws skit*
“You must have been doing something black guy. Got any bear claws?”
MZ: Go ahead and stick your head in there man.
I’ve been pulled over 5 times in a month. DWB at its finest!
Ya’ll know I’m just kidding but man… I would expect white folks to say those things – LMAO!
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Sheeeit…. It may sound “white”, but it’s more along the lines of things an older black elder might say to keep you from getting shot at a traffic stop.
Where I’m from any traffic violation gets your insurance surcharged for SEVEN years, so aside from my system (which can & will be turned OFF when necessary) I try to be like Ralph Ellison out in the streets.
Maybe they started an office pool to see how many times you need to be pulled over before you snap on one of ‘em.
I got $20 on stop number 14…
Do you usually get pulled over at 1am? because most people driving at that time are meth and crack addicts or people coming from parties…
so the number of people driving at that hour intoxicated is rediculous… It’s not just that cops have too much time on their hands….
I hate cops, but…. I try not to draw attention to myself…, because I know when to expect them. I know you didn’t do anything and it sucks.., but… That’s cop logic.
LOL – Invisible as hell!
I feel you though OED. My whip will always look factory on the outside. Between fools trying to jack you and the popo, all my bells & whistles stay inside the car.
Getting off at night (now) doesn’t help my case either.
*was in the car a couple of times*
I’m just waiting for ‘09.
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I feel like more people are gonna get pulled over for DWB now. Those dudes who did it before are mad.
I’ve never been pulled over, even while blasting Nas, having no hubcaps and doing 10 over. The benifits of being Indian, most people think you’re harmless if you’re clean shaven.
we got pulled over in Socal. On the freeway. dude slid-stepped his way all the way to the passenger side hand firmly on sidearm… then promptly wrote me a ticket.
for driving without a seatbelt.
i was the passenger.
oh yeah… there was no seatbelt law at the time.
LMAO @ the office pool theory
MZ, DH may have a point. At a Krispy Kreme in your neckadawoods Po-Po may have one of those blackboards like they did in The Wire, with your picture up at the top like Marlo…
DH – count me in….My money’s on stop number 15 (word to the people that bid over your bid by $1 on The Price Is Right) with the preceedings going down a lil’ sumn like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prDZm18Abjk&feature=related
They might: I switch cars every 3-4 days.
u only drive magnums and chargers…depending on where u live they the new d-boi cars
they replace the 300 or as sum call it the crentley(wacc ass name)
That sucks, I got surrounded by six police officers circa 2 years ago, excuse me, can we ask where you are going? Would you mind stepping in the vehicle to answer a few questions?
Apparently, I had been reported by a passing citizen as fitting the description of a dangerous killer on the loose and so the police had to follow this report through.
But for six police officers to come out of the blue and grip me like that was some what OTT.
Some really random questioning took place, most of the cops there at the scene were jerks. But one of them was a pretty sound fella.
But I wouldn’t wish that sort of situation upon anyone unless they are guilty of a crime of course, you can just sense how some of them police officers are tripping off the power that has been bestowed upon them.
better than what happened to me.
got pulled over for running a stop sign that was covered by trees and construction shit.
> = me
< = cop
no.
honestly officer, the stop sign is covered up by trees.
i really apologize, i’m unfamiliar w/this area.
_______.
< do they have stop signs in _______?
< …
it was at that point i knew i was getting a ticket. $196 w/traffic school.
FYI:
you can ask a cop how long they’ve had the speed trap open (if you get busted for speeding). if they admit to the speed trap, it’s illegal for them to ticket you.
you can ask if they’re allowed to give warnings or if they’re strictly out for quotas. if they admit to quotas, it’s also illegal for them to ticket you.
http://www.helpigotaticket.com/speed/stepbystep.html
lines got cut off
1st: – do you know why i pulled you over?
after 3rd:
- where are you from?
I don’t mind if I get pulled over after 10pm cus if a cop catches someone driving while drunk 1 out of 20 times I’m ok with that.
But wait up, you’re mad cus you swerved late at night and got pulled over? If Obama himself was behind you he would pull your ass over to see if you were drunk.
1) in Jersey, on my way to the post office by my house…pulled over for (speeding) in a Altima… those new ones do have a nice pickup but dammnnnn!.. questioned me if I lived in the town and why?.. still had new york plates adn license.. was given a careless driving ticket and failure to transfer plates… I thought I was speeding?… hmmmm had it reduced in court to no points violation… still they got me for $128 which was better than the intial $450 they wanted from me…
2) a few years back… just finished parking and cops pulled up behind me… lady cop had the nerve to ask me if I owned the vehicle… gave her my license and registration… she felt like a dumb ass… asked her, “what no one can have a Land Rover living in the Bronx… she was tight as hell, especially after I asked her for her number because she was fine as hell…
3) I get pulled over more in my wife’s Altima ( no rims ) than in my Range Sport Supercharged… no clue how that happens… it would be the other way around if I still lived in the Bronx… hot ride means you doing some illegal I tell ya…
I used to get pulled over all the time in my old 89 box LTD but since I bought a retired 99 Crown Vic police car earlier this year with limo tint on it the police havent fucked with me(knock on wood)…….. might be because they cant see that its a black man driving though
That’s nothing, I got stopped for JAY-WALKING!!! It was 2:00 am with absolutely NO traffic so I walked casually across the street, guess who comes around??? THE BEAST!!! Another time the 5-0 pulled guns on us because some white bitch got robbed in the subway and somehow we “fit” the description of the suspects who fled. The description said “3 Black males with baseball caps & white tees”, well let’s see every ninja wears white tees and fitteds in the summer!!! Only problem was I had just come back from the gym and was wearing a BLUE GOLF SHIRT!!! I HATE COPS!!!! AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!
Total number of times pulled over: 30+, no bullshit!
I didn’t swerve
I’ve been ticketed for jay-walking @ 12:00 a.m.
I’ve been pulled over for not signaling a 100 ft. before stopping @ the stop sign(Again @ 12:00 a.m. and no one around).
Got accused of a crime I didn’t commit and was banned from some apartments in my hood (mistaken identity). Cop calls my house the next morning telling me he’s gonna get me & sh*t. WTF?
I think of cops every second I’m driving. I’m ready for whatever.
Straight up, rims, type of car, all that shit are factors when DWB. I say just make sure you & your passengers are clean, you paperwork in order & you ain’t missing a taillight, hanging license tag or anything that gives them a reason to pull you over.
Or put on whiteface, yo
Yo Black Canseco & MZ I feel your pain. Man in the Bay I am always getting pulled over. Man one time I got pulled over because I had an Indian feather hanging from my rear view mirror. When he told me that is why he pulled me over I straight up laughed at him and told him point blank, “So I guess you had nothing better to pull me over for”? So why he runs my L I scroll through the ipod and play Fuck the Police/Jay Dilla. My L comes out clean and he tells me have a good day… Really?
I’m white and I got pulled over randomly
it was late and I was dropping this chick off in the hood, best of all I was in the “White Boy Mobile”
An S10
Cop pulled me over said I was over the 25mph speed limit by 4MPH (Lol such BS, it’s a four lane main street, that drops from 40 to 25 in the hood)
In retrospect there’s usually a legitimate reason, In my case, he probably thought I was drunk or scoring something.
but racism and prejudice are alive an well, and the cold hard fact of the matter is, unfortunately those 24′s you threw on the Magnum, are going to make you a target.
Lol @ you guys talking to cops “Any the fuckin way I want to talk to em!” – Mike Epps™
I beleive it was the great Willie D that said
“I know this cocksucker pullin me over because of my skin
But the secret is to win, so I hold it in
I’m yessir’n, no sir’n, but when he pull off he diss
A motherfuckin, dick-suckin, redneck son of a bitch!”
I think those lyrics are wrong^ btw Haha
17 inch alloys – I already said I didn’t have rims on it.
don’t read Magnum & assume.
@ Chim Richalds
Yo where I am from the reason why cops pull over white boys in the hood, cause they think you are there to cop some dope/weed. One of my homies is white and they always stop him and ask him, what are you doing around here and that he shouldn’t be here (while peering through the window looking all through the car for something he can use to ask him can he check his ride). Straight BULLLLLSHIIIIIT!!
@MZ
Oh I didn’t, I personally have several work vehicles I drive too, a Charger and an Impala. I was referring to what somebody said about the Charger,Magnum and 300 being the new Dboy vehicle.
I myself personally have a 94 Impala BBB with 5% tint and 20 inch Boyd’s and have never caught any flack in that so….I can’t call it
@C Soul
That’s exactly what I’ve heard from a cop I know, it’s profiling,but if that’s the majority of buyers, I understand, and fuck it, I ain’t got nothing to hide.
Dog, been pulled over on US-78 so many times its rediculous… M-town cops keep pulling me over… Bama police… and Mississippi cops… and then there’s always like 3 cops that pull me over and search me… I look the part yeah, but then they found out I graduated from Georgia Tech and make money legally… then they want to talk and kick it like I got that kind of time… coppers get on my last nerve. Yeah the tint is illegal but I got Georgia plates so step the fuck off.