So I'm driving home tonight in the FD at around 12:30AM, down lauzon pkwy in windsor.. . I'd just left the local car club gathering and I was going about 60-65 km/h in a 70 zone.. real grandma style.. roads were deserted. Light turns red, I coast up to it downshifting all the way, hardly even touch the brakes... notice a police SUV at the intersection (right by princess auto) just sitting there with the lights off. No cars behind me except for a pair of headlights wayyy in the distance. Light FINALLY turns green after what seems like an eternity (it's a very very long light).. out of nowhere there's cherries in my mirror (charger, not the SUV) and so I pull over... before I know it there's SEVEN cop cars behind me!!!

I've been pulled over many many times but this is by far the most that I've ever had behind me at once... They questioned my passanger pretty thoroughly but didn't say much to me, asked for ownership, license, etc... they didn't even bother checking out the temp. permit on the car at first. Then they came back and did check that, and asked for my license and the ownership of the car a second time, and recorded the info that time... then said "hold on a moment" and they ALL LEFT, so I left...

was definatly weird, thought I'd share.

 

That is really strange. Did you even get a ticket for something, or did they just waste your time?

 

Sounds like that car commercial where the cops are chasing some perp...then they all stop to admire your car for a moment...then they all take off again to continue the chase.

 

i had the same thing happen to me. at a house party and minor completely **** faced stumbled down the steps in front of the house and hit my car, left a little dent, we kicked the kid out. i moved my car up the street for no further accidents, i got back and everyoen asked me what happened, i told them and a bunch of us when back up the street to look at the dent, ok all of us were wearing ALL black. next thing i know there was hawks on us, 4 unmarked suv's 2 cruisers and half the cops were in riot gear. we all got the full detail, laying on out faces on the side walk arms and legs spread out.
i looked up to tell the cops the whole story even showed the cops the dent in the car, some stupid bull dyke female officer (trying to prove something) told me to STFU and for all of us to hand over our licences without taking out faces off the ground. finnally after then checked all our record, they told us they were looking for 4 asians in white shirts stealing cars, mean while they're assulting 7-8 cocasians in ALL black, standing around the car that I OWN!

kinda makes me wonder if my tax money is beingput to good use if the officers have nothing better to do then go WAY overbored against people that don't even match the critera of the search.

i'd also like to say that the **** faced minor that put the dent in my car got away free and clear. walking around the block swaming with cops.

 

that sucks. go fd powa

 

Just goes to show what kind of crowd you hang around with...

I once showed up at my buddy's bank after it was held up. Hours later the cops show up at my work to look in the hatch of my Chevette. They had me open the hatch and they left before I opened up the false botton to the spare tire.

Basically they could have looked through the hatch and left...

 

a couple friends and i were hanging out in my driveway, long after a party had ended at my place... two of us were sitting on the trunk of my dads car, and one guy was sitting on the grass at the edge of the driveway...

we were just sitting there talking...we each had a beer and the guy beside me was eating a can of beans (don't ask me man...we had pizza...he was very drunk ) all of a sudden this cruiser pulls up outta nowhere, screams up the driveway, almost hits my friend on the grass and almost pins us to my dads car....

two cops jump out and start screaming at us, as another van pulls up with more cops inside... the one cop starts screaming at my friend to 'put it down' and he's standing there like 'It's a can of beans?' they just keep yelling at him and he doesn't know what the hell is going on.. the cop actually PULLS HIS GUN on my friend until he drops the beans! I've never seen anyting like it!

they ask us some questions, check my id, find that i actually live there and tell me some crap about getting a call that guys were trashing a car there.

yeah we trashed the car, then stayed around sitting on it having a beer and some beans .... they told us to go inside and left....


this was like 10-12 years ago in scarborough... we were all long hairs so getting harrased by cops there was nothing new, but they never drew their guns before!

 

Beans are a deadly weapon.

I don't see any reason why you can't call in and complain about these situations... Ask for names.

 

Don't we all have stupid cop stories:

A few years ago, my friend Mike and I had to just left the bar that sponsors our football team. I was driving my POS cavalier. Pulled out on the main street, minding my own business, when suddenly out of nowhere, a cruiser blocks the road in front of me.

Two cops jump out. One of them yells to get our hands in the air. Sure, no problem, but stupid me wanted to put my auto tranny into park first. Well, that is all it took for Riggs and Murtaugh to pull their guns. They opened our doors, undid our seatbelts, and made sure we where not packing.

Apparently, there was an attempted bank robbery just near there. Anyway, they took off again as soon as they realized to guys wearing football gear probably wouldn't be robbing a bank....no apology or anything.

 

had one stop us downtown one night after the bar.... he was checking id and all i had was a passport (drank way too much to own a car back then so no license) he asks why i have a passport and i say "i'm ready to board an international flight at any moment" back then he just wasn't amused, i guess these days i could end up in prision somewhere.... but anyhow... while he's checking our id for no reason, he gets something on the radio, chucks our id out the window and takes off down the street!

i tell you these guys are nuts

 

i dunno the exact number but apperently the majority of bullies in school end up as cops, so it honestly doesn't surprise me that most cops are *** hats. even the bull dyke officers. if i get pulled over anymore the first thing outta my mouth is me asking for the officers badge number.

 

I dunno, last time i got pulled over, by two cop cars. one of them came to my window and said Sir, Do you know you do not have a rear licence plate? I said, Yah.. I have a 10 day Permit.
he just left.

 

This cop pulls me over this one time and hes like, do you know why I pulled you over? Im like, no. Hes like, your missing your plate. I was like, what? So I got out and looked and sure enough, it was missing.

The detective in me looks down the street and about a block away, its sitting on the road, right after a nasty pot hole that I couldn't avoid.

As we are watching, officer and all, I see this clown (not literally) waiting at the bus stop, walk over and put my plate in his back pack. Asshead.

The officer was nice enough to drive in reverse down the road and retrive it for me. Naturally the guy denys the whole thing. Im not so sure they wrote him a ticket or whatever. In any case I cable tied the plate back on and drove to the store for some screws.

Police are usually nice when I drive mazda's and porsches. But god help you in a Nissan, especially a skyline. I pulled over to ask an officer directions once in a skyline and I got 3 tickets. My girlfriend wanted to rip him in half, I basically had to put my hand over her mouth. Fourtunately, I didnt have to pay any tickets when I went to court to fight it.

 

It doesn't surprise me that bullies would be drawn to police work (I worked as a research assistant for one of my sociology profs back in university - one of his areas of work was criminology, studying police misbehavior). Just the same, I've also come across some really decent cops. Good story first:
Last summer, I'm on my way out to the Okanagan with my 3yr old girl, to spend a few days with the grandparents before the wife flew out to join us. Coming out of the Rogers Pass, I and a PT Cruiser finally get by a pack of dawdling cars and RV's (even the truckers were being held up), and start making some time on the long downhill into Revelstoke.

I wasn't going insanely fast (when I got caught), but the limit's only 90kph on most BC highways, and I was doing 110+, maybe 115. I let the PT get about 500m out on me, figuring he can be my radar detector. Coming around a bend on a straight, broad, empty downhill stretch, way ahead I see a car by the side of the road, but the PT isn't hitting his brakes, and he's a lot closer, so I figure it's just a breakdown. As the PT gets close, cop pops out and waves him - and me - over.

I'm just kicking myself, both for not following my own instinct and slowing as soon as I spotted a car at the side of the road, and because my 8+ year streak of no moving violations is about to die. I figure I'll question him on whether his radar might have got scatter off the car in front - but when he comes to my window, like he was reading my mind, he opens by saying "Sir, I clocked you speeding on laser, which is very precise and tightly focused..." Doesn't give me any of the usual sillyness about "Do you know how fast you were going?", and then expect you to answer. I hand him my license and reg, and he takes it back to his car, while I sit waiting for a huge $300+ BC ticket, and starting to see the same dawdlers I had passed earlier go by (BC RCMP are famous for their no-mercy ticketing of AB motorists - so I'm just thankful he wasn't 15km further up the pass when I blew the long string doing 140-150!). After a few minutes, he comes back, gives me my docs back, and what I assume to be a ticket, and tells me "I'm giving you a warning today Mr. J, and please watch your speeds, especially on these long grades". I said "Thank-you", and meant it - I was so relieved, I really did behave myself (well, better than usual) for the remainder of my time in BC. Don't know why he gave me a warning, I was more than a little over, but maybe it was because I was driving my classy and conservative looking Passat wagon, with a cute kid in the back. It probably helped that, since I knew he had me dead to rights, I didn't argue, I was just resigned and polite.

Asshat cop story: About 9 years ago, I'm coming back into Calgary from the north, its a sunny early spring day, I'm with my wife, the car is sparkling and I've got my fancy summer rims back on (drove a mint 80's 200SX back then - probably just before I got the 7).
I know the Airdrie RCMP are notorious for ticketing, so I set the cruise to 110 (the limit), making me about the slowest car out there. I'm surprised to have a cop come roaring up behind me with his lights on - and not pass me, but parallel me on the left. He waves me over to the left - makes no sense, I'm on the right, and there's no shoulder on left, so I pull over on the broad right shoulder. I have no idea why he would be pulling me over. He starts in on me for not following his directions to pull left - I don't say so, but my thought is, I don't aspire to block the fast lane and get punted into the afterlife by a transport truck doing 130 that can't stop and has nowhere to go. Then he starts grilling me like a 10 year old sent to the principal's office: "You know why I pulled you over don't you?", to which I say, no, I don't, and he goes on, saying things like, Don't play dumb with me.." - which gets me hot under the collar in a hurry, I'm a high school teacher and I don't talk down to students like that, so I really have a problem taking it from this cop who's probably younger than I am. I tell him, why don't you stop playing games with me, you obviously know why you pulled me over! The wife (and no doubt the cop) can see I'm getting seriously pissed at playing this guessing game. Well, it finally comes out it's for window tinting - I had a moderate tint on the side glass, and none on the back, the car had louvers ('80's vintage, remember - lol). I genuinely had no idea it was illegal, I thought it was fine as long as it let more than 20% thru - it was a 30% film. Cop continues to lecture me like I'm a 10 year old, saying things like:
cop "I can peel that off for you right now if you like"
me: Yes, I can see how leaving an opaque film of torn tint and glue will improve visability.
cop "Well, if it's so good, why didn't you put it on the front glass too?"
me: "Well thank-you officer, I think I'll look into that as soon as I get home!"

He finally gets around to giving me my $30 tint ticket, which I crumple up and throw in the footwell. He offers to give me another if I like, to which I tightly reply, "No, thanks, you've done more than too much today, officer"

I wait for officer asswipe to get in his cruiser, then light up the tires to spray his cruiser with gravel, and accelerate at WOT to 170-180 until I was long out of sight - he never even made a move to come after me, even though within seconds I was zinging in and out through traffic. Maybe he was surprised to find someone who didn't automatically defer to his authority.

 

Wicked stories man!

 

yeah, he was the a$$wipe....

 

This one time in high school my freinds and I were driving to get luch im my mom's car (she taught at the school next door, so I was able to borrow the car at lunch). We were driving along and a cop came up behind us, I noticed right away, but I wasn't speeding or anything, so I made sure to play nice, especially through the school zone that we went through. Well my freind in the front seat was turned around talking to the people in the back. While he was doing this I guess he was staring at the cop, the cop scratched his face, so my freind says: "hey, he just did this" and mimics the cop. A minute later I turn on the signal to turn off, and as soon as I do the lights come on, so I turn off and pull over. The cop comes up and asks whose car it is, I answer that it's my mom's, then he asks me for the licence and registration, so I give it to him, he goes back to the car. A few minutes pass then he comes back, gives me the licence and registration back (he didn't even ask about why my last name was different than that on the registration). So then he asks to speak to my freind out of the car. He took my freind out of the car and around back, then gave him **** for looking at him like that, and he even said that he hated it when he was young and the cops harassed him. So of course he decides to continue this fine tradition of needlessly harassing young guys.

Not as good of a story as the others, but again, cops harassing people for no good reason. If a cop was to harass me for no reason now I'd write down their info and lodge a complaint against them. Someone needs to stand up to the bullies.

 

when I was younger and I lived in montana I would get harrassed almost everyday...I guess they had nothing better to do. But to be honest ever since I moved to canada three years ago I've had nothing but good experinces with the cops. This summer I was driving by tiger japanese imports and saw this rediculously clean RHD 91 fc and had to have it. So I bought it and was driving it around the rest of the summer on a ten day. the next day I was coming out of the local napa and as I had done many times decided to drift it as hard as i could. well...this time there was a cop facing me on the road ahead hidden from my view by a truck. undoubtedly I got pulled over and thought the worst...The car wasnt in my name yet, its rhd!, Im 20, I dont know if it was imported legally or what, and I just did a huge drift (stupidly) in the middle of a relativly busy road!...Im screwed!... So the cop comes to the window and starts asking me some pretty routine questions and asking me if its legal to have rhd car in canada. I explained the 15 year law and he checked the vin and checked the legality of it; luckily it was fine. He asked for my license and what not and went back to the cruiser...at this point my heart may have been at 250-300 Wbpm, wheel beats per minute! I was thinking he was gonna tow and crush my car since the've been cracking down on aggresive driving, take my license, I was thinking the worst case scenario to prepare for the inevitable. So he comes back to the car, hands me my license back (phew he didnt suspend it) and says "im gonna let you go with a warning, please dont drive so aggressvly"...I was literally stunned I dont even know if i thanked him I was in shock, I sat there for a good 10 minutes contemplating entering the lottery cause I must be the luckiest son a bitc* alive! just thought I'd share, that ontario cops, thus far for me are way better then anything i've dealt with in the states.

 

I driving with an old friend of my brothers, to go run some errands. Along the way we get pulled over by this younger officer. He asks for the usual. Then he starts writing a ticket right there.

Officer - "Im writing you a ticket for not wearing your seatbelt."

Driver - "Uh, Officer, I am wearing a seatbelt."

Officer - "It has to be a 3-point Shoulder Belt."

Driver - "I bought this truck before you were born, they didnt have 3-point belts back then."

Officer *Blank look on face* - "Be right back sir."

Mosey's on over to his car, sits in it. Makes us wait for 15 or so minutes, then just drives away. No other comments, not even a look.

We shrug and drive away.