COPS are a pain in the ass!

[noblesavage]

Ok, so a while back I got pulled over because the tags on car were expired by 1 week. They gave me a $50 ticket. Fuck that BS. So I called my law school friends and they are like, no problem. What really pisses me off is how cops don't give cops tickets. My bud Henry is a dick and we were out drinking and driving and got pulled over and he flashes his badge and they were like sorry, have a nice evening. Self-righteous revenue collectors!

[lady cop]

gee, and i answered you so politely in thread where you asked a question of me. oh well....let me tell you about cops policing cops...we have a very scary thing called IA , internal affairs, and you do not want them investigating your ass! that is some serious shit. yeah, we extend some professional courtesy now and then, but we (my dept.) has arrested our own on DUI, and taken their badge right on the spot. and Rx drug abuse, arrested right in our squad room/briefing, we were crying our guts out. and a female officer who was screwing a criminal (a felony)...GONE, career over, stripped of her uniform in sheriff office parking lot. one of ours is doing life for killing someone. and another doing 20 for killing his wife after his service weapon was stupidly given back to him following restraining order. so when we let one of ours skate on a ticket it's because we know the poor bastard can't afford the ticket on a cop's salary.

[wildernesse]

Oh, give me a break. You had expired tags and you don't want to take responsibility for not being on top of things. Boohoo.

[livius drusus]

So wait... Cops are self-righteous revenue collectors, but one of them was right by your side breaking the law and endangering people's lives and another let y'all off? It looks to me like neither of those adjectives apply.

Oh, and renew your tags like a grown man, for chrissakes.

[JoeP]

"Tags"? :unitedstates:?

[D. Scarlatti]

So I called my law school friends and they are like, no problem.

Law students? What are they going to do about it?

[Socratoad]

So I called my law school friends and they are like, no problem.

Law students? What are they going to do about it?

Plan on making a pail of money by pretending they actually give a damn?

[D. Scarlatti]

Plan on making a pail of money by pretending they actually give a damn?

Not what are law students going to do in general, what are law students going to do about Savage's ticket.

I mean, I got a ticket for expired plates so I called a law student? That's funny.

[Dingfod]

"Tags"? :unitedstates:?License tags, license plates, same thing, bits of galvanized, stamped and painted steel attached to the back or both front and back of autmobiles, basically an indication of registration and payment of taxes to the state of residence.

One example. (http://www.route56.com/photos/IVE656.jpg)

[Socratoad]

Plan on making a pail of money by pretending they actually give a damn?

Not what are law students going to do in general, what are law students going to do about Savage's ticket.

I mean, I got a ticket for expired plates so I called a law student? That's funny.

Ya sorry. I was being flippant. Actually its more than funny, its ridiculous. Methinks Savage might benefit more by taking a Valium :D

[D. Scarlatti]

I was being flippant.

I know man.

Anyone that thinks cops are a pain in the ass never met a law student. And any law student that purports to dispense legal advice is an even bigger twit.

[Socratoad]

I was being flippant.

I know man.

Anyone that thinks cops are a pain in the ass never met a law student.

:roflmao:

[D. Scarlatti]

I'm serious! Even lawyers can't stand law students.

Speaking as a law student, my (non-legal) advice is, pay the fucking ticket.

I got a similar citation several months ago for expired tags (quite a bit more than 50 bucks, as I recall). I explained to the officer that my vehicle had failed the emissions test because there was a leak in the exhaust system and that I had an appointment that week with the garage. I told him I was a student with a low paying job and that it had taken me a while to get together the several hundred dollars for the exhaust job.

The officer gave me a separate slip of paper to return with to the station, along with proof that I had passed the emissions test and of course the renewed tags. He gave me nearly 60 days to do so. I thanked the officer and apologized for causing the stop.

The following week I went to the Glendale, WI station with the requisite documentation and the ticket was voided. Cops are rarely assholes when you afford them the courtesy of acknowledging the fact they have a job to do just like anyone else. Act like a dick* and there is a strong possibility you will be treated like one.

* As in dickhead, not cop.

[Socratoad]

Couldn't have said it better. I have had similar experiences as the one you mention. Why the fuck do people seem surprised when someone reacts to their belligerent attitudes.

I have always tried to show respect and empathy toward anyone who has to deal with the great unwashed masses (the public) because they all run into more than their share of assholes. Dealing with the public, in general, can, and usually is, stressful. And so whether it be police officers or cashiers at the local mall I treat them all with respect. Even those poor unhappy people who have no other way to put food on the table than to work at one of those undogly call centers. I quietly tell them I'm not interested and hang up. I do not abuse the poor unfortunate bastards. Does anyone actually think that a person would enjoy such a soul destroying job, methinks not.

Whooooops, sorry to have gone off on a tangent, but then I so often do just that.

[Socratoad]

Articling: what is this worthless article doing in my office. :yup:

[JoeP]

"Tags"? :unitedstates:?License tags, license plates, same thing, bits of galvanized, stamped and painted steel attached to the back or both front and back of autmobiles, basically an indication of registration and payment of taxes to the state of residence.

One example. (http://www.route56.com/photos/IVE656.jpg)
Wow. You have to change the whole steel plate every time you pay road tax? (Annually I presume.) In SA and the UK, tax is evidenced by paper discs stuck inside the windscreen (example (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/SecretCode/licence-disc.gif), more examples than you could ever want (http://www.virtualgaz.co.uk/taxdiscspage.htm)). The steel or plastic number plates (registration plates) are only changed when the car is re-registered - in the UK, basically only when the car is new; in SA, also when the car changes ownership.

[Socratoad]

Here on the tundra we used to have system like in the Us, however that was up until approx. thirty years ago. Now new stickers are purchased. The waste of changing plates did not make sense environmentally speaking. However in the good ole USA where everything is considered to be a business, what would all those hundreds of thousands of convicts have to do if they did not have license plates to make?

[wade-w]

Here on the tundra we used to have system like in the Us, however that was up until approx. thirty years ago. Now new stickers are purchased. The waste of changing plates did not make sense environmentally speaking. However in the good ole USA where everything is considered to be a business, what would all those hundreds of thousands of convicts have to do if they did not have license plates to make?

/me sighs

Sorry to disappoint, but while the US is still the sole source of all that is evil in the world, even we aren't quite that wasteful. Haven't been for 30 years or more. What a coincidence!

We do not change the plates every year. We get a sticker that is placed on the plate.

[Socratoad]

:toad: turns red with total embarrassment. This is the second time within a few short minutes :(
Guess I better slow down and think before reacting :chin:

Oh dammit. Thanks for pointing my mistake out to me wade. Its not my intention to disparage all that is American ..... far from it.

Not a very promising start to the new year :(

[Dingfod]

One interesting license tag/plate bit of trivia. During WWII, Kansas didn't issue a 1943 license plate, only a little metal tag that was stamped "43" which was attached to the 1942 license plate presumably because steel was needed to make guns, jeeps, tanks and ships. I know about this because I have one that used to belong to my great-uncle. I've wondered what it would be worth to a collector.

[Shake]

"Tags"? :unitedstates:?License tags, license plates, same thing, bits of galvanized, stamped and painted steel attached to the back or both front and back of autmobiles, basically an indication of registration and payment of taxes to the state of residence.

One example. (http://www.route56.com/photos/IVE656.jpg)
Wow. You have to change the whole steel plate every time you pay road tax? (Annually I presume.) In SA and the UK, tax is evidenced by paper discs stuck inside the windscreen (example (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/SecretCode/licence-disc.gif), more examples than you could ever want (http://www.virtualgaz.co.uk/taxdiscspage.htm)). The steel or plastic number plates (registration plates) are only changed when the car is re-registered - in the UK, basically only when the car is new; in SA, also when the car changes ownership.
No. Typically only when purchasing a new vehicle. Even then, if you're replacing an older vehicle, the tags can be transferred to the new vehicle (for a fee of course).

Vehicle registrations are for 2 years here in NY, and vehicle safety inspections are performed annually. Those are both stickers which affix to the inside of the windshield. The NYS inspection stickers are color coded so it's very easy to tell who's overdue. Down in SC (and other states are similar), the registration sticker goes right on the plates.