Peedtm

Yeah, I'd pull people over all day for not using their turn signal.

Driver: But officer, that guy just passed me doing 85 through the school zone.
Me: Yeah, but he was very predictable and indicated he would be swerving around you. . .

Tomo_Ishi

Hey,

I got stopped at 3AM coming home from a laboratory by a state cop. I had blinkies and everything, so I was curious what he got to say. ... A dumb move. I should have told him I am too busy or something. ... This cop gave me two traffic violation tickets which happened to be "NY state" fines and costed me 200 dollars!

I should have contested!

T

willypilgrim

yeah man cops are never wrong! you tell em!

fetch

they do this when they are bored and to let you know that he is "around" watching you.

they fill their notepad with names and DOB and show their superiors "hay i did werkz! lol!"

its truth. everytime i drink in public they make a HUGE scene out of it, only to take down info and run off.

xiamsammyx

huh?

thequickfix

I'm not saying that the cops are right. I was under the impression that he was repeatedly doing something suspicious that was getting him all the attention.

Tomo_Ishi

Speaking of Cops. Anybody here a cop? ... It could be cool to have a fleet of fixie cops huh?

MrCjolsen

Were you supposed to be in school at the time?

Tomo_Ishi

Me? 3AM, well past mid-night. ... It was when I was a grad student. I think I just finished a homework set, and heading home from my office. You know those time were coooool.

MrCjolsen

I was referring to the admittedly underaged OP.

Snails

I didn't read every post, but most of them. So i'm not sure if someone had already answered this.

NO, you shouldn't get a ticket for not wearing a helmet.
Unless they gave you a cute little yellow note with an i circled, The cops signature, date, etc.

I have had my name written down 3 times. Once in my town and once in the two neighboring towns..

ryansexton

I've only had my name written down once (for biking related reasons, for other reasons I went through a few arrests when I was 16). I was going down a side street that no one ever drives on, and I was swerving around skidding and just having fun on my way home. A car started following me so I started to sprint, then the cop lights came on. It was a female cop and she asked me my name, my address, and a bunch of other ****. She said that if she hadn't known my dad, (her boss), she would have given me a ticket for no lights, no helmet, and blowing a stop sign.

At least I had my bell, right?

smp22

I got stopped by a cop in front of my work the other day for eyeing a friends bike on the rack. He wrote down all my info and everything, even after I showed him my work ID indicating that I worked in said building. I was out at 9:00am on a weekday having my morning coffee and cigarette.
I wouldn't have minded so much if he wasn't so damn condescending about it the whole thing. "You look like a bike theif" .. I understand that maybe it looked like I was casing out the bike rack, but really .. if I show you ID that says I work there, I have a coffee in my hand, my goddamn hush puppies on ... really?!!!
Why write the info down at all? And why be all big man about it? I was super friendly with him, hoping he would lighten up. No sir.
I'm freakin' 29 years old and I work for the I.T department (as indicated by my work ID).
Like, seriously...

RaeFixie

some cop are asses, but some are nice
one day i got stopped by cop. i put my hand in my pocket then he yelled at me "DON'T PUT YO HAND IN YO POCKET OR I'LL KNOCK YOU OUT!"
and i was scared haha...

nelzar13

[QUOTE=pdxJenn;6654368]wear a damn helmet haha i learned that hard and split my head open.

trust me it's worth ''looking fat"
that's after it being cleaned up at the hospital for and hour and a half.
[/QUOT

Ahh the finger stache! I have one im contemplating getting a diferent one on another finger when i get tattood tommorow you know so i can have different stache for evry mood

pdxJenn

haha yah!!!!! i'm getting the hitler one on my middle finger so when i'm a ***** at work i can just put it up or put it up as a sole patch and be like what up braaahhhhh

LateNite

If he took your name and birthdate, he was probably just going to run your name to see if you had any warrants. If you were getting a ticket, you would have got it before you left.

smp22

Nah, he ran my ID through the computer .. THEN he wrote down all the info.
And he wasn't too nice about it either though I was. I even showed him my work ID that had the exact street address I was standing in front of right on it next to a picture of yours truly.

frankstoneline

pretty sure theres no helmet or brake law in washington unless you are under 16.

RaeFixie

i searched for it and there is rule for helmet in several city like seattle
but i don't know about brakes, i think there is too but it doesn't say anything about hand brakes
i mean do you know how many little kids riding their little bike with training wheel but without hand brakes (they coast)

freeimprov

"Laws ain't everything. There's no law against hitting a dog, but people stop anyway." -Ishmael Reed

Man, put your money in a helmet. You only get one head. When I was in high school, NOBODY wore helmets (coz I'm old). A friend of mine was the victim of a hit-and-run, wound up in a coma, woke up with brain damage and an IQ of about 70. You want to spend the rest of your life permanently ******** because some soccer mom was trying to steer her Navigator with her knees because she had coffee in one hand and a cell phone in the other?

That truing stand won't do you any good if you can't ride a bike anymore because you're paralyzed.

RaeFixie

i wear helmets everyday now,

and i don't get about the truing stand, im slow

andrewssohip

i hope to god you are being sarcastic, this is the worst idea ever.

schnee

Just get a helmet already, willya?

(note, may be disturbing if blood makes you squeamish)

GP

He's probably going to enter it in a database.