Definately harassment!!!

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With the great weather here in Texas, I've Bren able to ride into work the last 3 days. I'm normally cautious because I'm on the road at 2 in the morning, and I know cops LOVE motorcycles. :) anyway, I was riding in a pack of about 4 cars, when I see this car in the fast lane come FLYING up, fixin to pass us all. Then he hits the brakes and slows way down. I see him in my side mirror, I'm thinking "that's a cop". No big deal to me, I'm not speeding. HA! He whips in behind me and flips on the lights. As he walks up I'm about to take off my helmet and he sais, " Sir can I see your license and insurance", and as I pull my helmet off and set it on the tank he jumps a little and sais "oh, sorry ma'am"! I reach for my license an ask him why he pulled me over. " your license plate bracket is a little high, it's hard to see" and then tells me he doesn't need to see my insurance, and hands me my license back. Asks me if I'm on my way to work, and where I work, and how long I've had the bike, then tells me to have a great morning.
We ALL know he saw a sport bike at 2 am on the highway and thought he might get some drunk unlicensed kid. What a jerk!!!!
 
and why do they have to assume that all hooligans @ 2am are male?!? :)

thankfully, just a matter on inconvenience with nothing else attached.....
 
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Whenever something like that happens to me it does really tend to tick me off but when I get an "I'm sorry, you're good to go, I'm thankful. Because........I know there have been plenty of times I was doing something that could have earned me a ticket had the right cop been there to catch me. It really makes me laugh inside when the 40 year old officer looks at my license and I'm older than his father and on a sport bike to boot!
 
Well with riding season approaching, depending on where you live. TX apparently is already in riding season, lots of this will occur. All these bikes garraged up for months, then wham!! the heat is here and silly stuff starts to happen and we're pulled over just to see if all records are in order. To be honest with you, I guess that's the way it has to be. How else would you know if someone is licensed or not. Oh lets not pretend that every biker on the road is riding legally :(
 
Lonerider59 said:
Whenever something like that happens to me it does really tend to tick me off but when I get an "I'm sorry, you're good to go, I'm thankful. Because........I know there have been plenty of times I was doing something that could have earned me a ticket had the right cop been there to catch me. It really makes me laugh inside when the 40 year old officer looks at my license and I'm older than his father and on a sport bike to boot!
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Here in So Cal we are allowed to lane split. I do this every day on my commute. Sometimes I get in a “zone” where I’m thinking about work, the girlfriend, the kids, etc. and I don’t realize that traffic has picked up speed to about 60mph or so. So here I am still passing people but now doing around 75mph. I have, on three occasions, had a Motorcycle Highway Patrolman pull up behind me. I move over to let him pass and he slows down next to me and gets on his loud speaker. They usually say something cute like “just because you can go faster than traffic doesn’t mean you can exceed the speed limit”. I give them thumbs up and slow down a little. They move on and it’s another day without a ticket. It sure beats the days when I’m in a hurry and doing something stupid and should get a ticket. I count my blessings when I can. ;)
 
I've never been pulled over on the bike. I was flagged and put through a DB checkpoint but never pulled over in motion. Yea, I can see that he thought he had a hot one and was looking for a reason to ticket. As Pyrogenic asked, do you have an FE installed?

I'd be thankful to be pulled over and let go. Just as Lone stated, there's been numerous times that I've given them reasons but never have been caught. ;)
 
Hi Missyl1713, I have had the same experince here in Auckland NZ at 2am but I felt the cop was expecting to do a runner like it was a joy ride on a hot bike at that time of night but he was dissapointed he couldnt ticket me for anything. Fz1s have good mirrors to see them coming.
 
I'm not thankful, he didn't have a good reason, it was plain harassment. Unexceptable! No, it's the stick plate holder. Nothing wrong with it. just a bored power trippin cop.
 
Yes - guilty of being a little reactionary - the license plate thing was an excuse (a lame one) that told you he didn't have a reason, but wanted to check anyway, just in case. Nothing illegal I think, but just a pain. Got to stay calm and not make matters worse. I think its tough enough being a cop and stopping people anyway.

In my cage once, I got stopped in the wee hours going through a flashing yellow light. Cop thought it was a flashing red, then wanted to warn me I'm supposed to slow to be aware crossing a double yellow... which is lame because between the both of us there were two people within 2 square miles probably, and there's no law about slowing anyway - it says 'be cautious' I told him... He realized he made a mistake and made the most of it by telling me to be careful... they make mistakes too.... no sweat....
 
While I'm with ya there Missy, it is harassment I think it's jut plain bs how you gals can take off your helmet fluff your hair and not get a ticket, plain bs I say! I guarantee you 9 times out of 10 a guy is under that helmet he gets a ticket! :)
 
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romr said:
While I'm with ya there Missy, it is harassment I think it's jut plain bs how you gals can take off your helmet fluff your hair and not get a ticket, plain bs I say! I guarantee you 9 times out of 10 a guy is under that helmet he gets a ticket! :)
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That depends on the gender of the officer, or their orientation. A scene from Cannonball Run comes to mind (spandex suits, Lambogini, female officer,and a long front zipper). But I'll try throwing my head back and "fluffing" what's left of my hair next time I'm pulled over. :laugh2:
 
romr said:
While I'm with ya there Missy, it is harassment I think it's jut plain bs how you gals can take off your helmet fluff your hair and not get a ticket, plain bs I say! I guarantee you 9 times out of 10 a guy is under that helmet he gets a ticket! :)
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Well we women are a minority in the motorcycling community so I'm sure he was expecting to see a man. But to tell ya the truth, if I ever get pulled over, I'm gonna pull off my helmet & fluff my hair if it'll help my case!


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But I'll try throwing my head back and "fluffing" what's left of my hair next time I'm pulled over. :laugh2:
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LMAO! :th_smiley_rotfl2[1]
 
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That depends on the gender of the officer, or their orientation. A scene from Cannonball Run comes to mind (spandex suits, Lambogini, female officer,and a long front zipper). But I'll try throwing my head back and "fluffing" what's left of my hair next time I'm pulled over. :laugh2:
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If I'm the cop and you fluff your hair at me Lee you're getting a ticket, I'd find something to give you a ticket for!
 
lytehouse said:
Well we women are a minority in the motorcycling community so I'm sure he was expecting to see a man. But to tell ya the truth, if I ever get pulled over, I'm gonna pull off my helmet & fluff my hair if it'll help my case!




LMAO! :th_smiley_rotfl2[1]
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And I think you'd get better results with the spandex suit and the long zipper Lee was talking about...
 
If I get pulled over and not get a ticket....whew.
I have done enough things that I should have gotten a ticket for....

When I lived in England, we used to drive really fast on the motorway (like 120 mph). Once I got pulled over and gave the bobby my yankee license (I had an English license) and spoke to him like I was John Wayne. I asked him what the problem was because I though you could drive as fast as you wanted on "that there Autobahn". He just told me off and informed me I was in England not Germany and if he caught me a gain he was going to book me. : oops:
 
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