Pleeeenty of black n white crown Vic’s from retired police in my area.
**** there are a lot of security guards also driving black n white cars with badging.
So I dunno about y’all chp guys pulling over black n whites but my local doesn’t. And we aren’t a small town.
On a slightly related note, I have been pulled over for a blue windshield on a motorcycle.
Coo said I could be impersonating an officer.
Changed it to a clear, got it written off and slapped the blue back on.
Bike was a 1990 Gsxr1100.
Same as mentioned above, like anyone is gunna be impersonating a coo on old stuff lol.
I dunno as I mentioned earlier. I’d def do it and deal with cry baby cops later.
I feel my wife’s 2018 Chevrolet Traverse looks more like a cop then an ole pickemup truck.
Lol and what cop rides a GSX-R too? Yet they still messed with you over that though.
Heck, I've got a blue windshield on my '05 GSX-R750, didn't even know that was a thing, remind me never to ride it in Cali lol.
But my point exactly, you say "do it and deal with crybaby cops later", idk about you, but there is no "dealing with" anything a cop does where I'm from, they ALWAYS get their way.
I remember once when I was in the process of moving from CT to NH, my registration and driver's license were already switched to the new address in NH but was still spending a lot of time in CT finishing up a job and slowly moving stuff while I renovated the new house. There was a well known speed trap in my town where the resident state trooper would hang out at the public works garage (where they park the snow plows and repair the fire trucks and sh!t) as it was at the bottom of a big hill on a long straight section of S Main st, between two highway exits (small town of roughly 4k, we only had one main exit in the center of town, and then one near the town line at opposite ends of town that went only in the direction coming from and going out of town so you couldn't hop on the highway and cut across town, like I said real small town) so if someone who wasn't local got off in the center of town for gas and was headed back out of town didn't realize the speed limit was only 30 in a spot that looked like it should be 50, bam free money for the staties. So here I am with out of state plates in my flashy little red Mitsubishi (was the first cheap car I could find to get around in when my truck died) and I get pulled over when I KNOW I wasn't speeding.
Dude said he got me on radar doing 53 in a 30. I said bullsh!t let me see the radar, I grew up in this town and have lived here on and off most of my adult life (told him what streets I lived on and named one of the the local cops I lived two doors down from as a teenager), said I wasn't dumb enough to speed on either side of Main st because obviously I knew someone would be running radar there, and named a couple other spots I know they routinely hang out in. He said he already cleared the radar but oh hey while we're at it, New Hampshire plates, huh? Let me see proof of insurance (insurance is not required up here, lots of people with vacation homes will register their seldom used vehicles up here to get around having to pay for insurance in CT where it is required) so I showed him my insurance card. Then he says my exhaust is kind of loud, and I said yeah well it's completely stock he's free to look underneath. He said he didn't need to waste his time because it's my word against his so I literally told him to suck it at that point because he's reaching pretty far on this one and it's pitiful so he laughs and goes back to his car.
I'm thinking whatever a fix-it ticket (leaky muffler, broken windshield, burned out tail light, etc) is usually like $40, even though I didn't do anything I might have to just cough it up to be done with it. He comes back with a $275 ticket for some charge I never heard of, dude literally must've gone back to the car and looked up the most expensive exhaust related ticket he could find just to stick it to me.
So I go home and look up the statute number I violated, it was some obscure law about "said vehicle produced more than XX decibels, measured on calibrated equipment 50' away from the centerline of the vehicle, etc etc" like the sort of thing that happens when you get sent to inspections, or when they pull over a group of Harleys on bike week and noise check them. Obviously none of that happened so I printed out the law out to bring to court with me. Now, CT makes a lot of money on the zillions of traffic tickets they write, and there are only a small handful of courts in the entire state that deal with state traffic offenses so usually the court date ends up being like 6+ months out if you plead not guilty and by then I was already fully moved out of state, over 3 hours away.
I get to court, showed the prosecutor the statute I printed and calmly but bluntly explain that it was a roadside stop and there was no way he could have issued such a ticket at a random traffic stop (cop who issued the ticket does not show up to court in CT). I asked if there was any proof of what decibel reading my vehicle produced or any calibration records for any sound equipment used, showed pictures of the stock exhaust, etc. Slam dunk in my mind. She literally said "I don't care about any of that. He also wrote on the back of the ticket that you were speeding and you made a rude comment to him, you're lucky he didn't write you a speeding ticket too. Either pay the noise ticket, or I'll tack on a speed charge too, is that what you want?" Then with a fcuking smirk on her face says "Or you can take it to trial if you want where you
might win, but if not you will have to pay this and I will be sure you also face the speeding charge, and being an officer's word against yours I guarantee you will not win that one. Oh and don't forget court fees if you lose. I see you live two states away, do you usually get weekdays off of work or did you have to take today off? Sounds like coming all the way back down here will get pretty expensive for you, if you're smart you'll just pay today and be on your way". Oh man I fcuking lost it at this b!tch, I could not believe she could get away with spewing that crap in a court of law. A bailiff had to 'guide' me out of the court, came this close to getting arrested that day, honestly can't believe I didn't. Should've friggin spit in her face.
Man I still see red just thinking about it. Now that I think back, I should've taken it to trial, gotten a lawyer and won. Then I should've sued to get my money back and whatever else BS because they were clearly abusing the law and freakin gloating about it! But still I would've never won that one. How the hell does your average guy sue the state and win? You just don't. And I'm white, was young and clean cut and presentable back then, wasn't all bearded and and unhealthy scraggly grey haired white trash lookin sh!t like I am now, and they still fcuked with me. I can only imagine how they treat dudes from the inner city in their lowered cars that don't even have the decency to show up in court without sweat pants and a ball cap on.
So yeah long story short, I don't do stuff to make cops bust my balls because I know there is no way to "deal with them later". Always guilty until proven innocent, in the northeast at least. ANY interaction with the cops is an excuse for them to make bullsh!t up and power trip and try to screw money out of you. I could go on about all the straight up crooked crap I've had pulled on me by cops, but I don't need to give myself a freaking aneurysm. I avoid dealing with them at all costs. If my vehicle is fast enough to run, I get out of there ain't nobody got time for that. If not, I make sure it appears legal as can be I don't mess around with anything that can get me pulled over for stupid reasons. I laugh when I see people with illegal tints, those dumb lowered cars that the wheels stick out sideways, colored headlights, etc. Have fun with your impounded car and or court date. Big ole no thanks for me...
