Over the years, I managed to earn five tickets for various moving violations. Two of them were for speeding in the Sacramento/Davis area. I remember singing along to a tape at the top of my lungs as I pushed the needle north of 80 mph and then seeing the black and white flash the blue and red. I was more annoyed at having to stop singing because my voice was in excellent form that day than actually getting the ticket. The other three were for rolling though red lights and stop signs. The stop sign one was on my bicycle in college and it was especially aggravating when I found out an hour later that this girl I knew got stopped for the same thing and she got out of it because she looked better in a tight t-shirt than I did.
By far the worst experience in getting pulled over happened when I was about nine years old. My mom blew through a stop sign in her VW Bug at the entrance of San Bruno Park. It must have been a slow morning for crime in the city of my youth because the cop that pulled us over was joined by no less than four of his police officer friends. It was the height of embarrassment for a kid of that particular age. Ask my mom about it someday, I am sure she remembers it as well.
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I too have received a ticket from UCD’s finest. I didn’t put the foot ALL the way down to the ground. Don’t remember what I was wearing that day though….;)
Funny four cops awake at that time and not at the Rolling Pin Doughnut shop.
Several years ago we were leaving Ikea and were at a 4-way stop sign. As we inched forward we felt a BUMP from behind, looked back and saw that we had been rear-ended by an Atherton police car! Seems he’d gotten a call and was writing something down on his hand. Hmmm. No damage, no injuries, but he MADE us wait while he reported it, and after all the East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Atherton police had caught the suspect in a shooting (the call he was writing on his hand), they ALL showed up. Probably laughing at the poor young cop who’d bumped us, but certainly made us the subject of some serious rubber-necking with at least a dozen police cars all around us!