This nonsense will become worse with this sort of fascist applications:

DriveMeCrazy iPhone app provides outlet for virtual tattle-tales

 

all though I did not admit it.

I was coming back from a cars and coffee one morning and I let my brother drive the 997 and I was drive my Gallardo. There is a 3 mile long bridge that is one the way back to my house. Well boys being boys we do a few roll ons but we never passed any cars. Once we left the bridge we did the speed limit all the way back to my house. I had all ready parked my car when my brother comes into the house and says the police are in the drive way. I came out and sure enough there were two officers.

Officer: Whos black porsche is that

Me: Mine

Officer: Whos Yellow lamborghini is that

Me: Mine

Officer: Looks very annoyed at this point and asks me and my little bro for our licenses

Me: Why is it a crime to be parked in your drive way (at this point I have a beer in my hand)

Officer: There was a report that two cars fitting the description of yours were doing 200 MPH across the bridge.

Me: Well officer that could not have been us because that one will only do 188 and that one will only do 195, so it could not have been us.

Me: I wish you guys were off duty I would love to offer you a beer

Officer: What year is the corvette

Me: 66 but I wish it was a 67

Officer: I had a 64 back in the day, you boys slow it down and I suggest you leave these cars parked for a few hours. Have a good day.

Me: Will do sir.

He never did look at either of our licenses and once we both understood there was nothing he could really do he turned out to be a nice guy.

I left both cars parked the rest of the day.

 

Doing doughnuts in a parking lot (private) at 3am does not come under LE jurisdiction, technically speaking. You weren't on a public street or roadway, and furthermore, there were no people around at said time to possibly endanger. Same applies for a dad taking their kid to a large pkg lot (like at a College) on a weekend for some rudimentary driving skills to be taught. Unless something has changed, LE has no legal authority to enforce any kind of traffic laws in a private pkg lot that is off of public roads. In fact, I was told this quite clearly by both a LE officer and a sitting city judge many years ago.

Now, if there is suspicion of another crime involved, that certainly changes things; or if you are disturbing the peace at 3am... which in doing doughnuts you might be making some racket that could bother people if this was in a neighborhood.

 

Old thread, but timeless subject. I was pulled over under terrible circumstances about 3 years ago. The city cops decided to have a DUI checkpoint right outside one of the bar districts here, and some cat in a silver BMW 740 decided to run through the roadblock. I was closeby, but passing through the neighborhood that Gangland said was Columbia's notorious Blood stronghold. I looked up because i heard a commotion, and the guy in the 740 drifted a corner and took off. I was shocked to see that big boat sliding sideways, but was more shocked to see a gang of cop cars fly up about 10 seconds later. Well as soon as they hit the intersection, they saw me in my silver M3 about 100 yards away. Needless to say, those boys were on me like a tick, but somehow, one of the units went in the direction that the guy in the 740 went in. Evidently, that particular unit must have known it wasn't me, so after a very brief stop, the two that pulled me took off in the direction of the first unit. That shook me up pretty good that night.

 

I had it happen in my black M3. I had been drinking too and he pulled me over one mile from my house. I pulled down my window and after a few minutes he walked up to the driver's side rear bumper and said "sorry, wrong car! have a good night!" So, yeah and wow!

 

Sometimes you run into a cool cop. I got pulled over once for breaking 6 traffic laws in the space of a mile in my STi when I lived around Boston. I told him I had been drinking, listed off the 3-4 things that I knew I'd done, and he added a couple more. He never did any sobriety checks. He took my license and came back to the car a few minutes later and looked in the back seat at my child seat and said "You have kids?" which I said "Yes I do" and he said "You want to see them go to college?" and I said "Yes I would." He said "Well slow it down then" handed me my license and walked away.

Wow.

 

You are teflon!

 

My fraternity nickname is Dr Teflon Jones, and I use it as my internet moniker. There's a reason I got it.

For the record, the traffic laws broken were:
Speeding (in excess of 100 mph)
Lane change without signaling (x3)
Improper start (floored it at a light after it turned green squealing tires)
No insurance info
Reckless driving

That's what he said anyway. Then there was a possible DWI that he said nothing about.

 

Depends on the state and the parking lot. In California, businesses can grant the local Sheriff or municipal police jurisdiction over their parking facilities. At one time they had to post a sign next each entrance saying something to that effect. Probably still do.

Malls here routinely do this.

Gary

 

lol, this isn't greece or the Middle East where if your in the military you can get away with almost anything! in the USA if a judge is speeding or anyone in a high place the police could very easily still give them a ticket or jail them! This is why the SYSTEM here is the BEST, there is ORDER!

 

if the person is a liked celebrity though, they can kill someone and only get 2 days in jail with their puppy and entourage

 

Order comes in many varieties.

 

No comments to the DriveMeCrazy iPhone app, reply #31 ?

 

make sure you set your voice recorder on before any conversation, then ask him to state his name after such a revelation.

 

Many years ago, when I was about 20, I drove my 1970 Camaro (LT1, Hurst, Centerlines, racing stripes) onto the freeway in Santa Monica in a very spirited way. On ramps have always been good for that sort of fun. Anyway, I merged with traffic and was doing about 60 when I saw in my rearview mirror 3 police cars passing cars in the breakdown lane, kicking up dust and debris. I didn't think they were after me until they boxed me in and moved me off the highway. They approached with guns drawn. After I spent a few minutes with my hands on the hood an officer came over and explained there had been a series of robberies at banks near the freeway with quick getaways like what I'd exhibited. They had checked and no bank robberies had been reported, so they let me go.