cop stories

[Lee Levitt]

Tom writes:

> 
> Never respond positively to "I suppose you know why I am stopping you".
> This
> is just fishing to see if you will admit to some other violation. Always
> be
> mystified.

I was once asked this by a cop. Resisted the urge to say "50 in a 30
officer?"

He indicated that I had no inspection sticker. I responded by saying I was
on my way to register the car and handed him the pile of paperwork on the
passenger seat.

He sent me on my way and I kept it low and slow...at least till I was out of
sight.

I was also asked once by a cop, when I was younger and less learned in the
ways of the world:

"Exactly how fast were you going before you made that mad attempt to slow
down?"

He asked me this twice, once before he visually located my semi-hidden
Passport radar detector, and once after. Both times I declined to answer.

This particular cop was rather perturbed that I had managed to slow some
before he read my speed.

The problem was that I was going so fast when my radar detector went off, a
rather lengthy braking session only got me down to 75, and then I let up
just briefly on the brake. And that's what he wrote me up for.

I was bummed. And feeling lucky :)

Lee