Really not having a good week hypermiling. Another ticket today.
 

Here I go, blaming hypermiling technique again. ;) There's an off ramp on my way home that has a nice downhill slope with a 90+ degree left turn, but 5 lanes to make the turn across. The 'speed3 has more than enough suspension to easily make this turn at considerably faster than I can roll. Every @#(* day I roll down this hill and, EOnC through the intersection, and I can usually coast right up to the next light (which due to crappy "traffic control" is always red.)

Today, I was coming off the tollway onto this hill (River Road off 294 for you Chicago area folks) with amazingly no cars in front of me. I scooted through the intersection like I always do, maybe a little faster than normal since I didn't have to slow down for traffic. The tires squealed a bit, like they do normally, but WELL within their safe limit. Just my luck, Johnny Law, i.e. town revenue enhancer, objected to the sound and pulled me over. No explanation, no nothin.

"License and insurance card."
But officer, what is this about?
"LICENSE AND INSURANCE, SIR!"

Oh yippee. The state already has my driver's license due to the incident I had with the road rager (see post below.) Now I'm in "big trouble." He calls for backup. No kidding.

But officer, if I coast around the corner without giving it any gas, I'm still driving safely - but my tires are just a little noisey is all...
"Yeah? Tell it to the judge."

Seriously? "Tell it to the judge?" He said "Tell it to the Judge???" What is this, friggin' Dragnet or something?

"Sir, you need to follow me to the station, and the other officer will follow you in case you decide to not follow me." Are you guys @#*%ing serious?

I get to the station, and since I don't have a license to hand over, I need to come up with $200. Oh this is perfect. He lets me walk around the corner to the ATM, but not before telling me that if I decide not to come back, a warrant will be issued for my arrest.

Time for me to start taking the train.

And thanks for letting me vent.

And £*(# the Rosemont IL PD.

Sounds like a "revenue enhancement" ticket to me. Normally you shouldn't have to post $200 bond, and the state shouldn't keep your license following a prior ticket. Why are you being singled out?

I once took a corner fast enough to arouse the suspicion of johnny law- didn't even screech the tires tho'- he too called for back-up (hell, they do it if they pull over an old lady coming home from church on sunday who's underexceeding the minimum limit, the puzzies. :rolleyes: ). They then proceeded to do an automotive anal cavity search in the hopes of finding contraband. Alas, I left them disappointed on all counts- no contraband, no alcohol ingestion, no mechanical deficiencies, no nothing, no ticketable offense, no money for all that effort. :thumbup:

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when I was running the full underbelly panels 2 yrs ago, I got pulled over in a little town in Texas by the highway Patrol.
He got me for excess tint. I was running ststic tint over the normal tint. I showed him that i could and would just remove it.
But he still wanted to 'search the car". Seems they don't see many Infiniti Q45 w/ full body kits......and in 'profiling' they are taught that body kits allow for extra places to put the drugs!!!!!
First off, probably the nicest 'officer' of any kind that has ever puilled me over.
He has somewhat taken back by the 'ecomodder' yellow under panels, etc (I was running the window sticker at the time)
He would 'knock' on the panels to make sure they were really hollow.
3 local yocals showed up to 'box' me in.......
I started to worry about something bein 'planted'......

The highlight was when they where popping the door sill on the front driver side and 'HEY, I found something under the carpet!!!!
Asks me if I have anything to say........" yeah, a/c venting to the back seats"

looks at me like "yeah RIGHT!!"

Pull uot the mag light.............tee hee heee.........a/c ducting to the back seats.
He rolls his eyes, shakes his head and smiling says, "I 'll just do a warning on the tint"

the 3 local yocals were VERY dissapointed that the 'city boy and his high faluten car' was getting away scott free.
But the Highway Patrol guy was very cool and very apologetic.
Admitted to profiling me. (I was doing the speed limit thru town)

He really got into the ecomodding stuff after he realized it wasnt a front
to run drugs!!!

http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/v.../mpgq45118.jpg

[Threadjack]Just out of curiosity, why did you and Frank both consent to invasion of your privacy? Or did the LEOs use exigency as their justification?[/Threadjack]

Well, I have never done drugs, only been drunk twice in my life. Never felt threated by the possiblity of 'planted' evidence.
realize that saying no 'could' lead to more aggressive behavior.

Refusing leads to way more inconvenience. Gotsta pick your battles.

I refuse to have my car searched every time if asked why I simply state that it is my right to do so. If they really want to search the car they then have two options 1. Call a judge and get a search warrant 2. Call in a drug dog.