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I edited my post and took that part out as I didn't want to just get into a cop bashing thing. We all should have "Courtesy Cards." I know LEOs have a job to do, it's the how they go about doing it that we care about. I had a friend who was a NYC cop and he had gotten his picture in the NY Daily News, showing him extending a kindness to a homeless man. Unlike many LEOs I've known, he never spoke about people as scumbags, or hippies, or by ethnic slurs. He truly was a public servant and a decent man. We need more LEOs like him. Sadly, he died from cancer just months after retiring.

Never have a problem going to court and fighting tickets, especially if the cop is/was a dick. Most aren't but there are some that are. The DICK's are usually easily made to look bad in front of a judge.
In the OP's case it seems some discretion could have been used espcially since she was leaving from a "well lighted area'.

A stethoscope has saved me from wasting more than one traffic stop.

True through & through. As far as the courtesy card goes, it's kind of like the respect card IMHO, you tend to get what you give.....

For what it's worth, I haven't written a ticket in 20 years, and the only trouble I ever got into (almost ) was for never writing ANY. Though I work in an urban area, I live in a small town where every cop is one stolen away from DPS and all they do is hammer traffic offenders. Take this to the bank. Places where the cops have nothing to do but write up people for minor traffic offenses are nice places to live.

You got a roadside checkup?

Your wife got a ticket to make up for all the illegal mexicons that the cop lets go because he knows that they'll never pay a ticket and that they change addresses/identity like we change underwear.

..and people wonder why we have laws.

sometimes you get a ticket sometimes you don't.

I've probably been stopped about 20 times in the last 30yrs and have only been given 4 tickets that I can remember.

Now see Joel, you and I look at stethescopes around the mirror totally different. I see them as possibly belonging to a cute single nurse. Who may be shmoozed by my charm

How would a deaf and blind nurse be driving?

Now that just isn't fair. She was only LEGALLY blind

The good cops must be too good as they never stop me. It's always the other kind.

Maybe. But if people have issues with me it should only pertain to me not what I do for a living or others that have the same job.

I will always say/post what is the truth or what is my opinion. If people don't like the truth or my opinion that is ok.

It's easy to go through life and only say/post things that most people agree with. Most people don't like confrontation. The problem is when it gets down to the nut cutt'n you never know where they stand or how someone can sway their opinion.

Look at this very post. It oozes with "it was not my fault" syndrome. It's easy for everyone to say bad cop she needed a warning. No one wants to be the guy that says "it was her fault" cause it goes against the flow.

Look at all the non-resident tag prices threads. Most people say just pay the price so they don't ruffle any feathers and no one post anything bad about them. Strange though, Montana used to sell all their non-resident tags in one day. Now they can't sell them out in eight months. I guess I am the only campfire member pizzed about it.

I learned a long time ago most people just don't have it them to speak what's really on their mind or what they really think about something.

One thing is always certain you never have to guess where you stand with me or what side of a issue I am on.

Dink

That, my friend, is where you are mistaken. Conflict is an important part of every persons life and you need to realize that the majority of people will not encounter as much in their life as you do each month.

Dink and guys like him create confrontation all they can. They feed on it, like a maggot on a rotten caucus.

No. He doesn't understand why some people seek confrontation.