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I know for a fact that trailer lights are finicky. In this case, is the ground through the trailer ball or is there a ground wire? If it's through the ball, all kinds of problems can occur, including sporadic lights. Wires get loose. If a trailer has been in the water, temporary shorts can occur. The light plug to the pickup can wiggle around and temporarily not connect. Occasionally, but not often, the plug itself will go bad and need to be replaced. I've pulled trailers for 40 years and I've seen them all. I'm having a problem right now with the light plug on my pickup. The taillights seem to be on or off at will. I've checked every connection in the thing and found nothing wrong. Often, the best fix is to just rewire that circuit and be done with it and that's what I plan to do.

Don't blame the cop until you have proof that the lights were working ALL the time because in all likelyhood, they were not.

Dick

Yep, the oldest traffic cop trick in the book--usually it's the "your license plate light is not working". Had it happen to me almost 30 years ago--it was working just fine. He checked out the pickup with his flashlight and never issued a ticket.

The police officer was fishing........it's a form of harrasment, but until the law or legal doctrine is changed, they will keep doing it.........

Casey

A good, healthy disrespect of authority is the American way--or it used to before the Sheeple Generation..........

Casey

It may have been a case of mistaken identity, the cop thought you were somone else in any case if you think you were stopped illegaly complain most departments have people who do nothing but investigate complaints against cops. He will have to take time off the street go to a review and explain his actions, it will be noted on his performance evaluation.
Or, if you weren't ticketed for any thing, you could just forget it. Maybe he made a mistake, it happens.

Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

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Sorry you were stopped but the lights may have not been working. Stuff like that gets loose.

The cop asked you why he would stop you otherwise. Did anything else happen that your not telling us?

Anyway, all is well that ends well, if thats all that happened.

Damn.... I'm shocked this isn't on page 3 or 4 yet....

Fishermen and fops in sports cars are always targeted by good cops. (Isaac...do I get a cut?)

Come on guys, step up.
I have two more verses to post and I don't want to waste them on page one.

Ah yeah, here we go....

A cop in MD told me as he was writing my up,that drug dealers were using boats to haul there drugs in,they think they don't look suspicious.He could tell by the way you and your friend actions that you were on the up and up......

I have problems all the time from cops,here at home and on the road.I have never had a speeding ticket in my 15 years over the road.But cops how are different that they were years ago.Cops years ago became cops to help,to try to make a differance in peoples live.I hate to say this but the crap that puts on a badge now are pusses,they were picked on in school and think the gun and badge makes them a man.This type makes me sick,the county where I live is full of this type of cops......

The only thing diffrent is our perspectives.

I had a wire one time that was loose. When the vehicle was not moving the lights worked fine. When the vehicle started to move the wind would move the wire so that it would not work.

Also, one time a cop pulled me over in a rural area. He said I was weaving across the center line. After he left my friend with me from Ukraine asked me why he said I was weaving when I wasn't. I told him that they can't pull you over in the U.S. without a reason. He may have wanted to find out who I was because I had out of state plates on my vehicle. Also maybe not weaving like a drunk but maybe I did accidentally cross the center line of was on it without realing it.

free bump in hope of a page 2.

oh yeah, fuggin cops!

grin

DUDE.....I did nothing wrong.Why would you ask that?

Had that very thing happen to me not two weeks ago up in New York State, but then again it was 3:30am, I was rolling at about 20mph with the windows down, and listening to the woods as I drove, Texas plates on the car and all.

"Honest Officer, I'm out looking for Whippoorwills".

All I got was a verbal warning, anyhow I'm prepared to cut the Law a little slack on this one

Birdwatcher

Is that what they're callin' 'em now???

Why is it every time I hear someone spout off this garbage, I keep envisioning the one doing the spouting off as being a school bully who had to answer to no one, and now as an adult cannot stand that he now may be put in his place from time to time from people who will not take his chit?

Yep.

Funny how the LE apologists still haven't explained why a State Trooper would pull over a car doing the speed limit and not only lie about clocking them at some outrageous speed, not even have used his radar or Laser in the first place.

The problem as I see it, is good cops should be distancing themselves from these actions, instead of constantly making excuses and protecting the thin blue line. It's this blind loyalty even in the face of evidence that makes juries mistrust the accounts of LE on the stand and in the end hurts the credibility of honest cops and lets criminals potentially get the benefit of the doubt. Sad.

Instead of "it probably was a bad trailer wire" or "I'm sure he had a good reason" just say, "yeah, there's some bad ones out there and they embarrass the rest of us".

I'll get off my soapbox now.