My $300 carwash

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Driving home last night get pulled over by a local cop for limo stopping at a stop sign. Asks for my License Registration proof of insurance and I pull out my license and go into my glove compartment for my registration and progressive card and find my glove compartment completely empty.

I realized that on monday I had my car washed and interior cleaned and someone must of took the entire contents of my glove compartment. I try and tell the officer what happened and offer to call my insurance company and get proof of insurance on the spot and he orders me out of the car and calls a tow truck.

He says I can get everything fixed by going to the impound with my info to get my car then showing a judge my information to get out of the citation and then tows me car.

After getting a ride from my girlfriend I decide to google the cops name and the name of the owner of the "autobody" place and it looks like they graduated from the same high school at the same year and are friends.

Is that shit even legal?

So today I had to pay almost $150 in towing costs to get my car and i'm sure I'm going to get a nice citation in the mail for another $150+

Can't get a hold of the car wash people either but thats at the bottom of my list right now anyways.

Took the day off to take care of all this shit, good news the Landmark Alpha is supposed to start today maybe that will cheer me up.

I would consult my legal counsel but Zeelot is currently suffering from casual raid rotation induced insanity.

[runlvlzero]

Your rights been voilated, 2 bad u didn't have a gone on you to defend yourself from your evil corrupt kleptocratic police state.

To be serious though, you should have made the cop follow due process, most states have statues/laws/regulations in effect saying he cant go straight to the to truck, you could have at least called the station and spoke to his chief.

[runlvlzero]

*gun

also u prob live in a shitty state, in FL that shit don't happen unless ur black

[baalzy]

That sucks. I'm not sure anything he did was 'illegal' but a highly dick move. Should have been trivial for him to look up your registration and match it to your drivers license. I've never heard of someone being towed because they didn't have proof of insurance, they're usually given the ticket and then get it removed later by showing up to court with their proof of insurance at that point.

Right after high school I went on a camping trip with a bunch of friends. We had a giant cooler full of beer and got pulled over speeding through a construction zone. My friends mom had done the same thing, cleared out his glove box. The officer just made us dump our beer out and let us go.

[baalzy]

Aaaand chances are if you try to raise any kind of stink about this cop shuttling business to his high school buddy it'll do 2 things:

1) Have absolutely no negative effect on the cop
2) Cause you to get constantly harassed for bullshit infractions by every cop in that city.

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Originally Posted by baalzy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Aaaand chances are if you try to raise any kind of stink about this cop shuttling business to his high school buddy it'll do 2 things:

1) Have absolutely no negative effect on the cop
2) Cause you to get constantly harassed for bullshit infractions by every cop in that city.

Yeah he is like a corporal or something rank so I assume he isn't some newbie cop. It's not worth raising a stink over it i'll pay the $150 and fight the ticket but I won't mention his friends autobody place.

I'm going to read some old Hasbinbad posts about America to make myself feel better.

[runlvlzero]

Not if you go through the proper channels, he might get told not to start shit. Depends. How corrupt is your city/county?

[runlvlzero]

Or just find a more corrupt individual, like the mayor or someone around him to raise some shit with his boss, but that'd prob cost more than 150$ and ur not a good o'le boy

[Amirite]

stop means stops. don't roll through stop signs dummy.

that is illegal!

[runlvlzero]

yeah but normally the penalty for rolling a bit at a stopsign is not getting your vehicle impounded