I was running about 2 hours late today, ran into Tara at the gas station. On my drive today I loved the fact that there NO traffic. I did my typical thing at lights, sat and daydreamed about possible business ideas...came up with a VERY good one today (usually I come up with 3 every morning, and 4 every evening).

Anyway, from Lake-Cook Rd east bound, I turn southbound onto Arlington Heights Rd.

Not more than 1/8 mile away from Buffalo Grove HS, an officer decides to u-turn behind me before I pass him. I get in the left hand lane to make a left turn onto Dundee as does he. As soon as I turn, he turns on the cherries.

I pull into the Marathon parking lot. He walks up to my car (I have both windows down), with license, insurance card, and registration in hand. He sticks his hand out for me to give them to him without word. I didn't oblige. I looked at him to tell me why I was pulled over....

He hesistates and tells me that he's usually very lenient about tints on the front windows, but mine were just too dark. In the meanwhile, he walks to the front of the car to make sure license plate is there. I give him all that he needs and he walks back to his car.

He writes out a ticket in about 10 minutes (actually less). In a friendly voice he tells me what I can do to get out of the ticket and informs me that he won't be taking my license for this and just has me sign the ticket. I thank him for that and promise him to take off the tints this weekend (I was planning on doing that anyway).

Overall, this was the friendliest and quickest ticket I've ever gotten. I, actually thanked the officer at the end of this. He smiled at me. Officer Spoval (officer 188), thank you for a "stress-free" ticket, seriously.

I've almost always challenged every ticket writer in some form or manner. (ie. if an officer asks me if I knew I was speeding, I always say 'no'. No reason to incriminate yourself. He usually responds with the reason of which I tend to want to disagree with. The usual reply is, "Are you calling me a liar?" My response would be something like, "No, I'm not calling you a liar, but you may have been mistaken."

They tend to look for responses that "voluntarily" incriminate yourself. When you respond in a collective way that doesn't answer the question to their liking, it frustrates them. You'll get a ticket most likely, but you've also avoided telling the officer that you've done whatever violation he seems to think he pulled you over for. At least in court he can't state that the violator confessed at the incident. More wiggle room to fight your way out of the ticket.

Ok....got that off my chest.

 

What did you get? A fixit for tints or no plate?

 

Tint.....I have a front plate on the cars I drive .

I leave the plates off and the tint on my wife's car. I think she should be able to "act" her way out of the ticket. Tears, flirting, etc. are all fair game for a woman to use to get out of a ticket. Men don't usually have that option.

 

thanks urmil that was fun.

 

I just got one for 19 over. I didn't even realize it until it was too late. Anyone try that internet driving school??

 

Was this the teg?

 

For some reason, I figured you were driving the S. Should have known better!

 

I did the internet driving school a couple of times. If you bring up another window the school immiediatly pauses. So you can't just let it run in the background and surf S2ki. However, you can stretch it out over a couple of nights if you want. I have a laptop from work, so I can sit on my couch, watch TV and take traffic school all at once. It requires you to click next on every screen. They move where "next" is, and make you interact with about every third screen. They REALLY try hard to make sure you are engaged in it. It's not bad.

Front plates suck-ass.

 

Indiana's version isn't that bad. I racked up about 300 posts on EvoM in the 4 hours the class took. It's basically just another fundraiser for the state coffers.

 

Actually Im not sure his sole motivation for checking the front of your car was to see if you had a front plate - he would have see that when you were driving towards him.

He was checking that your plate matches your registration - officers will naturally check the front of the car rather than the rear for obvious reasons - you less likely to run if they are standing in front of you rather than behind you.

so who wants in on a tint gb?