Originally Posted by WagnerX5

I was on a softball team and we were heading to a game. I was following this chick because she said she knew where the field was. Well, we passed by the field so I told her to pull into the parking lot across the street. We did. She parked, I parked next to her. I got out and confirmed with her that we passed the field and had to turn around. We headed out of the parking lot. Before you could get out of the lot you came to a four way stop. As she pulled up (with me behind her) a cop pulled up to the four way stop. He waived her through, she went. I then pulled up and stopped. He didn't move. So I waived for him to go and he just sat there. I proceeded through the intersection and as soon as I did he turned his lights on and pulled me over. I asked him what exactly I was being pulled over for........."suspicious maneuvers in a parking lot". I said "what?". He asked me questions for the next 10 minutes about why I pulled in and stopped and was now leaving.

I'm not BS'ing you, this is a 100% true story.


Another fun one:

I was coming home from a girlfriends house one night at about midnight. I'm driving through some back roads of my neighborhood at the posted speed limit (odd for me). I come past a fire station where I see a cop hiding by a sign, I think nothing of it as I wasn't drinking and was going the speed limit...so what would I have to worry about? Well SHO NUFF, as soon as I pass the cop....he flips on the R2D2 siren and pulls me over. He then busts out his too cool for school MagLite and shines it in my car and my face. I asked him why he pulled me over, "routine inspections". What fun.

Originally Posted by WagnerX5

I was on a softball team and we were heading to a game. I was following this chick because she said she knew where the field was. Well, we passed by the field so I told her to pull into the parking lot across the street. We did. She parked, I parked next to her. I got out and confirmed with her that we passed the field and had to turn around. We headed out of the parking lot...I said "what?". He asked me questions for the next 10 minutes about why I pulled in and stopped and was now leaving.

I'm not BS'ing you, this is a 100% true story.


Another fun one:

I was coming home from a girlfriends house one night at about midnight. I'm driving through some back roads of my neighborhood at the posted speed limit (odd for me)...I asked him why he pulled me over, "routine inspections". What fun.

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

So your saying there's a no u-turn sign posted? You also saying that you know there is no such thing in the CVC regarding a legal 3 point turn and your angry?.

Think about this. Signs like this are posted after engineering surveys are done and it is deem from the research that a u-turn would be inappropriate at the intersection in question. Point in fact this is not a revenue raising ticket as you describe. It is a traffic flow regulation issue which you clearly violated.

It's the same thing i violated just the other day. I got off the freeway made my stop at the red light and as i would normally do at a red light i would wait for the traffic to clear then proceed thru the red light making a legal right turn. All that's good except there's a sign posted on a pole which said "NO RIGHT TURN ON RED" So as i turned there was a motorcycle cop sitting there waiting. I was nabbed. Was i angry and fussing? After all he should have been after other folks who were doing dangerous stuff like excessive speeding or blowing through red lights, right? No. Plain and simple i broke the law.

So i said here we go first ticket in ages and sure enough the officer reached for his handlebars and for some reason leaned back and watched as i passed. So I got away with that one. You didn't. Fess up there's nothing lame about obeying the law.

Originally Posted by Michelle

..........explain............

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

So your saying there's a no u-turn sign posted? You also saying that you know there is no such thing in the CVC regarding a legal 3 point turn and your angry?.

Think about this. Signs like this are posted after engineering surveys are done and it is deem from the research that a u-turn would be inappropriate at the intersection in question. Point in fact this is not a revenue raising ticket as you describe. It is a traffic flow regulation issue which you clearly violated.

It's the same thing i violated just the other day. I got off the freeway made my stop at the red light and as i would normally do at a red light i would wait for the traffic to clear then proceed thru the red light making a legal right turn. All that's good except there's a sign posted on a pole which said "NO RIGHT TURN ON RED" So as i turned there was a motorcycle cop sitting there waiting. I was nabbed. Was i angry and fussing? After all he should have been after other folks who were doing dangerous stuff like excessive speeding or blowing through red lights, right? No. Plain and simple i broke the law.

So i said here we go first ticket in ages and sure enough the officer reached for his handlebars and for some reason leaned back and watched as i passed. So I got away with that one. You didn't. Fess up there's nothing lame about obeying the law.