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Thread ID: 40032	2003-11-25 23:23:00	Off Topic - Ever been pulled over for no apparent reason?	Kame (312)	Press F1

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194688	2003-11-26 00:33:00	I've been pulled over for no apparent reason. I was out driving (day time) with a couple of friends a couple of years ago (sunday driving in a town other than my own). We were followed for around 10 minutes, I had to my knowledge not broken any road rules. The cop had waited till when were on the main road where all could see then with lights and sirens pulls us over. Was asked to step out of the vehicle (just me). Was breath tested, and told I was over the limit. I had not had anything to drink in the last few days and I never ever drink and drive. This policeman harrassed me and keeped telling me I was over the limit. I called out to my friends in the car to verify that I had nothing to drink only to be told to shut-up or I would be arrested. He eventually got bored with me told me to be on my way and did'nt want to see me again. Now I'm a respectible law abiding citizen :) (as are my friends) and don't drive around "lively" :D trying to bate the police or anything, thats just not me. One of my friends in the car that day owns a black stk standard GTO and drives it like my grandmother does/would (apart from racing a Bell Jetranger on a longggg straight back country road in excess of 200ks) and he constantly gets pulled over when he drives to Palmerston North. He now has no respect for the law. He is a local bussiness's owner, not in his teens or early twenties and as written above, drives like an old woman. I know not all police are like this, it's just a very very small minority who think they have the power of harrassement do and say as they please. After watching police ten 7, nobody respects the police force anymore and this is going to make there job harder to do just because of a few cops with over large ego problems who never had friends or got respect at school or in the community. Yea yea bla bla bla.... :)	Archibald (180)
194689	2003-11-26 00:49:00	Just read Buster's post. Is this a common police practice to tell motorist they are over the limit even though they have nothing to drink? I had to blow into a bag and was the first time I had been tested before so I new not what was a pass or fail. The cop even showed me the result stating...see this, this is a failed result. He did'nt ask me to do another test either. Just staight out harassment.	Archibald (180)
194690	2003-11-26 01:00:00	> Speaking of Police abusing their power,Seems they > have found Graham Walsh's body....... Umm care to explain how you got "Graham Walsh shot a cop then did himself in" to turn into "Police abusing their power" ?:|	whiskeytangofoxtrot (438)
194691	2003-11-26 01:04:00	Since so many of you have had bad experience, write letters to the Police Complaints Authority and let them know. If possible, let them know of the police officer's name, car licence plate, time, date of the incident. Hopefully they'll do something about it.	somebody (208)
194692	2003-11-26 01:12:00	Alcotech screeners ( the sort you talk into) and the Bags can give false positives from substances normally present on your breath so the Police may have been responding to a positive indication. I was stopped at a random checkpoint once and failed the test because I had just eaten a muesli bar. It took 20 minutes for the effects to clear before the Police would let me go, though they did accept that I had not been drinking. The breath test machines at the Stations and in booze buses can give false positives too for a variety of reasons. I have seen tests that show false positives for bread, certain sweets and other common substances, and they will also clock up false highs if a digital cellphone is operated nearby. They are normally fairly reliable, but are not infallible. If you get pinged by one of those and you are sure you are under the limit, go for a blood test as they are the only reliable measure of blood alcohol. The best defence against all of these issues of course, is to not drink and drive. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
194693	2003-11-26 01:13:00	This isn't the only time I haven't been pulled over for no apparent reason, another time, which I would like to question the actual law about is they approached the car, and asked me to open my boot, nothing more than that . They pulled me over, walked towards the car and asked me to open the boot without giving any reason as to why, or what I had been pulled over for . I thought the police didn't have the power to search your car/house without a warrant, and although I agreed to letting them search it since I had nothing to hide I just let them get on with it . So after checking out my boot, which I have no reason why they wanted to, unless he likes my sound system and just wanted to see what was booming down the street then hey check it out . Then he comes back and says did you realise you pulled out of the petrol station with no lights on, which I knew was a lie because I pulled out of the petrol station about 20 minutes ago and then went around the block and past the petrol station again, this time not stopping into the petrol station, it was after I went around the block that he pulled me over, and assumed I came out of the petrol station . I know my lights were on because I never switched them off when I entered the service station, next thing he tells me, they are looking for a silver/grey car, same make but not model as mine, in fact how different is a Galant VR4 to a Lancer?, apart from one thing, my car isn't silver/grey, it's was more a brown/gold colour and even colour blind people could see the difference . The reason why they were looking for this grey/silver car is because it's stolen and has stolen goods, well if they weren't wasting their time, I could have told them I saw a silver/grey Lancer, heading in the opposite direction to which I came from, if I could see it, why couldn't they? So again, it's lies after lies, coming from the police . I believe they can make up any story they like, just to be able to abuse their power . I'm still waiting for the time I actually get a speeding ticket, it'd be my first driving offense .	Kame (312)
194694	2003-11-26 01:14:00	> Since so many of you have had bad experience, write > letters to the Police Complaints Authority and let > them know . The police look after their own as you already know . They don't like to acknowledge that they may have corruption within their force .	Archibald (180)
194695	2003-11-26 01:16:00	Oh, it could be quite easy... what say Graham Walsh wasn't doing anything wrong, he was just pulled over randomly like a few of the people here have said happened to him? Mind you, he could've easily been paranoid about the police; it was said that he didn't like them or something because they didn't do anything when he filed a robbery report- something like that, anyway.	agent (30)
194696	2003-11-26 01:18:00	The reason would have been either your age or model of car, but they always have some other excuse . My brother delivers pizzas and he frequently gets pulled over . Recently he finally got pulled over after being followed for half an hour . The excuse was his engine was ticking (valves, nothing urgent apparently) . It is a very faint tick so there is no way he could have heard it from the patrol car, my guess is he though walking up to the car . I don't know why they are wasting time like this when there is no shortage of idiots/a*holes on the roads .	bmason (508)
194697	2003-11-26 01:18:00	Any chance that the food you eat can go into a fermentating process or is the digestive system too quick? Also what is it that they are checking for in your breath? I mean if it's the contents of what alcohol is made out of, then how can the test be accurate as alcohol can be made out of most common items we eat.	Kame (312)
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