Yeah, cops can be real difficult to deal with.
In 1976 I was doing 75 in a 35 zone showing my newly rebuilt motor and street/strip clutch setup to my little brother and sister who were with me in my 1964 Polara 500 (bright red with lots of chrome). I burned rubber in 1st and 2nd gear and chirped 3rd. When the cop finally caught up to me I was only doing 15 mph just down the street from my house. He threw me in jail!!! Later, after I was printed, booked, and spent most of the night in drunk tank (I was stone sober), the officer came and pulled me out and yelled at me for not letting him know that my brother was a cop!!! My dad had called my brother who called the station. He would have let me go if only I had let him know my brother's name because he used to be stationed there.
In 2006 I was driving my Toyota Camry V6 XLE out to New Mexico. I had left Orange County CA at 4:00 AM because I was convinced that I could get to Gallup and back by Midnight. I was 3 miles from the Arizona border. I knew that the Arizona speed limit was 75 from the California border to just outside Phoenix so I took my speed from 85 mph to 95 since traffic was almost non-existant and I was making good time. Well, I didn't see the CHP car sitting on the median. He lit me up and I pulled over. He asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I said 90 mph. He said that the radar had me at 95 which pleased me because that meant that my speedometer was accurate. We were very polite to each other. He told me that he would put me down for 85 and that would make me elligible for traffic school otherwise I would have to show up in court out in Blythe. The nerve of that guy!!
I found out a few things from my experiences (more than the afore mentioned two).
1. Everyone in the drunk tank was innocent and doing absolutely nothing wrong when their rights were violated by the cops.
2. Everyone of the 15 drunks in the drunk tank had "two beers, I swear, only two beers." 3. Everyone in the traffic schools that I attended (before the internet classes) was innocent and the cops should have been paying attention to the other idiot drivers who were going much faster/running more stop signs/driving more recklessly/had more outstanding tickets etc.
and the most important one:
4. When you are in the drunk tank and a 280 pound drunk gets the beer-shyts...BREATHE THROUGH YOUR MOUTH TO AVOID THE SMELL!
