So I think that a McDonald's coffee might be a good way to start the day so I start to take a right out of my street. Then I think to myself that if they screw it up, like they always do, it will just put me in a bad mood. So I change my mind and take a left and proceed along my usual route to work.
About 2 miles down the road I come around a corner and am met with blinding red and blue flashing lights...SEATBELT CHECKPOINT at 7:15 a.m. No problem, I always wear my seatbelt, there are several cars in front of me but I will still beat the traffic on the highway and get to Dunkin Donuts in time to get my morning coffee before work starts.
I roll my window down well in advance of the police officer standing in the road and as I approach I say "good morning officer". He responds with, "good morning sir" as he pokes his head in my window to see if there are other passengers (there are not), "we are just conducting a seatbelt check this morning. Everything looks good here, have a nice d...hold on a second" as he is peering through the cab of my truck looking out the passenger window. I quickly look to my right to see what the deal is and he says, "roll this window up about 6 inches". Shit, NOW I know what he is looking at. The next words out of his mouth were, "please pull over to the right up there and I'll need your license, registration and insurance card."
Supercop comes over and starts to tell me how he believes my tint is illegal and there's a reason the laws are what they are and police safety, blah blah blah. Thankfully he just gives me a written warning but that involves TWO trips to the DMV for an inspection or my license and registration will be suspended, etc. etc. I know the tint is illegal so I am just going to remove it and make one trip to the DMV because I do not want to deal with those ******** twice! I knew there was always a possibility that I would be "caught", but I have rolled up on numerous cops over the past year that I have had the tint and have never even been questioned. I hope Barney Fife is content knowing he got another "criminal" off the streets today!
The worst part of the whole story is that I thought Rosco P. Coltrane was writing the ticket in calligraphy because it took him 20 minutes to return to my truck with the warning and my information. Nope, same ******, illegible writing as every other cop. But in those 20 minutes I witnessed no less than 3 vehicles pass with windows as dark as mine...one silver Ford Fusion rolled up in the other lane with what looked like limo tint, didn't roll their window down until the other officer asked, and he actually had to strain to look in and then sent the lady her on her way. I just sat there thinking to myself "leave it to me to be in the lane with the over-achiever."
Oh ya, my 18 minute commute took me 40 minutes because now I was in the heart of rush hour traffic. I fully support our men and women in law enforcement, it's just that I think our world has MANY more problems than guys with dark window tint. Sorry for the rant!
About 2 miles down the road I come around a corner and am met with blinding red and blue flashing lights...SEATBELT CHECKPOINT at 7:15 a.m. No problem, I always wear my seatbelt, there are several cars in front of me but I will still beat the traffic on the highway and get to Dunkin Donuts in time to get my morning coffee before work starts.
I roll my window down well in advance of the police officer standing in the road and as I approach I say "good morning officer". He responds with, "good morning sir" as he pokes his head in my window to see if there are other passengers (there are not), "we are just conducting a seatbelt check this morning. Everything looks good here, have a nice d...hold on a second" as he is peering through the cab of my truck looking out the passenger window. I quickly look to my right to see what the deal is and he says, "roll this window up about 6 inches". Shit, NOW I know what he is looking at. The next words out of his mouth were, "please pull over to the right up there and I'll need your license, registration and insurance card."
Supercop comes over and starts to tell me how he believes my tint is illegal and there's a reason the laws are what they are and police safety, blah blah blah. Thankfully he just gives me a written warning but that involves TWO trips to the DMV for an inspection or my license and registration will be suspended, etc. etc. I know the tint is illegal so I am just going to remove it and make one trip to the DMV because I do not want to deal with those ******** twice! I knew there was always a possibility that I would be "caught", but I have rolled up on numerous cops over the past year that I have had the tint and have never even been questioned. I hope Barney Fife is content knowing he got another "criminal" off the streets today!
The worst part of the whole story is that I thought Rosco P. Coltrane was writing the ticket in calligraphy because it took him 20 minutes to return to my truck with the warning and my information. Nope, same ******, illegible writing as every other cop. But in those 20 minutes I witnessed no less than 3 vehicles pass with windows as dark as mine...one silver Ford Fusion rolled up in the other lane with what looked like limo tint, didn't roll their window down until the other officer asked, and he actually had to strain to look in and then sent the lady her on her way. I just sat there thinking to myself "leave it to me to be in the lane with the over-achiever."
Oh ya, my 18 minute commute took me 40 minutes because now I was in the heart of rush hour traffic. I fully support our men and women in law enforcement, it's just that I think our world has MANY more problems than guys with dark window tint. Sorry for the rant!
but like it better now with no tint, less attention.
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I'm guessing the ******** at DMV will get me though. Gonna put my extra plate on my dashboard for the inspection. My truck doesn't have the plate bracket on the bumper so I will just use the "the holes in the bumper don't line up with the plate" defense.
