So last night I was coming home and was in a neighborhood in schertz/ Selma in which I don't often find myself. I made a left turn onto a road where there was nothing but industrial buildings and warehouses. I didn't drive 50 yards before I saw his lights come on.
I have to say that I respect police officers and really appreciate what they do. Now that being said, the PD in the schertz/Selma area seem to have very little actual crime to fight and have to justify their existence by setting up sketchy speed traps , harassing law abiding citizens regarding dog registrations(see my dog registration post) and writing bogus tickets to fund their department. This particular PD is not my favorite.
So when this guy strolled up to my truck I was less than excited. He told me he was pulling me over for running the stop sign when I made the left turn.
I was really confused because I never even saw it. I might roll them from time to time, but miss it completely seems very unlikely.
I said "I don't think there was a stop sign at that intersection."
Officer (with authoritative attitude) YES Sir that is a 4 way stop and you blew right threw it.
He seemed so confident I didn't argue with him.
As he went back to his car and ran my license I spent the whole time looking in my mirrors looking for the stop sign, which would have been hard to see from where I was because I would have had to see it from the side. But I was less than 100 yards from the intersection and could not figure out where that stop sign was.
Officer came back up and I said something about that sign must be hidden somewhere because I still can't see it. He again responded in a d bag manner, something about needing to pay more attention when I'm driving, gave me the ticket and returned I his car
Well he turned around in the road and headed back the way I came, so I did too.
For my own peace of mind I had to see the stop sign or it would forever bother me. I was following him and as he got the intersection he didn't come to a complete stop but more or less gunned it. I, being about 30 yards behind him by this time, came to a complete stop and looked all over for the sign for the interesting road that would now be on my right.
As suspected, there was NO SIGN! . I instantly was ****** then I looked up and his lights were already well down the road.
I started flashing my lights and sped down the road.
He then TRIED TO LOSE ME! He made like 3 quick turns and started heading back the way we came.
I would see him and cut across to beat him to the next intersection Flashing my lights and he would cross right in front of me and never even look at me!! I followed him still flashing my lights.
This went on for about 5 more minutes in this neighborhood. I was all over him and he would not stop.
Finally he lost me so I went back to the intersection in question and parked. I wanted to make dang sure I didn't miss the sign the second time . Nope still no sign. I was ****** because I wanted to settle this right then and there I did not want to have to call a judge or go to court. I gathered myself looked at the ticket and called the number. Got some automated answering machine.
I was about to accept my fate and accept that I was going to have to fight this in court. When I decided... Nope! And I did the only think I could think to do .
"911 what's your emergency ?!"
First thing out of my mouth .. " this is not an emergency! This is not an emergency! " haha
I was afraid I was going to get yelled at,
but told her I needed to speak to officer blah blah.
And She gave me the number of the dispatch line.
I called it and requested to talk to the officer again and was put on hold for about 10 minutes.
I was waiting there at the "scene of the crime"
When guess who blows right by me through the intersection?!?
( not stopping by the way, which is fine because there was not a stop sign!)
My hunter instinct began to flare up again as I thought about hanging up the phone and picking up where we left off with the chase.
Thankfully at the moment the officer came on.
His voice was almost unrecognizable, no long confident and authoritative but insecure like a teenager that was calling a man to ask if he could date their daughter!
He said, "Mr Popnoe, I was actually just about to call you."
I laughed " haha ok!"
He continued - "I drove by that intersection and you were right, there's no stop sign.
I said , " yea I know, and I have been chasing you around for the last 15 minutes!
He acted dumb and Didn't acknowledge my remark.
" I earased the citation on our end so you don't need to worry about it"
Many people are involved in police chases but how many do you know are actually the ones that have chased the police ??
haha
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes
Be Humble or be humbled!
I have to say that I respect police officers and really appreciate what they do. Now that being said, the PD in the schertz/Selma area seem to have very little actual crime to fight and have to justify their existence by setting up sketchy speed traps , harassing law abiding citizens regarding dog registrations(see my dog registration post) and writing bogus tickets to fund their department. This particular PD is not my favorite.
So when this guy strolled up to my truck I was less than excited. He told me he was pulling me over for running the stop sign when I made the left turn.
I was really confused because I never even saw it. I might roll them from time to time, but miss it completely seems very unlikely.
I said "I don't think there was a stop sign at that intersection."
Officer (with authoritative attitude) YES Sir that is a 4 way stop and you blew right threw it.
He seemed so confident I didn't argue with him.
As he went back to his car and ran my license I spent the whole time looking in my mirrors looking for the stop sign, which would have been hard to see from where I was because I would have had to see it from the side. But I was less than 100 yards from the intersection and could not figure out where that stop sign was.
Officer came back up and I said something about that sign must be hidden somewhere because I still can't see it. He again responded in a d bag manner, something about needing to pay more attention when I'm driving, gave me the ticket and returned I his car
Well he turned around in the road and headed back the way I came, so I did too.
For my own peace of mind I had to see the stop sign or it would forever bother me. I was following him and as he got the intersection he didn't come to a complete stop but more or less gunned it. I, being about 30 yards behind him by this time, came to a complete stop and looked all over for the sign for the interesting road that would now be on my right.
As suspected, there was NO SIGN! . I instantly was ****** then I looked up and his lights were already well down the road.
I started flashing my lights and sped down the road.
He then TRIED TO LOSE ME! He made like 3 quick turns and started heading back the way we came.
I would see him and cut across to beat him to the next intersection Flashing my lights and he would cross right in front of me and never even look at me!! I followed him still flashing my lights.
This went on for about 5 more minutes in this neighborhood. I was all over him and he would not stop.
Finally he lost me so I went back to the intersection in question and parked. I wanted to make dang sure I didn't miss the sign the second time . Nope still no sign. I was ****** because I wanted to settle this right then and there I did not want to have to call a judge or go to court. I gathered myself looked at the ticket and called the number. Got some automated answering machine.
I was about to accept my fate and accept that I was going to have to fight this in court. When I decided... Nope! And I did the only think I could think to do .
"911 what's your emergency ?!"
First thing out of my mouth .. " this is not an emergency! This is not an emergency! " haha
I was afraid I was going to get yelled at,
but told her I needed to speak to officer blah blah.
And She gave me the number of the dispatch line.
I called it and requested to talk to the officer again and was put on hold for about 10 minutes.
I was waiting there at the "scene of the crime"
When guess who blows right by me through the intersection?!?
( not stopping by the way, which is fine because there was not a stop sign!)
My hunter instinct began to flare up again as I thought about hanging up the phone and picking up where we left off with the chase.
Thankfully at the moment the officer came on.
His voice was almost unrecognizable, no long confident and authoritative but insecure like a teenager that was calling a man to ask if he could date their daughter!
He said, "Mr Popnoe, I was actually just about to call you."
I laughed " haha ok!"
He continued - "I drove by that intersection and you were right, there's no stop sign.
I said , " yea I know, and I have been chasing you around for the last 15 minutes!
He acted dumb and Didn't acknowledge my remark.
" I earased the citation on our end so you don't need to worry about it"
Many people are involved in police chases but how many do you know are actually the ones that have chased the police ??
haha
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes
Be Humble or be humbled!
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