Keystone State Thread

pittim... I know its digressing off the subject matter of the friend's bad driving that incited the off duty cop to behave that way. But still, nothing really justifies for any person (unless said person has flashing police lights) to be driving like that behind anyone for any reason. The vigilante behavior is only going to endanger people when the doofas driver makes a mistake or brakes for deer, squirrel, or whatever and the off duty guy rams him from behind. My blood is boiling right now because I just had a jerkoff tailgating me about 5 feet off my tail a couple days ago on my way to work. And I didn't cut him off or do anything illegal to incite the dude to think he had a legitimate reason to drive that close to my bumper

 

I had a Class A license, once upon a time. I'm old enough to have had a PA driver's license back before they had the class system. When they first instituted it they sent a form to everyone in the mail; it essentially said "check every box for the vehicles you can drive". I checked all of them. To be fair I was driving semis at the time, but only bobtail.

And us still with no central heat. Thank bob we have a wood stove, and a metric buttload of wood. We've been three weeks without central heat.

Three.

Effing.

Weeks.

Etch this name in your brains: Leffler Energy. Stay away.

 

A quote from my brother in law who is a state trooper.
“ I cant pull them over but as long as I can Id the driver I can file on them later“. So an off duty officer can write a ticket.

 

What’s wrong with your heat?

 

How did you end up with six points? You fought it right? At six points you can get your license suspended!

 

Many people do deserve tickets no matter who is writing them, but what drives me nuts is all the stories I've heard about cops hitting people with every violation they can think of almost entirely out of revenge.

 

But how did you get a ticket with six points just because you beeped at an off-duty cop who's obviously a hypocrite?

 

Yet you were never pulled over?!?! How did he even get your license plate? PA is a one-plate state, and you were behind him right?!?!

 

I spoke to a retired PA trooper this morning and ask him about that situation.

i would find out where he works and get some pics of said riced out focus. Maybe tinted windows wide tires you know illegal stuff.

 

@hossler1788

That right there is a good reason to use your horn responsibility...

You don't know if there's a vindictive off-duty police officer behind the wheel of the vehicle you're beeping at!

 

At least we are getting out of the era where state troopers will wait just over the border, watch the vehicles with Pennsylvania plates when the stop at the liquor stores in Jersey, and pull people over for the high crime (sarcasm alert) of buying booze out of state...

 

Sound like somebody's compensating for something...

And he never made contact with you? That's so much shit that the driver of a septic truck somewhere is probably wondering where their load went!

 

I've told this story on TW before...

I was driving late at night, while tired, with a slightly intoxicated and highly talkative female friend in the front seat. The aforementioned friend had been kicked out of her apartment, and I was driving her to the home of another friend where she could spend the night. I stopped at a red light, looked both ways, and essentially treated the red light like a stop sign. There was nobody around it was around midnight. A Bucks County Sheriff's Deputy pulled me over, and the sheriff's department has no authority to write tickets, so he took my license, registration, and insurance, and forced me to sit there for like twenty minutes until a regular cop could show up. The cop, who DID NOT witness the violation, went directly to the deputy; The deputy embellished the truth and told the cop I'd almost caused an accident. The cop wrote me a $140/3-point ticket without even getting my side of the story (at that point I didn't even think I'd gone through a red light and thought that the deputy had been fishing for drunks). The cop then basically attempted to intimidate me into paying the ticket by saying that he and deputy so-and-so would be there in court to testify if I fought the ticket. I admit I was wrong, but it's not like I blatantly ran a red light at a busy intersection during rush hour, and I don't like being bullied by anyone. Luckily, I've got a friend who's a really good lawyer. I called him the next day, and he was able to get it knocked down to a minor violation with no points and a $25 fine.

I've had my driver's license for almost nine years as of this post and I've never lost it for any reason; I've never had points on my license and my record is clean!

 

I'm 30 (31 in March), but I didn't get my license until I was 22. I've been pulled over three times, and keep in mind that although I encountered a DUI checkpoint in March 2017, I never once got pulled over between getting my license in May 2011 and the first time I got pulled over in May 2017:

• May 2017: 43 MPH in a 25 MPH zone at almost midnight; Originally a $180 ticket with 4 points on my license, but fought it and got a $150 fine with no points)
• September 2017: Making a left turn a red light; The straight lights were green but the left turn arrow was red; Again, it was around midnight; I got off with just a written warning.
  
• January 2019: The red light incident I just listed above ($25 fine plus court costs and no points).

In my opinion, getting pulled over is a fact of life, but my goal is to make it at least three years without getting pulled over!

 

My late step-Grandpa was born in 1924 and grew up in Arkansas; I have no idea when he actually got his first license, but he told me that he was driving the family's Model T into town when he was 4 or 5 years old. I seem to remember him telling me he got an actual physical driver's license when he was 18, which would have been right before he left college to join the Navy in 1942. He held a Pennsylvania driver's license from 1994 to 1999, and again when they moved back here in 2006. My grandparents moved a lot for work (and quite a bit after retirement) and in addition to Pennsylvania, he has had licenses in Arkansas, California, Florida, Maine, and Virginia between the late 1970s and 2006. He went his whole life without EVER losing his license, and (as far as I know) never having an accident. By 2010, he was back in Pennsylvania. His doctor decided his heart problems posed a risk, and successfully petitioned PennDOT to yank my grandpa's license in 2010, when he was 86. He died of complications from heart failure in 2017, months after his 93rd birthday.

 

@Taco critter

This occurred up in Maine and not here in Pennsylvania, but it's still worth telling in this thread (the car in this story was purchased in Pennsylvania and spent most of its life there though)...

When I was like 14 or 15, my Grandpa was letting me drive his Lincoln! Grammy and Mr. P (I always called my step-Grandpa "Mr.P") were living primarily in one of their lake houses up in Maine. They owned two houses next door to each other, both on the lake. The Stinkin' Lincoln, as we affectionately called it, was a 1993 Lincoln Continental Signature Series that Mr. P bought used in 1994. He bought it from a small independent used car lot called Murray Motors, in either Bethlehem or Hellertown (still in business at the same location). The story goes that Mr. P went out for his morning walk, went all the way to the dealer on foot (he was 70 at the time; Yes, my Grandpa was a badass), and came back with this car that he hadn't even told Grammy he planned on buying. He paid cash for the car, and it was the last car he ever owned. My aunt borrowed it after totaling her own car, and managed to seize the engine after driving without oil in late 2004 with just over 100K miles on the clock. My grandparents almost paid to put a new engine in it, but their mechanic told them that the air suspension was shot as well and this was not worth the expense to fix. The mint (albeit with a blown engine) Lincoln ended up at a salvage yard somewhere in Lehigh County.

Seriously though, my 80-year old Grandpa with a heart condition would let me drive his car, while he just sat in the shotgun seat smoking his pipe! I stayed within the confines of the heavily wooded neighborhood where the lake houses were located and never went on the serious public roads. Sometimes I'd put Meat Loaf in the cassette player and rock out while driving around. I miss that Lincoln, and I miss Mr. P even more, but the hood ornament from that car still hangs from the rearview mirror of my Taco as a symbol that he will always be riding with me.

 

Just got a ticket on 222 in Lancaster the other day. Was in a conversation and running late to an event. Wasn't even thinking about the speed I was going.

Dude was cool since I said I messed up. Cut me down to a 70 in a 65 with no points.

They're so efficient at pulling people over... Lol

 

Me who has yet to embrace the new high tech electronics age I forget in the old days it was all paper and snail mail .

My last ticket was back in the eighties

Now days it is all computer and printers in police cars with your court date and time printed on your ticket.

In essence in most places another officer with the high tech goodies would need to show up.

Like I said you would need to be really stupid .

Nothing worse then tailgaters another learned habit !!

 

I'm a real asshole to tailgaters. I've been in the passing lane doing you know, 80-90 across i-80 and come up on a semi passing another, which can be a slow ordeal. Most of the time the asshole behind me will come right up on me and ride right on my ass.

So what I do is I get just in front of the semi that was getting passed (don't want to hang out in their blind spot and be an ass to them) and hang out there till they back off.