PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

I didn't mention his name, and he isn't on TW, so I think I'm fine. Unfortunately, all I know about what happened is hearsay, so I can't do much; I have been witness to some of his verbal abuse though, and I've seen how he carries himself in his day-to-day life. Even though he is not a sexual predator, he is still an asshole. He thinks it is normal to just talk like a thug to anybody who says or does something that he disagrees with, as was the case when he called me a pussy bitch when I told him I wouldn't be going to a friend's house while he was there.

He comes across as nice, but what my other friend and I didn't realize is that he is very manipulative, vindictive, and narcissistic. He actively started trying to get my friend's friends to cut ties with her, because my friend dumped him after he proved himself to be a sexist control freak.

 

@TnShooter

This same guy also tried to get me to take him to a bunch of bars and take him and his friend to a strip club like a week or two after I met him for the very first time; I have a huge problem with people who try to use me as a taxi service and either try to reimburse me for gas with ten bucks or don't pay me at all. I'm sorry if I sound like an asshole but it's not my fucking problem if you're in your twenties, don't have a driver's license, and don't feel like taking public transportation or paying for an Uber!

 

His is lucky, he just hasn’t come across the wrong person yet.
I think your friend should reconsider giving him another chance.
I think that would be a huge mistake.

 

I can agree with that.

For enough money, I could probably be a taxi for the night.
Who am I kidding, I’ve been a taxi for free

Since we’re telling stories,
I had a buddy that asked if I could come pick him up from a local bar and pool hall. He knew he would be drinking and didn’t want to risk driving. (He had 2 prior DUIs)
He had a coworker drop him off there after work.

Well, I got there, started drinking with him, and then we both needed a ride home.
Sometimes I miss those days

 

Sounds like a person I avoid.
Maybe one day he’ll take a look around and realize why he has no more friends?

 

I had one beer with my friend at his apartment, then we decided to go to a strip club a few miles away; I was not the least bit drunk, but I almost rear-ended a SEPTA bus on Route 611. I don't think I would have gotten a DUI for that if an accident occurred, but I probably would have ended up in court to negotiate a plea deal so I didn't get points on my license.

About the stupidest thing I've ever gotten a ticket for was an accident in June 2021 in which I was at fault; I was at a stop sign on a very rural road that intersected a busy highway, and I waited there for several minutes. I looked both ways and had a "Grand Theft Auto moment" where a vehicle that wasn't there before materialized out of nowhere. It was a 2017 Kia Sedona minivan coming from the right. I floored it through the intersection, and all of a sudden, there was this damn van; I nailed the van on the left rear corner, and the damage was not severe at all, but the left rear wheel was bent upward in such a way that the van had to be towed. My truck was able to be driven home, and nobody was injured. We probably could have resolved the situation without police involvement if the van did not have to be towed, but it had to be towed. A state trooper responded, and Pennsylvania has this stupid law that I learned about the hard way, where the at-fault driver must be ticketed if there are injuries or the other vehicle must be towed.

It had been my first accident in many years, so my accident forgiveness kicked in and my rates did not go up; I paid out of pocket with my own money to fix my truck, which came to like $1,200. I fought the ticket, and my truck was fixed by the time I finally got a court date. The trooper requested that the charges be dropped, I got my fine money back, and it was as if I'd never had any accident. I was 100% sober, it was not a bad accident, and the woman whose van I hit was not particularly upset. Biggest load of bullshit I've experienced since the pandemic started, and I still make a right turn at the intersection where I got into a wreck even though it takes me a couple miles out of my way, because I'm terrified of getting into another accident.

 

I’ve had one ticket.
Failure to provide proof of insurance.

 

NJ and MD are a different type of rude. I won’t go into detail because it would probably turn political.

 

Maryland was nice.
New Jersey, not so much.

 

@ColoradoTJ
@shakerhood
@Taco critter

2010 Toyota Tacoma vs. 2017 Kia Sedona in June 2021; I still can't believe I got a ticket for this, considering that the accident was incredibly minor and I was totally sober. My dad and I went to court, without an attorney present, and the trooper who issued the ticket had the charges totally dropped...

 

Go on, tell us what you you really think.
“I” won’t ban you.

 

No, but @ColoradoTJ will!

 

Play nice in MY thread, guys...

 

I got my driver's license in May 2011 and made it to my first license renewal in 2015 without a single incident on the road. There was an incident with a woman in a Lexus in November 2013 that resulted in my insurance company ruling 50/50 responsiblity, but my truck sustained no damage...

I had my first on-road accident in March 2015, when a texting driver rear-ended me and did about $1,200 in damage to truck; I managed to go without getting pulled over, until May 2017...

I was driving on a notorious speed trap in Doylestown, going downhill a stretch of Main Street where the speed limit is 25 MPH; I was going 43, and an unseen cop used the lines on the road to clock me at 43 MPH. Only state police in Pennsylvania were allowed to radar guns until recently, so I don't remember how he clocked my exact speed. I was still not particularly happy with the Central Bucks Regional PD in general because I'd been stopped and harassed by them for taking pictures back in March 2013 and I was bit miffed with law enforcement in general because I'd encountered a DUI checkpoint back in March 2017 while driving home from work on Saint Patty's day...

I was an asshole and mouthed off to the cop who stopped me because I didn't realize I was speeding (on that hill, this is a common occurrence) and thought I was being harassed for "suspicion of drunk driving" since about a year and a half earlier, a CBRPD cop had aggressively tailgated me on that exact stretch of road; I think he was running my license plate for reasons unknown, but if he hadn't been in a marked Tahoe, I would have brake-checked him. That's how close he was; I had a rear-facing dashcam by then, and when I showed the footage to my parents, my dad said that I'd done nothing wrong and that the cop was running my license plate and likely trolling for drunks. It was about midnight on a weekend in December 2015, so...

Anyway, going back to the first time I was pulled over (since getting my license) in May 2017, I was an asshole; I probably could have gotten it reduce or even gotten a warning, but I was a jerk and got written up for the exact amount I was driving over the speed limit. Luckily, the owner of the bar where I worked is a lawyer and former prosecutor who knows every cop in town. I contacted him, and while I was not present for the conversation between him and the cop, I have no doubt that he used the fact that I have Aspergers Syndrome as reasoning for the plea deal. He also probably said that I was a very good employee at his bar, that driving entailed a significant part of my duties, and that a speeding ticket would have had a pretty signifcant affect on my insurance rates. I would have gotten four points on my license if I plead guilty to the full amount; I went to court, apologized to and shook hands with the cop, and the charge was reduced to 5 MPH over. I got no points on my driver's license.

 

@TnShooter

I managed to get another ticket on Labor Day weekend in 2017, before I actually went to court for the May 2017 speeding ticket.

I was driving home from my Grandma's house in Bethlehem, about a 40-minute drive, and I was tired but stone cold sober. There is this obnoxious traffic light at the intersection of County Line Road and Lower State Road in Warrington, where the left turn arrow operates independently of the main light; I had gotten stuck at this intersection numerous times over the last year and a half even thought there was no oncoming traffic, because unlike an intersection where you are allowed to turn left as long as the light green, you had to wait for a green arrow. It was midnight, there was nobody around, and a combination of impatience and tiredness drove me to just make a left turn with a green light and a red arrow; I had done this once before and gotten away with it.

About a mile and a half later, the red and blue lights came on, and I pulled over. I knew exactly what I'd done, but I BS'd the cop with the story that I'd just driven 40 minutes from my grandma's house, was tired, and thought I had a green. The first two parts of the story were true. I was very polite, and I got let off with a written warning. Needless to say, I learned my lesson about making a left turn when the main light is green but the arrow is red, and I now go out of my way to avoid turning left at that intersection.

 

@TnShooter

On January 2nd, 2019 I was still working at the detail shop and Puck concurrently; I drove to Puck for open mic night to hang out with some friends when my shift was over. I consumed nothing but nonalcoholic beers that night. Near the end of the night, this girl with Aspergers who I know from around town showed up at Puck with all of her wordly possessions. She and her former friend had been roommates in an apartment where the friend was the primary leaseholder. They both slept with the same guy, and purely out of spite, the friend kicked her out. It was freezing, and she was facing sleeping on the streets; I have a friend who lets people crash at her house, so I called her up and got the okay to bring the other girl over. We loaded her belongings into the bed of my Tacoma and I proceeded to drive her from Puck to my friend's house in Chalfont. I normally turned left onto Main Street at the intersection near the Starbucks, but my friend's place required to go straight on State Street.

I had worked a long shift at the detail shop, I was tired, I had the radio on, and I had an attractive and moderately intoxicated female wearing a corset in the shotgun seat yacking in my ear; I zoned out and forgot I was at red light. I waited three seconds and looked both ways, then drove through the red light. There was nobody around, and I did not realize I'd gone through a red light until I reviewed the dashcam footage at home that night.

Unbeknownst to me, a sheriff's deputy in a prisoner transport van was on Main Street, heading in my direction from the left. My dashcam footage shows him appear when I was almost blocks down State Street and aggressively make a left to come after me. The lights came on, and you can hear me in the video expressing absolute shock at being pulled over. My passenger hadn't been paying attention to light either and was equally dumbfounded as to why I was getting stopped, suggesting that it was simply because we'd left a bar at midnight. I also briefly thought that this was some creep impersonating an officer, because the deputy was in a Chevy Express van and I knew that the CBRPD did not patrol in vans; I was pondering calling 911, but then I quickly figured out that it was a legit LEO.

Through no fault of my own, I pissed off the deputy and sealed my fate simply because when the deputy asked me if I knew why he'd pulled me over, and I said I did not; I was not a dickhead out of the gate, but I was agitated because I believed I was the victim of a bored cop fishing for drunks, and it showed in my voice.

Prior to this incident, I had no idea that the sheriff's department stopped traffic violators, and someone who worked for my lawyer friend explained how it worked. In Bucks County, the Sheriff and deputies are allowed to conduct traffic stops if they witness a violation, but they don't issue citations because they have a different union than the regular police department. The deputy took my license, registration, and proof of insurance and went back to his van; I did not see him again that night, but ended up waiting a good 15-20 minutes until a regular cop showed up in his marked Tahoe. I had my window down and called up my parents, and I said a few less-than-kind things about police while I was waiting, which my dad believes was overhead by the deputy and the responding officer and why they ended up being such assholes to me.

So the cop showed up in his marked Tahoe, went to the sheriff's van, and several more minutes went by. The cop, who had not witnessed me running the red light, came up to my drug and said "here's your citation". I was so frustrated that I exclaimed "DAMMIT!"

The cop said "Calm down sir, you're being recorded" in a very condescending way. If I remember correctly, I pointed at my dashcam and told the cop he was being recorded to. He then went on to say that I'd blown the read light and almost caused an accident, and that if I chose to fight the ticket in court, he and deputy so-and-so would be there to testify against me. It was straight-up intimidation, and I have no idea what prompted him to say that.

I left without incident and dropped my friend off at my other friend's house, then reviewed the dashcam footage with my parents. The dashcam footage shows that I did go through the red light, but I did not blatantly run it like the two LEOs claimed; I treated it like a stop sign, and the footage also shows that I came nowhere near causing an accident. Purely as a big "fuck you" to the Bucks County Sheriff's Department and the CBRPD, I called my lawyer friend and took it to court; I don't know what the hell he pulled, but he made a deal with both the deputy and the CBRPD officer to not show up. Another CBRPD officer showed up in the place of the one who wrote the citation, and I still had to pay a fine, but the charges were reduced so that I didn't get any points on my license.

 

I’ve only had 3 negative experiences with law enforcement.
(I’ve told the stories here before)
But honestly, I get along well with most of them.

I became good friends with the Game Warden after he stopped me.
Actually he ran my plates first, checked my license (fishing) and then asked if I had anything in my truck he should know about.

Long story short, I made a deal with him.
If I could continue fishing, he could search my truck.
That way, only one of us will be wasting our time.
He laughed and said “Deal”. Got back in his truck and left


He has seen me multiple times after that, and never has asked for my fishing license.
He just sits on the tail gate BS’s with me now.

 

@TnShooter

The third time I got a ticket was in April 2021 when I was on my way to pick up a DoorDash order; I hopped a curb and drove with two wheels on the sidewalk to get around a line for a Wendy's drive-thru that had spilled out onto a public thoroughfare. There was a cop on the other side driving in the opposite direction. He promptly pulled me over and gave me a ticket for careless driving; I was polite and the cop (who it turns out I went to high school with) implied that he did not want to give me the ticket, but he had no choice because he caught my stunt on his dashcam. I took the ticket to court and had both my dad and my friend's dad (who is an attorney) present; I still had to pay the fine, but the charge was reduced to one that carried no points on my license. Two months after that, I had the minor accident where the woman's minivan had to be towed. I haven't been pulled over, gotten a ticket, or been in an accident since the spring of 2021.