“Hi officer, I think I was doing about -”
"I don't answer questions"
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
The only good answer is “to my knowledge I was driving within the limit”.
If you say “yes” and were speeding you’ve just admitted you knew you were speeding, if you say “no” you’ve just admitted you weren’t keeping track of your speed.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.
Zidane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
As long as you’re white, otherwise it will be escalating
radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
It might surprise you to learn that some people live outside of America.
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Good evening, Officer. Do you know if your spouse knows that you’re a liar?”
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like not knowing how fast you were going is also an admission of guilt though. Like, youre supposed to monitor that.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Then don’t answer it. You’re not obligated to.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No, it is definitely the driver’s job to keep an eye on how fast they’re going.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why
notabot@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
So they know when they set a P.B. without having to be told.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
So they don’t kill people around them who are driving responsibly
Johanno@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Ok so you are allowed to drive 30 km/h.
What do you do?
A) read your speedometer in order to drive according to the speed limit.
B) just wing it and guess the speed.
C) ask the policeman who you almost run over.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can just look at him and not answer.
You need to give them license, registration, and proof of insurance, and otherwise comply, but you don’t need to talk to them.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sob, “Ever since Marie died I’ve had nobody to tell me how fast I’m driving while I keep my eyes on the road. It’s like I’m missing half my soul…”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean crying kinda works
So my first ticket I should have gotten was in high school. My gf and two of our friends went two towns over to get slurpees (they had the good machine). I got pulled over doing 50 in a 35. Trying to catch up with the rest of our friends who had come along but lost me at a red light). Well all of the girls in the car started crying (for reasons?) and I just told the officer what was going on. I mean I could handle that speeding ticket.
Well after fifteen seconds both the officer and I were having a lot of trouble not laughing. Why the hell were they crying, I was the one who was going to have to pay some money. So he went to his car and giggled for a minute or two, then came back and gave me a warning.
I never got a satisfactory answer why she was crying, but like, teenagers right?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s easier for them if you incriminate yourself.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I know this is a joke, but, no it is your job as a driver to know how fast you are going. It is one of the basic rules of having the privilege to drive. Of course the fact that so many drivers seem to think this is some kind of infringement is why there are so many fatal accidents. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they only maimed and killed the speeders & drunks.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Sure, know how fast you’re going. But don’t ever answer that question if you were speeding, you’re admitting guilt. It’s actually illegal for cops to ask that question in some states.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wow, you sure do know it’s a joke. Way to demonstrate that!
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not a joke.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 3 weeks ago
Am I the only person around here who uses cruise control? Like all the time. Set it for 5 over, and I’m good. With adaptive cruise control, it will even slow you down when the guy in front is going slower.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
adaptive cruise control
My car originally had that, but one day it came back from the service appointment at the dealership and that was no longer available. Software update removed that, probably because too many people were falling asleep thanks to that and the lane assist shit.
gdog05@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I almost got very messed up in a rental car using that. I was on a fairly tight winding road just West of Klamath Falls in Oregon. There was a concrete barrier median, the roadway, while fast was very 3 dimensional. I was overtaking a logging truck to my left with afternoon sun creating a ton of broken light (really pretty honestly). But the adaptive cruise got messed up with everything going on and did a hard braking when I absolutely didn’t expect and was very much not convenient to keep control. The brakes were worn so it tried to dive to the right, toward the semi. It was very memorable.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mr. Moneybags
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“Do you? Or are you trying to copy my answer?”
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I once responded with “honestly no but I mustn’t have have be doing the speed limit or we wouldn’t be here”. It got a laugh and I was let off with a warning. For the record, I’m a white guy with a mustache. Cops love mustaches
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
but i know where I am.
Tiral@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I got pulled over once when I was younger. I used to street race in the Chicago are so I was quite used to cops (this is 20 years ago). Anyways I get pulled over and he says the line. I told him my speedo only goes to 120mph and I was well past that. He goes “138” I’m like damn. Welp going to jail. Checked my license ect, then asked to see my friends ID to check for warrants. He flipped open his wallet and he’s a local PD for a adjacent department. The cops looks at me and him and goes “You mother fuckers need to go home and park this, if I see you again I sware the Christ…” No problem officer!
Dropped my car off and got my cop buddies Camaro SS for the rest of the night.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Officer: proceeds to emptying the entire mag in the head of the joker
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Only if they aren’t white
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That’s much more deeper than white vs non-white. It could be anything on the individual level: nationality, clothing, the car you are in.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Officer pulls out their gun BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Officer: Suspect is down. Suspect had a gun.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Five. I’m pretty sure I was doing at least five.
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d say no clue, but seeing as I pay your salary fetch me some watet
ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“yes, I do, if you can tell me how fast you think I was going I’ll happily corroborate whether your information is correct or not”.
Only if you knew you weren’t speeding and/or have a dashcam that records your speed.
Naive@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I missed the part where that’s my problem
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wrong again, renter!
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Be like Ray Shoesmith
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Fucking loved that show.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why I made the title
abc@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Joyride by 5fs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8mmpQkYbg
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Answering this question makes it easy for the cop to write it in his report that you admitted guilt.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
I know someone who said he has no idea what his speed was. When the cop was pressing harder and harder to get him to accept he asked “do you have a calibrated speed gun in your car”. The cop admitted he didn’t and the guy said “this conversation is over then”, and the cop let him drive off.
eyelevel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I felt like I was being a giant asshole but I got off the same way. Cop was trying to make me admit to driving fast. I said I wasn’t and asked what they clocked me at. They said they didn’t get me with the radar gun. I said “ok,” and just stared at her.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
In my youth (look, this was like a decade ago, I don’t speed much these days), I had a nice car with superb high-speed stability and a big engine (by my standards at the time anyway). It was a super beautiful spring evening, I’d just put on my grippy summer tires and the road was damn near empty. So I was cruising at 120 km/h and decided to overtake a bus going 90. Well it wasn’t very difficult to go from 120 to 180 in just a few seconds and then I coasted back to a more sane speed fairly quickly.
So when I got pulled over and the cop asked me if I knew how fast I was going, I said “I don’t know the exact number, I was looking at the road not the speedometer, could you tell me?” and was told they caught me at 120 km/h. Nearly sighed out in relief at that point.
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Obviously not fast enough since you caught up with me”
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I used to watch this British show called Police Interceptors. Tge narrator loved talking about how the officers drive Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi Evo 9s/10s, and that their top speed is 155mph. My thought was always “So get a car that goes faster than 155, got it”