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kane · 07-24-2009, 04:13 PM

This is a total he said he said kind of deal. Gates is saying he was trying to be cool and the cop was harassing him and the cop is saying just the opposite. I have the feeling it was a little of both.

A few days ago I got pulled over for having expired tags. I actually had the new tags in my glove box, but I had been too lazy to put them on. I thought I had until the end of the month when the reality was the tags had expired a week or so before. So he pulls me over and tells me why, he never even looks at my license. I tell him I have the new tags in the glove box and I will get them for him. As I go to get them he tells me that having expired tags is a $250 ticket. I grab the tags and temp registration and hand them to him and he asks me, "Where are you going?" I have a lot of friends who are cops and understand a lot of what they do, but this kind of pissed me off. I felt like saying, "What the fuck does it matter?" the guy has no right to know where I am going and it kind of pissed me off. I just kind of looked at him strangely and he then said, "Let's put these on here before you pull away." So I jump out and he takes one sticker and I take the other. We put them on, he hands me my registration and shows me where on it the actual expiration date was so I would know the exact date these new tags expired.

I could easily have seen how it could have escalated. I could have said, "What the fuck does it matter where I'm going? It is no business of yours." Then he has me get out of the car, runs my license and is not happy with me. So he writes me the ticket for the tags. If I get angry about that I could see where would then want to handcuff me which would only make things worse and it could all go downhill from there.

So I think that is what happened here. I think the cop said something that pissed this Gates guy off and he then said something that pissed the cop off and things grew from there.

07-24-2009, 04:13 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	This is a total he said he said kind of deal. Gates is saying he was trying to be cool and the cop was harassing him and the cop is saying just the opposite. I have the feeling it was a little of both. A few days ago I got pulled over for having expired tags. I actually had the new tags in my glove box, but I had been too lazy to put them on. I thought I had until the end of the month when the reality was the tags had expired a week or so before. So he pulls me over and tells me why, he never even looks at my license. I tell him I have the new tags in the glove box and I will get them for him. As I go to get them he tells me that having expired tags is a $250 ticket. I grab the tags and temp registration and hand them to him and he asks me, "Where are you going?" I have a lot of friends who are cops and understand a lot of what they do, but this kind of pissed me off. I felt like saying, "What the fuck does it matter?" the guy has no right to know where I am going and it kind of pissed me off. I just kind of looked at him strangely and he then said, "Let's put these on here before you pull away." So I jump out and he takes one sticker and I take the other. We put them on, he hands me my registration and shows me where on it the actual expiration date was so I would know the exact date these new tags expired. I could easily have seen how it could have escalated. I could have said, "What the fuck does it matter where I'm going? It is no business of yours." Then he has me get out of the car, runs my license and is not happy with me. So he writes me the ticket for the tags. If I get angry about that I could see where would then want to handcuff me which would only make things worse and it could all go downhill from there. So I think that is what happened here. I think the cop said something that pissed this Gates guy off and he then said something that pissed the cop off and things grew from there.