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It's about 6:30AM and 440 had a wide open lane on the far right (between S Saunders and Gorman) for once! I was already cruising right around 75 so just slid over and let my mind wander. I start to ease back into the left lanes since the current lane ends just before Gorman and ended up making a couple of lane changes because of traffic. Within 15 seconds I see a big black looming truck with annoyingly flashing blue lights coming up behind me and knew instantly that it was me that he was after. What's worse is that I never saw this blatant HP truck as I was driving!

Sure enough, he was hot under the collar and wanted to know if I made it a habit of passing highway patrol at 80, wanted to know if I was awake and how I missed passing him on the road! Wanted to know if I traveled that road often and made it a point to let me know that he doesn't forget a car or a face and he travels that road every morning as well. Hands me my stuff and walks away. No ticket (score!) but I think I ruined his morning. He didn't wait for me to pull out and follow me hoping to catch me screwing up again, he just backed up and floored it out of the breakdown lane leaving me sitting there wondering what just happened. He must work the night shift and was on his way home when I slowed him down. Now I'm no saint , but lucky for me I don't make that a habit so I wasn't lieing to him. Looks like maybe I need to paint the car so he won't recognize me.

Wow

Not real sure what else to say 'cept... wow

Guess he didn't have time for the paperwork, cause I imagine he could've gotten you for some other violations too like passing on the right and/or no signal (just guessing here obviously.)

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Stacy King
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I've actually had a couple worse stories that ended like that and the only thing I can figure is that he wasn't on duty in that county but HAD to pull you over because if he hadn't some motorist might have reported him for NOT pulling you. It's so easy to get a license plate and call something like that in that I believe it does happen from time to time, so he didn't take any chances and pulled you, yelled at you, but did the only thing he could easily do and let you go. Yes, he could have still written you a ticket, but that would have meant going to court out of where he's normally supposed to be and that screws up their scheduling to some degree.

That's my theory on those, anyway. Got nothing to back it up. It just seems to fit since he'd be pissed because you probably made him late for reporting in somewhere else later, he'd be pissed because he probably WANTED to write you a ticket but really couldn't without getting in trouble in some other way, etc, etc.

Those officers are assigned by county and have certain days each month they're scheduled to be in court in that county, but otherwise they're on patrol. Having to take time out to go to court in a different county just for one offense is probably frowned upon to some degree, but getting called in for ignoring an obvious offense like that would also get frowned upon. Being a couple minutes late for duty was the lesser of all the evils.


--Donnie

I talked to one SHP officer and he said if they are nearing retirement or transfer they aren't allowed to give tickets because it screws up the budget to have them go to court.

I have never been so lucky!

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Last I heard, passing on the right is not a traffic violation in N.C.

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Art McDonald
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You are correct... kinda...

From the DMV handbook:

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Stacy King
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Lucky for me passing on the right is legal where I was (4 lanes on my side, 3 lanes on the other. ) As for the signals, I use them, 95% of the time. The other 5% is if I forget (not sure how, but it happens) or if it's a blatant turn (turn lane only, duh, of course I'm turning ) Also lucky for me the only thing that was incorrect was my license as I haven't changed my address yet.

On the bright side, that was the worst thing that happened to me today.

Now I've been pulled over two other times in the past six years, and both times were for legal moves...kinda. I took a turn from one road that is 45 onto another road that is 45 at, well, 45! City PD didn't like that and chased me down. I didn't really break any laws, and I had a clean record, so he didn't give me anything. Couple months later, I passed a van on a two lane road in a passing zone (he was doing 40 in a 55). A Sheriff crested the horizon as I was passing and he immediatly spun around and "chased" me down. He claimed that I passed multiple cars (hard to do when only three cars were on the road at the time, the van, the sheriff and me), and that I did so in a dangerous manner (apparently the 1/4 mile between me and him when I was getting back into my lane was too close). Conveniently, his laptop was having problems when he was processing and couldn't give me a ticket for performing a legal move.

So this was the first time in about 6 years that I could have and should have gotten a ticket! I don't have any other horror stories of times when I should have but didn't receive one. Basically it's because if I did something and was stopped, well, I got a ticket. But there were those times in 90 and 91 when I should have gotten stopped but didn't because there were too many of us to catch. I guess it will eventually all catch up with me. Till then, I'll just keep driving like I normally do and not worry about it.

years back i worked in Cary. i traveled I40 from Knightdale to Hwy 54 every morning with alternating Saturday mornings. my ride was a self changing oil reservoir commonly called an F150.

one Saturday morning about 6:45 i passed a NCHP car and was soundly trounced by hand signals. as I pulled up beside the Trooper he flashed me the double nickel hand signal and a corresponding dirty look.

you lucked up there Coz. man up and do a track event would ya'. only ricers and fags run hot laps on the street.


of course i am knocking wood as i type.

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another one of those damn LeMons heads

just another Chump

we are an Autocross Club Dammit............

I had that happen years ago. I got a ticket for too fast for conditions towit a sharp curve.

Thanks Raleigh PD
I have only been pulled over once when I did not leave with a piece of paper in my hand.

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