LloydDobler
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- Joined
- Mar 14, 2006
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- PDX
I used to be a teenager with a beater 122, and once I damaged my trunk lid. I swapped lids and was planning to paint it, so I drove it for about a month with the handle missing, which contains the license plate lights. I got pulled over 6 times that month. I had no idea just how hard the cops were watching me, looking for any excuse to pull me over. A couple times they gave me a ridiculous interrogation and wasted entirely too much of my time. I was annoyed like you, so I put the lights back on and went back to being left alone.
Yes, it's annoying, but if you were committing other crimes and they caught you because of the license plate light, it was worth it to them. Maybe that neighborhood has had a kidnapping or a rash of break ins, now they have everyone they pulled over on record with a date and time they were in the neighborhood. That might help them catch someone. It might not be just about harassing you.
Once I did stop and tell a parked policeman that he had a headlight out, and I said it in a really condescending manner just as revenge for all the times they've pulled me over for piddly stuff and talked down to me like I was stupid just because a light burned out on my car. I've grown up since then though.
Yes, it's annoying, but if you were committing other crimes and they caught you because of the license plate light, it was worth it to them. Maybe that neighborhood has had a kidnapping or a rash of break ins, now they have everyone they pulled over on record with a date and time they were in the neighborhood. That might help them catch someone. It might not be just about harassing you.
Once I did stop and tell a parked policeman that he had a headlight out, and I said it in a really condescending manner just as revenge for all the times they've pulled me over for piddly stuff and talked down to me like I was stupid just because a light burned out on my car. I've grown up since then though.