I live in oregon and what sucks about that is if you get a ticket they dont have any "driving school" to take and remove it from your record. It stays on it for 3 years, only another year and my ticket and accident is off my record. In the city I live in if your found liable for an accident you get a ticket, so you get double screwed.
Just about 2 months ago I was going down I-5 to Medford, OR and this gold alero flys past me(I was doing 76, had cruise control set) like I was standing still, and ALMOST hits me an a 18-wheeler I was about to pass, if I had to estimate the distance between his rear bumber and the front bumber of my F-150 when he cut me off I would say less than a foot. Well when he cut me off I slammed on my breaks(so I wouldnt hit him) and he still barely sqeezed by. Well about 1/4 mile up the road I see a cop car come flying up towards me, didnt have lights on, and I am thinking "he's gonna go get that sob" so I get into the right lane, and the cop gets behind me and lights em up! I am like WTF!
Ok, before I take this any further I have a huge respect for cops, my whole family is in law enforcement and I was envolved as a cadet for 4 and a half years.
So back to the story. I pull over and roll down the passenger side window, cause that is they side they come up to when on an FWY/HWY and my sister is with me. He walks up and goes "Evening, you know why I pulled you over?" and I said "Honestly I dont." he goes "You were going pretty fast, and I was gonna let ya off but decided not to when you slammed on your breaks to avoid hitting that car." ok at this point I am thinking WTF. I know for a fact from PERSONAL experience that if he seen that alero he should have been on its ass. Well I am like "Yea, I hit my breaks pretty hard cause the guy almost hit me, if I didn't there would have been a MAJOR accident" he goes "Yea, I seen em cut ya off...you know how fast you were going?" I said "Yea, I know exactly how fast I was going, I had my cruise control set at 76 mph." he goes, "Nope! You were doing 81+" I was like "Well than my speedometer is off or you hit something else with your laser.", lasers are what they use in Oregon. So at this piont I am pretty pissed, not only did this asshole(which he was being) see the moron in the alero cut me off and almost cause an accident he is telling me I am going way faster than what I was.
So at this point he goes, let me see your driver license regestration and insurance card. Now I had just bought the truck like MAYBE a week before this, if that. So I didnt have a registration card, just the proof of sale/purchcase u get from the dealer, and I had no insurance card...hadn't come for the truck yet. Now I am 19 years old and driving a 1998 F-140 4x4 XLT FULLY LOADED...a nice rig for someone my age. Well the cop take my license I hand him the proof of purchase/sale, he looks at me and goes "This your truck?" and I said yea. Than he goes "Well, I have never seen this type of paper before so I am gonna have to double check on that." ok he has the dealer slip saying the truck was sold to ME, and is in MY NAME but he didnt believe me. So he looks at my sister, looks at me, and goes...I am gonna go wright you a ticket and make sure this is your truck." and walks off.
Comes back, gives me a $197 ticket, hands me my papers, and is like "Have a nice night, and drive better." so I am still keeping my cool and I am like "Thanks, you too." and my sister as the cop goes back to his car leans out the window, and she is pissed at this point, yells "Yea you have a nice night too asshole, and dont get shot!!"....
Well I pleaded not guilty and now have a court date, I hope he doesnt show and it gets dropped, cause this guy is a prick and makes law enforcement look bad.
