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Not always true. I got pulled over in my '80 245... Stupid West Linn police...
They pulled me over "because" my license plate lights on my tailgate didn't work...
At least, that's what the said.
The REAL reasons they pulled me over are:
1.) I'm young.
2.) It was late.
and of course,
3.) I was driving an old car in a rich neighborhood. (It's the reverse situation of a cop pulling over a man driving a brand new car in the ghetto.) I have a friend who lives up there, and when ever I drive around that neighborhood, all the people around look at my car as if to say, "oh wow, how can you drive an old beat up car!" Just because my car's paint is heavily oxidized... (There is one person that lives across the street from my friend who has a '78 242... Nice Green, but that's it.)
I'd love to be there when each one of their cars fails them in a few years, just to say, "Ha ha, my car is still going."
I think those cops thought I was trafficking drugs or something stupid like that. They pulled me over because of a burned out light, and looked ALL over the back of my cargo area from out side with their flashlights, and kept asking me what this was, and what that was (I had a lot of tools and bungie cords out for some reason, that took a while).
Finally when I think they were convinced I wasn't doing anything wrong, (after at least a half-hour, by now it was almost 1:00 in the morning) I was on my way...
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate police at all. In fact, I really really wish more would patrol the high ways and pull over all those stupid truck drivers, taxi drivers, Semi-truck drivers, and supped up racecars that do 90 on a 55 highway. I just think it was pretty ridiculous of those cops pulling me over for the given reason. There is bigger fish to fry then a burned out light if you ask me.
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