The story:
So after hitting up the club last night me and my buddy were heading home and as we were leaving the parking garage I remember I forgot to get my parking ticket validated by the door people. Needless to say at that time of night the club is the only establishment open that late. Well I tell the parking attendant I forgot to get it validated and I show him the stamp on my wrist to prove we were in the club. I frequent this club often and it wasn't a big deal in the past and they would let us drive on through and pay the validated fee, but this asshole says we have to pay the regular price. So I tell him I'm going to let my buddy go get the ticket validated if I have to pay the regular price. (It was only 10 dollars compared to the validate price of $3). I just wanted to give the parking attendant a hard time because he was giving me a hard time. So as my friend went to get it validated I just sat there and the line of cars keeps growing and growing because I'm blocking the exit waiting for my buddy. I start blasting my music (some of that hard trance/bass) to just piss him off more. Once my friend gets back and the attendant opens the gate we started yelling all kinds of shit to him, and I pull out of the parking garage I burn some rubber! Two seconds later we see our friends on the road and we start yelling their name and BAM!!! all of a sudden I hear loud voices yelling "PULL OVER!!!" I was like what the fuck, where did all these cops come from!! There was like 5-6 cops around my car. This was like only 30 ft from the parking garage. To make a long story shorter here was the conversation:
COP: Why did you burn out?
ME: The parking attendants were giving us a hard time.
COP: Have you had anything to drink tonight.
ME: I had one or two drinks.
COP: Well I can smell alcohol coming out of your vehicle.
ME: I'm not going to argue with you sir. (I started to shit at this point, I knew the sobriaty test was coming)
COP: What did you say?
ME: I'm not going to argue with you.
COP: Do you mind if we do some tests?
ME: What kind of tests?
COP: It's a yes or no answer.
ME: How can I answer yes or no if I don't know what tests your talking about.
COP: It's a test to see if your capable of driving safely. So, do you mind if we do some tests.
(LOL, I pause a few seconds to think about it)
ME: Okay.
COP: Please step out of your vehicle and my partner will take care of you over here.
So I go over to the partner and he gives me all the yada yada yada, some about prescriptions and doctors and broken eyes..... At this point I'm thinking to myself "how come it sounds like these guys memorized a script and are reading it to me", and I wasn't paying attention to what he was telling me
. All I know is I had to follow the light. So on the first attempt when he moves the light to my left guess what I do? I follow the light with my eyes AND TURN MY HEAD!
Well for those of you who've done this before your not suppose to turn your head just move your eyes.
COP: Why did you turn your head! Didn't you understand what I just said?
ME: Sorry sir I'm just a little nervous right now. (haha...)
COP: I don't care if your nervous or not! I'm going to say it again follow the light and using your eyes and don't turn your head.
(At this point I'm like already planning in my head how I'm going to get bailed out and all that shit...) So he goes on with the test and I follow the light (this is what I had to drink at the club, a Cherry Bomb shot, and about 5 Coronas).
I was waiting to hear "Put your hand behind your back, we're putting you under arrest for driving under the influence, but instead he tells me to sit down in my car. So we hear them discussing it, and at that point I'm like hell ya I'm home free, they would have put me in restraints by now if I was going to jail. So the first cop comes over and starts asking me where I live, address, where I work , and all that other crap (I was thinking in my head don't tell him you do PORN) LOL. He goes back and they start writing tickets!
COP: I'm going to do you a favor tonight and not charge you with showboating. You know what that is right?
ME: Yes, it's when I burned out coming out of the garage.
COP: No, I meant you know what happens if you get charged with that?
ME: No.
COP: You'd have to go to court and see a judge...blah blah...he said some other stuff that I don't remember.
ME: Oh.
COP: We are going to charge you with illegal tint ($287)
, obstruction of license plate ($97)
, and not wearing your seat belt ($87)
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TOTAL ABOUT $500 dollars
This is when I just realized I hadn't been wearing my seat belt! FUCK!
...but I didn't care I was thinking in my head just give me all the tickets, as long as I don't get charged with anything serious, have to spend time in jail, get my license taken away, and have my insurance go up!
Needless to say after thinking about it I got off with a good deal. I didn't get tagged with anything serious that would show I was driving reckless, and would have fucked up my insurance.
Moral of the story: "Respect the cops and most will respect you back"
I say most, there are alot of assholes. If there's anything that I learned from my father that was one. He always told me if you get pulled over and you were drinking always respect the cops and don't argue with them. They are the law and could easily fuck you up and give you a hard time if they wanted too.
I THINK I WIN THE LONGEST POST OF THE YEAR AWARD!