first time pulled over in my evo.....

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Dec 25, 2006 | 04:52 AM

#46

SkylineMyth

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From: Silver Spring

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Originally Posted by filter

ok i was heading home from helping a friend put on his downpipe on his sti.

im about 3 miles from home doint the speed limit. (rardar detector was going off so i made sure i was doing the speed limit. cop is coming from the other directions. he flips a ***** and pulls me over. ( i was doing 55 in 5th gear )i was like WTF. he comes up an asks me if i knew why he pulled me over. i said i have no idea.

he said cause you havea a modified exhasut and was loud as hell. i didnt know it was modified i thought you had no muffler. . then he said you know its illegal in the state of NY to modify your exhaust period. i was like ok. he said i know you alot of tuner cars like to modify there exhaust. asked for my license and registration. and asked have you ever been arrested i was like no. He said you sure about that? im like yeah im sure.

anyways he comes back to my car after about 5 mins of running my license and registration and says well im in the holiday mood. i wont give you a ticket cause i know you wont change your exhaust anyway. he said marry christmas and ill see you next time.

this cop must of been extremly bored.he was about my age and pretty nice but still didnt think he had any reason to pull me over. makes me think that he seen my age and relized i wasnt some punk and then decided to let me go with no ticket. in a way i feel profiled cause i know my exhaust was no louder then some peoples i mean i was doing 55 in 5th gear normal cruise so it wasnt that loud. i just feel his justification for pulling me over was wrong.

oh and merry xmas everyone.

Marry xmas to you too dude. I really hate how the po po always targets us imports, just cause they think we are always running illegal parts when actually, most of us that actually know anything about cars, knows what the legal and illegal parts are. I bet you that your exhaust is completly legal, cause so long as you're running 95 or less db, and you have a full exhaust with a cat, then you're completly legal.

Dec 25, 2006 | 08:36 AM

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Brian

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Originally Posted by SkylineMyth

Without knowing the local or state statues regarding exhaust modification and what exactly the car is registered as, it's hard to determine if they were 'profiling' or not. Then you've got the whole issue of it being illegal to modify your emissions equipment and what not. . .

It's hard to say if police actually target imports around here as everyone always has to put a victim spin on everything while completely ignoring whether or not they've broken the law. I know if I were a cop I'd more than likely pull over a lot more imports around here as there are a lot more imports. Well, that combined with the fact that many of them around here are out to prove just how stupid they really are.