Tailed by POPO, so pissed off right now.
 

So I'm on the way home from my buddy's place, and he dropped me off at my car. I'm halfway home (5min drive) and I'm turning onto Yonge (this was in Thornhill) and I see a York Region cruiser making a left onto the street that I was coming off of. I make a right, he pulls a U turn and starts coming my way.

Obviously I realized the cop when i was at the light, so of course I had my radio down, the car reving at a low rpm, and in a high gear, as to avoid making excessive noise and all. I'm doing the speed limit the whole way (only 50) and I turn into the passing lane, and then another left to turn into my building. The cop is on my ass the entire time, even when turning into my building! I head to the underground and see through my rear view the cop is just sitting there on Yonge staring my way. Had I not parked my car and gone home he was gonna pull me over for sure.

I was doing nothing wrong, I was alone, completely sober, and driving as if I was on my exam. I'm so damn pissed right now. My car is 100% legal. Lowered legally, saftied, legal exhaust system including cat and all the other stuff. My signals are pure white (legal in the HTA) and i only have 3 small decals along the bottom of my side window. Why the hell am I getting profiled?!

The thing that pisses me off the most, is I rock PACER logos on my car, because I fully support the goals and methods of the program, and work alongside of PACER. York Region Police back the mandates of the program, and are supposed to be good willed to tuners who support the program and represent it on their legal rides. So again, why the hell am I being profiled!?

I know many of you have had this happen, and have been pulled over and ticketed too. I'm sorry if I sound like winer here, but this is really the first time it's happened to me so far, and the fact that I just moved back into York Region only makes it feel worse. I've always been unhappy with the situation most tuners in York Region are having to deal with, but it really hit home tonight. Something has to be done about this. We should not have to live in fear everytime we take our cars out of the garage. That's just wrong.

Sorry for the long post, and if I'm ranting and sounding like a baby here, but I'm just so infuriated right now, I had to vent. Thanks for listening.

PS: I know police officers check these boards, and I really hope they read this message. Tuners are being harrassed and profiled all the time, and it isn't right. Yes there are a lot of stupid drivers out there with souped up cars. However, the majority of tuners are mature and responsiable individuals who customize their cars as a hobby and make it way of life. There's nothing wrong with that. I know you have a duty to uphold, but profiling every young person with a custom car (weather it's minor or major mods) isn't right, and has proven to be ineffective. Our courts are so backlogged and held up because of frivelous tickets, it's rediculous. I'm not trying to judge you, and am trying to be unbias. I'm just asking you to think about things from the perspective of the tuning community.

Re: Tailed by POPO, so pissed off right now.
 

the problem with that part is that most kids in there hondas aren't lowered legally and dont have legal emisions systems or stuff like that....

and you gotta remember cops patrolling in crusers are just out to make money... and most civics are an easy way to accomplish that....

i had one tail me in Hamilton one night... i drove the same way as you. he followed me for 10 minutes and then pulled up to a light beside me. i'd been looking straight ahead minding my business, but i turned and looked for a second and he was turned in his seat with his arm up on the passenger seat and staring at me. so i made a comment to my buddy who was with me, and at the same time i looked at the cop and kinda smirked at him. so the light turns green, he pulls out of the left hand turning lane and starts following me again. i pulled into a parking lot down the street a little and he kept going. :shrugs: that's the only time i've felt hassled yet. i don't think it matters how you drive or what program you support. it's all a big stereotype. they look at us as troublemakers in general, just as we look at them as cops in general.

I was driving my Z24, my oldschool Z24.


Buff 'n Stuff: The problem is you smirked at him and stuff. If I were a cop I'd probably want to nail you too. I have nothing but the upmost respect for police officers. Most of them are actually really nice and cool. Even the more stern ones are have been good with me as long as you show them a little respect and sincerity.

yeah, i know. :rolleyes: :wink:

i also have a lot of respect for them, but the way i see it, he didn't need to follow me for so long as i was doing absolutely nothing wrong... and if he looked up my plate, he would've found... nothing. so what's the point other than being a human pest? like, go solve some crime or something more useful other than annoying my law abiding ass. ya know what i mean? :D

once a cop followed me up the hwy 6 hill... then kept following me through the sub divisions to my house... then like 5 houses from mine he pulls me over.... tells me my exhust is a bit loud, i'm like i didn't think it was that loud... so he checks my license see's that my house is like 20 meters away and tells me to have a good night.... :shrugs: and this was in big city waterdown... i felt special our one cop on duty was spending time with me haha

did you have a beer with him like the cop did in cabin fever? :thumbup:

Once I had an MP follow me across from base borden. He was about two feet from rear bumper. Sure my exhaust is a bit loud and my third brake light is burnt out.

At first I thought it was one of friends just being an ass. When I turned in the parking lot of my shacks that's when I noticed it was an MP. WtF!? I should've stomped on the brakes and made sure that cop nailed me.

unfortunately not.... i did get pulled over by a chick cop some time ago that i would have going out for a drink with though.... i could like offer her sexual services and she could make my speeding tickets disappear... everybody wins :cheers:

i've been follwed a couple of times. both were on dundas street right by my house. i didn't really care though, he was probably bored like me, and decided to go for a drive at 4:00am

I like when cops tail me

Meh, big deal, happens to all of us.
It's because you're young )I'm assuming).
There's pulled me over a couple of times, to do a "random check".
As well as following me a lot of times.
I finish work at 1am on the weekdays, and past 3am on weekends so that would explain why I guess.
Get used to it.

i m 19 but i look like im 15-16 so i get pulled over alot in the nighttime, but i know most of the cops personally so once they see who i am, we just chat for a second about random crap and im off :thumbup:

Since when are pure white signals legal? :D

Unfortunately you are being profiled - but this is due to the Honda street racers that have made that rep. Not your fault , so the cop tailed you no big deal. Now if he would have gave you some rodney king loving now that would be a problem.

Who knows maybe he liked the look of your car ! :D

Joe

when did the dime-a-dozen PACER stickers become a "get outta jail free" card??

i agree with their destination, but the trip getting there looks like a trek thru the desert..they need a new road map

you actually think they are going to be "good willed" towards those that carry PACER stickers.... please there never will be a get outta trouble with the police card. and P.A.C.E.R. is a royal **** up if you ask me. cops now know to look for those stickers simply because alot of cars are sleepers these days ... makes their job 100% easier.

seriously the P.A.C.E.R. program got the ****ed up title when they showed up at a corvette club solo 2 event to try and eduucating us the legal racers and safe racers and responsible racers about illegal cars mods.... about neons and blue windshield washer nozzles.... like come on .... all they got from that was a laugh from us. and then when a few of us being race car drivers decided to start a dialog with P.A.C.E.R. and offer a helping hand. we were told politely that they didn't need our help or want it. and that we basically were from the same boat as street racers. right . an organization that has decades of experience organizing and conduction safe and legal races can't be of any assistance to a start up organization as P.A.C.E.R.

well to make it even worse they held an event last year at mosport. a 1/8th mile drag.... only 1 event. thats it ... done... while CASC-OR held close to 200 different events or so .... so instead of capitalizing on the CASC-OR events they hold just 1...hmmmm

and At that one event ...(since a few CASC-OR drivers went for kicks and giggles) both the MTO and the police were outside Mosport handing out tickets to those that went to take the racing off the street..... and thats suppose to encourage them to come back? please. P.A.C.E.R. is new and doesn't now the ropes and is too concieded to take the help offered.

P.A.C.E.R. stickers will only help identify your car as a modded car to the police even if it's a sleep or bone stock. they will not give you a free "get left alone" card.

for the record I don't sport PACER stickers and my car is easily visible as being a modded car. I've never been tailed.

couldn't have said it better myself.... i didn't know that they refused the help starting up but it doesn't suprize me.... to me pacer is a failed experiment much like our gun regestry.... and i think it needs to be put to sleep

getting tailed by cops is nothing new, it's not like they fight real crime, they're keeping our community safe by tailling and pulling over drivers late at night.. .:rolleyes: they probably have some class like that at cop college, how to effectivley pick which people to hassle every night when you're trying to fill your ticket quota...

it happens to everyone... ive had a cop almost cause an accident to pull an U-turn and tail me.... its part of the game.

ha your lucky bro usually when it happens to me i get pulled over and get slapped with 3 tickets