That’s what you get for pulling the pastor card! The rest of us can’t do things like that. I can just picture it…”I’m sorry I was speeding officer but can you give me a break, I’m a life insurance agent.”
that sucks. that happened yesterday? ok, it’s time i told my story. i got pulled over for the first time EVER in my life. Ever. 1 week ago. For driving on the wrong side of the road, aka double yellow. (to pass someone) I was definitely going 20-25 mph. and it was a motorcycle cop. ugh.
i had been sitting in traffic on the 91 in yorba linda for an hour. it was hot. i got off the freeway, took la palma to gypsum canyon, and was about to get back ON the freeway. I decided to get on the freeway entrance on the other side of the street. It looked shorter. So I went to pass the two rows of cars getting on the on ramp on the right side of the road to turn onto the other onramp. It’s a small road, no one is going more than 20 mph…most of them aren’t even moving. So I figured, I’ve done this before. I can do it again. As I pull over to the left side of the road I see the cop behind me. Pass the cars and pull over. Ugh. guilty. 10 seconds. that’s what the officer said I should’ve waited instead of passing the cars. yeah, well, hindsight.
AND, and, I had seen the cop twice, weaving through the waiting traffic. just waiting to pounce on the next victim..err violater. UGH!
yeah and about wondering why we say thank you. i think it is because we don’t want to cause any trouble and because we are just trying to get it over with and thank you is the only thing we can say. not like a genuine thank you for giving me a ticket. but thanks, thanks for pointing out that i am guilty of breaking the law. thanks. thanks a lot.
so what the heck do you do with a citation? do i have to go to court? what, I don’t understand “citation” it’s like i forgot to cite something in a paper….lame. anyways. NEVER been pulled over, ever. Before two thursday’s ago.
Cop thinking as he walks back to his car: “Pastor my “bleep”. Look at that crazy guy…tattoos, shaved head. I’m gonna look and see if he’s got any priors. I’m gonna write him up for everything. Pastor my “bleep”………..”
so much for hands free driving, i know (soon) the law is gonna be “no talking on the phone while driving”, but they’re probably gonna have to change it to “no filming yourself while driving”.:)
when does the “hands free” law go into effect? july 1st? that’s gonna be a tough one to break!
That is hysterical!!!!! (I mean the fact that you got that all on tape.) Last time I got pulled over my son who was about 4 years old at the time and almost jumped out the window at the cop screaming “Don’t take my mommy to jail!!!” Ohhh I wish could have gotten that on tape.
About a year ago I pulled the pastor card when I was on the way to Guitar Center with Randy (my electric player) in the car. The cop just looked at me and responded with “Do you have any drugs in the car?…. When was the last time you smoked the Wacky Tabacky?” Ok, maybe he didn’t say Wacky Tabacky but he asked when I last smoked out.
A teacher friend of mine was pulled over by one of her student’s dads (she has multiple students, the student doesn’t have multiple dads, thought I needed to clarify). He laughed and let her go.
Man I can’t believe RPD is still handing out those carbon copies – if you need any help deciphering it let me know – it’s what I did every day for almost a year.
Funny! Not funny for you. Just funny that I hope no one tapes me on one of my stops. And you even quoted me on tape… Wow I’m special. And yes there are all sorts of reasons cops can stop you.
1)Dim or no license plate light
2)Music that I can hear 50 ft away from your car
3)Honking your horn where there is no emergency situation
4)Driving to slow
5)Failing to yield to the RIGHT when the cops, fire or ambulance are coming
6)Throwing a lit or unlit cigarette, cigar or match onto the roadway
7)Colored lights in your hood (window sprayer)
8)Anything hanging from your rear-view mirror
9)Stickers on your rear window. Must only be in the left (4 or 6″, forget)bottom corner.
10)Flipping the cop off when you drive by. Hey, you could be drunk. I need to stop you to make sure!
I have had a lot of “cards” pulled on stops. But never the pastor one. I keep waiting for it, hoping to have a great come back like, “its my day to preach to you pastor” or “I hope God forgives you for this cuz I’m not.” Okay I would never say that but you sure want to when people say, but my dad is a cop, or I’m a pastor. I even once had a lady show me a ticket saying, “but I just got a ticket an hour ago.” I told her, she must not have learned her lesson, so please sign next to the red “X”.
Now back to the violations LOS.
1) Cracked windshield – Fair ticket (but tacky to write on a normal person) usually saved for a reason to pull people over to find drugs/guns or wanted persons, but not to cite for.
2) Not changing your D.L. (Driver License) address 10 days after moving residences. – I write this a lot. To be a jerk, no! But if you bump your head and I need to get your family to the ER. You should want me to know where you CURRENTLY live.
3) Side mirror – Your bad! Fair ticket
To your readers here LOS. I love how we justify our faults. At least I didn’t hear blame on the officers this time. We hear that a lot.
Its funny. If I were sinning and GOD walked up and gave me a ticket for “Being out of shape” (Last weeks message) I wouldn’t gripe about the ticket. I’d be pissed at myself for letting myself go.
Okay here is where the, “Oh you didn’t have to punch me” statement comes.
Los, instead of going to Starbucks and hanging out with Daley or making one of these rad videos, make an appointment with the DMV and change your DL address. Then go to pick a part and fix the car INSTEAD of buying the new iPhone! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m going to apple hell now!
I love apple… But I must tell you I have had to replace a couple mirrors in my time, and I value them more than the iPhone. There I said it, waiting for Steve Jobs assassins to come and get me now.
Patrick, NYC, unruly though it may be is still full of traffic laws. Here in Cairo, you only ever get pulled over for speeding. It’s a $30 fine and a day at the police station waiting to get your licence back and filling out papers.
You can have a total wreck of a car, and I mean one that is billowing out smoke, cracked or no windows, no mirrors, totally bald tyres, where there is NO tread left, and you can even see the steel, and no-one is going to give you a second glance.
Well here goes. First I would like to share my sympathies over your ticket. We all know how that feels! And by the way you have a beautiful family, adorable looking kids. Heres where I ask my question. As a new follower of Jesus I have struggled with how I speak around people and especially my children. We are strong proponents of not allowing foul language to be used. Words like stupid, idiot, “sucks”. All these words seem to create a distance between us as humans. After listening to your diatribe about your being pulled over and your use of the word “sucks”, I was curious if you would let your kids speak that way? What does that scripture say in John? “In the beginning the word already existed. The word was with God, and the word was God”. Makes me think I should pay attention more when I speak and the WORDS that I use.
So we know where you will be on August 13th. And you said “thank you” for the ticket? I don’t really like to one up someone, especially in the breaking the law category, but your laughing sake: Th exact details will take to long, but the funny part was sitting on the metal K-rail handcuffed, while one of my buddies is getting patted down and EVERYONE (my boss, my co-workers, just people who knew me) we work with was driving by in rush hour traffic because we had just got off work. NICE… That took about 2 weeks to go away. My fine was $65, all that for just $65 dollars. All I have to say was “after that someone owed me a dinner!” cause that guy was thorough.
I’m so surprised Doug hasn’t replied with his arrest story for unknowingly driving on a suspended license because he didn’t get his emissions tested. The details are quite amusing.
So sorry for your new budget item. That’s the worst for me.
Perhaps there needs to be a bald headed, inked, crappy car drivin’ employee ID for pastors such as yourself ’cause I’m with Jason up there. I’m thinkin’ he was pretending to write tickets while he was waiting on the “outstanding warrants” screen to come up. Again, ask Doug for his story.
I feel your pain, I was set to get a new iPod a while back and got pulled over in a speed trap. Rushing to get my and my kiddo to the grandparents house and I was the first one off the line and they nailed me for 10 over the speed limit. I was hoping my 1 year old would start wailing and I could get off on sympathy but she’s incredible and just sat there talking nicely and calling out “Bus” or “Car” as they drove by and such.
I do think it’s hysterical you were able to catch all that on video for us!
Alright, I’ll pull this one out. Back when I was in college I drove an Acura Integra. I could get away from anything and anyone any time I felt like it. Of course, I went to Southwest Baptist University and tried to play by most of the rules.
All that to say – I got pulled over by a BICYCLE COP for rolling a stop sign. I had my windows down and a buddy in my car, and when they started blowing their whistles (that’s right, whistles. Fox40 whistles), I was so startled that I couldn’t do anything but stop the car and bust out laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation.
Your trip to take care of this will not interfere with your hiking trip will it? NOW that would be tragic!
See if you lived where there are 24 hour Wally WOrlds, you could get that vehicle fixed by a friendly bubba and have money to spare for the family!!! You might even buy some travel boxers…..
maybe we should put the SeeDoo and the Camry together in the gym this sunday and pray for healing. (anyone who was at the service last weekend will know what I am talking about!
Dude. You’re court date is a month after mine. I found that interesting. I got pulled over for my tags being out of date about a month ago because someone had stolen my 2007 tag. I figured I’d had a good run though because the tag was stolen about 7 months ago. It was time to renew anyway so I just got my 2008 tags. But that’s not what I got my ticket for. After he pulled me over, he saw my cracked windshield. So I got that fixed a few days ago and have to go to court next week. YAY!
I was talking to my old pastor on the phone yesterday who is also Panamanian and bald. LOL. And he just paid $150.00 to get the passenger rearview mirror installed.
My daughter got pulled over on Mon. because her boyfriend they said wasn’t wearing his seatbelt properly. He was actually leaning in toward her. Ha, she didn’t have her license on her or ins. card. & didn’t get ticketed. The boyfriend showed is AZ license & got a $92 dollar fine.
Living on an island everybody sees you when you get in an accident or pulled over.
I consciously am a very law abiding driver and often fuss at my wife for speeding and other minor infractions… the odd thing is that if I accidentally speed or run a “orange” light (half yellow half red) I can almost guarantee I will get a ticket… I get more tickets than most people I know… I have no idea why! My wife drove from Louisiana up to Kansas City and held it at 90 for some part of the journey… never got a ticket.. when we switched out 150 miles from home I got a ticket within 15 minutes for going 74 in a 65… the same road my wife was doing 90!
Confession-I’ve been pulled over too many times. Had a restricted license for a while. (not fun). Mostly my fault. Guess I’m a little thick. But I have caught more breaks by remembering my manners and being respectful.
RAIN IT DOWN
watching this made me nervous
a cracked windshield? they can write a ticket for that?
i think he liked you, man. he was nice and polite.
why do we say naturally say “thank you” to cops when they’ve just ruined our day?
Man look at all the excitement I am missing out on! I feel like it’s time for the Camry TO GO!
That’s what you get for pulling the pastor card! The rest of us can’t do things like that. I can just picture it…”I’m sorry I was speeding officer but can you give me a break, I’m a life insurance agent.”
sorry bro..
move to new york. they can’t give out tickets for driving the subway wrong.
that sucks. that happened yesterday? ok, it’s time i told my story. i got pulled over for the first time EVER in my life. Ever. 1 week ago. For driving on the wrong side of the road, aka double yellow. (to pass someone) I was definitely going 20-25 mph. and it was a motorcycle cop. ugh.
i had been sitting in traffic on the 91 in yorba linda for an hour. it was hot. i got off the freeway, took la palma to gypsum canyon, and was about to get back ON the freeway. I decided to get on the freeway entrance on the other side of the street. It looked shorter. So I went to pass the two rows of cars getting on the on ramp on the right side of the road to turn onto the other onramp. It’s a small road, no one is going more than 20 mph…most of them aren’t even moving. So I figured, I’ve done this before. I can do it again. As I pull over to the left side of the road I see the cop behind me. Pass the cars and pull over. Ugh. guilty. 10 seconds. that’s what the officer said I should’ve waited instead of passing the cars. yeah, well, hindsight.
AND, and, I had seen the cop twice, weaving through the waiting traffic. just waiting to pounce on the next victim..err violater. UGH!
yeah and about wondering why we say thank you. i think it is because we don’t want to cause any trouble and because we are just trying to get it over with and thank you is the only thing we can say. not like a genuine thank you for giving me a ticket. but thanks, thanks for pointing out that i am guilty of breaking the law. thanks. thanks a lot.
so what the heck do you do with a citation? do i have to go to court? what, I don’t understand “citation” it’s like i forgot to cite something in a paper….lame. anyways. NEVER been pulled over, ever. Before two thursday’s ago.
aww. too bad.
Dang. Sorry dude.
I got a ticket a couple weeks back, too. It was for rolling through a stop sign — failure to obey a stop sign.
It was legitimate. I am guilty. And my daughter was in the car with me. Bad daddy… tsk tsk tsk.
I dunno why we call rolling through stops this, but we call that “California stops.” Do ya’ll call it that too?
I feel you pain! I got a ticket about a week ago because i stopped with my front two weels over the line of a stop sign,
Cop thinking as he walks back to his car: “Pastor my “bleep”. Look at that crazy guy…tattoos, shaved head. I’m gonna look and see if he’s got any priors. I’m gonna write him up for everything. Pastor my “bleep”………..”
so much for hands free driving, i know (soon) the law is gonna be “no talking on the phone while driving”, but they’re probably gonna have to change it to “no filming yourself while driving”.:)
when does the “hands free” law go into effect? july 1st? that’s gonna be a tough one to break!
That is hysterical!!!!! (I mean the fact that you got that all on tape.) Last time I got pulled over my son who was about 4 years old at the time and almost jumped out the window at the cop screaming “Don’t take my mommy to jail!!!” Ohhh I wish could have gotten that on tape.
About a year ago I pulled the pastor card when I was on the way to Guitar Center with Randy (my electric player) in the car. The cop just looked at me and responded with “Do you have any drugs in the car?…. When was the last time you smoked the Wacky Tabacky?” Ok, maybe he didn’t say Wacky Tabacky but he asked when I last smoked out.
A teacher friend of mine was pulled over by one of her student’s dads (she has multiple students, the student doesn’t have multiple dads, thought I needed to clarify). He laughed and let her go.
It was just a matter of time before a WC got taken down by the man. Great job on getting it all – amazing, I was on the edge of my seat.
Man I can’t believe RPD is still handing out those carbon copies – if you need any help deciphering it let me know – it’s what I did every day for almost a year.
Sorry Bro…
Funny! Not funny for you. Just funny that I hope no one tapes me on one of my stops. And you even quoted me on tape… Wow I’m special. And yes there are all sorts of reasons cops can stop you.
1)Dim or no license plate light
2)Music that I can hear 50 ft away from your car
3)Honking your horn where there is no emergency situation
4)Driving to slow
5)Failing to yield to the RIGHT when the cops, fire or ambulance are coming
6)Throwing a lit or unlit cigarette, cigar or match onto the roadway
7)Colored lights in your hood (window sprayer)
8)Anything hanging from your rear-view mirror
9)Stickers on your rear window. Must only be in the left (4 or 6″, forget)bottom corner.
10)Flipping the cop off when you drive by. Hey, you could be drunk. I need to stop you to make sure!
I have had a lot of “cards” pulled on stops. But never the pastor one. I keep waiting for it, hoping to have a great come back like, “its my day to preach to you pastor” or “I hope God forgives you for this cuz I’m not.” Okay I would never say that but you sure want to when people say, but my dad is a cop, or I’m a pastor. I even once had a lady show me a ticket saying, “but I just got a ticket an hour ago.” I told her, she must not have learned her lesson, so please sign next to the red “X”.
Now back to the violations LOS.
1) Cracked windshield – Fair ticket (but tacky to write on a normal person) usually saved for a reason to pull people over to find drugs/guns or wanted persons, but not to cite for.
2) Not changing your D.L. (Driver License) address 10 days after moving residences. – I write this a lot. To be a jerk, no! But if you bump your head and I need to get your family to the ER. You should want me to know where you CURRENTLY live.
3) Side mirror – Your bad! Fair ticket
To your readers here LOS. I love how we justify our faults. At least I didn’t hear blame on the officers this time. We hear that a lot.
Its funny. If I were sinning and GOD walked up and gave me a ticket for “Being out of shape” (Last weeks message) I wouldn’t gripe about the ticket. I’d be pissed at myself for letting myself go.
Okay here is where the, “Oh you didn’t have to punch me” statement comes.
Los, instead of going to Starbucks and hanging out with Daley or making one of these rad videos, make an appointment with the DMV and change your DL address. Then go to pick a part and fix the car INSTEAD of buying the new iPhone! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m going to apple hell now!
LoL Love you Mr. Police Man…
I love apple… But I must tell you I have had to replace a couple mirrors in my time, and I value them more than the iPhone. There I said it, waiting for Steve Jobs assassins to come and get me now.
Ha ha – great confessional!
Patrick, NYC, unruly though it may be is still full of traffic laws. Here in Cairo, you only ever get pulled over for speeding. It’s a $30 fine and a day at the police station waiting to get your licence back and filling out papers.
You can have a total wreck of a car, and I mean one that is billowing out smoke, cracked or no windows, no mirrors, totally bald tyres, where there is NO tread left, and you can even see the steel, and no-one is going to give you a second glance.
Well here goes. First I would like to share my sympathies over your ticket. We all know how that feels! And by the way you have a beautiful family, adorable looking kids. Heres where I ask my question. As a new follower of Jesus I have struggled with how I speak around people and especially my children. We are strong proponents of not allowing foul language to be used. Words like stupid, idiot, “sucks”. All these words seem to create a distance between us as humans. After listening to your diatribe about your being pulled over and your use of the word “sucks”, I was curious if you would let your kids speak that way? What does that scripture say in John? “In the beginning the word already existed. The word was with God, and the word was God”. Makes me think I should pay attention more when I speak and the WORDS that I use.
Great blog by the way, and great music.
Have a nice day.
So we know where you will be on August 13th. And you said “thank you” for the ticket? I don’t really like to one up someone, especially in the breaking the law category, but your laughing sake: Th exact details will take to long, but the funny part was sitting on the metal K-rail handcuffed, while one of my buddies is getting patted down and EVERYONE (my boss, my co-workers, just people who knew me) we work with was driving by in rush hour traffic because we had just got off work. NICE… That took about 2 weeks to go away. My fine was $65, all that for just $65 dollars. All I have to say was “after that someone owed me a dinner!” cause that guy was thorough.
You should have tried your Jedi mind trick thingy.
Man. That was hard to watch.
I’m so surprised Doug hasn’t replied with his arrest story for unknowingly driving on a suspended license because he didn’t get his emissions tested. The details are quite amusing.
So sorry for your new budget item. That’s the worst for me.
Perhaps there needs to be a bald headed, inked, crappy car drivin’ employee ID for pastors such as yourself ’cause I’m with Jason up there. I’m thinkin’ he was pretending to write tickets while he was waiting on the “outstanding warrants” screen to come up. Again, ask Doug for his story.
I feel your pain, I was set to get a new iPod a while back and got pulled over in a speed trap. Rushing to get my and my kiddo to the grandparents house and I was the first one off the line and they nailed me for 10 over the speed limit. I was hoping my 1 year old would start wailing and I could get off on sympathy but she’s incredible and just sat there talking nicely and calling out “Bus” or “Car” as they drove by and such.
I do think it’s hysterical you were able to catch all that on video for us!
Alright, I’ll pull this one out. Back when I was in college I drove an Acura Integra. I could get away from anything and anyone any time I felt like it. Of course, I went to Southwest Baptist University and tried to play by most of the rules.
All that to say – I got pulled over by a BICYCLE COP for rolling a stop sign. I had my windows down and a buddy in my car, and when they started blowing their whistles (that’s right, whistles. Fox40 whistles), I was so startled that I couldn’t do anything but stop the car and bust out laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation.
LOL JAMON. LOL!!!
Los:
Your trip to take care of this will not interfere with your hiking trip will it? NOW that would be tragic!
See if you lived where there are 24 hour Wally WOrlds, you could get that vehicle fixed by a friendly bubba and have money to spare for the family!!! You might even buy some travel boxers…..
Miss you guys this week at Saddleback
Kathy
maybe we should put the SeeDoo and the Camry together in the gym this sunday and pray for healing. (anyone who was at the service last weekend will know what I am talking about!
Dude. You’re court date is a month after mine. I found that interesting. I got pulled over for my tags being out of date about a month ago because someone had stolen my 2007 tag. I figured I’d had a good run though because the tag was stolen about 7 months ago. It was time to renew anyway so I just got my 2008 tags. But that’s not what I got my ticket for. After he pulled me over, he saw my cracked windshield. So I got that fixed a few days ago and have to go to court next week. YAY!
I was talking to my old pastor on the phone yesterday who is also Panamanian and bald. LOL. And he just paid $150.00 to get the passenger rearview mirror installed.
My daughter got pulled over on Mon. because her boyfriend they said wasn’t wearing his seatbelt properly. He was actually leaning in toward her. Ha, she didn’t have her license on her or ins. card. & didn’t get ticketed. The boyfriend showed is AZ license & got a $92 dollar fine.
Living on an island everybody sees you when you get in an accident or pulled over.
C’est la vie as we say in Louisiana…
I consciously am a very law abiding driver and often fuss at my wife for speeding and other minor infractions… the odd thing is that if I accidentally speed or run a “orange” light (half yellow half red) I can almost guarantee I will get a ticket… I get more tickets than most people I know… I have no idea why! My wife drove from Louisiana up to Kansas City and held it at 90 for some part of the journey… never got a ticket.. when we switched out 150 miles from home I got a ticket within 15 minutes for going 74 in a 65… the same road my wife was doing 90!
That was quite entertaining to watch… Sorry you got a ticket. That’s no fun… cracked windshield?!?! Really?!?! Seriously?!?! Huh?
Dude … you said “OK” 13 times. Translation … “Lemme GO already!” funny man.
Confession-I’ve been pulled over too many times. Had a restricted license for a while. (not fun). Mostly my fault. Guess I’m a little thick. But I have caught more breaks by remembering my manners and being respectful.