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Yeah, I have to agree, you got off REAL lucky on that one. Sounds like the cop wasn't in a bad mood and didn't want to be an a$$. Count your blessing and slow down. 
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Sorry, you would think that speeding isn't probable cause, but it is. And even if you weren't speeding,,, they could make up some other probable cause thing. But speeding and any other traffic violation does equal probable cause.
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Originally posted by Pigeon:
Originally posted by moxnix:
Speeding is not a probable cause to search your car.
Absolutely true. Now, speeding along with not giving consent to search can be turned into probable cause by a creative cop and a malleable judge, but plai ol' speeding isn't probable cause.
I wish this was not true but I belive you on this one. I most likely was skating on thin ice the last time I got stopped (for expired registration) when I refused all 3-4 times the cop asked to search my car even when he threatened to have my car towed because I did not have current registration(and even my expired registration was [censored] between what I had in my car and what was in the DMV/cop computers).
Originally posted by Pigeon:
You're pretty lucky the cop didn't write you a bunch o' tickets, probably the others you got recently weren't in the computer yet since they haven't been adjudicated. He probably never got a speed on you either other than way too fast, not able to estimate enough to have it stick in court.
I thought that when the cop runs your licence most places they could see details about if it had been run recently ?
Originally posted by Pigeon:
Slow down when you can't identify the other cars in the area, and learn what a Crown Vic's tail lights look like for Pete's sake!
Don't forget the impalia's also.
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Originally posted by Pigeon:
learn what a Crown Vic's tail lights look like for Pete's sake!
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But honestly, if you see their headlights and identify them, its too late.
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Originally posted by CarpePoon:
Originally posted by Pigeon:
learn what a Crown Vic's tail lights look like for Pete's sake!
Scott
Haven't been caught once since I owned a fiero. You learn to identify every car by its headlights when your eye-level with them
But honestly, if you see their headlights and identify them, its too late.
Tail lights, not headlights. If you're going so fast you can't ID tails within a reasonable distance you're going waaaay to fast.
And I know what you mean about being eye-level, I drove a Miata for 2 years.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Sorry, you would think that speeding isn't probable cause, but it is. And even if you weren't speeding,,, they could make up some other probable cause thing. But speeding and any other traffic violation does equal probable cause.
Speeding is NOT probable cause to search a vehicle.
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Originally posted by BaBySHO:
Man, u got off easy! 
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Originally posted by 1314:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Sorry, you would think that speeding isn't probable cause, but it is. And even if you weren't speeding,,, they could make up some other probable cause thing. But speeding and any other traffic violation does equal probable cause.
Speeding is NOT probable cause to search a vehicle.
Yup.
http://law.freeadvice.com/general_practice/traffic_law/search_car_speeding.htm
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Wait so if you don't concent to a search that gives the cop cause to search the car, I don't think so. I have said to the cop "You don't have a reason to do so" and they just went away. I had a cop tell me I went through a drug den and that asked me if I would mind him searching the car. I said I would, becuase I didn't stop and I broke no laws, so since it isn't illegal to drive through a bad part of town he had no reason to search my car. He just drove away. Just because you don't want your car searched doesn't mean you are guilty of anything.
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I got a warning ticket for driving 58 mph in a 55 mph zone in Ohio. People told me that I shoud frame that ticket because Ohio never gives warning tickets.
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