Originally posted by ifactor01
So i was on route 1, driving my civic home from the car stereo shop. When a cop got behind me and pulled me over. Man, I thought i was screwed, cuz my car is highly illegal. All my lights are from Japan (JDM ITR headlights, JDM Altezza tails), not to mention all the other stuff in/on my car. One thing i learned is that when a cop pulls u over, take ur keys out and place both hands on the wheel with ur keys hanging from one of your hands. I dunno, its suppose to show repect to the police. Anyways after giving him my liscene and registration, he told me to get out of the car and walk around the car with him to point out all the illegal things. He busted out all the tools, he had the tint calculator and measuring stick!!!! He told me that by law the car has to be 14in from the lowest part of the bumper to the ground, mine was 10in off the ground!!! Than he asked me wat was under the hood, i popped my hood and he saw my NOS soilenoids, and asked where the bottle was, so i popped the trunk and showed him, my bottle was empty and the line was disconnected!!! Anywas after all of this, He than told me that he is part of a new unit trying to crack down on "street racers." He said that he's not accusing me of street racing but my car is the type of car that street racers drive. He was like, "You have a bigger motor, bigger radiator, NOS, intake, header, atleast you don't have an exhuast dat kills my ears." Man, i guess cops know wat is in cars now, huh??? Anyways, he said that within the next couple of weeks Fairfax County cops are gonna be pulling over cars that fit the description. The county has a 0 Tolerence rule that is effective immediatly. According to the cop, they are allowed to suspend your registration, which allows you to repair the car within 15days, and show the car to the cop again so that he can reinstate the registration, or if you fail to meet specifications he will turn the registration over to the DMV and deem the car illegal to be on the street. I tried to pull the show car line, his reply was, "you have a very nice car, its not like alot of the cars i have pulled over, but if its a show car than keep it on the trailer" Anyways I had to make an agreement with the cop, he said he can either give me tickets for everything wrong on my car, or I can allow him to take pics of the car so that he can put it in his training book to inform the other officers. Anyways i let him take the pics, and he let me go with a warning ticket for exhaust.
So the moral of hte story is, if u live in fairfax county, BE AWARE of the police, they coming after US!!!!
By any chance was this guy Officer Coburn? Very terminatorlike, crosseyed.. whoa whoa... HARRY? lol, leavin CarTrendZ I bet, dude this is Edson =))