🏈 So I got pulled over last night after the game

[planomateo]

So the last 6 or 7 years, I've watched this game with my buddies family who are LSU fans. He and I went to the NC game a few years ago as well.

The home team hosts the other family, they made some awesome chicken/sausage gumbo.

On the way home from his house, I got pulled over doing 55 in a 45 (right where the speed limit changes from 45 to 60. Cop was driving the other way and hits his lights and turns around. Wife and both daughters were in the car and I'd had 2 or 3 beers during the game. I have a supercharger in my truck and I absolutely love to open it up often.

I'm pretty good about trying to make the cop feel safe, I turn on my interior lights and hand him my license and CHL (tell him I'm not carrying). He asked why I was driving so fast, told him we'd just go thru watching the game and was heading home. He asked me who won, I said Bama (he said YES!). Told him he wouldn't believe how the game ended. Anyways, he asked if I'd been drinking and I said I had a few an hour plus ago, he said step out and we're going to give you a field sobriety test. I was pretty damn nervous about what could possibly go wrong. I knew I hadn't drank enough to even be remotely close, all I could think was what if I make a mistake and follow the light with my head vs my eyes...

Got a warning and off I went. Used this as a teachable lesson with my kids.

Talk about a way to end the night....

 

[bamafan9201]

Glad you made it out ok buddy, yea whenever I had the same issue last night. I was watching from a bar for the 1st half of the game but I got tired of all the college kids yelling at eachother so I went home to find my satellite dish was down and couldn't watch the game. I had a few before I left the bar and was nervous driving home.

 

[bamaledge]

With my luck, I would have gone to jail.

 

[BigAl]

With my luck, I would have gone to jail.

Mine too. If im going to drink i do it at home. A buddy told me if you get a DUI its gonna cost somewhere between 5 and 10k to get out of it.

 

[RollllTide!]

I have an unmarked black Dodge Police Charger. It is a demo car for products that we sell to law enforcement. I have many funny stories about encounters. One day I had an open container in my lap and came up on a road block. I knew I would be in deep trouble and I had that sinking feeling of desperation. When it was my turn to show my license, the cop just waved me on by . After I went around the corner I poured that drink out and have never ever ever had another open beer in the car. That was 2 years ago. I believe in fate and that was my opportunity to correct a problem forever.

Don't ever buy a cop car if you aren't a cop. You can never drive at or over the speed limit because the car in front will slow down just to be sure they are under the speed limit and after a few minutes there will be a train of cars behind you. Nobody wants to pass a cop car. If they read my license plate they would know. It is not funny that I have to drive like an old person. I am always looking for better roads without much traffic.

 

[sean]

I have an unmarked black Dodge Police Charger. It is a demo car for products that we sell to law enforcement. I have many funny stories about encounters. One day I had an open container in my lap and came up on a road block. I knew I would be in deep trouble and I had that sinking feeling of desperation. When it was my turn to show my license, the cop just waved me on by . After I went around the corner I poured that drink out and have never ever ever had another open beer in the car. That was 2 years ago. I believe in fate and that was my opportunity to correct a problem forever.

Don't ever buy a cop car if you aren't a cop. You can never drive at or over the speed limit because the car in front will slow down just to be sure they are under the speed limit and after a few minutes there will be a train of cars behind you. Nobody wants to pass a cop car. If they read my license plate they would know. It is not funny that I have to drive like an old person. I am always looking for better roads without much traffic.

i wouldn't exactly call that funny.

 

[alabama mike]

You were very fortunate. Of course, you know that already.

 

[RollllTide!]

i wouldn't exactly call that funny.

You are right. It wasn't funny at the time. It made me realize that there are consequences for the actions we all take that are stupid and that we perceive are irrelevant to other folks. I wasn't drunk because I had just opened a beer after I had mowed the grass and I was headed to the Home Depot for an errand. I knew it is the law but just ignored that fact. I have looked back on that day and thank God that I had an opportunity to correct my actions for the future. I just got very lucky that day but it made me take action to never ever do that again without having to hurting someone else. I am thankful for that. When I lived in Texas 20 years ago it wasn't illegal to drink and drive. Hell Louisiana still has the drive up margarita windows where you can get a drink to go. Alabama will put you in jail for drinking and driving.

It is a funny story about how other law enforcement assume things.

 

[RollllTide!]

You were very fortunate. Of course, you know that already.

amen brother

 

[Bamabww]

Used this as a teachable lesson with my kids.
Talk about a way to end the night....

Glad it worked out for you and with a lesson that will help the girls down the road. But you're a better man than I am. I absolutely can't watch a game with the fans of the opposition.

 

[Phil]

I had the same thing happen to me after a wedding (actually it was a roadblock). 4 beers over 4 hours. I did the "follow the finger" routine and then blew a .016. Less than a quarter of the limit, but still scared the hell outta me.

 

[BamaFan334]

No matter if I'm innocent I always get a sense of nervousness around a cop because I always feel as if I'll get the asshole that wants to prove a point or abuse his power and find a way to detain me or write a ticket.

I got a DUI when I was 21 in Atlanta and it was one of the worst mistakes I ever made. No wreck or anything like that, simply ran a yellow light with a cop hiding right there by the light in Buckhead. Got pulled over with nine people in the car with me heading back to the fraternity house. They made it back with one less person that evening and it cost me around $7,000-8,000 and put me a year behind in school because I had to pay for this crap and work more to make tuition. Just a safe lesson to always have a sober driver or a cab.