Sunday, June 19, 2005

Got pulled over...

again last night, near Cupertino while trying to get onto 85-N (second time since getting my car). Not knowing which de-facto law I had broken this time, I calmly got my driver's license, ownership title, and insurance papers ready for the cop. He told me that I waited too long to turn right at a red light and followed me to the highway, "just in case." Translation: he wanted to make sure that the car wasn't stolen. The interesting thing about California is that new car owners can go months without plates because the CA DMV is so efficient like that. So I've been driving without any plates for about a month now and have been pulled over twice, on both occasions being rudely interrogated on the ownership of the car. No, he didn't write me a citation and yes, he was just doing his job, but damnit, cops irritate me.

3_butt
Plateless, but not lawless.

To every cop aimlessly wandering the streets of Mountain View (or any other town where three patrol cars per two city blocks is completely unnecessary), just because you bear the ridiculous combination of a badge and nothing to do, I request that you stop making everyone's commute that much more unenjoyable. You were that pimple-faced tough guy in middle school who barely graduated to high school, where you ridiculed the geeks, only to again graduate (barely) and found yourself too stupid to get into college and too prideful to go anywhere else. Wow, you made it to the Police Academy whereupon graduating, you could continue to give people shit for no good reason and maintain legality. Congratulations. Thank you for "serving and protecting," all the while exercising the concept of probable cause analogously to your dog taking a piss on your living room carpet.

4 comments:

Young Choi said...

oh good. you SCARED me! goodness. i may be a car magnet, but you're a COP magnet! :p Hope everything else is going well!

Anonymous said...

ooh that's horrible Tae, too bad it wasn't a woman cop - you could have flashed your million dollar smile and she would have melted.

Anonymous said...

it's official. the number of times you have come into contact with the po-po given the time period is definitely above average. maybe you are being profiled :? in which case if you are, i say you read vibe on how to take back control of the street. ;)

Anonymous said...

um.. boston cops. You say it was the boston cops who had the problem. .and now it's the SF cops?
..
i say. that you stop driving like you're in a car race. and start driving with two hands on the wheel.

shoot. i'm getting naggy like mom.
sorry.

but you know you need to drive like a granda on sunday in the suburbs of MA now with your record, don't you?

love you,
nooona.