Dang Cops - Ticket for Tint
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From: Dover AFB DE / Harrisburg PA
The '71 has the full limo tint on the sides and back.
Drivin' around here local isn't a problem, but the next town over, we roll the windows down, and you gotta be sure to be exactly doin 25 comin down a big hill, or they jump right on ya.
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Drivin' around here local isn't a problem, but the next town over, we roll the windows down, and you gotta be sure to be exactly doin 25 comin down a big hill, or they jump right on ya.
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From: Pearl Harbor
what is the big obsession with tinted windows?
I grew up in Texas and the 100+ summers in late July into August. Growing up I never had tinted windows. You just learned not to have leather seats and never wear shorts if your car had vinyl seats. You'd either get the stuck to seat syndrone or the burnt a$$
For me, tint is nice, but I will never pay to install it, and it won't be a deciding factor for a purchase. I consider it an un-needed luxury.
In hot weather, the tint helps, but to be realistic, it doesn't really cut the vehicle heat that much. Cosmetically, I can see a nice 30-35% tint to accent the vehicle lines. The only reason for the dark tint is that you're trying to hide something.
Hence the laws.
I grew up in Texas and the 100+ summers in late July into August. Growing up I never had tinted windows. You just learned not to have leather seats and never wear shorts if your car had vinyl seats. You'd either get the stuck to seat syndrone or the burnt a$$
For me, tint is nice, but I will never pay to install it, and it won't be a deciding factor for a purchase. I consider it an un-needed luxury.
In hot weather, the tint helps, but to be realistic, it doesn't really cut the vehicle heat that much. Cosmetically, I can see a nice 30-35% tint to accent the vehicle lines. The only reason for the dark tint is that you're trying to hide something.
Hence the laws.
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From: Cape Coral, Florida
Hah, around here drug dealers rent cars and steal tint the for windows to conceal their activities...Most of the drug deals I see going down involve a rental...(yeah, I work in the ghetto).
Back in the 90s a friend of mine got a ticket for headlight covers (when they were cool) . He pointed out to the judge that city the DARE van had headlight covers. He was excused and the DARE van didn't have headlight covers anymore. This is the same city where people weren't allowed to park a pickup truck in their driveway...Back on topic, (some) cop cars around here run illegal tint...Cops break laws with impunity...fact.
Back in the 90s a friend of mine got a ticket for headlight covers (when they were cool) . He pointed out to the judge that city the DARE van had headlight covers. He was excused and the DARE van didn't have headlight covers anymore. This is the same city where people weren't allowed to park a pickup truck in their driveway...Back on topic, (some) cop cars around here run illegal tint...Cops break laws with impunity...fact.
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I have no problem with cops who are enforcing laws, but they start getting choosy about which laws to enforce...Here, if their brother has no mufflers and limo tint, he's not getting a ticket, but bet your butt that you will if you do 26 in a 25! Also, I routinely see cops doing at least 80 on the interstate, and IMO, if they are going to break the laws, they should be in a case of emergency, and in that case, they should have their blue lights on. They abuse the fact that they are cops and we can't do anything to them. One time, when I was much younger, we had a State Trooper here that was strictly by the book, and everybody hated this guy, he even wrote his own grandmother a parking ticket. I kind of liked him, though, he would pull other cops over in their patrol cars and give them tickets if they were doing something illegal that was unwarranted. I wish he was still around, it would keep down the illegal parking, illegal u-turns, speeding and general attitude of the police around here.
Back on topic, the only ticket I got for tint was back when I had my Porsche, the tint was factory tint and the cop pulled me over for passing in what he said was a turn lane, even though I was following him, and he clearly didn't have anywhere to be, because he had time to wait on me to get by him later on the road and then pull me over. I beat both tickets in court because he was an ****. Sometimes, cops are real butts, every time they do something they can say it was the law, but they are really choosy about who gets away with what, IMO, and that is what makes an ****...
Back on topic, the only ticket I got for tint was back when I had my Porsche, the tint was factory tint and the cop pulled me over for passing in what he said was a turn lane, even though I was following him, and he clearly didn't have anywhere to be, because he had time to wait on me to get by him later on the road and then pull me over. I beat both tickets in court because he was an ****. Sometimes, cops are real butts, every time they do something they can say it was the law, but they are really choosy about who gets away with what, IMO, and that is what makes an ****...
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From: Gulf Coast
Originally Posted by Nates06SCab
Back on topic, (some) cop cars around here run illegal tint...Cops break laws with impunity...fact.
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From: South Carolina
Some folks have health reasons for dark tint ,such as skin disorders and they have a reason for it. Me , I have $$$ worth of tools ( work to pay the gov.) and I like to make it hard to see. I have 2 trucks you can't see in even up close so I better watch out huh????Oh and the loud music is addictive,,,huh,,what did you say?? I can't hear you.
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From: Arkansas
tinting is cheap if you know how to do it yourself. defenitaly worth the money in my oppinion. ive seen some at walmart thats the static stick on kind, i wonder if theyre worth it. it would be nice to take em off when you get a ticket for em and slap em back on after you show your untinted windows at the police station/court
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From: Louisiana
The cop cars around here have blacked out windows, Ill try to snap a pic or two sometime. As for me, my windows are down 90% of the time so spending $$$ on tint would'nt do a whole lot for me. (no my a/c isn't broken heh..)
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From: TEXAS
Originally Posted by alfack
I never had a ticket for tinted windows, but have been cited for some total BS things before. Recently, passing in a no passing zone. Traffic was stalled waiting to get on the onramp, merging to the right. I was going straight and could see oncoming traffic for a mile down the road + there was a stop sign for the traffic coming towards me, of which there was none. So I cross the yellow lines and go around like 3 cars so I can keep going straight. One of those cars was a cop and he immediatley whipped out behind me and pulled me over. Gave me a $101 ticket. About an 8th mile down the road, there was this huge construction barrel in the middle of the road. I pointed out that I was going to have to illegally pass that barrel too and he got all pissy and walked up to my window with his hands on his sides, like he was going to go for his gun or something and said "don't take that attitude with me." I'm like FO, as if you have domain over my disposition. Where I live, the cops would rather pull good citizens over for anything and cite them, than go after real criminals. Why? Because there is no money in going after bad guys. Plus, if they would do something about the roads, like they haven't for the last 4 decades, people would not be as compelled to try dangerous stuff. I really think they are alienating citizens around here, especially with this "strictly enforced" BS. I know I will be less inclined to help them, if I ever witness anything or could render assistance. Another a**hole cited me for driving in the HOV lane, when I was taking the next exit. I was a 1/4 mile from the exit, traffic was not moving in any lanes, including HOV. I saw a gap and got over. The lane was not even marked as to where it ended so you would know where to get over. You guessed it, another $101. These folks need to remember who they work for.
so because you broke the law, and got caught (cause only you and God know how often you probably break it), you will not help an officer in distress? you're a real winner.
sorry, i didn't mean to beat this dead horse. i hadn't read all the posts before replying to this one.
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From: Horsham, PA
Originally Posted by AKFX42004
I could see if I was speeding and then he said hey your windows are to dark, but I was sitting in parking lot waiting for my wife to come out of a store and he flips on his lights and comes up to me. Im just going to pay and go on with haveing tinted windows
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Obviously this is an old thread but something I read above brought back a funny memory. Young Troopers just out of the academy are always by the book. One came out to work his new job in the county and he started harrasing some local PD boys about speeds, etc. Then he wrote some tickets. He should of known the magistrate would throw them out since he knew most of the local PD boys.
Then late one night, Mr. high and mighty stopped a car just out of town and proceeded to get his azz kicked. He was calling for backup and trying to hold his own. Well, the police cars were sure to not break and speeding laws on the way there!
He now UNDERSTANDS not to ticket the people he may need for backup again!
Then late one night, Mr. high and mighty stopped a car just out of town and proceeded to get his azz kicked. He was calling for backup and trying to hold his own. Well, the police cars were sure to not break and speeding laws on the way there!
He now UNDERSTANDS not to ticket the people he may need for backup again!
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From: Your moms house
Originally Posted by AKFX42004
Got pulled over today for my windows being tinted too much. He must have been looking to write a ticket since it was tint that he got me for. No wonder we have murders, people stealing things, it because Cops are to busy writing tickets for window tint and music to loud.
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Originally Posted by harleyrider
Obviously this is an old thread but something I read above brought back a funny memory. Young Troopers just out of the academy are always by the book. One came out to work his new job in the county and he started harrasing some local PD boys about speeds, etc. Then he wrote some tickets. He should of known the magistrate would throw them out since he knew most of the local PD boys.
Then late one night, Mr. high and mighty stopped a car just out of town and proceeded to get his azz kicked. He was calling for backup and trying to hold his own. Well, the police cars were sure to not break and speeding laws on the way there!
He now UNDERSTANDS not to ticket the people he may need for backup again!
Then late one night, Mr. high and mighty stopped a car just out of town and proceeded to get his azz kicked. He was calling for backup and trying to hold his own. Well, the police cars were sure to not break and speeding laws on the way there!
He now UNDERSTANDS not to ticket the people he may need for backup again!
LMAO
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Actually he came around to our thinking. Pretty good guy now. Still a smartazz though. Came up on one of my stops and smarted off to the victim, pissed him off big time, victim came out the truck and was fixing to go to troopers azz, and I got stuck filling out the Taser discharge form.....
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