Know Your Rights With The Police

[HeiressofBickworth]

43. Quite some time ago, a highway patroll officer tried to extort me

I was west-bound on the freeway in Nebraska. Out-of-state plates. Two women traveling together. Flashing light in rear-view mirror. I pulled over. Officer came to my window, all bristling with righteousness. Asked me if I knew I was speeding. I was, I knew it, and I said he was probably right. He lectured me about dead bodies on the freeway due to excessive speed, blah blah blah. He then started talking about how expensive a ticket for speeding was, the inconvenience of having to appear in court when I'm from out of state. He never started writing me a ticket. So help me, I don't know why I said it, but I said I would be willing to go to the nearest courthouse or police station and pay the fine. More lecture about the dangers of driving above the speed limit. And then he asked if I had a CB unit in the car (before cellphones). I said no, I didn't. He asked if I would be out of the state by the end of the day. I said I had planned to. He said to go ahead and leave. I was miles down the road before my friend and I figured out that he thought I would pay HIM the fine. Ne never made a record of the stop so there would have been no record of a payment. Such a scum bag.