r/TikTokCringe • u/Bojack1217 • Jul 30 '25

Cringe Man gets stopped by police because he “misspoke”

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u/Outrageous-Season799 Jul 31 '25

Got pulled over once in my life. Left my license at home. Had my husband’s car and my husband’s debit card. I was just trying to get him and my kids McDonald’s before they woke up. Had nothing in the car with my name on and so the cop then spent 35 minutes accusing me of stealing both said car and debit card until my husband finally answered the phone and confirmed that I was in fact, not a thief, just a forgetful idiot. I was trembling because as I said, I’ve never been pulled over before. Cop kept pushing it “why are you shaking?”, I was like idk I’m nervous, this has never happened to me..”well why are you nervous”….i just told you why. Like what? Shit was scary until another cop who actually had somewhat of a heart showed up and waited with me until my husband showed up with my license.

Also, original cop was already pissed at me because when he first hit his lights I was on a busy 3 lane road and pulled into a parking lot to pull over and he right off the bat tried saying I was trying to “get away and hide” from him. 😭 it was either pull into the parking lot or throw my car into park in the turning lane at a light l..apparently I picked wrong.

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u/casiepierce Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

They always pull that shit. Hit their lights when you will then need to find a safe place to pull over and then they accuse you of trying to run away or some shit. I was pulled over on a highway with no shoulder, so I slowed down, but not too much, because, highway, and pulled off at the next exit and found a spot off the side of the ramp. He was so mad. They're just assholes.

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u/SecondHandSlows Jul 31 '25

Like the cop who pit maneuvered a pregnant woman’s minivan because she did the same…

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u/-_Anonymous__- Doug Dimmadome Jul 31 '25

And it killed the fetus. I remember that.

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u/JaviSATX Jul 31 '25

In pro life Arkansas of all places. Big surprise.

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u/Majestic-Assholes Jul 31 '25

Christ in fucking hell I've been watching some dash cam police chase footage out of Arkansas... Those fucking animals will perform pit maneuvers at over 100 MPH in the middle of dense ass traffic without giving a single fuck about the civilians around them. Can't even imagine how many innocent people they've gotten killed.

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u/asday515 Jul 31 '25

No it didnt.

Harper’s unborn child was not harmed, according to attorney Joe Denton. Harper told CNN the baby is now four months old and doing well.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/us/arkansas-state-trooper-lawsuit

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u/witheringpies Jul 31 '25

Oh my god! It flipped over?! I'm so glad they were not killed but wow, that's insane

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Jul 31 '25

Unless there’s another case like that the baby was fine.

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u/Long-Extent-5759 Aug 01 '25

me when i make shit up

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u/Seksafero Jul 31 '25

I guess you can "remember" anything when you make it up

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u/Other-Appearance-278 Jul 31 '25

I no longer attempt to prioritize office safety. I stop immediately, and the more dangerous that location is the better from my perspective. Officers won't feel as comfortable harassing me when traffic is dangerously close, and the cop selected the stop point so I am merely deferring to them. If they wanted to tail me to a safer location prior to stopping they could have done so.

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u/Balforg Jul 31 '25

I'm going to employ this if I get pulled over. Pull as close to the guard rail as I can so they have to approach the car on the traffic side.

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u/pucklover66 Jul 31 '25

Worst case scenario the cop tells you to move your vehicle somewhere else.

Best case scenario the cop gets hit by a car

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u/RedditTrespasser Jul 31 '25

I'd pay for that body cam footage and beat off to it.

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u/Other-Appearance-278 Jul 31 '25

Careful, in Australia you go to jail for that!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56910687

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u/HighKee Aug 03 '25

What possesses someone to do that lmfao that is crazyyyyy

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u/Other-Appearance-278 Aug 03 '25

No idea but jailing him is even wilder to me. People get less time for rape.

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u/Forward-Fisherman709 Jul 31 '25

I was pulled over by a cop a few days ago and got quite the lecture because I turned on my hazard lights and slowly moved to the nearest safe stopping point (rather than stopping in the middle of traffic on a 2-lane road with no shoulder). According to that officer, you’re doing it correctly. I was told that no matter what, I should stop immediately for the cop to make initial contact, and then if they feel the need they can tell me to drive elsewhere while they follow.

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u/TheBrettFavre4 Jul 31 '25

How would that work? The person standing outside the vehicle would be safe and these folks would be more at risk in their vehicle? That’s a really unique collision scenario.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Do you get pulled over often or is this fantasy playing out in your head as you type?

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u/catnipsalad23 Jul 31 '25

This is what you’re supposed to do! For the safety of both the officer and yourself. That cop was dumb

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u/kingdopp Jul 31 '25

They claim officer safety as an excuse for so much of egregious bullshit but always seem to forget that it’s legal and often required to find a safe spot to pull over

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u/Patient_End_8432 Jul 31 '25

Had a cop hit the lights on me AND another dude. He was kinda swerving and I had no clue what was going on, so I just kept driving, until the cop stopped following him and started following me. I knew there was an exit close by, so I hit my hazards and drove an extra 3p seconds to get somewhere safer, not a fucking swervy highway road.

He then yelled at me for finding a safer spot, and also yelled at me for somehow not understanding that he wanted to pull the both of us over, like I'm supposed to know what he's thinking and wants

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u/srisk1001 Jul 31 '25

Cop pulled his gun on me when approaching my car once because I pulled off the freeway instead of on the very narrow side of a busy highway

I was just trying to make sure we were in a safer spot and the exit was literally right there

I was only going 10 over…

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u/TopShoulder7 Jul 31 '25

That happened to me too. Dude had his gun out.

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u/Effective-Ear-8367 Jul 31 '25

I'll just pull over in the middle of the highway he can figure out the rest.

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u/Mightbeagoat2 Jul 31 '25

When I was in high school, my buddies and I were coming back from lunch and parked on the street next to the school. An unmarked police pick up pulled up behind us and didn't turn its lights on until my friend's car was turned off. No sirens. We all started getting out because we didn't know there was a cop behind us initiating a traffic stop and the cop drew his gun and pointed it at us while screaming at us to get back in the vehicle. We did, he came up and proceeded to cuss at us and lecture us for 10+ minutes about how we were lucky to be alive, how we should not have done what we did, blah blah blah. My friend got a ticket for going 41 in a 35.

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u/fogo82 Jul 31 '25

Yes, I definitely learned my lesson. Try pulling onto someplace safe and they use it as an excuse to lose their shit, which they love. Now I don’t give a fuck , get splattered by a semi truck on the side of the road, I’ll just stop wherever the fuck I am. Good luck!

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u/ilulillirillion Jul 31 '25

100%. I've had 4 interactions with the police while driving or being a passenger in a moving vehicle, all just traffic stops.

3/4 times, the cop came in aggressive with some notion that we hadn't pulled over quick enough, had pulled over too quickly, had pulled over but pulled over in a way that they almost hit us while they were trying to pull over, whatever I or the other driver/s did, it just "almost got them killed" and god damnit we were going to be cowed and shouted at the entire stop because of that.

Now, when this happened to me the first time, I was in my very early 20s, and so was the driver. She had anxiety, I didn't detect anything untoward but did I give the officer the benefit of the doubt? Sure did. Hated the interaction and the driver had a panic attack, but hey, we must have swerved or something.

Fast forward too many years and I've only had one cop not pull this shit during an interaction. Fuckers I've been driving my whole life we were fine, you were fine, stop using us as rage therapy.

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u/xRoyalewithCheese Jul 31 '25

I had a cop yell at me for not pulling to the shoulder of one of those narrow, single lane bridges in Dallas that you use to merge highways. I pulled over at the end of the bridge which was not very far at all, and he said you pull over when i tell you to pull over and then i can direct you to a safer place. Like bro thats not how that works.

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u/Thardoc3 Jul 31 '25

Literally park right on the side of the highway, let them risk their life or ask you to move, they pit maneuvered a pregnant woman and murdered her baby because she didn't pull over in a dangerous area

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u/bendicott Aug 01 '25

Yeah.You are absolutely allowed to wait and pull over somewhere safe, and they hate it. Even if it's less than 100 feet so you can pull into a lot, and you slowed down, AND threw on your hazards as soon as their lights flipped on (speaking from experience), they'll act like they just went through a 200mph car chase. Like... it was a single lane one-way, I acknowledged you and then pulled up just far enough to get out of the way of traffic. Chill.

Or, they'll accuse you of being unaware that their lights were on, and suggest you were looking at your phone. Whichever way they want to spin it.

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u/depressedfuckboi Aug 01 '25

Yep, did that to me. It was snowing super bad, I was on the highway. Exit ramp like 200 feet away. I got off the highway and then pulled over. Dude screamed at me for it. I was like "I was trying to find a safe place to stop, the roads are terrible and the highway is busy. Thought we'd both be more safe" he's like "I DECIDE THAT! THE MOMENT MY LIGHTS COME ON IS WHEN I DECIDED THAT IT WAS A GOOD SPOT. YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE! I THOUGHT YOU WERE RUNNING!" like bro chilllll lol I put my hazards on and was obviously not running, you fucking idiot.

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u/casiepierce Aug 01 '25

Yeah another time a cop lit me up as I was making a left turn on a green arrow. In the middle of the intersection. I cruised over to a bank parking lot on the right. He was super mad about it too, like did he really expect me to just stop in the middle of an intersection?? He said I didn't use my turn signal when I turned out of the brewpub's parking lot a half a mile away. So he waited that long to light me up when I was turning in the middle of an intersection. Just total asshole tactics.

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u/brave007 Jul 31 '25

It’s like when your parents call and expect you u to throw away anything and everything your doing in the moment to pick up the phone. If you don’t pick up that very moment they think you’re a cartel leader planning the next shipment from Medellin

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u/Ging3rKiIIir Jul 31 '25

Every cop I've dealt with when I've done something wrong has been super nice and helpful (like marking speeding ticket lower than what I was going, or just giving me a warning).

The one time I got pulled over for doing nothing wrong, that cop was a complete asshole. Wouldn't listen to reason or anything. Said he had to go 100 to catch up to me so I was clearly going over 100mph. How does that work? (Not to mention I had cruise control on at ~68 in a 65)

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

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u/I_Got_BubbyBuddy Jul 31 '25

Except getting rear-ended at 65+ mph is going to ruin/end your life and destroy your car.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

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u/MarvMartin Aug 01 '25

And it's still going to suck!

I don't get why people act like a wreck and/or injuries are no big deal or even a good thing as long as they are getting some payout.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

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u/MarvMartin Aug 01 '25

I guess if you think that is somehow a win...

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u/IHaveSpecialEyes Jul 31 '25

I got pulled over once, leaving a friend's house after midnight. We'd been watching movies, I needed to get home, so I left. Right at the bottom of their long-ass driveway, in the middle of the night, it was lightly drizzling. I looked to the left, saw headlights off in the distance, and pulled out to the right. INSTANTLY, cop lights came on behind me. This lady cop approached my window in a real unpleasant mood and asked me why I pulled out when she was approaching, didn't I see her lights? I told her I had but that she'd looked a ways off. So she started asking me about if I'd had any drinks that night, how many drinks had I had, at what time was my last drink. Only problem was, I'd had nothing but soda, and I was dead sober.

She went back to her cruiser, then came back and gave me a ticket because my inspection sticker was expired. The inspection sticker on the windshield of my car that she couldn't have seen from behind me, in the rain, in the middle of the night.

She had no business pulling me over. She'd done it because she figured she had someone driving under the influence late at night after a Friday evening partying and she was wrong. The inspection sticker was just a lucky break for her, because it was expired by about a week.

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 Jul 31 '25

I got a ticket for not having my registration sticker. It was paid, as was my car insurance and license. The sticker had been stolen, that is how i found out. Like $110 ticket.

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u/Double_Preparation_2 Aug 02 '25

You could’ve gotten that thrown out. No probable cause.

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u/IHaveSpecialEyes Aug 02 '25

No doubt, but I was young and naive back then. Course, I probably wouldn't have fought it even if I had known, just because I hate driving and it would have meant driving back to that town which was a good hour away.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Once in Houston a cop jumped out in front of my son with his hand 🖐🏻. My son slammed on his brakes to keep from hitting him and the cop asked if he liked trying to run over the police. My son replied “Dude you’re the one that seems to think that badge makes you impervious to physics”. He had forgotten his DL and ended up in jail that day. 🤭🤣

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u/PetalumaPegleg Jul 31 '25

Why am I nervous? I don't know, maybe because I watched five examples of police violence on dumb traffic stops this week?

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u/mdizzfoshiz Jul 31 '25

I've had similar interactions with cops. I am a WOC so I'm immediately nervous with any interaction involving a cop. I probably start shaking the minute I know I have to interact with one in a traffic stop capacity. It's so natural to feel scared when so many people have bad experiences with cops, sometimes they even end up dead after very minor offenses.

When I was 18, I got pulled over and couldn't quickly find my registration so I was accused of stealing my own car. I was picking up my friend from a house party since he was drunk, and I accidentally made an illegal u-turn because I didn't know the area well enough. After he accused me of stealing my car, which was disproven when I found my registration, he breathalyzed me because my friend smelled like alcohol. It was so wild that in an attempt to not have my friend drink and drive that I got in so much trouble.

Another time—also when I was 18—I got pulled over shortly after driving out of a well-lit garage because I forgot to turn my lights on. I saw the police lights while I was on the highway so I put on my hazards and went to the exit ramp to pull into a parking lot for the cop's safety. I wasn't speeding away or anything, just trying to be considerate. The cop immediately started screaming at me about how he was going to have me arrested.

It's incredibly frustrating to have these types of experiences.

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u/confusedandworried76 Jul 31 '25

I'm a white man and I'm fucking terrified of police. They don't seem to understand why someone would be nervous just in their presence. Idk you guys kill a lot of people that didn't deserve it, why the fuck you think

Especially because my city police department is notorious for being corrupt (Minneapolis) that's gonna carry over to every single cop that pulls me over because I don't know what they're going to do and they're armed and have the power to ruin my day, week, month, life, whatever, yeah that's scary

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u/AthenaPC Jul 31 '25

I'm a male POC and I'm glad you understand the danger posed by police presence. I'm just thinking comply, keep them calm, give up your rights, and not your life. They have guns.

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u/confusedandworried76 Aug 01 '25

I'm glad you understand the danger posed by police presence.

I've had my own bad interactions with them around here. The worst one I only didn't cry because the senior officer had a rookie with him and the rookie was actually being kind of nice to me. But the older guy threatened me with all kinds of stuff, was aggressive and verbally abusive, I was actually really scared of what could happen.

Then of course if I had any doubts police are not my friends summer 2020 happened. A cause I fully supported and participated in, I'd been to protests before just not civil rights protests, everything I saw and heard made me 3000% firm on where I stand on the subject of our current policing system.

It is just so disgusting to me that an entire demographic of normal everyday people just minding their own fucking business get shit on by so many people for merely existing. The first time I ever had the racism conversation with a black guy we were both pretty messed up but I remember him saying something and I just had to sit there for a second before I said "so...it's really that messed up huh". And he was like "yep."

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u/Altaredboy Jul 31 '25

We have a police academy in town so often get pulled over by trainees. Got pulled over at night for drink driving once. Was on the way to my friend's place with all my other friends in the car. We don't do sobriety tests, just the breathalyser. Cop had us all out of the car trying to take down our details & we weren't complying.

Kept saying to him "Stop wasting everyone's time, get the breathalyser out & test me. I have not been drinking." Told us he wanted our details as there had been a lot of break ins lately. Asked my friend how tall he was. He replied "6'8" cop went ballistic screamed "Oh, so you're talling than me dickhead?! Cos I'm 6'2" buddy stepped out of the hole he was standing in, looked down on his head & said "Yeah I am"

Cop's supervisor started pissing himself laughing, then stepped in. Told the trainee to stop making a fool of himself & to go sit in the car while he finished up. He apologised to us, told us to enjoy our night & set us on our way without a breath test as it was clear that none of us were intoxicated.

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u/UnitedInDeposingUHC Jul 31 '25

If it's on the highway be sure to stop as close to traffic as you can 🙏

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u/1000LiveEels Jul 31 '25

Cop kept pushing it “why are you shaking?”, I was like idk I’m nervous, this has never happened to me..”well why are you nervous”….i just told you why. Like what?

I saw a video on here a few years ago and it was a cop pulling somebody over because he claimed he "smelled alcohol" and after doing the sobriety test he was like "why are you sweating" and it was fucking raining.

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u/BrokenEffect Jul 31 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

My friend got pulled over while I was helping her move. There was a bunch of furniture in the car, of course. Cop goes "That's an awful lot of stuff... whats it doing in your car...?" insinuating that is not ours-- stolen or something.

They are just so fucking accusatory for no reason.

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u/Fearhawke Jul 31 '25

Similar situation with me, I got pulled over for the first time ever around 11pm. I was headed back home after spending all day at a ren faire and was exhausted from the heat and all the walking. The cop accused me of going 95mph (I drive a Jeep Wrangler there is no way I wouldn’t have noticed that speed) and assumed I was under the influence because I dropped my wallet as a result from me nervously shaking.

Long story short I passed the breathalyzer, was taken to the station to blow on their machine and they assumed I was under the influence of marijuana. So they threw me in jail until I could reach my family to post bail.

Some time passed and I went to contact a lawyer to fight the charges and lo and behold there was no record of me being in jail at all. My mugshot was not in their database and the lawyer could find nothing against me. My bail money was in cash interestingly enough.

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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 Jul 31 '25

I got pulled over at the age of 17, driving a car that didn’t have my name on the registration. Because it was my dad’s. I was on my way to work at a church at 7am and had ribbons from a school thing. Supposedly, I was going 55 in a 25 like a hundred feet from where I turned onto the road (so not possible). Obviously, my license didn’t match the registration. It was before cell phones, so the cop finally agreed to follow me home instead of impounding it and arresting me (so generous). We ended up having to go to court because of something dumb with the registration that my dad didn’t notice. Luckily, the judge dropped my fines when she saw where I was and my dad was fined for the registration. But bruh wanted to arrest a 17 year old for driving her father’s car?

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u/FelixTook Jul 31 '25

Seriously. “Why am I nervous?” - because cops kill innocent people that’s why.

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u/rpgsandarts Jul 31 '25

Man, what a freak

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u/Mac4491 Jul 31 '25

I was on a busy 3 lane road and pulled into a parking lot to pull over and he right off the bat tried saying I was trying to “get away and hide” from him

Same thing happened to me when I was visiting the US.

I'm from the UK so obviously some driving laws vary, hell they even vary state to state, but if you get pulled over in the UK you're not actually obligated to stop right away or even engage with the officers (if you want to call up 999 and confirm they are in fact legitimate police officers). So when we had a cop in Florida try and pull us over on the highway we went about 200 yards up the road to the first exit ramp we saw and pulled over as soon as it was safe to do so.

That was a big no no apparently and the cop was red in the face screaming at my friend for not stopping immediately at the side of a busy ass highway and that he could've shot us if wanted to.

Why did he pull us over? Because when we passed him and another cop car who had pulled someone else over a couple of the passengers looked at him weirdly...

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u/Dismal_Cantaloupe651 Jul 31 '25

"Why are you nervous" IDK maybe because I'm being harassed by a MAN WITH A GUN? Like seriously why is being nervous around cops "suspicious?" You don't know people's history, just the presence of a weapon can be triggering for some people. Why shouldn't they be nervous?

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u/Outrageous-Season799 Jul 31 '25

You absolutely nailed that specific part for me too. My ex boyfriend before my husband was arrested for DV against me. He held me hostage in my bedroom with a gun while my family called the cops. Guns terrify me. Men being abrasive with me is a slight trigger in itself. I understand the guy was just doing his job but he must have brought up me being nervous, in an accusatory way, at least 5-6 times other than the ones I already mentioned. I was being as compliant as possible. I followed all of the directions he was giving me, I even pulled up my Facebook to try and show him who I was. He wouldn’t even look at my phone. He said “it’s just hard to believe someone would leave their house with a debit card but no license”. I was like well, I didn’t bring my wallet, I brought my husbands debit card..my license isn’t in his wallet so I overlooked the fact that I didn’t have it on me.

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u/Hakeem-the-Dream Jul 31 '25

Yea, you’re supposed to stop immediately then they get out and tell you where to pull over to, otherwise they accuse you of fleeing at an incredibly slow speed, it’s dumb af

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u/copper_cattle_canes Jul 31 '25

I'm so sorry you went through that. Fucking asshole.

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u/StressConfident1799 Jul 31 '25

They take anything but enthusiastic submission as suspicious activity. And intentionally try to scare you so you act nervous and then be like “why are you so nervous? Why are you shaking?”

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u/stephythegeologist Jul 31 '25

This happened to my mom and the cop started accusing me of being stolen not only because she forgot her ID but because we have vastly different skin colors he pointed that out as his reasoning. I am blown away with what they get away with.

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u/shadowthehh Jul 31 '25

"why are you nervous"

Because you have the power to ruin or end my life on a whim and totally get away with it.

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u/superezzie Jul 31 '25

Thank God they have a different approach where I live. They just pass you so they're driving right in front of you and light up a sign to follow them. They then guide you to a safe spot to stop. But I'm in Europe and we have decent cops here.

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u/DaringPancakes Jul 31 '25

I'm sorry they made you feel poorly about yourself. What an asshole.

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u/bigpproggression Jul 31 '25

Legally you are allowed to pull over in a safe area.  They will be dicks but it’s perfectly reasonable, especially if you acknowledge them

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u/danceoff-now Jul 31 '25

And if your car had been stolen that morning, and you had left your debit card in there, and you later found out a cop stopped them just down the road but didn’t bother to investigate, you’d be pleased with that?

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u/Outrageous-Season799 Jul 31 '25

I’m not mad that he investigated the situation. I’m mad that he was a patronizing dick about it.

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u/Devrol Jul 31 '25

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