How to get a ticket for sure!

[mark9207]

I’ve been driving for a little over ten years and have gotten one speeding ticket (legitimate 70 in a 55), one $2500 ticket for driving without proof of insurance (overturned when I went to court to show proof of insurance, but I was stopped because my car was dirty, supposedly to the point of causing my license plate to be obstructed. Funny, I regularly check my lighting and never thought my license plate was illegible. I call bogus on that reason for a traffic stop), and another bogus ticket issued to me while I was traveling through another state. It was 2AM, I was driving down a largely deserted Interstate. A county cop came in behind me off the ramp and started following me. A couple miles later, the cop pulls in next to me as if to pass me, but starts matching my speed. When I slowed down, so did he, when I sped up, so did he. I then see police strobes a mile ahead in the breakdown lane, and later see that there was no apparent reason for that cop to be there since there’s no breakdown and no other motorists or trucks around. I slowed clear down to 45 to try to get the cop beside me to pass, but despite reducing my speed by 20 mph, he continued to match my speed until we got past the cop in the breakdown lane. Once we passed the stopped cop, he fell in behind me and hit the strobes and I was issued a $195 fine for “failure to yield to an emergency vehicle” because it’s a state law in Indiana (as well as pretty much any other state) to get in the left lane if there’s an emergency vehicle stopped on the side of the road. The explanation that I would have if he had allowed me to did not fly, either. I think he saw my out of state plates and figured I probably wouldn’t be willing to travel four hours just to contest a bogus traffic ticket.