KILL ALL PIGS!!! MY LICENSE IS ALMOST GONE

[Marc Getty <marc@getty.net>]

Knock on wood, but I have yet to have a fuzz problem in my Scirocco. My Jetta
on the other hand is a different story:

I got pulled over for not having a front license plate by the Dumont NJ fuzz.
Mind you I live in Pennsylvania, and my Jetta was 100% legally registered in
Pennsylvania, a state that does not use front license plates. But the Dumont
PD insisted that I needed one and I was in volation for driving without one.
Would you believe that I agreed with him and promised to get one ASAP just to
get him off my back? What a moron.

I got pulled over in Princeton NJ for having a tinted license plate cover. In
reality I had the clearest license plate cover ever made. Again I promised to
remove it as soon as I got home just to get rid of the fuzz. Another moron NJ
fuzz.

My last ticket was at x-mas time in 1996 in Jamison PA, just south of New
Hope. I got a reckless driving ticket for pulling directly into the left hand
lane of an empty two lane non-divided highway from an exit. I could not get
out of this one no matter what, I even got a lecture on how incredibly
dangerous a stunt that I just pulled. What an asshole.

I got pulled over in Wrightstown PA for failing to dim my headlights from high
beams to low beams fast enough. Luckily this was not considered reckless
driving like it is in Jamison the the next town over. I got away with a
warning on this one. What an asshole.

I got pulled over for going too slow in Feasterville PA (home of the speed
trap). They were conducting a 1:00 AM speed trap and I knew this so I did ~28
in a 35 just to be ultra-safe. I was told that I was interfering with police
business for doing that. What assholes.

I got pulled over for not using my turn signal to go straight on Route 1 in
Bensalem PA by a Pennsylvania State Cop. The lane he was driving in ended and
merged into mine, and was very clearly marked for all of the traffic in his
lane to merge into my lane. I stayed in my lane and got pulled over for not
using my turn signal to merge into his no longer existent lane. Again he let
me off with a warning. What an asshole.

Off the top of my head I count 6 fuzz stories all of them negative. I'm sure I
could think up a positive story if I was given a couple of days to think about
it.

MANDATORY SCIROCCO CONTENT: I drove my Scirocco to work and back home today,
and as usual had no problems.

-Marc

'74 VW Thing For Sale: http://getty.net/thing/ http://vwthing.org
'81 VW Jetta Diesel gone to the scrap heap after 178,000 miles
'84 VW Jetta GLi was SOLD in Oct 99 with only 164,275 miles to NJ
'87 VW Scirocco Tornado Red 16V with 167,500 Miles, got it on 7/2/99

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