This post is really just to vent my frustrations (not at the car, but at the ******* cop pigs that troll the NY highways and parkways)


A little background on me first to paint the picture for you fellows who never met me.

I am a 27 yr old extremely clean cut white guy. I don't look the part of any criminal and I don't act the part much either.

I have noticed that lately I am being profiled because I drive a Lexus GS mildly modded...

This fact has been impacted on me recently from getting pulled over while I paced with a FORD ESCORT, to this morning where **** came to a head.

I was driving to work, 60mph in the left hand lane.....I noticed a Crown Vic coming up behind me quickly. I turn my blinker on, proceed to pull into middle lane while he pulls up on me slow staring at me. It was obviously an undercover cop as he was tinted out with the light bar package front and rear.

As I pull over some assclown in a riced out civic comes flying up behind me to ride the cop's ***.....he rode his *** for a good 3 miles that I could see b4 I hopped off the highway to my destination.

What bothers me is this. I am a nice clean cut guy with a fancy car and he waited for me to **** up somehow as I am confident he would've turned on his lights sooner or later on me while a thug in a riced out civic is allowed to ride his *** and not get in trouble for it.


I am sorry in advance but I feel like I'm being profiled because I have a nice car and these pigs are jealous of it. I now know how Rodney King felt


I am just wondering if anyone else on here feels profiled and "outted" because he/she drives a nice GS like me.


-end of rant-

 

No Disrespect, but try being a 22 year old Black guy like myself in a GS with nice rims. Then you'll know what profiling really is. Happens to me all the time. Atleast you didn't get pulled over. I don't think any of us can ever feel how Rodney King felt.

 

I know the feeling, I also am a 27 year old Mexican and always get either stares or get followed by cops here in southern cali. They follow me while they run the plates on the car or just wait for me to do something stupid. IMO it is either jealousy or ignorance on their part. Just because we are young doesn't mean we can drive or afford a nice ride. They don't stop to think that most of us work our butts off to get what we proudly have.
I do feel your frustration but look on the bright side they want what we have and most can't. hehehe

 

thanks guys...at least I don't feel alone...


I am going to make a custom decal for the back of my car...I will post a pic of it once it's done...


I'm gonna fix these POS pigs

 

Cops here in Ontario, Canada must either be linient or they just don't notice me. I am lucky I have never felt like you did with the cops. My parents are from Pakistan. I don't consider myself a Pakistani because I was born in Nigeria and grew up there. Moved to Canada 17 years ago and are a Canadian citizen now. I look East Asian.

 

Welcome to the club guys! I was 23 years old when i bought my GS brand new. I had 20's on it and no plates yet and got pulled over literally in front of my home. When I asked why I was pulled over he said it was because I didn't have plates on the car. Mind you the DMV paperwork was taped to the windsheild and I had a dealer plate on it as well. From that day on i've been pulled over at least once a month it seems. The most recent was I got pulled over with 2 female passengers in the car. They called backup, so now there's 2 squad cars, 2 cops, we all had to get out, I was searched, and the entire car and the girls' purses were all searched. While 1 cop was searching the car, the other one that searched me admitted that he just wanted to check out my car and he liked my big brake kit. Obviously I didn't get a ticket, but it's just the time wasted and the embarassment for the women to have to stand on the street and have their purses searched. My close friend works for the city, so I didn't bring harassment charges against the city, but anywhere else I would have. Get used to it, it's gonna happen alot more until you get rid of the car my friends! Pimpin' ain't easy!

Out.

Jeremy

 

well to me cops are asses in general, so i usually try not to worry about them, that's the best way. just forget about them and drive your way. i have a heavily modded gs4, you can imagine -- especailly with the color

 

I'll never regret buying anything b/c some fool(s) want to try to steal my joy. I've had a Lex since 18, slapped chrome on the ES at 19 and learned very quickly you pretty much got to watch out for COPS and ROBBERS. Very sad but that is the way it is. Funny but when I got the GS, it wasn't as bad. I had chrome on the GS for 6 months before I slapped the WEDS on there and funny, I had issues when I had the chrome and less so without it. That is another reason chrome is not for me, it just attracts unwanted attention from cops (funny, I worry about them more than thieves).

I am no angel, I fess up when I speed, take a u-turn when I should not have etc. But I could write a book on getting pulled over/harrased for no reason. Here are a couple;

1. I was on my way home when I see blue lights coming fast, riding on the shoulder (when your a minority, and you see blue lights, you automatically think its for you, Dave Chapelle speaks the truth). He was like a mile away and natually, he pulls me over. Now I know I wasn't speeding b/c there was too much traffic.
"Sir, how can I help (hands on the steering wheel already, license, registration in hand)
"I got a report of a white car swerving in and out of traffic".
"Did they say it was a Lexus?"
"No, it was a white car"
"(I look over and see maybe 3 white cars pass, lol), well sir, it wasn't me"
"Do you mind if I check the car"
"You can but I'll be later for dinner, I live the next block up"
"(cop looks at license and sees address) oh, your almost home"
"yes sir"
"the dogs won't take but a minute"
"dogs!!! &(&*^) it"

He didn't search the car but wasted my time. Remember, he gets paid for pulling me over. I just lose time.

Another time, I see the cop following me, I know what time it is........
"Sir is this your car"
"Yes it is my car"
"what do you do for a living"
"I work at _________"
"have you been drinking"
"(WTF), no, and I proceed to blow MY STANK *** HOT *** CHICKEN EATING BREATHE IN HIS FACE"
"(the cop actually sticks his head in the car and takes a whiff of my stank breath) oh, okay then, thanks"
WTF?????

Now this is not a all cops are bad post. I've had/know some great ones. I've had a couple warnings before. Cool.

But I can relate to these guys frustration......

 

Ironic. Im 22 and of Middle Eastern dessent driving a highly modded GS with a concealed firearm. Heck I even have a tinted windsheild with no brake tag. When I get stopped I give them my liscense, my insurance, and registration and handgun and permit and they never ask questions or have ever tried to search the car. Half the time they never give me a ticket just let me on my way. All they do is run the serial number on the gun and check if its chambered. Sometimes they follow me run my plate then go hassle someone else.

 

i feel u health.. similar things happens to me.. 21 year old in a lexus.. i always get followed on local streets by these damn nypd's..

 

Ive only been pulled over once for going 35 in a 25mph construction zone. The cop was hiding behind a bulldozer, but I was maintaining the same distance as the Benz infront of me. I didn't think he clocked me as I passed him up, but by the time I got the end of the street at the red light, I see him pull up right behind me on his bike. He follows me to the next light, where I proceed to make a left onto the freeway onramp, and hits the siren and lights so I pull over.

Mind you Im a 34 yr old, 6'4 Samoan, in a heavily tinted GS4, so I'm already thinking he's going to sweat me, but he was actually cool. He complemented the car, saying his wife used to have one in Silver. He saw my license plate cover, which is the College I went to in Hawaii (I'm from Hawaii), and he asked if I was from the islands, which I told him I was....so he proceeds to tell me about his Samoan friends, his vacation to Maui last year etc. I ended up with a $10 fix-it ticket for my tint on the front windows and no front license plate.

Fortunately, Ive had a good experience...though I know it couldve been worse. It's unfortunate that there are those who chose to harrass us, or profile us, but in the same token, there are some that are nice and that are just doing their jobs. Just my 2 cents....

 

I am also of Middle Eastern decent but pass for Latin. Either way, MINORITY! Always getting pulled over by cops for BS. Never a problem though, as long as you know how to talk to them (and have a cop in the family ) they always very polite and tell me to have a nice day. One time however (not showing any proof that a cop is in the family) i was stopped for "Improper lane change" yet questions arose such as "Whose car is this? What do you do for a living?" And thats when i suggested that they have an issue" just because a good looking young man (that would be me by the way) is driving a luxury vehicle does not mean that it is ok for you to stop me" He proceeded to explain how he will issue me a summons for a few things... I then handed him proof that a family member is on the job and he was like..."Why didnt you just show me this from the beginning?" Told him it should not matter and that its just not right, he told me to have a nice night and i drove off

 

Same Here bro, I'm 23 now and had my first gs300! blk/blk since i was 17...
Dealing with Cops is a regular occurrence 4 me!

Pull me over to check if car is mine...
Hassle me about my In-dash, (Oh U can't have DVD player in Car while Driving..)

Its the Blinged 20's that catches their EYE!

 

yes.. i totally feel your guys' pain. the past 2 days, ive been pulled over TWICE. on wedesday i got pulled over for doing 53 in a 40 lane.. i did not even notice i was going that fast and it was never my intention to speed. nevertheless a bike cop laser'd me and pulled me over. [valentine 1 coming soon] yesterday i was pulled over near the front of my house for not having front plates. i put my plate behind my windshield because thats where i think it would look good without me putting up front yet because i didnt have a plate cover. both times i was interrogated who's car it was. they were being polite though and asked me the year and how the car looks very nice. nevertheless i ended up with a slip. twice.

 

Never been pulled over in the GS, its black and has tinted (DARK, illegal in Cali) windows since day one, never been pulled over, its not modded yet but its coming ...anyways,

My first car an 86 honda prelude SI, yeah its got a kit and stuff, but I'm like 35 now and have had the car since it was new and I could drive (350,000 miles and still going)

I got pulled over twice last week in the honda and the cops walk up and look in and go
"hello mister, is this your car???"
"yes it is whats the problem"
mind you this whole time I have my hands on the wheel and have not made any movement until the cop walks up to the car.
The tint both times, I can't even see into the GS's tint but the honda's you can see through, got a fix it ticket the first time and a warning the second time.
Once they check my age or I tell them this is my first car, they get all kool about it.

In the past in the GS I have been going 80 on the freeway and they drive right past me.

go 68 in a 65 in the prelude and I'm pulled over.

Sucks man either way its hard to have something nice, you either have to worry about the cops or people trying to take or damage your stuff.

Heres to no more red lights in our rear view mirrors and lets take it easy out there, CL doesn't need another missing member.

chaskim