Porn Addicton
Around 2am last night, I was traveling up Sand Hill Road from Route 31. I noticed a car coming down the hill at a high rate of speed towards me. My radar unit confirmed the vehicle was traveling 60mph in a 40mph zone. Additionally, the driver crossed the double-yellow center line a few times and had a headlight out. As he passed by me, I saw the screen of either a GPS unit or a cell phone illuminating the driver's face. I spun around and decided to stop him to investigate.
I walked up to the driver's window and requested the driver's credentials. The driver seemed nervous but he wasn't drunk and I don't see anything in the vehicle that concerned me. I did see that the driver's cell phone is on the seat between his legs; the telltale confirmation that he was using his cell phone while driving. There was no GPS unit in the vehicle (either in the dash or mounted to the windshield).
The driver handed me his license and registration but tells me he needs to access his insurance card on his cell phone. I told him to go ahead and pull up his insurance information for me.
The driver picked up his cell phone, entered his code to unlock the screen, and the internet window of the porn site he was watching popped up. For a brief second, the driver sat there with a still picture of a guy mid-pump on his cell phone with a police officer standing over him with a flashlight. The driver panicked, tried to X out of the window, and mistakenly restarted the video. Yes, no question, it was a video from a porn site and the girl in the video is moaning with delight like they always do.
He says, "Oh God!" and managed to quickly X out of the window. He was embarrassed as hell and I'm trying to remain professional; but secretly I was thankful that the video wasn't of the driver and a woman. Or the driver and a dude.
He managed to pull up his insurance information for me.
I asked driver if he was watching the video in question while driving. He adamantly told me no, he was reading a text while driving but not watching porn. I told him to wait in his vehicle and returned to my patrol car.
I gave him warnings for speeding, failure to maintain a lane, and failure to maintain headlamps. I issued him a summons for using his cell phone while driving.
I walked back up and explained to the driver my decisions and handed him his one summons. I explained to the driver that should he choose to contest the summons that I would have to testify in open court to what I saw on his cell phone. The driver told me that he would be happy to just pay the summons and thanked me for my professionalism.
No, the driver was not
@pooriggy.
Sidebar: Screenshot your insurance card so it's quickly accessible when stopped. If an officer has to stand there in traffic while he or she watches you navigate to your insurance company website, remember your login and password, sign into your insurance website, find the .pdf of your insurance card, then finally open it up and show the officer...I can pretty much guarantee you are going to have a bad day.