Raritan 911: Robocop

Carson

Sport Bacon
Team MTBNJ Halter's
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.
 
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huffster

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I think my insurance company must send me 6 cards for each of our cars every year. I don't know YTF someone would have to go to a web-site. I guess I'm old school, but my 19 and 21 year old kids have copies on their visors, too.

I blame poor parenting...for everything.

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.
 

Patrick

Overthinking the draft from the basement already
Staff member
I think my insurance company must send me 6 cards for each of our cars every year. I don't know YTF someone would have to go to a web-site. I guess I'm old school, but my 19 and 21 year old kids have copies on their visors, too.

I blame poor parenting...for everything.

the fact that they send them snail mail kinda bothers me, but either way, i'd have a paper copy in the car.

So the porn is my parents fault? :D
 
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rlb

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I didn't know you could legally present an insurance card in your phone. Old school paper here!

Just catching up, but I'll remember to use my turn signals and obey the speed limit if I'm ever under pursuit.
 

Carson

Sport Bacon
Team MTBNJ Halter's
I didn't know you could legally present an insurance card in your phone. Old school paper here!

Just catching up, but I'll remember to use my turn signals and obey the speed limit if I'm ever under pursuit.

The law was amended a few years ago to allow for electronic copies of insurance cards. 2014 maybe? The updated law specifically states that if the driver hands a police officer their phone to look at the insurance card, the officer cannot look at anything else in the phone as it would be an unlawful search. It's like the legislators knew we'd look for dick pics...
 

THATmanMANNY

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i hope you didn't touch his phone to get a better look at his digital insurance card

side note, old girl-friend of mine was getting off while speeding, she got off getting the ticket

don't think it would work for a male
 

Carson

Sport Bacon
Team MTBNJ Halter's
i hope you didn't touch his phone to get a better look at his digital insurance card

side note, old girl-friend of mine was getting off while speeding, she got off getting the ticket

don't think it would work for a male

I had to read that twice to make sure I wasn't reading into it. She sounds fun.
 

Patrick

Overthinking the draft from the basement already
Staff member
Narcan is going to be available in drugstores w/o a Rx.

now, it is to be administered by nasal injection.
Person is already in respiratory distress, and it has to be administered by someone.....

This is going to bring a whole, new twist to these stories.....
not to mention the black market for it.

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