If you drive long enough, you will see those flashing lights behind you at some point. Most people get nervous, their heart starts racing, breathing gets heavier and palms get sweaty. There most people succumb and take the L by receiving the ticket but there are those few savvy ones out there who think on the fly with something clever to say that gets them out at worst with a warning! This post is for those as these brave souls share their hilarious stories (via AskReddit):
Vintage_Kron1c:
Got pulled over on my motorcycle:
Cop: do you know why I pulled you over?
Me: cause I wasn’t wearing my seatbelt?
He got a chuckle and I only got a warning, next cop didn’t find it nearly as amusing
adrijang:
Cop: Were you eating an apple while driving?
Me: Can’t I eat while I drive?
Cop: No
Me: But I can smoke
Cop: Yes
Me: Then I was smoking the apple.
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I tried to call the police to report a crime but it was not an emergency. A guy was walking around my neighborhood, obviously casing houses. I called the police department after hours and couldn’t get ahold of anyone. I passed a cop while driving and sped passed him so that he would pull me over. When he said “Do you know why I pulled you over?” I said “Yeah because I wanted you to so I could actually talk to an officer”. He went and found the guy, and arrested him because he had a warrant out on him.
QuarterMileOfNasty:
“Can you say your alphabet to J for me?”
“Which one of you dudes is Jay?”
egnards:
Friend got pulled over doing about 20 over, we were college kids at the time. Officer walks over to the window does his normal “do you know why I pulled you over?” Routine and than turns to me when it’s all done and asks “so should I give your friend here a ticket?”, with a smile I said “yes sir, he most likely deserves it.”Cop laughed, smiled and walked away.
cajunrajing:
“No, sir, I don’t know how fast I was going, I’m late for my best friend’s wedding.”Turned out though, he was the older brother of a good friend from high school, so he threw his lights on and gave me an escort to the wedding. Got there on time thanks to speeding!