Ok there i was driving, minding my busniess, not speeding or anything. a cop drives by, looks at me and pulled a u turn. she didnt put her lights on yet, she just started to follow me. I was following my friends and the cop was behind me, then we get to a light, and the cop got right next to my car and looked in and just stared at me. Then i had to turn so i got infront of her and then she put her lights on and pulled me over. Im like....what did i do wrong? there isnt anything i did wrong i wasnt speeding or doing a improper lane usage, so there is no good reason for her to pull me over! The biotch comes to my window...."i puuled you over cause i noticed you didnt have your seat belt on"......???? this cop pulled me over just cause she didnt think i was wearing a seat belt!?!?!?!?! i ALWAYS wear my seat belt, but i dont wear it going over my shoulder cause the holder on the chair broke, so she just couldnt see it.... so then started to question me if i did drugs or if i had a bomb in my car...i was like WTF lady! she gave me a warning for having a cracked windshield, and having stuff hanging from my rearview miror. i got a ticket for having a expired insurence card too!! the insurence card is understandable i suppose,,,EXCEPT IT WAS A ILLEGAL PULL OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From what i was told, a cop CANNOT pull you over for suspicion of you not wearing a seatbelt!!!!!! SOOOOO in gonna go take this to court and FIGHT IT!! stupid cops!!

 

In Illinois they CAN pull you over for not wearing a seatbelt. She could not see the seatbelt so she thought you weren't wearing one. Sorry man, its the law.

 

since when have they been able to do that??? my dad has asked cops that have said that they can not do that. I work for the City here, and im gonna find out tomorrow and see what i can do to try to get away with it. they can write you a ticket for not wearing a seat belt,,but im not sure they can pull you over for it. you got any proof for your claims?? im not saying your wrong...which i actualy hope you are..sorry but you know where im coming from

 

Yeah I understand completely. I'd be upset too. In my town, for about a month they actually had a cop sitting in this parking lot with binoculars cracking down on seatbelts. I know Illinois has been really trying to cut down on drivers driving without one lately. If they can pull you over because they believe you are drunk, then why can't they pull you over because they think you don't have a seatbelt? I dunno though, I could be wrong. Good luck though.

 

I PRAY TOO *** YOUR WRONG!!!!!!!! lol,, ill talk to my secretary tomorrow, her husband is the city clerk and used to be a cop

 

OK, I'm majoring in Criminal Justice, If I remember right it is like this in IL:

you CAN NOT be pulled over for not wearing your seat belt, however you CAN be pulled over for no seat belt when the have "seat belt checks" (like in High school when they sitting down the road before school)

does this make sense? Heck I don't know I'm not in government.....well not yet (politics)

 

im told that certian towns and counties have the law where you can get pulled over for it. ill have to call aurora and talk to them, i have to rescedual the court date too.

 

I totally know how you feel dood
believe me of all people!
I have scars on my wrist where I
got so pissed at the policee at one
time beccause I used to live ijn a
small rural town with my parents and
I got pulled over and harrassedd ofr
every little thing u can think of..
I have had 23 moving violations in a 2
year period, I spent over 3 grand
in attorney fee's and went to court
more than 30 times over traffic bull****!!
I oncee got so mad, a cop pulled my
sister over and gave me (the passenger) a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt.. when he pulled her over for no reasoN!!! I got so pissed I punched the dash of my sisters car 10 times and broke my knuckle!
I wanted to KILL cops at one time I used to hate them so bad... but since I moved to Rockford, I have had a clean slate for more than 7.5 years
hang in there..

 

Sorry man, but you shouldn't get that upset at cops for doing their job.

- Liar, Liar

 

I was young for one.. and as I stated.. I had 23 moving
violations..

There was one cop that used to wait for me at the
end of the street.. and when I would leave for work
he followed me all the way to the County line which was
like 14 miles. He pulled me over constantly...
He pulled me over and gave me a ticket for having a scented
leaf hanging from my center mirror.
He wrote it as "Had obstructions blocking frontal vision"

Another time I was driving to work third shift..
he pulled me over.. asked me to step out of the vehicle.
searched my car with a partner that was with him..
and he made me open my trunk, he found a knife I had back
there and he gave me all kinds of crap about that.
then he gave me a ticket for having a cracked taillight, he looked at my tires, and gave me a ticket for not having enough tread thickness, and he gave me a ticket for having my license plate not attached to the front of the vehicle, (on firebirds it looks ugly so I put it in the window)
and not to babble.. but this one reall sucked.. another time he gave me a ticket for speeding, when he clocked a ninja motorcycle that was flying up on my tail and I was going 50, and he said I was going 78 in a 55, and I got the ticket. and that ticket caused me to get suspended cuz of other violations.. thats when the real nightmare began.. but thats another story.

 

damn dude!!

 

Wrong you can not be pulled over for supision of drunk driving. You have to get caught for speeding, improper lane usage, out head light or tail or some other misc traffic violation.

 

Hm, makes sense. I'm no law expert by any means, but if they can see that you don't have a seatbelt on (or it appears that you don't), then why shouldn't they be able to pull you over?

And bluebird, I wasn't really calling you an *******, just had to use that quote. That cop seems like a dick.. a ticket for not enough tread on your tires? Did all those get tossed in court?

 

1) I know.. I figgered that.. I can read into messages pretty good.. been doing it long enough..

2) the tickets...

All the little tickets like that got tossedd.. but the speeding tickets that I got repeatedly, some got dismissed, some got court supervisions, some were in different countys...... haha it;s a long story... I have 80% of the tickets in a big manilla folder in my filing cabinet..... I always show people I meet cuz they dont believe that I could get that many tickets and still be driving... but with an attorney.. a lot of things are possible.. it just costed me a lot of damn moola

 

i just got pulled over for the same thing. my dad was a cop for 18 years in gurnee and he said when he was a cop they had no legal right to do that. well in the past three years he got a job teachin criminal justice at wester illinois and during that time they made it lawful for cops to do this. my dad was gonna fight it as well and then we talked to the state secretary at the courthouse and he said they just passed that law not to long ago. sorry dude but u r screwed.

 

I still get some cops in town that act just like that. I think they stay up late at night watching cops and decide that they are living the show. they are nuts my car is clean and well kept up and I am a clean cut person but, they never stop. this one cop pulls U turns in the middle of any street just to follow me. and I guess he can do that some bull on how they can follow you if they suspect something. thats what the guy at the station said when I complained about harassment. I even said it in court when he gave me a faulse speeding ticket. 55 in a 25 jerks!

 

yeah i was talkin to the kane county judical circuit, and they siad they did pass the law on it not to long ago. since i was wearing my seat belt and didnt get a ticket for it, im fine. the ticket was just for the wrong insurance card which is gonna be waved too as soon as i go down and show them the new one. its all good!

 

either some cops are real dicks or some are just simply on a power trip. I got pulled over in the righe lane with very heavy traffic on my way to a car show by the Minnesota state patrol. he was in the left lane and he must have seen my tail lights, you know how it is with heavy traffic stop and go stop and go. I removed my tail lights and on one lens I taped the inside off and spray painted the inside of the lens so it would light up with the letter "T" and the pass side would light up with the letter "A". well he said it was illegal and I asked him about all the Dodge Ram pickups driving aropund with that ram cover over their tail lights and all he said was that they are cracking down on them to, which was a bunch of bs. then he gave me a ticket b/c I didn't have my insurance card on me even though I showed him my ins bill, ticket for not changing my address after I mo\ved which was only 3 weeks prior, and the old air freshner in the windsheild bit. I never did change my tail lights. the cop was younger than I am((about 25 or so) and he had a female partner. I think he was on a power trip and showing off a bit to his partner. sometimes not much you can do, if a cop wants to pull you over to be a dick they will. by any meens don't argue with them on the road about it b/c it will only make matters much worse. let them get their little high then see'em in court.

 

goin to bed quick post...

im now 18, pulled over 16 times, two tickets.


you CANNOT be pulled over just for no seatbelt, but if you are pulled over for soemthing else, then he has right to ticket you for no seat belt...


ugh, somestuffs bad, today i alomst got tagged. i was like... almost home... almost home, left blnker, so he nearly takes off my rear end when he punched it... hooligan....

 

you CAN be pulled over...new law just adopted not to long ago.....it sucks.. for more info call your judicial circuit and they will read the thing to you about it.

 

Hate to say it, but.. "I told ya so"

I think people should just put their seatbelt on anyway. It takes a half a second, I don't see what the big deal is. My cousin was involved in two semi-serious accidents before he even turned 16. Both of which, he was not wearing a seatbelt. The second one knocked him out and put him in the hospital for 5 days. He can barely remember any of it. Thats reason enough for me to wear one.

 

i always wear mine, just not over my shoulder like its supposed to be.. when i get my 4th gen seat, ill wear it correctly.

 

Maybe I can help just a little bit. A recent addition to the seat belt law to work in conjunction with the graduated drivers license law that affects all of you younger people. You CAN be stopped for not wearing seatbelt if you or any of your passenger appear to be under the age of 18. It's pretty subjective since there are a lot of people out there that are older than they look.

A seatbelt violation is just about the only thing I don't give warnings for. I do think the system is too hard on younger people when it comes to the graduated drivers license law.

 

well, just happened to me and my girlfriend last night. i was thinkin of cruising around the local forest preserve u know and bam. some dude is standin in the middle of the road with his flashlight waving it around. ITS A PARK RANGER! supposedly the park closed at ten and i was speedin and not wearin a seatbelt. well i got a seatbelt violation but just a warning for the speeding since he said they just changed to signs the other night to 20 instead of 30. damn rangers. they arent really cops. all they have is a forest.

 

damn dude that sucks,, but a damn ranger???? i didnt know they had them kind of privaleges. i know they can pull you over, but then i thought they had to call for back up(a real cop)

 

they are the cops of the fricking forest. but in there they have all the duties and responsibilites and perks of a real cop. they can do anything in a forest preserve. personally i think they should just watch out for smokey the bear and hope he doesnt mysteriously show up

 

one more thing that i thought was hilarious is when he left my window i told my girlfriend "hey boobo, i think the ranger got us this time!" i am just so freakin hilarious

 

all i know is that in peoria county or city, you CAN NOT get pulled over for the fact that you don't have your seat belt on......b/c i got pulled over the other day, for not hving a front licsense plate and i just happened to nto have it on and i got a ticket. but the seatbelt is not why the cop pulled me over , i asked him......

 

watch the tv,, there is a comercial about them enforcing it.

 

Yes you can. Haven't you heard of their "click it or ticket" campaign? The law says you must wear a seatbelt. Police are supposed to enfore the law. If you are breaking the law by not wearing a seatbelt, then police CAN pull you over. Just take the extra half second to put a seatbelt on- its not that big of a deal.

 

AHHHH BOOGEYMAN!!!!!!!!

i saw this on i88

it was hard to get a picture, i think its cool, but not when it could be behind me!!!

i never saw this one, and i raced the white one.
im scared..... lol

 

kudos to buddy chris for being able to take these

id wanna be this cop, drive a TA as your job,