Okay, heres my cop story.
In April of 2002, I was driving home from Georgia after celebrating my neice's 1st birthday. I had a friend in the car with me as well as my then 2 year old child. It was about midnight and I passed a cop (who did not have any sort of running lights on or anything) going 85 in a 70. Stone cold busted, I was nice and polite, but when he ran my license, it came back suspended. I had no clue why either, and he claimed it wasn't showing up. I have since asked cops about this, and I was told that it is up to the officer to decide whether to arrest the driver or not. Instead of being a nice guy and letting my friend, who had a valid license drive, he handcuffs me and has her follow us to the station where I am finger printed, photographed, and made to stand naked in front of some strange woman while she writes down my distinguishing markings. I get hold of my mother who is only 2 hours away and after being thrown in a cell with five huge mean looking women, and waiting for another 3 hours, they come get me and I'm let go. My mother had to drive down and sign a property bond to get me out. I felt so bad. And all I could think about was Corbin and my poor friend. I paid for a hotel room the next exit down and we slept until noon the next day.
What really got me though was the cop, who was trying so hard to act like he felt bad about having to do this, asked me if I was leaving some hick concert. I said, no I'm not leaving a concert, I have a 2 year old with me! Then he proceeds to tell me how he was out looking for the drunk drivers that always leave those concerts. I don't remember exactly what I said to him but it was something smart about how good a job he was doing keeping drunk drivers off the road that night. The whole thing was totally ridiculous. Luckly at my court date when they saw that I fixed the problem with my license the next day after I got home (which turned out to be a problem with the insurance) they reduced the charges from driving on a suspended license to driving without a license and I avoided a $1200 fee, 10 days in jail, and a 6 month suspended license term. And only ended up paying $600.
But still....come on....