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19 Stupid Reasons Cops Used to Pull Someone Over

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What’s one of the top most terrifying things ever? Tarantulas? Ghosts? Scary movies late at night? Those are probably up there but I’m talking about siren lights and a cop yelling at you over his PA system to pull over. Reading that sentence may have made the hair on the back of you neck stand up straight, huh?

Seriously, getting pulled over f*cking sucks, there’s never a good outcome from the situation. Regardless of whether or not you’ve got a tail light out, were speeding, or something worse, you usually leave with a bruised ego and a ticket that you’ll begrudgingly have to deal with.

But have you ever been pulled over for something so stupid and minuscule? Cops can take the authoritative position that they’ve earned and use it for the stupidest reasons, like pulling you over for a “dirt on your license plate” (yes, that really happened).

The following 19 ridiculous reasons cops really used to pull people over:

1.

Going through a stop sign. In an undeveloped industrial park. That no one else was in. On my 10 speed bike. When I was 12.

2.

Driving too close to the curb.

3.

I had a baby shade in the rear passenger window. The cop ticketed me for “obscuring my blindspot”. The ticket got tossed and the cop got bitched out by the judge.

4.

I got pulled over, handcuffed, “detained” at the station and scared sh*tless because a STUPID cop made a left-hand turn in front of me, from the right-hand lane, (I was in the middle lane) almost causing an accident. He wrote me a ticket and I refused to sign it as it was his mistake.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.