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Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie: How NOT to Get Outta That Speeding Ticket
Posted by Kelly O on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I once fake-cried my way out of a speeding ticket on a lonely two lane highway in Northern Michigan. It was Christmas Eve, I was the only car on the road, and it was snowing like a motherf*cker. Snow or no snow, I wanted to get home. There was a ham with pineapple slices on it waiting for me there. I grew up driving on snow and ice, and going 15 miles over the speed limit was not a problem. The cop pulled me over, and in the time it took him to walk up to my window, I turned on the water-works. I can't remember which family member I told him was in the hospital, but he sympathized and let me go with a warning.
I don't know why I'm telling you all this. Oh yeah, this video. This woman's technique, um, it rarely works. I think it's probably best to stick to good ole fashioned tears...
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Oh man, I cut to a couple different places in the video and the sound was the same throughout. I'm doing that next time someone takes the last slice.
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I wish that was translated so we could know just what the cop said. She acts like she was just told her children were dead.
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What. The. Hell. I can't imagine anything that would make me act like that other than maybe the death of a loved one.
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apparently she's not evolved emotionally beyond the toddler stage. god people are so ridiculous!!!
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I'm familar with the expression "sounding like a stuck pig" - but this is the first time I've heard a human (rather than porcine) throat make that sound.
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Maybe the video posts got mixed up today.
Maybe this is the "Drunken Cross-Dressing Four Year Old."
Maybe this is the "Drunken Cross-Dressing Four Year Old."
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@ 6, you should check out the new crop of deathcore bands. So-called pig squeals are something all their vocalists do.
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A) In todays world here in the good ole USA that kind of response would get her arreasted on obstructing an officer charges.
B) if my wife began acting like that I would drive off and leave her laying alongside the road.
Last summer I was on my way to the hospital in Bremerton where my adult son was about to undergo an emergency appendectomy, and got popped by a Bremerton Cop for 15 over. When I told him my story he let me off, and I didn't even have to cry. I wish I could remember his name, I'd credit him. Nice guy.
B) if my wife began acting like that I would drive off and leave her laying alongside the road.
Last summer I was on my way to the hospital in Bremerton where my adult son was about to undergo an emergency appendectomy, and got popped by a Bremerton Cop for 15 over. When I told him my story he let me off, and I didn't even have to cry. I wish I could remember his name, I'd credit him. Nice guy.
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Warning that people probably won't see until after watching the video: it starts out kinda quiet but gets LOUD.
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Kelly,
That is absolutely surreal. You're right. Tears work much better than that. And, the "coup de grace" was the officer handing the fellow another citation at the end. Hilarious.
That is absolutely surreal. You're right. Tears work much better than that. And, the "coup de grace" was the officer handing the fellow another citation at the end. Hilarious.
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Parents: Let this be a cautionary tale of the danger of not instructing your children that temper tantrums will NOT get them their way.
I'll bet this woman got away with absolute murder as a little girl, just like Veruca fucking Salt.
I'll bet this woman got away with absolute murder as a little girl, just like Veruca fucking Salt.
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Blame the parents.
Back in the day, she probably got a bowl of ice cream after acting like that. Just look at her now.
Back in the day, she probably got a bowl of ice cream after acting like that. Just look at her now.
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I don't believe in hitting kids, but an adult who displays that kind of behaviour deserves a good hard slap. And I would happily have given her one, so she might think twice about pulling a fit like this again. What an embarrassment of a human being.
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Her hystery would have been more convincing if she'd run onto the road directly into traffic. What a poseur! But I bet she's a bobcat in the sack!
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My Ukrainian is pretty rusty, but it goes something like this...
the woman is shouting "arrest me" over and over to the highway patrol. The patrolman interrupts with "please come over here - there's no need to shout". The second patrolman says "come here and show me your passport (internal ID)", then continues with something I don't totally understand but take to mean "you didn't need to act this way". Screaming ensues. Towards the end, the man (husband?) helping the woman admonishes the patrolmen, saying "see what you've done? how could you".
the woman is shouting "arrest me" over and over to the highway patrol. The patrolman interrupts with "please come over here - there's no need to shout". The second patrolman says "come here and show me your passport (internal ID)", then continues with something I don't totally understand but take to mean "you didn't need to act this way". Screaming ensues. Towards the end, the man (husband?) helping the woman admonishes the patrolmen, saying "see what you've done? how could you".
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While I played that, my two cats both woke up from their naps and wandered over to the computer with quizzical looks on their faces. I share their puzzlement.
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I once fake cried my way out of a speeding ticket in central Michigan, and told the cop (who I had passed twice before he pulled me over) that my sister was on a suicide watch. Which wasn't strictly true, but she WAS fighting with her boyfriend, and my parents heard her scream at him that he made her want to kill herself.
Cops in Michigan are a lot more susceptible to tears than the ones in Texas. I never got out of one ticket in Texas.
Cops in Michigan are a lot more susceptible to tears than the ones in Texas. I never got out of one ticket in Texas.
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I'm pretty sure I used to date her.
Also: Her screaming made my dog FREAK OUT. Now he's all riled up and pissed off. Thanks, Kelly!
Also: Her screaming made my dog FREAK OUT. Now he's all riled up and pissed off. Thanks, Kelly!
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I can see how a few weepy tears might soften up a cop enough to let you off. But this kind of over-the-top hysterics is more likely to get you involuntarily committed than get you out of a measly ticket.
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In defense of the crazy banshee lady, there is something about getting a ticket that tends to upset people way more than the situation calls for.
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I had this awesome vision of the line of people from "Airplane!" queued up to slap some sense into her, including the nuns and the guy w/ the pipe.
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I would say the person has some kind of psychological ailment, some kind of autism or something, but she's so normal at the beginning. Seems staged...I hope it's staged. Otherwise, yeah, they should have just tased her ass, shot her full of tranquilizers and left her to rot on the side of the road.
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Good God. It's a fucking ticket.
It's not like they yanked her unborn fetus from her womb.
Shit Almighty.
It's not like they yanked her unborn fetus from her womb.
Shit Almighty.
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Would it not have been less traumatic for her just to blow the pigs away in a a hale of hot firearm lead?
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