Has anyone ever seen an SUV pulled over by the cops? - ANSWERED

[hsher]

Thanks for answering, everyone. I retract the question now. It's funny, but all my time living in the South, when I was there, I not one time saw one pulled over. Neither did relatives and friends.

Thanks for giving me the facts on this one.

[Little Wing]

1. All the time

Yes, even the luxury ones. SUV drivers around here tend to think they have a right to drive like a bat out of hell.

[B Calm]

2. I see them pulled over... but then I drive around 2,300 miles per wk.

[Gregorian]

4. My head just exploded.

For someone who drives 2000 miles per year, I guess I can't imagine.

That sounds horrible. I'm sure it's job related. But I'd rather die than have to do that.

[B Calm]

10. Some weeks I drive my 18 wheeler 2,500 miles. I use to drive 6,000

miles a week teaming with another driver.

[XOKCowboy]

13. LOL Ya gotta love it and XM radio comes in handy...

Not to butt in on this thread but some of have to do it for work. I'm from a family of "travelers" and have always loved to drive and travel. You get to meet a lot of great people and it gives you a better "world perspective" in my opinion. Then there are the fringe benefits like my drive last week through central Alabama and Mississippi with all of the fall colors. It was incredibly beautiful.

[notadmblnd]

3. I drive an SUV and I've been pulled over 2x's this past year

Once because I was pointing out that the cop had a break light out (apparently he didn't like my hand gestures) and pulled me over for following too close. Thing is I wasn't following him, I had pulled up behind him at a stop light. August, I was pulled over for speeding.. and I was, I showed up in court, got it reduced to no points and paid my fine. I do have to say, I at no time have ever listened to Limpbaugh.

Why do I drive an SUV? Because my son plays Bass and it doesn't fit in a car.

[dorktv]

6. best friend has been pulled over and he has an SUV (highlander)

which is okay I suppose

[951-Riverside]

5. Has anyone ever seen a motorcycle pulled over by the cops?

NOT those "wee wee choo choo vroom vroom Bikes" :wtf: stolen by kindergartners and highschoolers... again :wtf:.

[XOKCowboy]

7. Same as above. I drive almost 25K miles per year though..

and I always get a smile when I see it happen. Especially to the Escalades with the woman with 2 kids in the backseat, putting on lipstick while talking on her cell and almost cutting me off in her extreme haste type of SUV.

No traffic cops usually are non-discriminatory pullers-over. Now what happens AFTER they pull them over I have no idea.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. You're Right. There's A Big Consparicy Amongst Cops To Not Pull Them Over.

It's vehicle racism I tells ya, all this sedan profiling and stuff.

[flamingyouth]

9. All the time.

I don't commute any more, but when I drove over to the Eastside for work it was almost a daily event.

[wuushew]

11. There is the possibility that racial profiling is involved

If ownership brand by ethnicity is subject to racial bias that may explain some amount of disparity.

http://swjcj.cjcenter.org/archives/2.2/Ikner.pdf

[eallen]

12. On the highway, I see speeding SUVs pulled over all the time.

[dysfunctional press]

14. definitely.

almost daily, in fact.

[bahrbearian]

15. Just the ones with spinner rims.

[The Deacon]

16. As A Site Which Fights Against Discrimination

Perhaps we should start with understanding what discrimination is all about: meaningless, derogatory comments about an entire class of people without regard to their uniqueness. "evil soccer moms and Rethug dads with cell phone to ear, listening to Rush Limbaugh." I drive an SUV because my job required it - I'm sure that many of the other SUVs out on the road have similar reasons. Even if my job didn't require it I would be driving some similar vehicle - I am six foot & over 200 lbs. Getting in & out of the current crop of ill-designed rolling cracker boxes is more hassle than I feel I want at this point in my life (and it has less to do with my bulk than with poor design: I used to drive an MG Midget & was perfectly comfortable.)
I find the current unreasoning hatred of SUVs despicable - and don't bother to tell me its about gas mileage. I'm sure bigots the world 'round have their "logical" reasons for their hate.
In fact, now that my job no longer requires the use of an SUV I plan on keeping it - maybe even getting another one - just to piss off all you bigots. You see, I'm a Democrat & I believe in fighting for the underdog.
Flame away.

[wuushew]

17. I went to an auto show this year with my tall friend

He has many of the same complaints as you. I don't see him ever buying a Japanese sedan, but he seemed to fit comfortably into the larger Dodge cars.

[hsher]

19. Jeez, calm down

Nobody disparaged 200 lb Democrats who own SUVs. Look at the parameters again. They do fit a certain social type. I didn't post this to upset you: I don't even know who you are! Please don't blow a gasket, Jeez. And keep your SUV, by all means... good heavens...

JOKE: --> Hmm... that level of rage certainly seems SUV :P

[The Deacon]

22. Thank You For Proving My Point About Bigotry

"...that level of rage seems SUV" and the poster who doesn't feel any sympathy for people in overturned SUVs. Am I still on DU or did somebody hack us into Free Republic?

[hsher]

23. Someone can't take a joke

No further talk with you. Sorry I offended you. Buh-bye.

[mockmonkey]

18. I've had the same thought

I'm surprised that I don't see more of them pulled over. I guess I am more irritated by them because of the size and the way the drivers dart in and out of lanes as if they were driving something more secure to the road. They seem to think they ARE Dale Earnhardt. Some will tailgate you in the winter because they feel they have total control on the snow and ice. I don't feel bad when I hear that someone flipped their SUV.

I really hate it when I want to make a right turn at a red light and some guy in a SUV is pulled way past the first white line and every time I move ahead a little to see around him he pulls ahead a little more.

I know that some people really need an SUV, construction workers, farmers, people who need to pull large trailers.

This is America. Which means everyone needs to be an ASSHOLE and get that extra little tiny bit ahead of the other guy.

You never see Greyhound buses pulled over for speeding either.

[marlakay]

20. Friend driving my suv got pulled over

she was going 10 miles over the speed limit, thought it was 60 and it had just turned 50 on highway. I felt bad because she was driving because my back hurt so I could lay back...ugh....she got ticket to...we are in WA.

[hsher]

21. Marlakay, you know the rules... (JOKE)

"You can go your entire life without ever attracting a traffic ticket, but the day you lend your car to your roommate, cousin, sibling or friend, they will be given one."

Related to:

"The moment you think nobody's looking is the moment that someone is. With a videocamera."

"The ones you don't want, want you. The ones you want, can't stand you."

And my personal favorite:

"All men cheat. Until you fall in love with that married man. Then men are suddenly the most monogamous creatures that ever existed on the face of the earth."