# Cops followed me from home, took my plates, gave me $220 in fines ON MY BIRTHDAY.FTC!

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**Category:** SON240sx Automotive
**Created:** [June 27, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-followed-me-from-home-took-my-plates-gave-me-220-in-fines-on-my-birthday-ftc/116587 "2008-06-27T10:15:59Z")
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### Author: ![Hacknik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hacknik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hacknik)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-followed-me-from-home-took-my-plates-gave-me-220-in-fines-on-my-birthday-ftc/116587/74 "2008-07-01T12:04:55Z")

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> [@WTB: Bills season opener tix](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-bills-season-opener-tix/17320/4):
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> I’ve actually always wondered about this…
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> let’s say you are an owner of a reputable company. As a hobby, you tune cars. They are all fully legal, and meet all safety and emission standards.
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> Let’s say, you get pulled over one day by the ERASE program, and city tv, or cogeco…or whatever happes to catch you on the news. Next thing you know, your car and yourself is displayed all over on the news, and then uses the slang “street racer” in association with the images or video.
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> Is this grounds for a law suit? Because…now that association is on the “business owner” who has no affliation with street racers, does not street race, was pulled over because of stupid political reasons, and is now being flamed as a street racer, which could potentially result in a tarnished reputation and loss of income due to lack of consumer confidence.
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> If all of a sudden the news media, and the police get tagged with a law suit with misuse of a derrogatory term, and unnecessarily placing an upstanding canadian citizen as a ‘street racer’, I do think it would turn the tide on the whole stereo type of the ‘street racer’ label.

I believe thats true, but what are the chances of something like that happening? Cops follow you, they dont randomly pull you over when you drive by… they follow, run your plates, do a little research on the owner/driver, past offencises, car make/model, ext. modifications. Basically, if you are a young MALE, driving a car that seems to be modified, ( or a honda) they will pull you over. Just a week ago, I got pulled over ( driving my moms Acura MDX). You know what the cop said to me? He was like " im not giving you a ticket or anything, but I wanted to pull you over, becuase you dont seem like the type to own a high class Sport Utility Vehicle.

It’s no supprise … I’m a young black male, driving down a sidestreet at about 3am ( dropped a friend home). Stereotyping, and discrimination. The only thing that I can say to people would basically be : Stay aware of where your driving, and the time of day it is. Make sure you have all your shit in line, or else you will get fucked. And personally, i dont care anymore, im not afraid of the fuzz. I know im not a stupid driver, and i wont let this get in the way of my hobby.

“Only People that cant afford to pay tickets are afraid to drive” – lol

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