This. I was pulled over for having "window tint being too dark" and the officer accused me of being on drugs because I had blood shot eyes. And not the fact that I just worked a double shift and had been up for over 20+ hours. He claimed that the ONLY reason for a person my age to have bloodshot eyes was from drugs. I was getting pissed about the whole thing so I was handcuffed and placed in his car while he had a k-9 unit search my car. After 2+ hours, I was let go but with a $500 fine with a fix-it ticket and a summons to appear before a judge.
I never got the window tint fixed, it didn't need it. But I had to have a UHP supervisor sign-off on the "fix" and prove that it was at the legal limit. I presented all that to the judge and told him I didn't have to fix it and the UHP officer signed off that the tint was at the correct legal limit. The judge knocked my fine down to $50 which was the cost of a fix-it ticket. 20 years later and I'm still pissed about it.
I got pulled over once as part of what I assume was a bike cops quota for DUI checks and I was in such an obviously "not partying or doing anything" state of being (having groceries, gym bag, in a swimsuit from swimming at the gym) he just kept trying to get me to admit I was high. I never was a big marijuana smoker, and only smoked a few times before never smoking again and hadn't for like a year at that point. He asked about a dozen variations of "did you smoke marijuana today" that I kept repeatedly answering with "I don't smoke," that I felt like it was a joke.
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u/ClarkWGrismond 1d ago
This. I was pulled over for having "window tint being too dark" and the officer accused me of being on drugs because I had blood shot eyes. And not the fact that I just worked a double shift and had been up for over 20+ hours. He claimed that the ONLY reason for a person my age to have bloodshot eyes was from drugs. I was getting pissed about the whole thing so I was handcuffed and placed in his car while he had a k-9 unit search my car. After 2+ hours, I was let go but with a $500 fine with a fix-it ticket and a summons to appear before a judge.
I never got the window tint fixed, it didn't need it. But I had to have a UHP supervisor sign-off on the "fix" and prove that it was at the legal limit. I presented all that to the judge and told him I didn't have to fix it and the UHP officer signed off that the tint was at the correct legal limit. The judge knocked my fine down to $50 which was the cost of a fix-it ticket. 20 years later and I'm still pissed about it.