Calgary cops are ridiculous!

[Tiki]

So im in class today and receive a call from my mom saying a police man called and wanted me to phone him back, so i call and there is no answer. Then 5 minutes later i answer and a cop yells at me for 15 minutes about how my europlate is illegal and how lucky i am he didn't give me $400 worth of tickets.....
is this even possible like WTF. Who goes through that much effort to look up my plate, call my parents who live in Okotoks and yell at me for 15 minutes for a europlate? i ended up arguing with him how i see 70 y/o people with "gone fishin" vanity plates and how they never get in trouble but as soon as i have a vanity plate that is a different shape its highly illegal?

Side Note: got a rock chip!!!!

[boostedmk4]

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Thats Homersexual

[R_Ethug]

Re: Calgary cops are ridiculous!

first off tell him to eat a dick.. if its on your front they can't do jack... and you should realize this city is one of the best and worst to live in in canada....

i know another member got a call from a cop a few years ago stating i saw you off duty on deerfoot speeding and you should turn yourself in.. thats too funny

i have cousins who are cops in saskatchewan and some of the stories they tell me are just hilarious and ridiculous against citizens..

[Compton]

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1. Tell your mom to never give out ur number to them.
2. Next time hang up if you notice ur talking to a cop as you arent obligated to stay on the line.
3. Run your Europlate with a rear EURO trunk lid!
4. ?????
5. Profit

Whats ur vanity plate say anyway?

[popp]

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I had a cop call me once saying I had to drive my car to district 6 in the NE when I lived in the south west so that he could see my tail lights as they were supposedly tinted.......I told him that I would not be driving my car to his police station and that if he wanted to see them, he could drive to my work or my home at MY earliest convenience......... he never came or called again. Probably the same cop.

[R_Ethug]

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he's probably mad because tims ran out of honey dipped timbits and his usual girl on 3rd ave wasn't out last night

[Tiki]

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it say's lil blue haha nothing offensive.

[Benjamin]

Re: Calgary cops are ridiculous!

70(2)(b)
Owner of motor vehicle with licence plate display licence
plate issued outside Alberta, unless required

I think if you leave a BC or Ont plate on the front and an AB plate on the back this rule goes, but an EU plate is no where near misleading. Just a cop that should have taken a PMS day, because really he hold no water in his argument. He is just trying to flex his muscle and make himself feel like he had power, thats all.

[MusicalGenius]

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Little Richard Syndrome …

[bart]

Re: Calgary cops are ridiculous!

ya if the cop wants something from you, wants to see you, or tell you to come see him at his station, decline. you DONT have to go anywhere unless you get some kind of subpoena.

[niXon]

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first off tell him to eat a dick.. if its on your front they can't do jack...

Yes they can.

[R_Ethug]

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do you bend over and take it when asked too? stand up for your rights man! we don't live in a dictatorship..

i can see them complaining if it says.. DIEPIGS, fagsrlame, gaycops, or something totally offensive like that.. but if it says.. q2vsa902 all euro.. who cares

but i can run a front plate that says 'GMC' and nobody cares??

[jacktown]

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Does seem like the cop is being a little over caring in this case.
Technically what your doing is the same as having a different alberta plate on the front to the back. This could be misleading. I agree that they are being a bit over the top about it though.
Of course - there are not many european plated cars driving around AB.
There are a handful though - like the UK R32 with UK plates. Also, touring vehicles and bikes come through on an occasional basis.

[niXon]

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do you bend over and take it when asked too? stand up for your rights man! we don't live in a dictatorship..

i can see them complaining if it says.. DIEPIGS, fagsrlame, gaycops, or something totally offensive like that.. but if it says.. q2vsa902 all euro.. who cares

but i can run a front plate that says 'GMC' and nobody cares??

No but to be so ignorant as to say "They can't do ****" is absolutely fucking retarded.

[stefan]

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they cant do anything useful, but they can waste a pile of your time. i'm sure he knows if you were willing to argue, you'd get out of any charges, but he's willing to try waste enough of your time in hopes that you take the plate off on your own. A different plate is not legal, but a euro plate is, as mentioned, as close to a North American plate as any GMC, Calgary Flames, etc.. plate out there. Kinda dumb.