Honk/Finger Stunting Ticket
So....
About a month ago I went up north on a 1 day business trip from the airport, after getting back my boss picks me up, we are pretty good friends and we were going to see the new Bourne movie afterwards. Pulled over out of the blue, get a ticket for one of us allegedly fingering and honking at an officer. Need advice, read further:
On August 8th, 2007 at about 7:00pm
After landing we drove away from the airport heading North on Barlow when I noticed (3 lanes over) near Toromont (100th Ave.) A Nissan Skyline or 240 could not tell at first (to far away) pulled over and focused on the cop behind him. Drive pass, point out the car and make a comment about it to my boss (the Skyline) and about 1km later a cop car has his lights on behind us, and the officer is yelling over the loud speaker to pull over to the right (really rudely) so my boss pulls over three lanes to the the right and parks at the edge of the road, after being yelled at over loud speaker a couple of times.... he comes up to the window and tells me (the passenger) to get out of the car and put my hands on his hood after taking my identification. I go to the front of the car and put my hands on his hood, he takes a step back from my boss's Jeep, looks at me and starts talking to my boss again... eventually comes over to me, tells me I have a problem following directions and tells me to put my hands on the passenger side, so still standing in front of the cruiser I put my hands on the passenger side... he gets really impatient tells me again I have problems following instructions and says "put your hands on the passenger side" I look down at the mud (following his vision path) on the edge of the road and decide to stay put but extend my hands further up the hood toward the passenger area. He gets really loud and tells me to "get over to the passenger side" I walk through the mud and stand with my hands on the passenger side. He calls for back up, then he goes into his car and does some stuff. Gets out of the car, tosses my ID across his hood and tells me to get back into the jeep and to not look back. So I get in, my boss tells me (by the way, I was pretty scared and didn't say a thing the whole time)... boss tells me that apparently we were honking the horn (asked who did it) and that one of us fingered him. A second officer shows up, and I can hear them talking about someone on vacation or something, comes up to the window and hands us each a stunting ticket (passenger stunting for me) and another for not wearing seatbelt ticket to my boss. I have no clue how the cop could have seen that from about 100-150 feet away travelling in opposite directions etc... anyways, have to go to set a trial date tomorrow, wondering if anyone has ever been in a similar situation or has any advice on what to do or if someone reading was the nissan pulled over that night....
Or, any thoughts as to why he would have done this? I think maybe someone else may have and in the 1 km loaded with traffic road he mistook us for someone else or, maybe he took exception to the way we were driving and just wanted to nail us with something, or maybe he thought we did all of this and just saw and heard things that weren't there (no honks heard by us btw)
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Pretty sure he saw me, and no ticket
