RCMP officer damaged my Vehicle
Alright today at 4:00pm (Sunday, June 18th I was driving from Edmonton to Calgary (in my 94 Eagle Talon) when near red deer I was pulled over for speeding, now I was in fact speeding going about 125km/h and I have no problem with a speeding ticket though it seems odd to get pulled over for a speed that low on Hwy 2.
Anyway he comes up behind me and I pull over, few min later he comes and asks for my License and Registration takes it and goes to his car he then returns a few moments later and asks me if I know the posted speed limit for the area, I reply that I do; he asks how fast I think I was going. I reply “110km/h” he informs me that I was in fact going 125km/h I deny it. He then without asking or saying anything begins picking with his thumbnail at the tint on my passenger side window ripping about an ¼ of my tint off. I ask him what he is doing and he reply that it’s illegal to have tint on side windows not behind the driver and asks who applied the tint. I ask him politely to stop picking at my tint to which he reply’s “you MUST remove this tint before I can let you go.” I ask if he is serious to which he states that I must now begin to remove the tint myself. I then ask him very directly if he is ordering me to remove the tint from my windows. He replies that yes I must do it right now. I ask him if I have to do it right now or if I can do it later he tells me he cannot hear me and asks me to step out of the vehicle, but wait here is the fun part. He then opens my passenger side door without asking, this is where the problem starts. I curbed the car a few weeks earlier after being cut off, this pushed my right passenger fender back and it now prevented my passenger door from being opened, it could only open about 1.5 inches before hitting the fender and stopping. This cop I guess did not notice and just reamed my door open causing a large crease in my fender and popping most of a trim piece off the same fender. I ask him what he is doing and if he noticed that he just damaged my vehicle he replies that he did not notice. I myself had tried opening the door after the curbing and it was VERY noticeable that the door overlapped with the fender by almost a ½ inch there was no way he did not noticed that he just bent my fender. He asked me to step out of the car as he leans in and takes a sniff, I ask him again directly “Are you searching my vehicle?” he replies “No, just helping you get out.” Which was Bullshit, he was very clearing trying to illegally inspect the interior of the vehicle he has no probably cause to be opening my passenger door, especially since there was no passenger and I was in the drivers seat with a center console in the way.
I climb over the console and exit the vehicle, the tells me to start removing the tint and starts picking at it again. I again ask if he is ordering me to do it and he replies that he is. I begin to remove the tint leaving a huge sticky mess on my window he tells me to do the other one before he will let me go. I ask him about the fender and what he’s going to do about the damage. He tells me “It looks like that was already there son.” I tell him that It most defiantly was not. He tells me I am getting off easy with just a speeding ticket I stop talking before I dig myself into a hole, I finish ripping the tint off the other window he explains the ticket to me tells me my three options tells me to have a nice day and walks back to his car and drives away.
I now has 1 $89 speeding ticket for 15 over the limit giving me 2 demerits which I will go fight, 1 Hugely messed up front fender and two windows covered in a huge sticky mess that looks ugly as hell. I am now trying to figure out what the hell to do to get this fixed. I honestly feel that he violated my rights by opening my door and destroying my window tint without asking or saying anything to me on either occasion. I know the tint was illegal whatever I would have eater a ticket for it because I have been driving around for a year in the car and never been pulled over before and its unlikely I would ever get another ticket for the tint, but now my windows are covered in glue and looks terrible. The fender also has me pretty choked since before he decided to open the door all I had to do to fix it was take the fender off and reposition it and it would have been fine, now I need a new fender and trim piece and some repainting on the lip my door. Any suggestions on what I can do to have this set right?
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What a dick! Too bad man, sorry to hear about it!
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ya cant fuck with rcmp
. I am sure he can't tell the difference between crappy tire american racing rims and my racing harts. Even if he could how the hell can he tell what rims mine were when I was in motion. "Sigh" Rant is over....
