Sometimes you just gotta stand up for what you know is right even if it costs you.
Here on the lake where I live there is a small county road that cuts about 5 miles off driving distance if going from one side of the lake to the other. A great time saver if you are going to the brewsky store.
On this road is a small , delapidated community that has been incorporated. On the websites and in the papers here there have been quite a few articles and discussions concerning the speed/stop sign traps set up here by their P.D. and city power that be.
Myself and my wife took this road headed over to pick up some cool ones.
There is a stop sign on this road, with an intersection leading into the
town. If you stop at the white line behind the stop sign designating a legal stop and look to your left, the intersecting road cannot be seen due to very thick trees and brush that reaches more than a mile.
I stopped at the white line completely, rolled forward in order to see down the intersecting road, and stopped again. Looking to my left I saw
a squad car sitting about 2oo yards up the intersecting road, half in and half out of the roadway. NOTE: He couldn`t get out of the roadway due to the trees reaching within aprx. 3 feet of the pavement.
I reached over , turned down the radio and made a staement to my wife about the squad car and how he was waiting on someone to run the stop sign.
After I took off from the sign and had gotten a couple of hundred yards down the road I looked in the rearview mirror to see the squad car come sliding through the turn (without stopping at the stop sign on his side :>) ), run a woman in a white Caddy behind me into the ditch. Lights, sirens, the whole smear. I pulled to the side as much as possible to let him pass . Guess what? He was after me. 
He said he was pulling me over because I ran the stop sign. I told him that I had stopped not only once, but twice.
He took my liscense and went to the squad car , got on the radio to run me for warrants, etc. It was about 99 degrees that day. We set on the side of the road for about 15 minutes while he played Sgt. Friday.
Upon returning to my car he went into a long drawn out speech about stopping at the stop sign. He then told me it was my lucky day because he was just going to give me a warning. He then went into another speech about how he wouldn`t have stopped me if I had actualy stopped at the sign. I told him that was fine, but , in truth I HAD stopped, he knew it and I knew it. He turned red in the face like a beet and began calling me a liar. I returned the favor. He wrote me a ticket for running the sign with a note stating I had been argumentive with a police officer.
I had some e-mail contact with the attorney general`s office concerning the scam they were running in this little one horse community to raise funds.
When I went on the date set forth on the ticket to go before the judge it was hilarious. The "Town Hall" is located down a bad gravel road sitting between two run down, falling in shacks with junk cars scattered over the yards. The "Town Hall" consists of a small building about the size of the average living room. They were adding on to it at the time with air hoses , electrical chords, etc running through the door.
There was one guy in front of me to see the judge. What was his violation? Running the stop sign.
When asked how he pleaded he told the judge "not guilty". He went on to explain to the judge that he had received the citation through the mail. He also stated that at the time this great offense was supposed to have happened that he and his wife were out of state at another residence and had been for over a month. He told the judge that he could get as many statements verifying this as needed.
I went before the judge, pleaded not guilty and explained my situation. I also brought up the fact that it was impossible for the officer to even see the stop sign from where he was sitting due to the trees and brush.
I was told that I would be notified for a court date.
It`s been over a year and I`ve heard nothing further from them. :>)
