WTF? That fcuking sucks mate, did you tell the cop what happened?
A few years ago I was driving at around 35 in a 60 zone, stuck behind a "Truck and Trailer" carting rocks. Because it was a single lane either side of the white line and the heavy traffic I couldn't overtake him for around 15 miles.
I finally got a chance to get past him and took off, and as I drew level, I saw a car coming in the opposite direction, so I had to speed up to around 75 to get past him. As I did so, the car in the distance put on it's flashing lights, it was an unmarked cop car.
Not only did the little turd book me for speeding, he also tried to get me for crossing double lines, because when I finally pulled up from 75 I was parked adjacent double white lines. I tried to explain that I'd only increased my speed when I saw him, and if I hadn't sped up (I couldn't drop back behind the truck as there was a heap of cars that had been stuck behind him) I would've had a "head on" with him, but he didn't care, all he said was, "whatever, you were still speeding", and handed me a 300 dollar "on the spot" fine.
Fcuk this, I wrote a letter to the clerk of courts explaining that this priick wouldn't listen to reason, I was only trying to avoid a crash, blah blah blah, and in time I got a letter back saying that they'd taken my statement into account, and had reduced the fine from 300 bucks to 250. Big fcuking deal, thinks I. On top of that they "awarded" court costs of 350 bucks agains me! Fcuk! Now I'm up for 600 bucks, I should have just bent over and taken it up the arse!
Now I hadn't even told the wife that I'd been done, let alone that I was now up for 600 bucks because I decided to defend my (otherwise excellent....) driving history. I rang the clerk of courts to question the courts decision. He said that it was correct, my fine had been reduced by 50 bucks, so I asked why I had to pay 350 in court costs? He checked on the computer and said, "Oops, that should have been 35 dollars". So the good news was that I'd saved 315 dollars, but the bad news was that (in my opinion) I shouldn't have been booked at all.
I don't hate all cops, I know some really good ones, but if I saw that little arsehole who booked me on a nice quiet road lat at night, I'd run the baastard over! Arsehole cops who just book you because they can, piss me off