This morning I had an incident that made me think of this post.
At 7:45 this morning, I was driving in heavy traffic, not bumper-to-bumper but surrounded by cars on all sides, everyone doing about the same speed. An officer walks out into the road and stops everyone. He motions the car in front of me to go ahead forward, and motions me to pull over. He lets everyone else go. The officer explains to me that he clocked me doing 42 in a 25.
The rest of the conversation went like this.
"Officer, I'm sorry. I thought this was a 45 zone."
"The school zone flashers are on, son."
"No they aren't, officer. Look." I pointed out the flashers, which were indeed off. They even said "7:55am-8:30am" (not sure of the end time.)
"Are you being smart with me?"
"Well no, sir. I was just trying to go with the flow of traffic, I didn't think I was behaving recklessly. I thought I was going under the-"
"Let me see your license."

Anyway, he takes my info and writes me a ticket for 42 in a 25. While I'm waiting, a catless straight-piped Mustang (you guys all know the sound) revs at the light nearby and floors it. Cool. Now, had the school zone flashers BEEN on, or had I not being going with the flow of traffic, I feel like the officer would have had every right to pull me over and I would have taken it. But I was one of the slowest cars on the road, and the flashers weren't on to signify that the school zone speed limit was being enforced.

When he gets back to the car, he explains that he's given me two tickets and a warning.
The first ticket is for 42 in a 25.
The warning is for almost-expired tags (of course they are, my birthday is coming up).

The second ticket is for tint. He says it's too dark.

TINT? Too dark?

Let me show you my fucking windows.



Do you see ANY fucking tint at all!?
No, my windows are not fucking tinted. I do not have tinted fucking windows.

So now I've got a $250 tint ticket for NOT having tinted windows.

In case you guys couldn't already guess, that was Cobb County.

Again, I'm not saying I was profiled because I have a loud import car, I'm just saying there were a number of people going as fast or faster as me who weren't pulled over, and that the tint ticket proves that this officer was at best incompetent or at worst a complete dickhead.