Yes, you read that right. Yesterday on my way home from the supermarket I saw a fellow motorist pulled over by an unmarked Ford pickup truck. And it definitely was a Policeman, and not an imposter. I could tell because it had a police license plate, there was a uniformed officer inside who got out to talk to the driver, it had a whole slew of fancy blue light racks hidden behind every window (all of which went off when the officer made the stop), and, perhaps most telling, it was painted in “unmarked police car gray/blue” (you know that color that NO ONE ever gets except undercover cop cars?).
So there you have it: your last bastion of relief is gone. Now literally any vehicle on the road could be primed to pull you over at any minute. Be advised.
on March 6, 2009 at 12:20 pm Watch Your Back Massachusetts: Unmarked F150’s Now Ticketing Motorists « Automotive Buzz from AutoAnything wrote:
[...] unlawful drivers. This was first brought to the public’s attention by Noah, a writer for the Pansy Patrol. The description of the vehicle is a late model blue/gray F150 with an officer inside and [...]
on March 28, 2009 at 1:18 pm Tootsie wrote:
Who cares what cops drive. Dont spped or drive like a dick and they should leave you alone.
on March 31, 2009 at 4:01 pm Noah wrote:
While there is the “don’t drive like a dick” aspect, it IS problematic for the police to not readily be recognized as the police. People do impersonate police, pull people over, and then do all the nasty things that people intent on kidnapping, robbery, rape, tend to do to people.