Let me start by saying I went to school here for four years and am in this town probably 1/3 of the weekends throughout the year and have never had one run-in with them.

I know there have been 4,937.6 threads about college station PD, but here's another. They suck!! I am visiting some friends for the weekend...and as we are leaving northgate from the parking garage, people are honking there horns - Honking the fight song, honking in general, just honking. I let off a small honk to join in, and here comes Mr.Bike Cop to pull me over. Gives me a ticket for "Honking a horn in a parking garage." And then proceeds to ask me, "do you think the people in here like to hear your horn?" WTF is this! I dont by any of those "well dont break the law" replies. CSPD sucks plain and simple. Go find a crime. My horn didnt kill, hurt or endanger anyone.

You evil felon. Your horn could have hurt someone's ears. What if a kid had heard your horn? Please...won't you think of the children!

NAZI

That's a new low even for CSPD. The north gate horn honking sting will go down in Aggie lore behind the great jay walk sting of '05

I would give you a don't break the law reply, but I didn't know honking your horn was illegal...

you should have beat him up.

cop killa

does not suprise me...CSPD is a complete joke.

f the police

is it safe to assume that while this ticket is bogus, that it might just have saved you from a "driving while intoxicated in a parking garage"? I know that would have been the ticket I got last weekend.

You couldn't just let that idiot back out and run into your car could you? You had to warn his dumbass some how.

This is the type of incident that really ticks off legit cops. Gung-ho taints like this CS cop give them all a bad name making their difficult job that much more difficult.

ttt

So what are the methods of fighting the ticket? Yes, technically I was guilty...i did "honk horn in parking garage" as the ticket states. But is it even worth contesting? I've never dealt with College Station authorities before (amazingly).

tell them it was an accident....or that someone was about to back into you.

[This message has been edited by WC87 (edited 10/24/2005 1:17p).]

I didn't even know that was illegal. These guys can't just make up a reason to give out tickets. What's next? Are they going to start giving out tickets for "waving at people on sidewalk"?

fight it know it all. It isn't illegal.

and F_CK the ****sucking CSPD... what a bunch of douchebag losers.

So you're the guy!

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=510791&forum_id=12

Wait, is that waving at someone on the sidewalk or the signal for the Kyle Field yell?

i'm starting to wonder if this is a troll. i find it hard to believe that even the CSPD would give a ticket for someone using their horn.

hah. CSPD regulating horn honkers... and i see we have our now weekly campus security alert which claims some dude got mugged at northgate. lmao.

I got a ticket in Deep Ellum in Dallas for "honking my horn in a non-emergency situation" when I was in high school. I would have been $300, but they misspelled my name on the ticket.

yeah when I was doing a speech for speech class about drinking on the promenade i came across an article where the people with the churches behind northgate were complaining about used condoms and needles and and crackpipes and things being found on the church lawn on Sunday mornings.

But we have quiet, peaceful parking garages!

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i'm starting to wonder if this is a troll. i find it hard to believe that even the CSPD would give a ticket for someone using their horn.

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Wish it was a troll.

if this is true, its certainly a new low

Everytime you honk your horn, the CSPD kills a kitten

It's this kind of stuff that has turned me off of Northgate. I've seen to much and heard of a bunch more of the CD stuff that is just is not worth it go down there. The cops write ticekts for petty things while more pressing issues are going on.

But then again CSPD looks at the college students as a cash cow. It is easier and quicker to pay a ticket in College Station than it is to deposit money in the bank. Suprised they haven't opened a drive through lane yet.

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Everytime you honk your horn, the CSPD kills a kitten

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I think I will shoepolish that on my back window the next time I park in the northgate garage!

I was out late coming home from a party one night during the Christmas break.

I never came to a complete stop at a stop sign and I noticed a copper behind me. He followed me for awhile, I slowed down then pulled over.

He drove past me, very slowly, he then began to turn his car around and turned on his lights.

So I'm sitting there thinking, "do I get out and talk to him", "do I just sit here and get the ol' breathalizer", or "do I just run?"

Well, I ran.
I was in a residential neighborhood and I was jumping over fences and making plenty of noise. Dogs were barking and I saw that people were coming out(in their robes) to see what all the commotion was about. After going through three blocks and avoiding the original officer. I hid behind some shrubs.

It was very cold out that night and by this time, CSPD had the entire force out looking for me. I'm sitting behind the bushes and I could hear the Sargeant talking to the original officer. "Did you get a description of the suspect? No not, really." I also heard my license plate number run over the squad radio. The car at that time was in my mom's name.

Anyway, to make a short story even longer....

I tried to make it back to my car, but I thought "surely they are combing the area and they have someone stationed at the street." By this time too, I couldn't stand anymore(it was 35 degrees and all I had to keep me warm was a sweater). I simply popped out of the bushes and said, "hello officer, here I am". They couldn't believe that I was not ten feet away the entire time.

I could have gotten away, or at least I thought, but I actually felt sorry for them.

Anyway, I winded up getting a PI. The officer later said that if I had stayed in the car he would have charged me with a DWI, but since I ran, he couldn't positively identify me as the driver.

True story.

Campus Crime Alert

On Friday, October 21, 2005, at approximately 9:00 p.m., an A&M graduate student reported to the College Station Police Department that he was a victim of a robbery. This offense took place in the 500 block of Cross Street within the area of Northgate.

Two male subjects approached the victim from behind, subdued, and held him to the ground. The subjects demanded the victim to give them
whatever he had on his person. The subjects took the victim’s wallet and cell phone. The victim was able to shout for help. After hearing the shouts, a friend of the victim approached the area. The subjects left the area on foot to an unknown location traveling in a northwestern direction. The victim received abrasions to his right knee, left foot, and hands. Emergency medical treatment was not required.

The subjects are described as follows:

• Two Anglo American males
• Ages: undetermined
• Heights: approximately 5’7”-5’9”
• Body builds: Small & Medium
• Clothing: first subject wearing a gray sweater jacket with blue jeans
pants / second subject wearing a dark blue sweater with blue jeans.

If you witnessed or have any information regarding this crime, please
call the College Station Police Department at (979) 764-3600. If you
wish to remain anonymous, you have the option of contacting Brazos
County Crime Stoppers at (979)775-TIPS.

CSPD suck and now obviously are pretty f***in stupid too. Great stories on here.

Wow More or Less,
They must have really liked you cause they could have filed..

§ 38.04. EVADING ARREST OR DETENTION. (a) A person
commits an offense if he intentionally flees from a person he knows
is a peace officer attempting lawfully to arrest or detain him.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor

I think they were just happy that I "turned" myself in. Hey, that, and I'm a nice guy.