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True Story not a passed on tale or urban legend.
I was living in NC, I had NJ plates because we were military and our home state was NJ. We had a friend with us from another military base who was looking for a house before he and his family moved to NC. We were in the right lane on 70 slowly about 30 mph in Clayton trying to find a street to turn on. A blue car went flying by us and we went wow. 3 mins later a state trooper in a mustang pulled us over. He said you blew passed me doing 70 mph and my husband said officer I been driving on this road very slowly looking for this cross street I can assure you we have not even done the speed limit. He looked at us walked around the car said , "your not from around here are you?" Wrote us the ticket and said, "if you don't like it you can show up to court"
The ticket said we were driving a blue car, our car was green.
We went to court; me, husband and his friend. I entered the appearance and the DA at the time was not happy. He also said, "your not from around here are you?" (I hate those words so very much) I told him the ticket says BLUE and my car go check me is green and I intended to put me, the husband and the friend on the stand since we were 3 verus mr state trooper who was 1 person and had not locked in the speed on his unit but had just calculated it in his head. I told him he would not win. He said well I can drop it down to 58 in a 45. I said NO! He said let me get back to you and walked away from us. Almost 2 hours later he reapproached us and told us we could go he was dropping the ticket.
I really believe he wanted us to take the lower ticket which I refused to do.
After that I did what my husband did not want me to do I changed my drivers license, registration and our tags and insurance to NC. No one bothered us after that ever.
Now in defense of state troopers everywhere I have "heard" tales of NJ state troopers being really bad to people from out of state. Having grown up in NJ I can tell you I have gotten the rough treatment there myself BUT the "your not from around here are you?" just burns my bacon and I hope when I come back I never encounter it again.
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