Last night I was biking around 9PM when a cop car made a U-turn out of no where to pull me over for biking without a light.  Now I honestly do not know the strictness of these regulations (since I was biking around university property and almost 99% of the bikes do not have lights on them), but the officer said that it was illegal for me to do.  I am not a resident of California because I still have my residency in Hawaii, and as I was telling the officer my information, I noticed that I was not in the "system."  Now, is this safe to assume that I simple do not "exist" in California, therefore if I made up a fake profile I could get away with it?  Of course this was not what I did at the time because I provided my real information.  I just thought it was ridiculous that a cop car had to pull a U-turn in order to give a biker a ticket, when there are far more important things occurring in central LA for them to take care of.  Even the officer himself told me, "yeah I know this is a bull shit ticket but I have to cite you because our chief told us to enforce the rules due to increase in bike accidents at night time."  Basically he told me to get a light, go to the nearest Highway Patrol Office or something and get my citation signed so that I can just pay a simple "processing fee" of $35. I realize that $35 is a small fee, but I'd rather just spent $20 of that $35 getting a light instead of having to go through this bull shit procedure.
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Last night I was biking around 9PM when a cop car made a U-turn out of no where to pull me over for biking without a light.  Now I honestly do not know the strictness of these regulations (since I was biking around university property and almost 99% of the bikes do not have lights on them), but the officer said that it was illegal for me to do.  I am not a resident of California because I still have my residency in Hawaii, and as I was telling the officer my information, I noticed that I was not in the "system."  Now, is this safe to assume that I simple do not "exist" in California, therefore if I made up a fake profile I could get away with it?  Of course this was not what I did at the time because I provided my real information.  I just thought it was ridiculous that a cop car had to pull a U-turn in order to give a biker a ticket, when there are far more important things occurring in central LA for them to take care of.  Even the officer himself told me, "yeah I know this is a bull shit ticket but I have to cite you because our chief told us to enforce the rules due to increase in bike accidents at night time."  Basically he told me to get a light, go to the nearest Highway Patrol Office or something and get my citation signed so that I can just pay a simple "processing fee" of $35. I realize that $35 is a small fee, but I'd rather just spent $20 of that $35 getting a light instead of having to go through this bull shit procedure.
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