Have you ever been pulled over by the police while dressed?

My first time going to a t-girl party at a bar in Philadelphia, while looking for a parking spot I stopped momentarily in a spot I knew was probably too close to the corner but I just stopped to apply some makeup.

Patrol car pulls next to me looks and then pulls away. I pull out to find a legal spot and pass him, he of course pulls out behind me and follows a few blocks. I come up to a red light and want to turn right, look for a "No Turn on Red Sign" don't see one, make the turn, and red light go flashing! Darn!.

I pull over, only thing missing is my wig, but I have on my make up, nails, earrings, and female attire. He says: I know you know I was behind you why did you turn right on red? I say I didn't see any sign and I look for one, plus I was nervous you were behind me. He says license and registration. I'm sweating it out in the car but play it cool, he comes back says "You really didn't see the sign?" I say no officer, he says, be careful and lets me go. No word of my CDing. Cool guy!

(for the U.S. people here)

For those of you stopped by the police, I don't recommend not cooperating and being polite, but you also should know and understand your rights.

Think the 5th amendment is only used by people who have something to hide? Think again. This guy was absolutely convincing...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865#

Lana,

Good to see another Philly Girl here. As I said in another thread, Philly cops don't care about crossdressers, they have bigger fish to fry than a CDer who didn't see a sign or any other minor moving violation.



Felicity:)

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Originally Posted by Shelly Preston

No, but I did once find them on my doorstep looking for directions

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I think you win for most akward experience with them.
"Excuse me miss, we are looking for Harcourt street..."
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SURE...hasn't everyone ? The officer told me to drive safely and have a great night. SMILR.


Em

I have been pulled over 2. and each time nothing was ever said about the way I was dressed, and neither time got a warning or a ticket, it must be because i am a blond!

It was the second time I'd been out dressed and the first I had driven my car while dressed. I had gone to a local saloon (drinking only soft drinks) and was going to the supermarket on my way home. Driving down Main St. I got stopped in a DUI checkpoint. The oficer who stopped me was very professional and was only concerned about my sobriety. Once he determined I had not been drinking he let me go without complimenting my hair, dress or makeup.

sure have. Got stopped for going straight in a gay neighborhood, Hillcrest here in San Diego. Actually I was in the left hand turn lane and didn't realize it and went straight I thought that was kind of funny considering where I was Got some laughs when I went to traffic school for the ticket. The cop said nothing about my dress style want to know if I had been drinking I hadn't then gave me the ticket and sent me on my way

I had a near-miss experience in march. I was coming home from a TG support group meeting, and my car had one headlight out. I pulled off my main street to my street and a cop had followed me right to my driveway, but then dissapeared. My next door neighbor is also a cop on the same police force, so I think the police officer who followed me home chickened out. Too bad....it would have been a very interesting evening. Inevitably my neighbors would have found out about me. :heehee:

I have been pulled over because of a tail light and I gave my ID and he was cool with it. What would be interesting is what is on my driving record:)

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Originally Posted by Tranny Tee

The oficer who stopped me was very professional and was only concerned about my sobriety. Once he determined I had not been drinking he let me go without complimenting my hair, dress or makeup.

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Tranny Tee, I got a laugh, I knew you would not let us down. :)

Now on the flipside, I once got pulled over when I was driving stark naked.
The officer called for backup after seeing the size of my gun.

Another one through a DUI checkpoint. I was hyperventilating by the time the State Trooper came to my window. But he took my license and registration, asked me where I'd been and where I was headed, handed me them back and said "drive safely, Dana."

Hello Bredalee!
I was pulled over last month for supposedly going to fast. The cop acted professional, but had me get out of the car and asked if he could search for drugs. He wanted me to bend over the trunk and put my hands on it. I told him I would not, it was dirty and I had done nothing wrong, had no drugs in the car and would not like to get my hands or dress dirty. When he was through checking, he returned my drivers license, asked if I dressed this way often and let me go. Professional, but being put through the paces all the same.

When I was in Vegas a month ago for Diva Las Vegas, I was pulled over on Las Vegas blvd, I had 2 other CD's and a GG in my car. When the officer walked up to my window he said he pulled me over for a burnt out license plate light, and asked for my reg. ins. and driver license. I cooperated and was not nervous at all. when the police officer came back after running my info, he handed me my paperwork and said have a nice evening ladies. no ticket. I told my passengers I think he pulled us over to check us out, I think he is a fellow crossdresser. when we arrived at our destination we looked at my license plate lights and they both were working.

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Originally Posted by Sallee

sure have. Got stopped for going straight in a gay neighborhood

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Sallee, What a hoot! Is that like going the wrong way on a one-way street??

Actually the latter sort of happened to me. One of the first times I went out dressed from our apartment here in VA, I made the mistake of making a right turn into a bus-only street section and was stopped. The two cops took my license, and I told them I was a cross-dresser just moved from Florida and didn't know about the bus lane. They ran things through their computer, gave me a warning and said to more more careful next time.

I thought their attitudes were wonderful and attributed it to Arlington being a fairly enlightened place. Seeing the response from you all, it's encouraging to see that police elsewhere can be as well... well, other than Tamarav's experience -- and she did the right thing!

Myself +3 friends were of to a drag ball in Hammersmith. We nearly made it ....we were pulled over by the law cos the car had Irish plates. We were put in a cell (together) while they checked the car's history. We were the talk of the station if not the town: every 5 minutes another officer would appear & ask us various lifestyle/sex/gender/fashion questions. By the time we'd finished explaining the meaning of life etc they were all very friendly...mugs of tea & bacon rolls. We missed the ball but had fun anyway eg "Can I try your helmet" etc...

It only happened once to me and believe me once is enough. Actually it went pretty smooth. This incident took place in Dayton Ohio. I was driving on one of the main streets that goes through town approx. 9:00 P.M. I turned off the main street on to a secondary street and immediately noticed red lights flashing ahead, at first I thought there had ben a accident, however the closer I got to the area I noticed orange cones in the rode and several police officers standing about. I slowed to a stop, one officer approached my vehicle as I rolled my drivers window down, he shinned his flash light in my face, placed his head close to my window opening and asked If I had anything to drink? I told him no, he then summoned a female officer, she shinned her flash light in the car to see what I was wearing, she then asked me,"If I asked you to walk the yellow line in the street with those heels on could you do it" I answered sure. She smiled and replied " I'm glad you could because I probably could not". She then said you are free to go.......

Yes. Just a couple of months ago,I pulled into the lot at work and a Nashville metro cop pulled in behind me. No lights,etc. ( I saw him pull a u-turn a few blocks back and knew I was in for a warning for a blown headlight,which in fact blew just that morning) His only comment was "grown some hair since this picture" I had on a maxi dress and 4"pumps...nothing else was said, not even a warning ticket! I guess in the larger metropolitan areas, these guys and gals have seen it all!

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Originally Posted by Makaila

I am going to call foul on this. I believe that the use of Rod Stewart and "Lady" Gaga "songs" would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. :D

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That's the fashion police for you. Cruel and unusual!

not stopped in-fem....yet.
but all one has to do to reduce the chances of getting stopped, is always make sure your car is "clean" (not as in washed). all lights work, no cracks in the glass, taxes paid, and a tag on the plate, (they get stolen).
it is illegal to stop you for a "ID" check, but they just need a reason and you will be stopped.(valid or not)
it is so easy to NOT get a DUI...just do not drink and drive.
do the speed limit...
know were you are going before getting there (map quest).

when pulled over pull into a lit-up area,(if you can) turn on your dome light and 4 way flashers, turn off your motor, and keep still with your hands on the wheel.

NO idle chit-chat with the officer....he is fishing.:eek:

no tickets in 18 years and counting, :)


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Well, sort of, not really. One night, I went out and got sloppy drunk! When the night was over, I drove about 3-4 miles from the bar and parked under the interstates in downtown Houston. Thank God I had the sense to park because I was WAY too drunk to be trying to drive the 25 miles home to the suburbs. I ended up passing out in my car. Then a motorcycle cop pulled up next to my car at 7 am and it woke me up. I turned the ignition and rolled down my window. He saw me in my fetish outfit: corset, fishnet top, short black skirt, and heels (picture of exact outfit in my profile). I had taken my wig off sometime during the night before I fell asleep. He just said "awwwwww" in a really nasty voice, kinda like "ewwww", got on his motorcycle, and left. It was kinda a funny situation. The bad part was that hangover it took me over 24 hours to get over!

Yes I was in 2008. I was pulled over in a town named Cranford in New Jersey. We were coming back to her place in Plainsboro after being at a club in Asbury Park. I was fully dressed as Robin and was nervous, but my friend Tina calmed me down. I was not speeding, just slightly swerving according to the policeman. My drivrs license is my male self. The policeman had me walk about 5-10 feet ( I was wearing 2 inch heels ), no problem at all and he said have a safe trip home ladies. He did not bat an eye at my femme self ( I am fairly passable brunette ). I have never told my wife about this.

Huggggs, Robin , South Jersey

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Originally Posted by Katie Bunny Bunny

Omg where do I begin lol, I live in California but I drive to Nevada where I help out my sister by babysitting my niece for 3 days out of the week. I pretty much do a lot of driving and I noticed you get pulled over more at night time than the day time. I had 1 incident where the highway patrol pulled me over just to chit chat. I had 1 incident where he could not believe it was me so i talked in boy mode and he freaked out. I have been pulled over lots of times but this 1 time is stuck in my memory. The officer pulled me over said good morning (it was around 2am) asked for license, reg etc. gave him my stuff, he walks to his car, when he gets half way he turns around and asks me why did I give him a wrong license, I told him thats my license, so he looks at me again and laughs, told me he can give me a ticket for indecent exposure (i was wearing a short skirt but not like a hooker short skirt) after I argued and told him that he was being unfair he pulled me out of the car, he told me to wait outside the highway (its the 15fwy so its pretty much a cold cold desert at night) finally he gave me my documents back and said ok sir have a good one. Im a big cry baby I cried the last 2 hours until i got to my sisters. Some cops can be okay, I have met really nice ones, but there is those who can be disrespectful

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you should have gotten his badge number and reported him to his superiors. reports like this harassment to you stay on his name for his life in police work..even to other police jobs.

I work for a college police department as a non-commissioned employee. We have about 20 commissioned officers counting the Chief and about 1/3 of the department is gay. About 10 years ago I went to pick my wife up at the airport while completely dressed. It was over a 2 hr drive to the airport and I did not think about taking extra clothes. Needless to say the plane was 2+ hrs late. The local airport police saw me and a female officer came over to talk to me. She was polite and wanted to let me know ALL the planes that were suppose to arrive has already done so. I thanked her and told her I know one more plane was due in. We had no issues.

I have been lurking on this site for about 2 months.
My wife likes it when I dress. She loves for us to go shopping together!

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Originally Posted by maturegirlrobin

Yes I was in 2008. I was pulled over in a town named Cranford in New Jersey. We were coming back to her place in Plainsboro after being at a club in Asbury Park. I was fully dressed as Robin and was nervous, but my friend Tina calmed me down. I was not speeding, just slightly swerving according to the policeman. My drivrs license is my male self. The policeman had me walk about 5-10 feet ( I was wearing 2 inch heels ), no problem at all and he said have a safe trip home ladies. He did not bat an eye at my femme self ( I am fairly passable brunette ). I have never told my wife about this.

Huggggs, Robin , South Jersey

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This story sounds oddly familiar.
Do I know you....just asking. :shades:

I rarely get a chance to dress but found an opportunity one evening in the fall. I was in a skirt and blouse (and of course of the undergarments) and heels. I don't do make-up or wigs, partly because of my mustache. I was in Missouri driving a Ford F-150 licensed for 18,000 pounds. The law in Missouri only requires a front plate for that license, but front and rear for anything licensed less. And it's rare for a F-150 to have an 18k license. I crossed a bridge into North Kansas City on a six lane road. This road is deserted of an evening, mostly an industrial area. As I got into NKC, a police officer sitting on the side of the road immediately turned his lights on and pulled me over. I knew right away what it was for. (I am overly cautious driving while dressed.) The officer asked for license and registration. My hands were trembling, but handed both to him. He walked to the front, looked at my plate, walked back and handed me my documents and told me to be careful.

I suppose the reason I was trembling is one of my son's Boy Scout leaders is on that police force - and my truck is very recognizable. And I'm not out to anyone. I haven't driven through there dressed since.

Great stories!... that should mean that I shouldn't comment, but I know loads of police guys over here... they are like us?!

They are normal people doing a job... they have discretion etc.. OK in the random scheme of things there are ass holes, but tell them how it is... respect.

Best
Kaz xx

Love these types of threads...

First of all most cops aren't going to make any comments to you directly...for two reasons...

One if he does he's opening himself up for a complaint...see where yoru black or white pink or yellow male or female gay straight or somewhere in between if he were to make a comment in a derogratory way you can go and make a formal complaint and he could be investigated.

With the Gay Rights movement gaining steam and we do fall under that large umbrella BTW...PD's all over are having training on human sensitivity training etc....

Secondly, most officers 98+% of them are going to conduct themselve professionally with whoever they come inot contact with anyway...now they may have their thoughts etc...adn msot of them once they come across one of us are more or less going to want to cut bait and move on....perfectly honest they don't want to have to deal with you...to much of a hassle to be honest with you...they just would much prefer to put distance between themselves and you...they're going to look at you as an extrmely weirdo...and they have enough of them out there in other aspects of their duties that they have to deal with so why would they want to deal with one of us if they don't have to. Most of you have been stopped for a traffic violation...lots of discretionary action that can be take by a PO...like a verbal warning and be G-O-N-E!!!! Yah, you'll probably be lockeroom chat later that evening or the enxt, but soon you'll just be a forgotten memory...trust me...I spent 26 years wearing the badge and worked in the greater Miami area...now if there were ever a place that your would see all kinds of things that would be it...I got to know a lot of the street walkers down on Biscayne Blvd...you think we're weird???? LOL you all need to see them girls...I think half of them use to gargle with lestoil industrial strength. One nite a new girl showed up and I was asking one of the walkers who she was...she said oh she just got out of prison...I asked what she was in for...a question I liked to ask so I could get an idea of who they were...and I was told she was in for murdering her mother and father...so see in the grand scheme of things we and our little fetish of dressing is really small potatoes when it comes to the big bad cops...all it is to them is "weird" and then they'll move on....

So if you get stopped by the cops...be polite, answer the questions and don't try to BS him or her...and jsut be honest...chances are they'll cut you a wide path and let you go if it's no big deal....now if yoru roaring drunk and should have been driving in the first place ...well chances are he's goign to give you a thrill and let you get to meet some new boyfriends down a the local holding cell for drunks...and NO they won't let you change before you go into the cell...and I promise you it will be a nite you'll NEVER forget...jsut think of the possibilities being dressed and ina 30 person holding tank with 29 other drunk men!!!! ...the possibilities are unlimited!!!!

Nite all...

PS You all drive careful now ya hear!!!!

Last night of the SCC last year. I did not know it at the time but one of the girls I had met and was in the car was a cop also. We got pulled over and I was nervous as I have a secret clearance and this is the sort of thing that can change that. All went very well and the office was very nice about it and gave us directions to where we were trying to go. All in all it was a perfect end to a perfect week at the SCC. I cant wait to do it again this year.

I was pulled over in a routine sobriety check. (I was on my way out for the evening so no problem with the BAC.) The officer smiled and said, "This picture on your license does not do you justice." I replied that I was on my way to a party. "Have fun and drink responsibly," he said.

Stopped at my parents farm , it was one of the first times I dressed and went for a drive. I look back at this and I laugh but at the time it was real panic. I was stopped for a burnt out tail light

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...The officer smiled and said, "This picture on your license does not do you justice."...

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Nora, how cool!

:daydreaming: Lallie

Watching Cops on TV makes it seem like all guys in dresses are out there turning tricks for crack. But I'm not much for taking the boob tube at face value.

I drive by every rule the book in an anonymous looking car. I make sure all the lights are working and that the insurance is paid, so chances of getting pulled over are pretty much nil. I don't think even a bad cop would do anything unless provoked, but cross-dressing anxiety isn't always rational.

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Originally Posted by Melinda G

A little while later, a few miles away, a cop pulls me over. He says "they had a report of a man wearing a blue dress like you have on, acting suspiciously".

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Something similar happened to me, where a woman supposedly had called the police with the report. The officer seemed more concerned about indecent exposure than anything else and wanted to know if was wearing anything under my dress. (I was, of course.) I was polite, honest, answered the questions, etc. He told me to be careful and let me go.

Just a reminder...technology continues to make the potential of being stopped greater everyday.

Colorado (Denver) just got their first three patrol cars equipped with the new license plate readers mounted on the roof. They can "read" an incredible number of plates/per second, as the cars pass them in the opposite direction. (like interstates, freeways etc). They do it automatically without having to "aim" it manually.

It automatically runs the plate, registration, outstanding warrants, stolen car reports, etc immediately and displays the "red flags" to the officer on his monitor.

Your tax dollars at work...:brolleyes: (notice I said "your",,hehehe):tongueout

Yeah, in Minnesota, just north of Mankato in 1997. Late at night, rental car, coming into a small town and I didn't slow down fast enough. Come to find out it was a known speed-trap. The patrolman had to call another officer to come 'see'. I got home and paid the ticket, oh well.

A few years ago I was really into latex and leather and I had gone to a local park to walk around dressed in a red latex catsuit with black patent thigh highs and a latex hood with a black corset. I had a great time and got back in my car just before a cop car pulled into the parking lot. I pulled off the hood and drove right by the cop shuddering with fear. I don't know what I would have said if he had stopped me.
Needless to say, no more trips to parks dressed like that.
Connie

I dressed in the car as I was leaving from our work parking lot at 12:30am. I'm a 2nd shift worker so it was dark in the lot and I applied my makeup, set my blonde wig on tight because I have a convertible. I put on my tight black spandex dress, my black lacy topped thigh highs, my 4" heels and my dangle earrings, several rings, a bracelet and I was off for my 15 minute ride home.

As I drove through town, all the bars were near closing, all the businesses were closed as I drove the speed limit all the way. As I stopped at a red light, I saw him, right there behind me, I didn't panic, I just drove when the green light appeared. As we drove through the outter edges of the city into the county I felt he would turn but as we crossed into the county, there he was, I continued to the well lit entrance to the subdivision. He turned as I did. I stopped at the first stop sign, then turned left and he sat there at the stop sign as I drove away. Whoooooo!

I can't imagine what he was thinking, but I know how I felt, I was sweating like a freakin pig. My makeup was just hanging there like in puddles on my cheeks. As I drove up into my driveway and on into my carport, the bright flood lights showed the damage the sweat had done. I had forgot to shave before applying my makeup. It looked horrible, I would have been so busted.

Sweetness and Love,
KenetaO

Last night I was in an accident with the instant cop on scene. He saw the accident which really disturbed me a lot. I wasn't terrified but I did want the whole thing to end quickly.

Back in '97 I was on my way back form Mrytle Beach in SC and was pulled over by a SCHP. He got out of the car and walked up to my drivers side and just stared at me. He didn't give any instructions for me to roll the window down or to get out or anything. He just lunged at my window and started beating on it with his fists, then forced his fingers at the top of the window and forced the window down and it was stuck there. He reached in an grabbed me and screamed at the top of his lungs to "get out of the car, get out of the car, get out of the car" over and over. Needless to say I was sacred out of my wits with fear. Then he proceeded to slam me against my car asking me was I speeding on his highway. He would scream each question about 10 times and when I would try to respond he would just Holler "WHAT" as loud as he could. I was bruised in many places on my upper body, but I offered no resistance for I knew he would've started beating me with his club. After he saw he could not rile me, He made me give him my keys to my car with the threat of 30 days if I refused a search so I gave him the keys and he opened my trunk, where he threw my leather jacket in a water hole. A heavy rain had just passed. He opened my suitcases and dumped all the contents on the ground. And all of my crossdressing stuff was revealed and dumped on the damp pavement. The works, skirts, dress, panties, wig, heels, hose, many items. Then he opened the other and did the same thing. He asked ,whose female clothing are these? he yelled. I lied and said my wife's. He then called his captain and he pulled up and walked over to me and grabbed me under my armpit and lifted me up on my tip toes and he screamed at me for a couple of minutes at the top of his lungs and not even allowing me to answer. He was just showing off for his deputy.
While the deputy was writing my ticket in front of his captain, he asked me "do you think you have been mistreated today" I said "no' He looked shocked and said "you mean, you don't think you have been mistreated?" I said "no" The captain asked the same thing in disbeif and again, I answered, "no". The captain drove off and the deputy said yeah we have been here and hour or so. I said, I can't leave right now. He asked why not. I said I have to fix the window you broke for a big rain is coming. This was the first time he got to hear me speak. He saw I was a well mannered, decent man. I saw him change from mean as H*** to one so humble and I could see that he began to feel badly for how he treated me. He even helped me fix the window on my car. Afterwards he said to me, you , you're aright, I'll tell you what, when you go to pay the tickets, tell them to call me and I'll cancel the seatbelt one. And I'll move the speeding one to less than 10MPH over to help you out. He even helped me put my crossdressing clothes back in my suitcases and shook my hand and said you have a good day sir. It did take a while for my bruises to heal though.

TARA;
Today, you could have brought a lawsuit and owned that town,
Sorry for your troubles, some people, and police, are very narrow minded.
Rader

I've been so overwhelmed with wanting to be out enfemme, that I was actually contemplating going for a drive to take a past midnight walk on the beach, but then I thought about the possibility of being pulled over because it's Saturday night and late, then saw this thread, and now think I should just stay home...

Hi to all my sisters -- I wanted to reply, with utmost respect, to the comment posted by Lita::
"I've been so overwhelmed with wanting to be out enfemme, that I was actually contemplating going for a drive to take a past midnight walk on the beach, but then I thought about the possibility of being pulled over because it's Saturday night and late, then saw this thread, and now think I should just stay home... "

I certainly understand, and fully respect, the feeling and the outlook Lita mentions; with that being said, however (and fully understanding that some of us are literally compelled to do almost anything to avoid being outed as our true CD selves) I do want to say that when we simply surrender our human rights and our 100% crystal-clear Constitutional rights without a struggle (as in foregoing what we have every right to do) then we condemn ourselves to a life as second-class citizens. It is simply not true (at least no more than as to any other group, such as stamp-collectors or amateur astronomers) that we who choose to crossdress are law-breakers, or dangerous, or societally undesireable in any sense.

This is not to say that anyone, and certainly not any of my sisters, has some "obligation" to run out and expose herself as CD just to be "politically correct," or simply to make a "political statement;" that would be foolish. But I hope we can all (myself totally included) accept at least the reality that our crossdressing -- however outside the "norm" and however "unusual" it may be -- is completely legal and, in almost every instance, utterly benign.
Hugs and love to all my sisters! Diane

Hi!
I go out en femme alot while driving. I just do two things. I dress pretty conservatively most of the time and I go out either during the day or in the EARLY evening. Your chance of being pulled over goes way up if you drive late or you go to deserted parks, etc. So you are actually safer if you go where everyone else is. And for heaven's sake, don't speed.
Have a great and safe time,
Hugs, Connie