It’s expected that a teenage driver will make mistakes on the road, but one teenager in Pinal County made one cop shake his head at the excuse he used for the sheer number of mistakes he made. Deputy Frank Sloup is well known for his videos on his everyday traffic stops in Arizona, and this time in an episode subtitled “The Kids Aren’t Alright,” he pulls over a male teen for an embarrassingly long list of infractions.
Shirtless teen driver can’t find license or registration
After stopping the unnamed driver in a parking lot, the deputy approaches the silver Honda and immediately irritated, telling the shirtless teenager to turn down the music.
“Why are you driving like that?” Sloup asks. When the driver fails to respond, he continues, “That’s a question. That means that there’s then, I ask you a question, then an answer comes back to me. That’s how conversations work. Why are you driving so fast?”
That’s when the teenager gives the deputy one of the poorest excuses he’s ever heard: “I’m trying to get home. My stomach hurt.”
Without missing a beat, Sloup repeats what he heard, “You got a tummy ache?” The deputy shakes his head incredulously a few times before he tears into the driver.
“The first time I saw you, you were at 66 in a 40,” he continued, “and you are driving, changing lanes, tailgating, like you are just driving too fast … everything about watching you drive is bad. Besides that, you never use your turn signal. It’s like it doesn’t even work. I mean you might be low on blinker fluid, I don’t know.”
The teenage driver seemed to miss the joke about the blinker fluid before Sloup points out the damaged windshield too: “And then you have this giant crack across your entire windshield that looks like a map of I-10 across the United States.”
More than that, the driver didn’t have an ID on him and couldn’t find the car’s registration or proof of insurance.
Sloup returns with a printed ticket and tells the teenager that he could have written a criminal ticket for how fast he was going, but he instead decides to give him a regular speeding ticket and a few warnings because this is the first time he’s been pulled over.
One commenter, though, thought the teenager was lucky to get away with just a regular ticket: “That first pull-over did not earn a warning… that should have been the full Monty of tickets.”
