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A verbal threat over the Internet came true for one local driver whose predicted traffic stop became a reality.

When 18-year-old Dan Schwalm posted pictures of his car on a Web site, another teenager he didn't know sent him a prediction.

"He said I was going to get pulled over and have a court date," said Schwalms.

Schwalms car has dark tinted windows and no front license plate.

That photo started an exchange of angry e-mails between him and someone claiming to be the son of a state trooper.

"I thought it was all talk," said Schwalm. "I didn't think anything would happen it's the internet."

Threats of tickets spiced the Internet argument for several weeks. Then, last week, leaving his neighborhood Schwalm was pulled over by a state trooper and received a fix-it ticket and a citation

Schwalm has to appear in court for driving a car without a front plate and windows tinted too dark, which the patrol says is a safety issue and troopers write hundreds of those tickets.

"I understand I deserve the ticket," said Schwalm. "I had things wrong with my car."

But Schwalm says he doesn't deserve the taunting e-mail he received less than two hours after being stopped from the person claiming to be the trooper's son.

"He's laughing at me saying 'ahha you got a ticket I told you my dad will pull you over' and it happened," Schwalm said.

The e-mail says "you thought I was bluffing. Ha ha ha. It's too bad he didn't tow your car. Maybe next time."

"(I) got all these messages about how I was going to get pulled over and all of a sudden, I get pulled over," said Schwalm. "And this kid knows everything about what happened. It seems kind of suspicious."

Schwalm says the trooper who cited him acted professionally and never mentioned the Internet dispute.

But the taunting e-mail from the person claiming to be the trooper's son makes him wonder if the traffic stop was just a coincidence.

Nebraska State Patrol Captain Tom Schwarton says it's purely a coincidence the trooper stopped a teenager who was having an Internet argument with his son.

The captain says the trooper hasn't shared the videotape of the traffic stop with his son, so no policies have been violated.

He says the taunting e-mails sent by the trooper's son are a parental issue that's being handled.

Even so, the ticketed driver has filed a complaint with the patrol.

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