BUSTED (don't try this at home!)

[WadePatton]

The hazards of street racing.



A little past midnight last night I was going home from a nearby little city. I was kinda bored because I hadn't gotten to smoke or run anybody. So this T-bird or something comes up behind me real quick and we stop at the light side by side on the line. He is on the exhaust side. I look over and notice that he's on the cell and has his window down.



The light changes and he takes off in his hurry so I stay beside him in 2nd and 3rd then I kick it when I hit fourth--the tires break loose on the wet road. About the time the tires hook back up I notice that he has lifted and I hear this funny whining noise and OH MY GAWD that's a siren and those are BLUE LIGHTS!!! :--) :--) :--)



I just drag raced a COP!:{ :{ :{



Whoa mule. I pulled over IMMEDIATELY and he says "STAY IN THE CAR" as I get out and start hunting my license, remembering my TX tags and ALL the other violations I could be in for.



So he yells at me for a minute and I "yes sir" and "no sir" a whole lot and-since he's on a call to a burglary in progress- HE LETS ME GO!

--GET OUT OF JAIL FREE BABY!!!Oo.



I then carefully putt-putt the rest of the way home with my diesel tail between my legs. He could have pulled my DL on the spot.



I'm SOOO glad I didn't smoke him.



Lucky in Tennessee

 

[Joe G.]

ATTA BOY!

Way to go! Let me know before your next performance so I can set up bleachers and order some beer to sell.

 

[Cummins4Life]

LOL!!! That'll pucker ya up.

 

[me4osu]

Doh!! That'll learn 'ya.

 

[RHARVEY]

How much was the laundry bill?????





Rick

 

[WDaniels]

You were lucky. I would dearly love to hear the story that he tells his buddies back at the shack about this truck breaking traction at 40 mph and him not being able to take ya in a cop car.

WD

 

[kiwi bird]

LOL! Nice luck!! Reminds of when I did an E brake turn in front of a cop. "Yes Sir, No Sir, won't do that again Sir"

 

[Briar Hopper]

Unfortunately, I've had nearly the same thing happen to me. My back glass is heavily tinted, with company graphics on it. Driving home after a late night at the shop, there was a car riding my bumper for 6 miles, until we arrived at a crossroads with a sweeping right-hand turn & merge lane, he swung out to hammer past me on the left. Well, he hadn't been the first tailgater to try that (tailgaters drive me up the wall), so the race was on... . I dropped the hammer, steadily pulled away to 65mph, he swung in behind me and hit the blue lights. Oops... . it was a state trooper.

Luckily, he had another call he was on the way to, and he had a sense of humor, he was laughing the whole time. I got off with a warning and a laugh. He came to visit one day a few weeks ago, just to chat. He's interested in buying one of these trucks now... just in case he needs it to catch me, he said...

 

[wcaldwell]

I pulled up to a traffic light in Belen NM a few weeks ago. I was in the left lane - lead vehicle in the right lane was a NM State Police Car. The light turned green and I pushed down on the go-pedal - up to the posted speed limit. He immediately pulled over behind me and sat there probably hoping I'd go 1/2 mile over the posted limit. I had the cruise set and he finally turned off to go somewhere else. I think it was more of the good-old diesel power noise that got his attention since the tires never broke and I wasn't puffing a lot of smoke.

 

[nickleinonen]

Originally posted by kiwi bird

LOL! Nice luck!! Reminds of when I did an E brake turn in front of a cop. "Yes Sir, No Sir, won't do that again Sir"

been there, done that... .



picture a gravel parking lot that is dimmly lit. i pull in to the road that leads to it [i actually did make a wrong turn here. turned one street too soon] and i gave a little throttle oversteer to turn it around on the lot. then i notice the cop parked in the shadows. oh i nearly I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER myself right there. i got off with a warning and the entire way home i drove 10km under the limit...

 

[CumminsPower98]

This is not all that exacting but can get a person in trouble in some places. Anyway this last week I pulled out onto the 3 lane road (2 lanes going my way) leaving work for the day and got on the peddle hard so I could stay in front of the on coming traffic (lots of smoke). Then I notice the car closest to me is a cop. He goes on by on the right and I could see he was looking in his mirror as he went by. I always wonder what they think about smoke around here and try not to put on too much of a show if there is a cop near by.

 

[TURBOs4LIFE]

Yea the same here I never get pulled for doing a smoke show.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Going home from work last night, I get off the interstate and onto the two lane. Just my luck, I get behind a semi. No place to pass so I just hang back a respectable distance. I don't get the same treatment from this clown behind me. In fact, he's like right up my rear. As we peak this hill, I get a chance to send him some smoke.



Don't you know I see him pull off to the side and flip and it's a cruiser. Must have been the local for that area with a Chevy. I knew it was not a Crown Vic so I never looked for low profile disco lights. Whew

 

[Turbo Horseman]

So we all speed sometimes... okay maybe more often than that.



One time I was driving from Calgary, AB to Regina, SK. About an hour into SK I get passed by a Mountie. Speed limit's 100 and I'm doing 125. He must have been doing 150 and just kept going. :--) Guess he wanted to get back to the detachment to get off shift.



Or there is the one where a guy went to trial for speeding. Got tagged for doing 140+ in a 110 heading toward Fort McLeod and just south of Claresholm. Mountie says not only that, but he had his kids in the car with him. Lectured him for being reckless with the health and safety of his children.



Guy gets up on the stand to tell his story.



Says yes I was speeding but I thought I had to. Hunh?



Testifies that he was driving along with his kids when a car came up and tail gated him. He thought at first, okay, I'm doing 105 so I'll speed up to the limit. Car behind him speeds up too and comes even closer. So he speeds up to about 120. Same thing again.



Guy says he kept this up till the lights came on he pulled over relieved... that was until the Mountie got up to the car and pulled an abusive power trip.



Judge is puzzled. First why didn't you just slow down and let the car pass, especially on a divided higway? Secondly, how could you be relieved that the car behind you was the police?



Guy says, I'm a guard at the Calgary remand centre. I thought maybe the car behind me had a former inmate driving who was looking to get even for some imagined wrong and wanted to do it with my kids in the car. So I started to run for the Fort McLeod detachment cause I'm really starting to worry for the safety of my kids.



Says he was relieved until the Mountie came up and tried to humiliate him in front of his kids. That really ****** him off. So he decided to fight the ticket.



Judge says not guilty. Rules that the Mountie is lying without actually ruling that he lied.



Crown prosecutor is choked beyond belief. This was the first of several trials that day that the Mountie was the sole witness for the prosecution. Turned out to be the last one too. The Crown withdrew the charges.



That Mountie was not one of Canada's finest that day.