Attention: TDR Forum Junkies I can't resist a couple stories from ages gone by:
Cruising up the I-5 near the UW at near triple digits, this motorcycle/crotch rocket/rice burner enters the freeway and is moving... I mean really moving. So I slide over to give him a run for his money. We top out at 145 befor he slows to take the exit. So I follow him, really to see what he's riding. When we get to the light at the end of the ramp, I hit the horn a couple times to make sure I've got his attention and then turn on those pretty flashing lights. You could see him literally deflate. Laughed my arse off before I even talked to the guy. Putting on the serious face after pulling over and do the approach... . you know the one :-laf . The guy is stammering and the whole time I'm hitting him with a dead-pan straight face. So while I get to the end of the lecture, I ask him if he is by chance a husky... he gets a glimmer of hope and says 'yeah man, you too?"... Nope. Once a coug, always a coug. I thought the guy was gonna cry at the justice of it all. I went back to the car and let him sit and worry while I obviously worked on paperwork for a good while... I walked back up with ticket book in hand and asked him how he thought this was gonna end for him?... ... ... ... ... ..... Just as he was about to conclude how bent-over he was, I told him I was going to let him go. If he wants to kill himself at 4AM, more power to him.
#2 While driving the second car in a pursuit of a stolen car down I-5, car takes the Northbound I-405 exit in Tukwila at about 110 MPH. This is before they fixed it when there was open fields and big berms at both ends.
Stolen car goes off roading and tumbling. Driver gets ejected and lands in drainage ditch. (underwater) Police car #1 goes off-roading and keeps it straight but impacts BIG berm at far end of field. I knew the ramp from driving it everyday and stopped at their point of departure and ran across the field. Making choice to help injured cop rather than drowning gang member auto thief seeming like a prudent thing to do. Unfortunately, the next few cops to arrive found the guy before... . too bad.
Cruising up the I-5 near the UW at near triple digits, this motorcycle/crotch rocket/rice burner enters the freeway and is moving... I mean really moving. So I slide over to give him a run for his money. We top out at 145 befor he slows to take the exit. So I follow him, really to see what he's riding. When we get to the light at the end of the ramp, I hit the horn a couple times to make sure I've got his attention and then turn on those pretty flashing lights. You could see him literally deflate. Laughed my arse off before I even talked to the guy. Putting on the serious face after pulling over and do the approach... . you know the one :-laf . The guy is stammering and the whole time I'm hitting him with a dead-pan straight face. So while I get to the end of the lecture, I ask him if he is by chance a husky... he gets a glimmer of hope and says 'yeah man, you too?"... Nope. Once a coug, always a coug. I thought the guy was gonna cry at the justice of it all. I went back to the car and let him sit and worry while I obviously worked on paperwork for a good while... I walked back up with ticket book in hand and asked him how he thought this was gonna end for him?... ... ... ... ... ..... Just as he was about to conclude how bent-over he was, I told him I was going to let him go. If he wants to kill himself at 4AM, more power to him.
#2 While driving the second car in a pursuit of a stolen car down I-5, car takes the Northbound I-405 exit in Tukwila at about 110 MPH. This is before they fixed it when there was open fields and big berms at both ends.
Stolen car goes off roading and tumbling. Driver gets ejected and lands in drainage ditch. (underwater) Police car #1 goes off-roading and keeps it straight but impacts BIG berm at far end of field. I knew the ramp from driving it everyday and stopped at their point of departure and ran across the field. Making choice to help injured cop rather than drowning gang member auto thief seeming like a prudent thing to do. Unfortunately, the next few cops to arrive found the guy before... . too bad.
Oo. Oo. 
) bunch of stupid stuff failure to put my foot down when coming to a stop on bike. Cop couldn't believe I could bring bike to a stop without putting my foot down did it three times for him and he said well it just looks bad put your foot down from now on. having paper dealer tag on bike rather than metal plate, wheelies (one said it just looked to good another said he was blocked by car but was sure the front end was in the air 
) another for stopping to fast for light with rear tire 12" in the air I asked in the future if I should just go through the light? (almost got a ticket that time) pulled over for speeding 50/35 but cop got called to a robbery in progress while I was getting license out, passing in unsafe area but line was questionable and cop gave it to me. My luck was great that year but I think I used it all up that year. 
