What's luckiest break a cop has given you?

[D'cheat]

Late one friday, on a whim, I decided to take my pro rally car out for a drive. I dont take it out on the street very often as its a magnet for cops and the boy racer crowd. Regardless, its one hell of a ride on the street. Now, the road up from Reno to Lake Tahoe is a nice twisty road full of switchbacks and hair pin turns. Loads of fun if your in a car with a roll cage, more horse power than needed and track tires. I was not really planning on pushing the limits of my tires adhesion that night. As doing the speed limit of 45 in a hairpin turn can be fun enough. Well that kinda changed.
It was about 10:30 at night when I started to drive up the road, when the distinct headlights of a dodge charger start to ride my rear bumper. I dont think much of it and speed up a little bit figuring this guys in a hurry. No problem. He starts to tailgate me again. "Faster? No problem" So I speed up to about 55. There he is again, riding my bumper. "Alright. F'ck this. Your bugging me now."
At that point, I down shift and Hammer Down. The turbo screams to life and I take off. A few seconds later, im in rally mode and in my groove. No traffic and crazy twisty roads. Just what my cars set up for. The dodge charger headlights fade off in the distance in a hurry and Im booking it up the road, power sliding around hairpins and letting the subaru stretch its legs on what few straits there are.

About 5 minutes later, I see some traffic ahead and slow back down to the speed limit of 45. "Yup, just what I needed tonight. Getting the heart pumpin again." Two minutes later, here comes the charger, in a bit of a hurry. "Ahh, finally caught back up to me eh?" A few moments later, the bogie lights flick on. "F'CK! It was a highway patrol interceptor!" I pull over, turn off the ignition and toss the keys on the dash. The officer walks up and shines the damn light in my eyes.
"I dont need to tell you why I pulled you over, right?"
"Nope"
"Where the hell are you going tonight?"
"Honestly, I was just out for a little play time. Headin' up to the rest stop, then I was going to turn around and head home."
"Uhh Huh. License, registration proof of insurance please."

At this point, I realized that I had forgotten to take the legal paperwork with me. It was all sitting at home in my rally pack.

I explained to him where it was, and assumed I would be calling a tow truck to take the car home tonight.
The officer looked at my license and asked, "Sir, is this your car?"
I pointed at my name which was on the rear windows and painted on the door sill.
The officer smiled, "Oh. So you really were just out to play?"
"Yup."
"Okay, wait here."
He went back to do paperwork and run my information.
A few minuted later he returned.
"Okay, heres the deal. Im only going to be giving you a ticket for doing 55 in a 45, because to be honest, thats the only time when I could clock your speed. Between you and me, I know you were going ALLOT faster than that. I was doing 110 and couldn't even keep up with you."
He smiled at me and looked the car over for a moment.
"If I had a toy like this, I would be doing the same thing. For the love of Gawd, slow it down. Okay?"
"Yes sir!"

I fired up the WRX again and puttered home. So, instead of having my car impounded and me being arrested for reckless endangerment, I just to a 10 over ticket. Not bad and a nice and understanding officer.
It gets even better. At court, I told the judge the only reason I sped was due to the officer tailgating me. He threw the ticket out.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Not getting pulled over. If I see lights is allways adds up to alot of money.

 

[clifford97]

Several weeks ago I was driving down the interstate and I hit a bird. It came right over the top of the hood and it got lodged under the windshield wiper. I wanted to pull over to get it off but traffic was pretty heavy so I tried turning on the wipers. It went back and forth a few times and didn't come off so I turned the wipers on high. After a couple of sweeps the bird came off, flipped right over the top of my truck and smacked the windshield of a Ohio State Trooper that was following me. Next thing I know he turns on his lights, pulls me over and gives me a ticket!




Apparently it's illegal to "flip the bird" to an Ohio State Trooper!

lol

i got pulled over in my 300zx i was doing about 85 on to an exit (the bmw infront of me was doing 90)and a cop was coming the other way, i guess he saw enough to know i was speeding but couldnt radar me. i see him slow down to cut across the median, so i look for him in my rear view. sure enough he pulls right up my a$$ with his lights off. so at the light i grab my info (it was a sunny summer day so i had the T-tops off) as soon as the light turns green i make my turn and pull over before he even turns his lights on. needless to say that confused the $H!T outta the officer lmao!! he started to pull behind me, stopped, turned his lights on and then finnished to pull behind me. he walks up after he says "how you doing?" i respond by handing my info over with a smile and a nice response. now with the T-tops off he didnt have to bend down or anything like that. he said he pulled me over for having a rejected inspection, i almost started laughing. but i told him i failed for rear tires and was on my way to the inspec station, and i had just gotten new tires (they still had the red and green valve stamps on them. so he ran my stuff and told me to have a nice day. finniest part was my girlfriend was a couple cars behind me so she sees me pulled over and calls me i told her i got cought doing 95 in a 65 double fine lol!

 

[CHKNFKR]

I was doing 90+ in a 55 and got pulled over by a county cop. He sticks his head through the window and literally gets nose to nose with me. He screams "slow the f*** down" and walked back to his car and left.

My dad had a similar encounter only he was doing 120 in a 65 and got pulled over by a state trooper. The trooper asked him if he was in a hurry and he responed "there's not an exit for another 5 miles and i've gotta poop" the trooper escorted him to a gas station balls to the wall with the lights and siren on the whole way.

 

[Colin]

I was doing 90+ in a 55 and got pulled over by a county cop. He sticks his head through the window and literally gets nose to nose with me. He screams "slow the f*** down" and walked back to his car and left.

My dad had a similar encounter only he was doing 120 in a 65 and got pulled over by a state trooper. The trooper asked him if he was in a hurry and he responed "there's not an exit for another 5 miles and i've gotta poop" the trooper escorted him to a gas station balls to the wall with the lights and siren on the whole way.

 

[CHKNFKR]

I've also given the cops a run for their money and won, twice.

 

[rockin86ranger]

well i got pulled over for wreckless driving and failure to use a turn signal, and the cop let me off and just wrote me a failure to show insurance ticket. but i think he let me off on the first 2 cause he realized i could prove him completely wrong, he was looking for a reason to pull me over cause i was crusing waiting for a friend to get back and he thought i was suspicious and tha was the first thing he could come up with. and the no insurance ticket was crap because i had proof but the dome light and glove box light where out in my car and he would shine the light for me to see, i found the insurance card up against the side of my glove box when i sold the car, the jerk cost me $45 and some points on my license idk how many, i couldnt fight it cause i had school when they scheduled my court date.

for the most part cops are good people, but there are few that are just looking for a power trip

 

[backroad101]

I fired up the WRX again and puttered home. So, instead of having my car impounded and me being arrested for reckless endangerment, I just to a 10 over ticket. Not bad and a nice and understanding officer.
It gets even better. At court, I told the judge the only reason I sped was due to the officer tailgating me. He threw the ticket out.

QUOTE]

Why was he tailgting you to begin with? Was he just being a jerk?

,

 

[ranger_mclaren]

I've only gottin off once... I was on my way to work running a little late I was going 65ish in a 55 my radar lit up and I saw red and blues behind me but way behind me like a quarter mile or more. So I speed up I was less than a quarter mile from the front gate of my work and i knew if i could get in there and park he wouldn't find me. I kept lookin back and before I knew it he was on my ass flashing his brights at me. I pulled over not even 100 feet away from enterence. He came up and said I was doing 78 in a 55 and wanted to know what my hurry was, I told him I was late to work and said i work right here. He took my license and insurence went back to his car and was there for like what seemed 10 mins. He came back and said he'll give me a warning handed my stuff back I went to work. It was a sheriff I got lucky.

 

[The_Dealer]

was in a hurry following a buddy to a party back in high school, he made the light but i had to stop. was in my yj with a gm tbi 350 with a 383 stroker kit, built to the hilt pushing abuot 425 at the 35's at the time. light turned green and i took off, well i saw him turn up the road and tried to catch up. was going about 70 in a school zone(yea it was summer time though school was out). ****n cop was like ive been waitin here all day for u to come hauln ass. me being a smart ass i told him "well i tried to get here as fast as i could" he almost fell out laughin and said these tires prolly throw your speedo way off huh? u were going about 70 but prolly said about 55? fix it, and have a nice day

 

[02RangerXLT]

Why was he tailgting you to begin with? Was he just being a jerk?

Gonna go ahead and guess he was tailgating him so he could read his license plate number so he could determine if it was a stolen vehicle or anything. Most officers will run the plate, and if it comes up stolen, they'll roll backup and then pull you over.

 

[TheTopher]

One of my buddies just calls the aggressive driving hotline whenever cops do that to him. "yea' it's a white and black crown vic and it's riding my ass, I think it might be somebody impersonating a police officer" Cracks me up every time I hear him do it.

 

[rjppunk]

Was going 90+ in a 65, mass statey wrote me up for going 10 over, 100$ ticket no points.
Was drunk driving in nassau weaving in traffic doing 60 in a 30. Pulled us out of the car and put us against the wall. asked why we were there, could hardly stand, they had assault rifles. They took our names down in a school notebook and drinking never came up. Drove off too lol.

 

[powerranger262]

73 in a 35, and then 92 in a 65. Both verbal warnings.

 

[D'cheat]

Why was he tailgting you to begin with? Was he just being a jerk?

He knew exactly what he was doing. Im sure that the officer saw a car covered in sponsor stickers with loud exhaust drive by. Most likely he pulled that close behind to get me to do something stupid. The fact that he kept doing it leads me to believe this. Well, It worked. I just dont think he expected it to be a REAL race car and for me to blast off like that.