So I was on my way back to work from lunch at 1100pm when my Stalker DSR starts flipping out. I look down at the display and see a reading of 95 in the FAST box and and lock reading of 89 mph.
I hang up on my friend and toss my cell phone into my patrol bag in the passenger seat as two cars rocket past my fully marked 2004 CVPI in a 45 mph "backroad". I mashed on the brake and executed a sloppy 15 mph rolling u-turn.
They decide to keep going at first then came to their senses about 15 seconds later and I catch up to them after about half a mile.
I hit my overheads and the first car stops. I start to pull in behind him but I notice the SRT Neon with the buyers tag is taking off. The mid 90's MR2 catches a big brake and I pull out from behind him and go after the Neon.
Less than a half mile later he sees that I am not getting any smaller in his rear view and stops.
He has a good attitude from the start and didn't feed me any bullshit but his passenger coughs up this BS about them trying to pass the MR2 because he was revving and swerving toward them.
I ask the driver if that is true and he says that the guy was talking shit in the Subway parking lot about his car and they were on the way to go race on the hwy.
I thanked him for his honesty.
After about 20 minutes of checking his and the passengers DL's and waiting for him to try and find his insurance card, I let him go with a ticket for 77 in a 45 and FMFR (No insurance).
He didn't feel like going to jail or paying to get his car out of impound so he was very thankful.
Just a public service announcement to remind you it pays to be polite and honest to the police, even when you are doing something that catches jailtime normally. It can work to your advantage!
Now if he busted out a video camera and started arguing about the definition of "racing", You'd all be watching dashcam footage of a wrecker winching up a SRT up a flatbed..op:
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I hang up on my friend and toss my cell phone into my patrol bag in the passenger seat as two cars rocket past my fully marked 2004 CVPI in a 45 mph "backroad". I mashed on the brake and executed a sloppy 15 mph rolling u-turn.
They decide to keep going at first then came to their senses about 15 seconds later and I catch up to them after about half a mile.
I hit my overheads and the first car stops. I start to pull in behind him but I notice the SRT Neon with the buyers tag is taking off. The mid 90's MR2 catches a big brake and I pull out from behind him and go after the Neon.
Less than a half mile later he sees that I am not getting any smaller in his rear view and stops.
He has a good attitude from the start and didn't feed me any bullshit but his passenger coughs up this BS about them trying to pass the MR2 because he was revving and swerving toward them.
I ask the driver if that is true and he says that the guy was talking shit in the Subway parking lot about his car and they were on the way to go race on the hwy.
I thanked him for his honesty.
After about 20 minutes of checking his and the passengers DL's and waiting for him to try and find his insurance card, I let him go with a ticket for 77 in a 45 and FMFR (No insurance).
He didn't feel like going to jail or paying to get his car out of impound so he was very thankful.
Just a public service announcement to remind you it pays to be polite and honest to the police, even when you are doing something that catches jailtime normally. It can work to your advantage!
Now if he busted out a video camera and started arguing about the definition of "racing", You'd all be watching dashcam footage of a wrecker winching up a SRT up a flatbed..
op: :coolman:
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