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Being tailgated by a cop for going the speed limit
April 12, 2024

Posted on 04/12/2024 3:42:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76

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To: SamAdams76

As long as you ain’t the guy making all those SWAT phone calls. They got DemoNIcrats in charge now, in BKFLD !


41 posted on 04/12/2024 4:24:14 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: SamAdams76

If you are black, he is tailgating you just because you are black. If you are white, he is tailgating you just because he can.


42 posted on 04/12/2024 4:24:31 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: SamAdams76

You pull over, let him go by.


43 posted on 04/12/2024 4:26:39 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: SamAdams76

...Or, follow Han Solo’s advice: “Fly casual.”


44 posted on 04/12/2024 4:31:08 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SamAdams76

Hello from the F*you state.


45 posted on 04/12/2024 4:34:10 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: SamAdams76

Find a safe spot and pull over. Wait for him to pass you or initiate contact.


46 posted on 04/12/2024 4:38:14 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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47 posted on 04/12/2024 4:39:55 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: SamAdams76

One time a cop got behind me and rode about 4 inches off my bumper on a city street. I started going downhill, building up speed. I was concerned that if I hit my brakes he would hit me. When I reached 11 miles an hour over the speed limit he pulled me over. I told the officer he was following me too close. He actually said, “So you were speeding because I was behind you?” I shut up at that point. He did not write me a ticket. I don’t know what his motivation was for messing with a 50 something year old white guy in an older model pick up truck. I had done absolutely nothing to get his attention. Now if a cop gets behind me I go exactly 5 miles an hour under the speed limit.


48 posted on 04/12/2024 4:40:45 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: SamAdams76

I got a ticket once for impeding traffic by going the speed limit.


49 posted on 04/12/2024 4:55:31 PM PDT by redgolum
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To: SamAdams76

Any particular bumper stickers on your car that would trigger the pursuit?


50 posted on 04/12/2024 4:56:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: the_Watchman
Are you in a left lane?

Most older towns in Connecticut are two lane roads once off the main streets. Even if the cop were impatient, tailgating is never acceptable. Connecticut cops have high speeding fees, and only the interstates are typically monitored by state troopers. Counties are NOT a thing in Connecticut, and there is no unincorporated territory. Brookfield is small enough (and wealthy enough) that marginal speeding stops may be an important revenue generator. I do not find the police to be looking to make such stops here in Phoenix. There is more than enough real work for them to do.
51 posted on 04/12/2024 4:59:53 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: SamAdams76

The cops in CT still drive Crown Vics? Cool! They were discontinued in 2011.


52 posted on 04/12/2024 5:02:06 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: suthener
I started going downhill, building up speed. I was concerned that if I hit my brakes he would hit me.

My inclination is the opposite. If someone is 4" off, I assume he is determined to hit me, so I slow down. No brakes, just foot off the gas. (I might tap the brake if rolling downhill).
53 posted on 04/12/2024 5:04:08 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: SamAdams76

F’em. Slow down more, all tailgaters suck, especially when they can just pass you.


54 posted on 04/12/2024 5:05:20 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: time4good
I’m concerned you are following me unsafely while I go the speed limit and if a squirrel runs out and I have to jam on my brakes, you will rear-end me at no fault of my own.” Connecticut is FILLED with squirrels, so that's not bad if you want to take that approach.
55 posted on 04/12/2024 5:06:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Dr. Sivana

When a customer would have too much to drink, at my local watering hole, the bartender would say “You’re leaving here tonight in a Crown Vic. You got your choice of colors . . Yellow, or Black and White”. This was before Uber, of course ;)


56 posted on 04/12/2024 5:08:27 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: SamAdams76
All SUSPECTS (are presumed innocent) UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.

You’re surrounded.

When a cop follows you he’s not saying to himself, “I presume you innocent, I presume you innocent, I presume you innocent.” He’s saying “I suspect you, I suspect you, I suspect you.”

This projection of guilt by police is what makes everyone’s hair stand on end when they see a cop.

Law officers pledge an oath to the constitution. When they tell you it’s against the law to drive a car without a license, registration and insurance, what law are they enforcing? Are they laws that conflict with their oath to the constitution and betray the public trust? What is it about traveling that is illegal unless you get permission from the government? Is that where we are? Our rights are illegal unless we resister with the government and ask for permission?

Driver’s license.

Gun license.

Marriage license.

Dog license.

Hunting license.

Fishing license.

Antler permit.

Wood permit.

Camping permit.

Building permit.

Construction permit.

Protest permit.

Vehicle registration.

Car insurance.

Birth certificate.

Social security number.

All I want is the America I was sold - an America where we don’t have to be afraid of the government for simply living, an America where we live under simple common law and not under complicated, undisclosed legal codes that infringe our guaranteed rights.

57 posted on 04/12/2024 5:13:22 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State and Reconstruct Civilian Government: https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: SamAdams76

simple, put your right blinker on, and pull over...


58 posted on 04/12/2024 5:14:05 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SamAdams76

I have pulled over many times and only one time did a cop pull over. When she asked me if I were having problems I told her I pulled over so she could go around me.


59 posted on 04/12/2024 5:19:16 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: SamAdams76

Just slam on the brakes.


60 posted on 04/12/2024 5:21:15 PM PDT by Thomas Jerome
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