Posted on 04/12/2024 3:42:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76
One of my walking trails is right by the police station in Brookfield, CT. The parking lot for the police station abuts the parking lot for the walking trail (by the Still River which often floods into the trail).
Once in a while after a walk, I get in my car and leave the walking trail to head home and immediately a police vehicle, evidently going on shift, leaves their own parking lot and slides in behind me.
What to do in this situation?
The roads leading back home are in either 25mph or 30mph speed zones. Ridiculously low speed limits, especially when in good weather conditions, you can safely go 40-45mph.
When this happens, I immediately slow to the the posted speed limit. After a while, the cop gets impatient with me and starts to get right on my tail.
I keep waiting to get lit up because I know the cop is running my plate and looking to see if I have any outstanding warrants or such. Having a clean record, the cop is now looking for me to make any mistake at all. Maybe a "swerve" or a sudden braking.
Now I have my hands clenched to the wheel in the 10 and 2 o'clock position, studying my rear view as the cop gets right behind me, obviously irritated by my strict adherence to the posted speed limit.
I know that if I speed up just a little, say to 33mph in a 25, I will perhaps get lit up and pulled over for speeding. So I'm not taking that chance. But I know the cop behind me is super pissed that I'm going out of my way to stick to the speed limit. They want to pull me over so badly.
I hate these situations. Sometimes the cop will light up and just pass me out of sheer exasperation with my slow driving. They have that right. I obviously don't.
As long as you ain’t the guy making all those SWAT phone calls. They got DemoNIcrats in charge now, in BKFLD !
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.
You pull over, let him go by.
...Or, follow Han Solo’s advice: “Fly casual.”
Hello from the F*you state.
Find a safe spot and pull over. Wait for him to pass you or initiate contact.
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.
I got a ticket once for impeding traffic by going the speed limit.
Any particular bumper stickers on your car that would trigger the pursuit?
The cops in CT still drive Crown Vics? Cool! They were discontinued in 2011.
F’em. Slow down more, all tailgaters suck, especially when they can just pass you.
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 ;)
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.
simple, put your right blinker on, and pull over...
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.
Just slam on the brakes.
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