I'm reminded of this scene...
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.
That’s creepy, no lie.
Slam on your brakes and say Hello to him. 😁
for 20 years, it still amazes me threads like this get any attention at all...
I told him my ex-girlfriend had left me for a cop and I thought it was him trying to bring her back.
Good one.
That sounds like an episode from the Twilight Zone…horrible.
So glad that you were ultimately not harmed🙂
If that police officer had been me, I would have been ROTFL, like Pee Wee Herman at the beginning of the sketch with the stolen bicycle😀
If that police officer had been me, I would have been ROTFL, like Pee Wee Herman at the beginning of the sketch with the stolen bicycle😀
Oh, and no ticket for Mr/Mrs Hot Tabasco, of course🙂
The Ducati is a whole other story.
Cruise control is your friend.
I had one tailgate me for miles for no apparent reason. I recognized her as the deputy who hated men. Of course when she pulled me over she wouldn’t tell me why. I was younger then and not hip to their games.
She finally came back and in an annoyed voice I asked if she was now going to tell me why she pulled me over?
She claimed that my license plate tab was peeling off and she couldn’t tell if it was this year or last year.
I looked at her and said “Oh, were last years green too?”
With a Huff, she turned and stomped off.
This same deputy came up to a friend of mine and grabbed him around the neck without identifying herself. Within seconds she was on her back with his boot on her chest.
He didn;t get in any trouble for that one. She was wrong.
The cop knows who’s car it is, and if everything is current before he pulls you over. The plate scanning cameras and software have become a constant super fast computerized monitor of the public.
You "won," but she could have turned that into an expensive victory by "finding" a little bag in your car with cocaine in it.
Sh had no probable cause to pull me over let alone search my car.
It’s the ‘easy revenue and quota’ mode all wrapped up in a quick hit. The thing you really have to watch out for is if one of these moogs has arm tats all over both arms.
She was a bad cop. Who knows if a bad cop will care about probable cause?
If I had my tailgating cop episode to do over, I would have tried to wait until I could pull off in a lighted area with people to observe my bad cop's actions.
Better idea. Always record every interaction.
If possible, yes.
How is it not possible?
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