Turn onto another road
Being a professional speeder from Jersey (carried it to Florida but after years, finally limiting it :-D )
I HATE when cops do this. Absolutely stick to the speed limit and all traffic signs, etc. He’ll use it to just teach you a lesson for slowing him down.
OR - you COULD try - if he is illegally and unsafely on your tail, open the window and wave Left hand to motion somehow to get his attention - if he pulls you over - are you bold enough to say ‘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.” (meanwhile take his badge or car number to document what happens next.
I’m probably poking the bear...
My rule of thumb is that I don’t go more than 10% over the speed limit if there’s a cop around or I’m going through a small town.
Instead of 10 and 2, just right wrist at 12. And relax by lowering your seat back until that arm is straight and rest your head on the headrest.
ONE advantage of having an older cars is that IF they try to hit you-—THEY LOSE.
MINE are all steel.
Ignore him, and obey the speed limit. No doubt he’ll get tired, and pull out and around you, then speed off.
I once said to a trooper: What is it about your badge that makes it safe to ride at high speed ten inches behind the twenty gallons of gas I just put in the car?
Credit where it’s due he nodded and said “good point”.
They suspected that you were involved in ripping down that tampon dispenser in the boys room. Go Bobcats !
I have had similar experiences. Followed for miles for no reason. I guess some cops just get bored and need something to do.
I moved to Atlanta in the late 70’s. My first time driving the interstate encircling the city, I was driving the speed limit. A policeman pulled me over. Ii told him I thought I was going the speed limit and. He asked me if I lived at the address on my. DL. I explained I had just moved to the city.
He said the reason he pulled me over was to tell me I’d have drive a whole lot faster than the speed limit or I’d get killed.
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.