In my younger, wilder days an acquaintance of mine, while driving drunk, accidentally drove up on the sidewalk. He then noticed a policeman, just a short distance behind, and knew he had been seen. So he came up with a brilliant idea to avoid a DUI; he hopped out of his car, opened the hood, and feigned car trouble. Sure enough, the cop stopped, got out of his cruiser and asked him what the problem was.
"I don't know, occifer. My car just died and I can't get it started again," he replied.
He was then promptly arrested for DUI. The reason? He had forgotten to turn off the car before he got out. The car he "couldn't start", was still running!
lol..that sounds a bit like an experience I had once a long time ago. Four or five friends and I were in my car parked on a dirt dead end road one winter partying with wine and other substances. We noticed a car creeping down the road toward us with it's lights off....cops!
Thinking fast I said "quick, jump out of the car and pretend we're trying to push the car out of the snow."
So we did that. The cops come idling up and I run up to their car and said "Thank goodness...can you guys pull us out of here? We've been stuck in the snow for like a half hour". The cops were kind of pissy about it and said "No" (it was cold and snowy) and never got out of their car!
That's about the only time that a cop encounter turned out postive.