[Deadhead]

I heard this one from a friend I was working with yesterday. Have a number of my own, but will start with this one while it is fresh in my mind:

Guy is a Chrysler mechanic in the lat 60s early 70s with a Coronet 440 that he has rodded a little. Pulls up to the 2nd to the last light in town. State Trooper in marked car pulls up beside him and starts revving his motor and motioning to hit it. Guy is in 'no way' mode. Gets to last light in town. Same thing, but now the Trooper starts making the gun sign & pointing ahead.

Rob goes for it. They both hit it at the change of the light raging out of town. Cop falls way behind. Few miles on there is another intersection with a light for the airport. Cop pulls in behind him and hits the lights. They pull off. Trooper says, "What do you have in that thing?" Rob says, Well, same as you probably." Trooper says, "I may not know much, but I know it's not the same as what I got, b/c you had white flames comin' out the back and I could not even come close to keepin' up with you." Kind of confused Rob says, "Yeah I guess I have done a little work to it." Trooper says, "Well, have a safe trip."

Happy ending in 1972.

[mike nixon]

If you want to know Bruce then you ask over a beverage some evening. Not sure if the statute of limitations are out on all of them.

[mechanickeith]

What Mike said!!!

[mechanickeith]

Story from here in Phoenix from a couple of days ago. 20Yo kid late for work, caught at 117 MPH here in town on Grand avenue on his motor cycle. He's now in jail!

[Simple Man]

Brother in law told me story about growing up in northern Michigan in the early 70's. He and a friend were cruising down the highway in the friends 66 Dodge Charger, big block automatic. They were doing about 100 or so, talking between themselves, when my BIL looks in the passing lane, and there are 2 troopers in a Michigan State Police cruiser pacing them
The one trooper wags his finger at them, smiles, and then he said all you saw was taillites from the MSP cruiser.

[TempestFugit]

In the sixties, after spotting a hidden radar/speed trap I was flashing my headlights to warn oncoming cars. A few miles later a trooper pulled me over and read me the riot act about interfering with law enforcement or something. He threatened to give me a ticket but let me go with just a warning (it was probably all BS).

P.S. I still do it.

[Bob Dillon]

I got pulled over in San Jose a few years back by a cycle cop.

I rolled down the passenger window, got out my reg and insurance card, and also pulled my d/l out of my pocket.


He walks up the window. I smile and said "good morning." He says "Do you know how fast you were going?"

I said "no, but I bet you're gonna tell me!"

He burst out laughing and said "well, that's a new one." So we went through the license, reg, and insurance routine and all was OK except I hadn't put my new insurance card in the car-it was expired by three days.

He says "Look, I'm sure you renewed your insurance, but the card's expired. I'm giving you a fix-it ticket for the card. You were doing 47 in a 35 but you made me laugh, so no mover, and it keeps my sergeant happy."

The next day, I went down to City Hall and had the Chief sign off on my insurance card and sent the ticket to the DMV.

That's a happy ending if I ever heard one, no?

[67GTONUT]

Over 20+ years ago....

I had a 1986 Mustang GT. I was heading home from a girlfriends house, and getting onto local Insterstate. It was a nice long straight ramp, and was at the top of 3rd gear as I was merging onto highway..... probably around 110mph......
I merged over 2 lanes let off gas and let her settle down to legal speeds..... and just then saw the NJ State Trooper come up behind me and lit me up. Oh man..... I was cooked, he saw that whole thing.....
Young cop comes up to the window, smiling..... He goes..... " So how fast do you think you were going?" ....... I said 62?...... He laughed again, and said " I was doing 85 when you blasted by me..... on the entrance ramp!!!!! ...... "
He wrote me for 62, and said ..... " slow this thing down man.... "

I think I got off ok....

[Chris65LeMans]

Originally Posted by mike nixon

If you want to know Bruce then you ask over a beverage some evening. Not sure if the statute of limitations are out on all of them.

Me too. My best one involves driving I-5 just south of San Francisco in a Honda Civic at top speed. (118-ish). I didn't see the trooper, and he wasn't able to catch me until I hit traffic much later. My ticket wasn't even in the same ballpark as the speed I was probably going.

The moral of that story is: when the cop asks "do you know how fast you were going?" Don't ever give in a number! (There's a chance he doesn't even know.)

[geogolfx]

About 1993, I had a BubbleBack (yes ugly) Grand Prix 2+2. The Golf course where I worked was way out in the country. At night,In the fall, you could blow about 4 stop signs, you could see miles east and west...and just go thru em.

One night, driving home from the course, I blow one..then 2 signs..no problem. Third one I see a couple headlights behind me. And they are closing fast.

Sheriff pulls me over...... walks up. And he recognizes me. he had just played our golf course the week before. Give him my license and reg. He walks to his car. Couple minutes later--- he gives it all back and says "You owe me next time I come out to play golf, have a nice evening".....

Bout 3 years later, he comes in the pro shop, wanting to play. he tosses out his credit card, I just say "It's on me...remember?". He smiles and said he forgot !

Fast fwd to 1999. I have a 1995 Trans Am. Heading home, I decide to take this slightly winding road. And moving pretty fast. Behind this old abandoned barn, Sheriffs car. Look down, I'm doing 80 in a 55.... He gets in behind me..... gets out of the car.

Same Deputy that pulled me over 6 years before...and says "Can't let ya go on this one......"

[PonchoV8]

My '69 convertible was always cold natured in the morning, so I was in the habit of stopping as short of a time as I could at the nearby stop sign so it wouldn't stall. I thought I stopped long enough, but the officer to my left didn't think so. I started to tell him the problem and he replied, Look, I can give you a ticket OR you can tell me you're going to stop longer at that sign and I can go get my coffee. Your choice.

Another time I was beside a cop on campus at a string of red lights. I was side by side with him at two and wasn't really paying attention at the 3rd. He drove off and I went with him. At the 4th light he rolled down his window to tell me I just ran that last light by going when he did. I didn't even notice he was running it. He didn't run the 4th one, by God.

[68BeaumontSD]

Originally Posted by TempestFugit

In the sixties, after spotting a hidden radar/speed trap I was flashing my headlights to warn oncoming cars. A few miles later a trooper pulled me over and read me the riot act about interfering with law enforcement or something. He threatened to give me a ticket but let me go with just a warning (it was probably all BS).

P.S. I still do it.

In most states it is against the law to flash your lights to warn other cars that there is a speed trap.
James

[Alvin]

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[Rocky Racoon]

Originally Posted by 68BeaumontSD

In most states it is against the law to flash your lights to warn other cars that there is a speed trap.
James

In Florida, headlight flashing is protected free speech pursuant to the First Amendment.[22] Additionally, on 1 January 2013, §316.2397(7), Fla. Stat. was amended to legalize headlight flashing.[23][24] In 2005 and 2011, judges in County Court held that flashing a vehicle's headlights is not a violation of §316.239(7), Fla. Stat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlight_flashing

[Rocky Racoon]

I was a passenger in a friends car as we were driving down a highway at night. The car behind us seemed like he wanted to race so my friend gunned it. The other car started to pass so he switched lanes to keep him behind us. This went on for at least a mile. Finally the car behind us starts flashing his red lights.
Do not pass Go.
Do not collect $200.00
You know the rest.

[Motor Daddy]

I was taking my brother for a ride in my Firebird one day about 5 years ago. I needed to make a u-turn and when the opportunity presented itself I looked, but honestly didn't see any "no u-turn" signs (or any cops ). I was stopped waiting for oncoming traffic to pass in order to make the u-turn. When it was clear I started to slowly make the u-turn and then I nailed it. The tires were smoking and the car was sideways and I kept the pedal to the metal as the smoke was rolling and the car was sideways. When I straightened up I kept hauling ass down the road and I look in my rear view mirror and a cop is behind me. I started slowing down and coming to an intersection that the light was red. When I stopped he pulled next to me on my drivers side and through his passenger window he yells to me, "Am I gonna have to chase you or are you gonna pull over?" I said "I'll pull over." When I pulled over he came to the window and told me that he was gonna overlook the stupid stunt I pulled back there, and just give me a ticket for an illegal u-turn. I smiled and told him that sounds good to me. He was cool about the whole deal. He could have threw the book at me.

[ponchjoe]

Stupid kid with a '69 GTO 4 speed story;

Back in the '80s I pulled up to a stoplight in town which is a "T". To my left are some older guys I know and they are on the porch of their house yelling "Light 'em up!" Ok, why not give them a smoke show. I looked in all directions but in my blind spot sitting across the street is a State Trooper sitting at the gas station. I Lit it up all the way around the corner and I pulled over as soon as he came into my view and waited for him. He came up to my window and asked me if I knew he was there because I pulled over so fast. I just said I had been set up by the guys on the porch and knew I had no where to go so I just waited for him. He told me he appreciated it so he gave me a ticket for Unsafe Start and lectured me on how it should have been Reckless Driving - a very big difference. He said be smart and let me go.

Big Burnout for a small ticket in front of a State Trooper - priceless!

[Deadhead]

There was this 16 Yr old guy. He had a good job working at his family business and tired of driving a hand-me-down bug. So, he took some of his $ and bought a '69 Mustang 302 4:10 3 spd. One night his defense Atty. godfather was visiting and having a typical party scene with his parents. GF needs some cigarettes, so he sends 2 boys out for some. They pull off the 2ndry road onto the 2 lane Hwy. Not a vehicle in sight, so the driver lights it up in all 3 gears, getting way into the triple digits pretty quick. All the while, the delinquent passenger and son of the GF has done his own lighting up.

A short distance down the road as they are downshifting to pull into the gas station for the smokes, the blue light appears in the rear-view. Uh oh. The driver instructs the delinquent to eliminate any illicit material he may have but can not observe the result.

State Trooper comes to the window with the "Do you know how fast you were going?" Driver guesses around 65. "Well I clocked you at 85". Strange sense of relief experienced by driver. "Where do you live?" Driver gives location. "Hmmm". Then the inquiry as to the item that was thrown out the window and subsequent supervision of the driver to go and locate said item on the shoulder. Not knowing what was ejected, the driver strategically selects the first piece of crumpled paper trash he can find. "That's it". Success. Much to driver's chagrin the paper contains contraband. There is no longer any real debate over the speeding ticket. It is summarily written for 85 & reckless.

Trooper instructs them to drive the vehicle to the next store a few miles up the road adjacent to the high school) so they can call to the driver's home non-long distance. They proceed to the phone booth whereupon the call is made. After the call is terminated the trooper turns to the driver and says, "You didn't tell me he was a lawyer." Driver, having already received his 85 MPH ticket says, "You didn't ask". The encounter ends.

The driver appears in the cafeteria before school starts on Monday. The son of the local funeral director/ambulance has a big grin and recounts a story the trooper fleshed out over coffee after they heard a hilarious exchange on the scanner. It seems the trooper had been filling out his nightly paperwork on a parallel road above and in view of the HWY when he heard the tires light up, scrambled to get it together and make the pursuit. However, given the fact that 2 troopers had recently disappeared not to be seen again in the area where the driver lived, he was not interested in escorting the driver back to that location. The driver's mother accompanied him to court where she plead for mercy stating "Well, he had just gotten the car." The judge responded, "I see, just testing it out huh? 6 months suspended license." Bang!

Courtroom is empty for all but a lone deputy, who the driver immediately recognizes as a kind soul who had pulled him over a couple of weeks ago after his buddy driving a new Z-28 had flashed his lights to warn him of the deputy running radar. The deputy had enjoyed checking out the Mustang and then admonished that headlight flashing was 'obstruction of an officer in the line of duty' and not acceptable behavior but have a nice day. Here in the empty courtroom with a knowing smile he said, "I understand. Your foot just got a little ahead of you son, but DO NOT drive that car while your license is suspended."

I understand it was a long 6 Mos., but it ended with the acquisition of a fine Pontiac that had a lot more torque and a lot less wheelspin.

[Ed Fitzgerald]

Buddy of mine was speeding through town (Kingston) and notices a cop at a parking lot set up watching for speeders. He pulls a hard right through a city park and slows to a crawl going through the park.Thinking he got away as he exits the park on an adjacent street there are the cops waiting for him. Cop walks up to the car and asks for his drivers info. He asks my buddy "were you trying to get away from me". My buddy says "I sure was. A car just like that took my first wife away several years ago and I was afraid you might be returning her once you got to talking to the crazy bitch" The cop just about spit his teeth out laughing and told him to get the hell out of there and slow down. Ed

[67drake]

When I first read the title to this thread I thought "There is no way I'm writing here about my cop encounters". But seeing as your talking car related....

Nothing too exciting here,but I did just post this on another Pontiac site about a month ago,so I copy and pasted it,FWIW-

"My next car was a 73'GP. 400,4bl,duals,3.73's all factory. Big heavy car,but quicker than you would think for such a boat with a smog motor. There was a stop light in my town on a strip of divided highway with no driveways or side streets for a little over a 1/4 mile. There was a speed limit sign exactly 1/4 away from the light. If my friends or I wanted to "time" our cars we used that sign as our 1/4 mile finish line. One day on the way home from work,with my girlfriend in the car behind me,I took off. I shut down right at the sign. Well there was a cop taking radar at the first side street. He said he clocked me at 96MPH,but couldn't believe it so he reset his gun and got me doing 73 in a 35. My girlfriend had to bail me out for that one. The cop wrote the ticket for 73 instead of 96,so I guess I was lucky?"


Yes, back in the 80's I knew the Gurnee Il. cops on a first name basis,but not because i was friends with them.