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What she didn’t realize was the cop really wanted to taze everyone then cuff em and stuff em. Stupid woman. Cops are not your friends.
Thank you for shooting my dog, SWAT..!
No more barking, etc.
Back in 1984, I was driving down I-15 between Blackfoot and Pocatello on a Sunday afternoon. Not a car was in sight and I was airing out my 1983 Mustang GT (the fastest thing made in the US that year) and doing about 100.
I look in the mirror and here comes another Mustang and he’s catching me. I speed up to about 120 and he keeps coming. When he got about 10 car lengths back he moved over to the left lane and I saw the “gift wrapping” on the side (two white diagnonal stripes) and knew that it was one of the new 1984 “Copstangs” and I was burned.
I let off the gas and he hit the lights. I pulled over and he got out and, after checking the license and registration, he just said, “I can catch you.”
I said, “Yes you can.”
He said, “Don’t make me have to again. Now have a nice day.”
I will always have a warm place in my heart for the ISP.
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Very nice! Maybe he made her realize that being a little late was not more of a problem than killing her grandchildren in a 95mph collision. And she was able to understand this once she thought about it.
When one of my family members was still on patrol duty, she said that the worst people were Subaru and Jeep drivers, who thought they had a divine right to ignore stop signs, speed, do wheelies on somebody’s lawn, and then cuss out the cops when they were stopped. The Subaru drivers were into “do you know who I am?” and the Jeep drivers, often attorneys, were usually drunk and abusive. One of them actually did write a note apologizing a couple of days later.
She was probably afraid of CPS involvement.
When I get lidar’d by CHP I just pull over and they always thank me for not making em chase me down.
I tell em “you gotta job to do, why it hard on both of us. It’s not like a ticket every year is going to change my driving habits”.
Occasionally they opine about speeding on a street and I quickly agree”I think it’s dangerous and have been ticketed for anything on a regular street”
“Thnx for the tkt, have a good day and be safe.”
Usually results in a better tkt than I deserved.
On the other hand, I got pulled over for 75 in a 65 on the freeway (going with the flow of traffic at 2 PM) and the cop was a dick. Went to traffic school to avoid the point on my DMV record and even the teacher was surprised I got tagged for that one.
if you don't get to confrontational and be nice, you might get a pass. OTOH, The cops have bigger fish to fry than marginal speeders, try busting some gangbangers while on duty. Do your REAL job.
YMMV.