roadtrooper [1/15/07 3:04 pm] It was just a couple weeks before Thanksgiving, near the first part of November, I'm working midnight shift, it's in the wee hours, traffic is light, road is still damp from an earlier shower, I spy a lone vehicle rapidly overtaking me (and the one big truck that has been behind me since I passed him a few miles back), I watch it for a few moments in my mirror, it's still 1/4 mile or more back, easily running 100+ I guess after a a few moments, it gets closer, it's lights are tall like a PU or SUV maybe, it passes that one lone tractor trailer only several hundred yards back, it's headlights look to be on bright, he's getting closer now, truck's driver calls out on 19 "smokey wake up, you got one that's going to blow your doors off", smokey doesn't answer, I release hold on Eagle (rear antenna-moving-same direction mode), target 107, patrol 63, do speed discrimination test, tone varies with speed, 107 so steady it's like he's on cruise, he comes up near rear of car, he in left lane still (I in the right lane) and then slams on brakes to try not overshoot me when he "finally" sees the decals (on the back of my car), I hit brakes to get him in front while his speed is still high, he shoots past me still slowing, I call in stop and tag # on large SUV from foreign state, luggage piled high on top, see what looks like Christmas gifts in back glass, he's at 50-55 mph now, I stop him, I approach, see he has family in vehicle, two teens, a child, and wife it appears, before I can open my mouth hardly here comes large gold shield out window, I have to ask for OL & Reg 3 times, comment on the pretty badge, he's not happy but civil, I go to my car & write & run check & request transcript for court, return to his left side door with only one summons, return OL & Reg., listen to some more heated words on his part, he even theatens my days off with the promise of many court appearences, he get's all red faced, I start to worry he's going to pop a vein, he then signs summons finally (I only wrote it at 99 mph) after I mention my only alternative, kids watching, wife watching (but her jaw has dropped open now), the child is crying, and his last words were a promise to nominate me for Dick of the Month as I leave the side of his vehicle and walk back to mine, this after I wished him and his family a safe holiday!...
Some replies from other CWC members:
dep214 [1/15/07 6:31 pm: sounds like some kid wrote the story. you are still a dickSo let me get this straight: A cop busts another cop for doing 107 on a rain-slick highway, and he's a "dick" for doing so? Unreal.chicagocop [1/15/07 6:53 pm]: sounds to me you are bragging about writting another copper,You The Man!!!
Just like the politicians: “do as I say, not as I do”
This web site really makes many claiming to be officers look pretty bad to say the least.